BethAnn McLaughlin

BethAnn McLaughlin is a former assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University who shared the 2018 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award with Tarana Burke and Sherry Marts for her leadership in raising awareness of “Me Too” issues in STEM institutions.

BethAnn for several years she ran Twitter account @Sciencing_Bi and they reacted with tributes and grief when a controversial former professor and anti-sexual harassment #metoo crusader named BethAnn McLaughlin announced on Twitter that @Sciencing_Bi had died of COVID-19, blaming the university where @Sciencing_Bi supposedly worked for making people teach on campus during the pandemic.

On July 31, BethAnn announced the made-up professor’s but she revealed that she was behind the hoax. In an interview with Nypost, she said “I take full responsibility for my involvement in creating the @sciencing_bi Twitter account,” and “My actions are inexcusable. I apologize without reservation to all the people I hurt.”

Furthermore, the account @Sciencing_Bi had posted frequently about sexual harassment and diversity in science since 2016.

Career

In 2018, she founded MeTooSTEM.com to combat sexual harassment in STEM professions, where the website shares stories about discrimination and sexual misconduct in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

She is a former assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University and served there in 2002. In 2005, McLaughlin received a new appointment at the same institution as an assistant professor, a tenure track position.

Furthermore, her research at Vanderbilt focused on neural stress responses and brain injury. After being denied tenure in 2017, she sought to have the decision overturned. However, the decision to deny tenure was upheld and her employment at Vanderbilt ended in July of 2019.

She left Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2019 after tenure controversies and created a website called MeTooSTEM.com to document stories of women in STEM careers who were sexually harassed.

In August 2020, her twitter account was a band based on the Fake account, where BethAnn allegedly pretended to be a bisexual.

Family

How old is BethAnn McLaughlin? However, there is not much information about her age.

Talking about her education she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Biopsychology from Skidmore College in 1990. Later, she obtained her Ph.D. in the Neurological Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania.

After graduating BethAnn continued her postdoctoral training with Elias Aizenman, a researcher who studies signaling processes in acute and chronic brain injuries, in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Later, she received the National Institutes of Health grant awarded through the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Training Fellowship in Neurodegeneration.

Husband

She is a married woman and has one daughter and one son, BethAnn lives in Tennessee with her family.