Hi, welcome to this blog. This one in particular is close to my heart, and it took a lot of courage to sit down and write it. I’ve been thinking about writing this for over a year now… but couldn’t bring myself to actually do it, because 1) I was afraid of potential backlash impacting finishing my PhD as well as job prospects and 2) it requires vulnerability on my part and I wasn’t at the point to be vulnerable with the academic/research community.