Neuroscientist BethAnn McLaughlin, who founded the organization and website #MeTooSTEM, has left her position as a faculty member at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, Science reported yesterday (July 9).
In a statement released through her lawyer, McLaughlin says that her departure was “by mutual agreement” between her and the university. Her last day was July 8, she says.
In June 2018, McLaughlin founded the website MeTooSTEM.com, a forum for stories of sexual harassment in the fields of science, tech, engineering, and math that extended the #MeToo movement to science-related fields. Also last year, McLaughlin launched petitions asking the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academies of Science to revoke fellowships and memberships, respectively, from sexual harassers. Both organizations have done so, Science notes.
McLaughlin’s departure from Vanderbilt follows a long and flip-flopping tenure review process. She was recommended for tenure in 2015, as Science ...
