He really didn't coin the term for her specifically, as nice as that sounds.

Yeah... Not that surprising to me. TU Delft hasn't been doing so hot. They literally have it all. Corruption, harassment, nepotism. But if you are not a PhD student you shouldn't be too affected by any of these.

• https://www.ctol.digital/news/phd-termination-tu-delft-academic-fairness-debate/
• https://www.fnv.nl/nieuwsbericht/sectornieuws/fnv-overheid/2024/04/tu-delft-pleegt-censuur-op-eigen-universiteitsblad
• https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/inspectorate-of-education-ascertains-mismanagement-by-tu-delft-but-the-latter-criticises-the-investigation
• https://www.omroepwest.nl/nieuws/4830825/klokkenluider-tu-delft-maakt-levens-kapot-ik-hoop-dat-dit-eindelijk-eens-stopt

She’s a great science communicator. Another famous Youtuber (Captain D) called her “the Jenny Nicholson of science” her Dark Matter video is my favorite, though her Gell-Mann Amnesia video is a “must watch” imho.

Here are two videos on that subject that are great to start out with

Sexual harassment and assault in Astronomy and Physics

women in space (but with legos so it's fun)

When I was in elementary school, we always had a table at the back where the advanced students would do more difficult stuff than the rest of the class while not being completely isolated. The table was always me and 5 or 6 girls. When we graduated high school, I was the top-ranked boy - and the 22nd-ranked student overall. I just took it completely for granted that girls were smarter than boys (although I did perceive the very strong anti-intellectual culture among boys which seemed more impactful than native abilities).

It wasn't until I went to college that I started encountering the belief that men were fundamentally smarter than women, even though every college and university I've attended had more women than male students and the women had much better academic performance. That was my first taste of the power of group delusion.

But now they're all "DEI hires," at least in the US, so we're fucked over here

It's exactly that is why they're kept down. Tiny men are afraid that they won't seem as smart as the woman in the room.

As a man, I try to be different. I mentor the women around me and encourage them to do more, be better. I successfully got one of my mentee to negotiate her salary just yesterday even though she felt uncomfortable doing so. Try to be the change we need

Simpler said than done. Of course I agree with you, but we need deeper changes in our society, in our behaviour as people. If you get told time and time again, that you're worthless, can't achieve anything etc. that's going to leave a mark. Sure, encouraging to not let that dominate one's thoughts is a useful skill. But it shouldn't be necessary in the first place.

Victim blaming, classic

Maybe instead of meaningless platitudes actual change would be in order.

I don't know how it is in the USA, but here biologist graduates are mostly women, so I think the implication is that she was being called a biologist (who can't design experiments) because she's a woman

Hey, not all of us! Physics was humbling in my experience. Had the exact opposite effect.

I did exceptionally well at a top physics university, and still felt stupid all the time.

It took getting my ass handed to me to wipe that veneer off my perceived awesomeness and realized I’m doing this cause I love it. Why would I think down on anyone else doing what they do cause they love it?

And I sure as hell came to realize that there’s people better at biology than I am at physics.

That said, lots of physics people are high on their own supply. So, not discounting the reality of physics dickheads that are in abundant supply.

yeah. the rest of this seems like serious grievances, but physicists saying dumb arrogant shit to other scientists about not being 'real' fields seems like blaming water for being wet.