What Is Their Goal?
I'm in my eleventh day in Europe. I taught a wonderful science communication workshop, enjoyed time with many students and postdocs. I mentored early-career faculty and reviewed the work and provided guidance to shape the future of a rising-star of an institution. I was honored to speak at Brain Bar, a wonderful conference about the future. All of this came on my departure from social media, particularly Twitter. I've been watching and reading. I also took down the majority of this blog. I need to get my head down. My mental health is taking a hit and the personal and professional inconvenience of being doxed and harassed is getting extreme. Here's what is happening now. Bank Accounts, Retirement Doxxed. Somehow a former journalist turned hate-monger named Michael Balter obtained my personal records. It is not hard to do. Paul Thacker and University of California San Francisco posted my social security number a few months ago. Once you have that, you find m