ABOVE: The annual ESHE meeting will be held in Liège, Belgium, in September.
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On Wednesday (August 28), Tom Higham, an archeology professor at the University of Oxford, took a break from tweeting about Boris Johnson, parliament, and Brexit to make a declaration. He would “not attend the [European Society for the study of Human Evolution] meeting in Liège in September,” Higham tweeted. “Change is urgently needed. I’m not prepared to be a silent & anonymous bystander anymore.”
Higham, who tells The Scientist he’s been a member of ESHE since its founding in 2011, appears to be the first person to use his name when publicly backing out of the meeting in order to press for change. But in doing so, he adds to mounting criticism of ESHE for what some researchers say is a failure to take action in the face of sexual harassment and other allegations against its ...
