Erdem O. Meral
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Erdem O. Meral
@eomeral.bsky.social
Assistant professor at University of Amsterdam studying workplace mistreatment (e.g., ostracism), other harmful employee behaviors (e.g., dishonesty), and social biases (e.g., prejudice against marginalized communities).
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‘URM faculty received 7% more negative votes & were 44% less likely to receive unanimous votes from P&T committees. A double standard in how scholarly productivity is rewarded is also observed, with below-average h-indexes being judged more harshly for URM faculty than for non-URM faculty.’
Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions - Nature Human Behaviour
Masters-Waage et al. report that underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in the USA face barriers in the promotion and tenure process, receiving more negative votes and fewer unanimous positive decisi...
www.nature.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
"Me-searchers" are researchers who study topics that are personally relevant like issues affecting groups they belong to.

In a recent paper, we ran three pre-registered experiments to explore how queer and straight researchers are perceived when studying anti-queer bias and related topics.
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June 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology

openletter.earth/against-lang...
Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia
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April 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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To add a p-value in #tidyplots , just do `add_test_pvalue()`

Then you can decide, whether you want to compare every group to every group, or one control group to all other groups.

See also jbengler.github.io/tidyplots/re...
January 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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This reflects the challenges we see on the ground for women staff, as well as the broader political and cultural backslide on gender equity
November 26, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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the fallout from the Francesca Gino research misconduct scandal isn't over. @engber.bsky.social writes about how an effort by some of her colleagues to self-audit their work with her ended up raising even more questions — for them personally and their whole field www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:17 PM