There's been a lull in the open conversation around abusive and creepy behavior in academic paleontology since the Me-Too era, but the problem has not, to put it mildly, gone away

I don't think it's unfair to ask that bigger-name, tenured scientists speak out about this, rather than leaving it to early career researchers, grad students or outside writers/journalists.

It's more towards the bullying side than other kinds of abuse, but I remember that when I turned down a postdoc job with Nick Longrich because something felt off at the interview, several senior people only said to me *afterwards* "I hear you dodged a bullet" and similar phrases. [1/n]

The person that did accept the job got in touch with me via their supervisor to ask why I'd turned it down, and I couldn't say anything other than bad vibes, especially with accommodating new parenthood. I knew no more than that. But those senior people clearly knew stories they didn't share. [2/n]

And then, of course, about a year later, that person was among the concerted effort in the lab group successfully accusing Longrich of bullying, leading to the funding withdrawal from Leverhulme and his university preventing him from mentoring students, though not losing him his job or salary. [3/n]