This is a brief update to last week’s post on nominating for society prizes. There has been some discussion on twitter about biased language in letters of recommendation, particularly for junior women. This was an issue I was vaguely aware of, but didn’t especially delve into deeply at the time.
Our basic approach was to mostly focus on the science, which of course doesn’t have a gender, and explain why the science she did was so exciting. You can see my citation in the previous post. I’m not posting anyone else’s letter on this blog, but I will put the combined word cloud here, along with a list of high frequency words:
Words used ten or more times:
53 Jenner
33 elements
28 data
25 paper
23 magma
20 Frances
19 element
18 trace
16 analytical
16 MORB
15 O’Neill
15 glasses
15 work
15 new
14 analysis
14 chalcophile
13 quality
12 geochemistry
12 published
12 volcanic
12 Carnegie
11 differentiation
11 magmatic
10 papers
10 years
10 young
10 many
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