Last week, this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education hit my inbox from a reader named 'Basma'. And then from 'Jessica' followed by 'Cheyanne'. The link continued trickling in over the weekend... Apparently readers are aware I occasionally have something to say about gender bias in academia (and out and somewhere in the space between). My friends 'round thesetangledseries of tubes don't put up with that sort of riffraff either. The piece begins like this: