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The American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America have taken down a job ad from Brigham Young University that was posted on their websites. Members of the science organizations had raised concerns about the school’s conduct code—which states that “homosexual behavior is inappropriate”—as a violation of the societies’ own ethical standards, The Salt Lake Tribune reports.
“I don’t see why someone’s sexual preference should have any bearing on their employment,” Peter Martin, a graduate student at Caltech who helped to get the ad pulled, tells the Tribune.
The advertised position at Brigham Young University (BYU) was for a tenure-track geology faculty member. Martin noticed the ad, which included mention of BYU’s honor code, on the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) website. After looking up what the code entailed, Martin asked the society to pull it. When the AGU initially declined, Martin and others started ...
