Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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No, not really - they're evaluated by the APS units and approved by the APS council, without any political input or quotas involved, with the occasional exception of the embarrassing situation when they realize a new Nobel Laureate in Physics hasn't yet been elected an APS member. The larger factor is the willingness of mentors and institutions to put together nomination packages, which LANL did much better in 2011 and 2012, with 9 and 10 fellows, respectively, each year, compared to 1 each of those two years for LLNL. This year most likely reflects LANL having already put their most suitable candidates for APS fellowship, and LLNL working through their backlog.
The difference is that SNL actually does the work rather than just lying about it.
April 29, 2014 at 11:38 PM
It is certainly gratifying to learn that Sandia did not lie about the "Great Chili Cookoff".