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Update (March 3): MeTooSTEM’s board of directors has issued support for BethAnn McLaughlin. A statement provided to Science notes that the board “asked Dr. BethAnn McLaughlin to continue to serve in a leadership position.” The board includes Johns Hopkins University biologist Carol Greider, Salk Institute for Biological Studies biologist Vicki Lundblad, and McLaughlin’s brother, John McLaughlin, Science reports.
The nonprofit group MeTooSTEM was hit by another round of resignations last week, following further accusations of bullying from the organization’s founder, BethAnn McLaughlin, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on Friday (February 21). The departures, which included two of the group’s leaders, leave McLaughlin as the only remaining member of the leadership.
“We resigned in part because of BethAnn’s refusal to be accountable for the pain she caused to others and to us,” write ex-leaders Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University, and Teresa Swanson, a science ...
