She was a rising star at a major university. Then a lecherous professor made her life hell.

florian jaeger, an expert in linguistics and computational methods at the University of Rochester. sexual predator. promoted to full professor with tenure. needs to be fired.

Madison Pauly: “He was somebody who was in the field who I didn’t want to upset,” she explains now. “I wasn’t sure what was normal and what wasn’t. The idea that this kind of thing was common was totally believable.” That spring was the start of Kidd’s decadelong effort—as a doctoral student and, later, as a junior faculty member—first to appease Jaeger, then to isolate herself from his influence, and finally to hold him responsible for years of sexual harassment in UR’s cognitive and brain sciences department, according an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint filed last week. More here.

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