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Diversity and inclusion

Diversity and inclusion

Why we need to stop gaslighting minority physics students

Taken from the June 2021 issue of Physics World.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explains that intuition in physics can be a social construct, one that is culturally embedded about who is normal and what is intuitive

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Fitting in The pressure to conform to cultural norms in science can hinder not help marginalized groups. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Cleak idea)
As a PhD student and teaching assistant at the University of Waterloo in the late 2000s, I was asked

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