list of "2370 signatories from 90 countries" were sent to the director general of CERN receiving "no response". An anonymous commentary on Strumia's talk and the community response was published in Areo magazine. One supporter of Strumia was the former string theorist Luboš Motl. Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder performed an alternative analysis using a different database and found that after accounting for disproportionately higher rates of women leaving the field the sex differences become negligible. In a later paper, she defended Strumia's publication in the journal Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), calling the findings "significant and robust", while cautioning that the study "cannot reveal the origin of the existing gender differences". On March 7, 2019, CERN confirmed that Strumia's status as guest professor will not be continued. Following this announcement, Strumia uploaded an unofficial recording of the event on a newly started website, where he claimed that his position had been misrepresented in the media. In November 2019, the journal Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) announced it would publish the paper. The journal published the paper in 2021, and in the following issue published four critical commentaries about it, along with Strumia's response to the commentaries. See also Resistance to diversity efforts in organizations Variability hypothesis Women in STEM fields References External links Living people Academic staff of the University of Pisa 1969 births University of Pisa alumni 21st-century Italian physicists People associated with CERN