![]() You can read about the 1967 Boston marathon in her own words. I was very aware of Kathy Switzer at the time, and I’ve no doubt she is part of the reason why I felt strongly about segregation. I was urged to record this history by both Terras and by Lisa Jardine, Director of UCL’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities. I was spurred to write this post when Melissa Terras, UCL’s professor of digital humanities, retweeted a reminder that it was in 1967 that a woman first ran in a an official marathon, and suffered physical attack from a male organiser for her temerity. At the time, segregation was more common than people now remember. Nevertheless, in the mid-1960s, women were very far from being regarded as equal, even at UCL. I can’t remember now the names of any of the feisty women who braved the lions’ den (perhaps this blog will remind someone). It never took long before some pompous prat would tap the woman on the shoulder and eject her. So we’d go into the Housman room with a woman and join the queue for coffee. Direct action was called for (I was in CND at the time). Reform was in the air in the 1960s.Ī lot of other people, not all female, thought it odd too. I found this very odd in the 1960s, the age of sexual liberation. But the biggest and most impressive room, the Housman room, was for men only. It’s true that UCL had also a women-only common room and a mixed common room, the Haldane room (which is where I went usually). But Edinburgh also had a wonderful staff club, open to all. I’d just come from Edinburgh which still had separate men’s and women’s student unions and some men-only bars. I was astonished when I arrived at UCL to discover that the Housman room was male only. And it was there where, yesterday, I had an illuminating conversation with Steve Jones about the problems of twin studies for measuring heritability. It was there where I have met John Sutherland (English), Mary Fulbrook (German), many historians and people from the Slade school of Art. It was there that Hyman Kestelman (among others) gave me informal tutorials on matrix algebra over lunch. It is there that I met the great statistician Alan Hawkes, without whom much of my research would never have happened. If there was ever a case for reverse causality, that's it /CaulfieldTim/statu… How does such dubious junk science get published. Yesterday at do you think there's a case for stopping obs epidemiology? It so often gives wrong answer, harms people & harms science Yesterday at harms science because every time the latest diet/exercise advice appears in the media, people just jeer (often rightly) Bur publishers make cash publishing junk, and senior academics push you to publish every 10 min. They hypsecomes from jml and university PR people, endorsed by authorsĮxactly. rW0XW5KBw9Ībout 10 hours no, it isn't fair to blame reporting. RT I spoke at the European Parliament today about how freethinkers getting killed,& govt remains silent in Bangladesh. RT Had meeting with Elmar Brok, Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs at the European Parliament today. ![]() Can we have him please?Ībout 10 hours Here is an early example and recent ones About 10 hours ago ![]() Self-inflicted woundsĪbout 9 hours Trudeau looks great. But the problems mostly lie with academics. here -good nightĪbout 9 hours sounds good. #efficiencysavings #weaselwords /muYCcCPCZLĪbout an hour sure! But it's 1 am. RT My cartoon - is our #NHS safe in #Tory hands? "An anti-EU movement can’t also be anti-US, not without looking as if it hates everyone" by 45 minutes agoīoris: "less a lovable maverick than a rather unpleasant oddball." by 50 minutes ago
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