#introduction: my battles
I was the first trans person to change my name on already-published research papers. I didn't think I was the first when I did it, which helped.
I'm part of the Name Change Policy Working Group (https://ncpwg.org) to make this easier for others. Many journals now allow name changes.
Google Scholar refuses to call trans authors by their names, or even talk to trans people. I made https://scholar.hasfailed.us. Google should either listen to us or shut down Scholar.
@arborelia fuck that’s rough. i didn’t know that was happening with google scholar. it’s still the only google service i occasionally use. what would you recommend instead?
@chloe From most preferred to highest recall:
- something specific to your field (as an NLP researcher, I use aclanthology.org)
- Internet Archive Scholar (scholar.archive.org)
- Semantic Scholar (semanticscholar.org)
