At a uni meet and greet, I talked with a male academic that I knew and a female academic I didn’t know. I asked the woman if she was the man’s student. She said she’s a new lecturer. I realised that I’d just invalidated her achievements and I sincerely apologised, but she said it happens all the time so it was fine. I’m so angry at myself that I can still make such a mistake, and that this kind of thing is common!
