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María Piquer-Rodríguez
@mariapiquerr.bsky.social
220 followers 200 following 140 posts
Academic @FU Berlin, Human-Environment Geography, Land systems and sustainability science, mother, first gen, she/her
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Full room and high interest in session B.02.07 SELS: practical approaches for improved mapping 👏 #LSP25
(Photo credit: @miriamher.bsky.social )
June 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposted by María Piquer-Rodríguez
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Day 2 – Writing as a Leader- Lead your team’s writing while growing your own. With:
✨ Stephen B. Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social‬
✨ Gayannée Kedia
✨ Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social‬
✨ Martin Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social‬
June 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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In it, we bring up four main hurdles we and other women around us have faced through the early stages of our careers, and outline several (of many other) actions that we see as necessary for achieving gender equity in academia.

(Nice synthesis of our piece here: www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/in...)
Systemic Sexism in Academia: New Study Outlines the Structural Hurdles Facing Women
An international team of researchers, including Professor María Piquer-Rodríguez from Freie Universität Berlin, has investigated systemic sexism in early academic careers and is calling for institutio...
www.fu-berlin.de
June 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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🔴With press releases in German: www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor... and

English: www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/in...

Thanks to @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social 🙏🏼
Systemischer Sexismus in der Wissenschaft: Neue Studie zeigt strukturelle Hürden für Frauen
Ein internationales Forschungsteam mit Beteiligung der Freien Universität Berlin untersucht Ursachen für ungleiche akademische Karrierechancen – und fordert konkrete Reformen
www.fu-berlin.de
June 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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🚀Yet we also suggest a range of structural #measures for achieving more gender equity in academia:
1) Strengthen #representation and leadership opportunities
2) Restructure career #support systems
3) Foster #accountability and #allyship
June 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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❌We identify four major obstacles that disproportionately hinder women in academia:
1) Fostered intellectual insecurity
2) Exclusion from the “Boys’ Club”
3) Higher risks and additional challenges in fieldwork
4) Gendered expectations and emotional labor
June 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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It was a great afternoon of fun discoveries!🌈
Thanks @berlin-soapbox.bsky.social and @moubp.bsky.social for the brave and interesting contribution from your doctoral research on "Tacos, tequila and solar energy"!🌮🍸☀️
#WomeninScience
#SciComm
June 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM