Toxic academia: you might have heard of it; you might even have experienced it. But what exactly is it and - more importantly - how can we make academia less toxic? 🤔 Join Iris as she chats with Federico Munch, senior researcher at ETH Zürich (Switzerland), about toxic research culture and discusses how we could work to a better research culture. Prepare for much talk about a certain bridge analogy and a good old monologue by Fede as he presents his ideas to make academia less toxic.

(Don’t!) Stalk Fede: https://erdw.ethz.ch/en/people/profile.MjIxMzk1.TGlzdC83NzMsOTI0MjA1OTI2.html

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Resources*:

• Toxic workplaces as the reason women leave academia: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03251-8
• Mental health crisis due to toxic research culture: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01708-4
• Pressure of scientists’ working life: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00101-9 *Note: very incomplete. These are just some suggestions for starting points.

Secret paper: Van Zelst et al., 2022 (JGR: Solid Earth): Earthquake rupture on multiple splay faults and its effect on tsunamis https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024300 / https://irisvanzelst.github.io/papers/2022b_vanzelst.pdf

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