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Matched! Will anyone match or double me to help Laila? 🙏🏾
We are giving €20 to Laila's campaign to help get it out of stagnation and to help her get to safety before she is due to give birth.
It's the very least we can do for Laila and her family.
Can you match us?
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Why can’t we believe Palestinians the first time. Why does it need to take Rolling Stone, WaPo, etc bothering to report WEEKS after Palestinian journalists point things out? How do we participate in this hierarchy of truth every day and how will we choose to divest?
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May delete but I had a wack discussion with an academic last night about what boils down to lying to ourselves, collectively, about our travel emissions being “worth it” as if we serve some noble, higher cause in academia. We don’t
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an astro professor once told me I'd have to soon pick between my art and science; I then finished my double major in geology/music composition and have since begun a Ph.D. in space science, released an album of my music, and won a contract for a book of poetry. 🤷🏾♂️
What is something you were told you could never do (or do well) that you have accomplished/are in the process of accomplishing?
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I really want to emphasize that not only are men submitting more right now but they’re submitting more than usual and that we should think about who’s cleaning their houses, cooking, taking care of their kids, doing their errands, managing their IT
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You ever just Really realize how much academia hates disabled people
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A little tip from me to you. A lot of racist, transphobic, ableist people do EDI work. They win grants and hold events and write papers on the stuff. They take up all the oxygen in the community and then “privately” harass, gatekeep, plagiarize. Stop letting them. Look around you
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No mask mandate looks like my being unable to get my urgent prescription because I can’t take the bus since no one masks. I can’t otherwise walk because I’m disabled, or get lyft/uber because drivers don’t mask (yes my pharmacy has delivery; they canceled it).
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WOC aren't resources, we are people. Follow us because you want to and not for our labor
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This is an open letter to the planetary science community and beyond about my dreadful experiences at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory 2017-22. I cannot recommend ANY colleague work or study at UCL.
The text is available here:
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Hi please do me a favor and block/don’t follow popsci accounts that post stolen material. They often have “cool facts” or space images or animations for which they never have sources. Support real
#scicomm
where people get credit for their labor!
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ACLU are snitches. Pass it on and NEVER spread images of countprotestors that show their faces/ID'ing info
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We have to just be able to admit that we have pride and we enjoy traveling. We have to admit that we know about and champion the cause of climate change but do not participate in climate action. That’s ok. Admitting it is the first step
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Passed my upgrade which means I’m officially a PhD candidate!!! & also can’t feel my face 🐋✨
#spacewoc
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It is not worth it just because our research model depends on old men drinking together on someone else’s dime in an exotic location for proposals to be written and grants to be funded and postdocs to be hired.
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@Brittymigs
Idk what’s going on in the one corner but as a bedbound disabled person this would be lifechanging.
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And yes, conferences are inaccessible. Disabled scientists? Have been saying that for decades. Women have been talking about how conference networking is often dangerous or exclusionary. The model has HAD to change
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hi friends today I'm quitting my PhD and moving back home to the US because I hit "reply all" and on something EMBARRASSING
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I'm not a grad student, I'm actually 56 unsent emails in a trenchcoat
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it is 4am and I have just accepted a postdoc position with the inimitable Dr. Cynthia Phillips to work with the Europa Lander team at NASA JPL. I can’t really feel my face. Goodnight friends 😌🙀🚀 and a HUGE thank you to everyone who has given me job app help in the past year!!!
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you’re looking at (possibly) all the women of color geologists in the UK and we are KILLING IT 🌋⛏🔬🛰💖
#ExpandingDiversity
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This is my last month at JPL. I resigned in October after deciding to leave this summer due to feeling completely unsupported as a disabled postdoc. My supervisors were wonderful, my colleagues amazing, but this wasn’t enough. 🧵
#DisabledAndSTEM
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As a disabled student I just can't get behind this. My hands freeze up w/pens & jumping through 10 hoops for accomms isn't feasible for all
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Full offense scientists are extremely tepid about equity. Whenever a man accepts a talk he should demand to see the program and ask where the women are. White people, people of color. Able people, disabled people. Every time. Every time
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And I’m already seeing all-men papers come out in planetary scientist...you should be ashamed. You should be absolutely disgusted. If you normally publish with women and they’re saying “no” rght now, SHELVE your paper. Write something else.
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The label means it was manufactured in 2018 in New Jersey, USA.
This is what the Israeli army left behind after completely destroying the city of Khan Younis, American shells empty!
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hi tonight we saw millions of bluebells 💙 (make sure to click through!!!)
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It is not made worth it by the research connections. It is not worth it because we do vaguely climate-related research. It is not worth it just because our institutions aren’t divesting from fossil fuels (several have, BTW).
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Today I....work for NASA. 🥺😭 it’ll hit me properly in like ten years (or hopefully in the morning), right now I just.......
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My mom went back to college at 47 and got a BS in molecular biology (while raising two teens she’d drop off at and pick up from school every single day). Now she works at a biomed start-up and negotiated an international deal this weekend. 💪🏾
What’s the coolest thing your mom has ever done? (That you know of)
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White academics, as with any other white “public voice” online, you HAVE to read the room, acknowledge your platform, and have a lot of nuance when it comes to how you behave.
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Gr5mes is outright fash but for some reason she’s seen as quirky and funny and intriguingly weird by the left, worth platforming & continuing to promote. Trust me, I know why that is, but please stop
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physics twitter please I am begging you to put something on the arXiv on this
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it's great to have this in Nature but what if we STOPPED identifying gender from an R package that sorts gender by first name??
To review, these types of packages throw out non-Western names, & erase trans people. They're not a "step" towards better analysis, they're violent
Early analyses suggest that female academics are posting fewer preprints and starting fewer research projects than their male peers.
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being a grad student is like "can you please pay me for my work four months ago so I can buy train tickets to an event that will later reimburse me so I can pay travel to the next event who will pay my speaker's fee later so I can attend this 2-day conference,"
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If you're based in the UK and your child's school tells them they can't do something - physics, space science, chemistry, arts, what have you - and you think they'd benefit from chatting with or visiting a woc space scientist, please let me know. This is an appalling trend
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“It’s worth having global internet” so do you actually know what impedes “global internet”? Let’s walk through this
1. The imagination of the West. A lot more of the world has internet than you realize b/c you’d rather consider the Global South as poor villages.
2. Colonialism
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Remember London police kettling women just a few months ago and destroying their candlelit memorial. Remember how UK police were, on average, 2-3 times more likely to fine or arrest Black and Asian people for violating lockdown. Remember how cops responded to last year’s protests
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PhD students please do know that you *can* get paid for speaking opportunities. (You absolutely should be paid, of course, but I want to make it clear that ECRs *do* get paid.) And PIs who want to diversify, wait until you have the money; exposure on a CV isn't what it was.
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We are so so so guilty of deluding ourselves about why we travel and if it’s OK or not. It’s not and it’s hypocritical. And it won’t hurt more than our pride to admit that. It hurt/s my pride but it’s time to admit it.
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rent free in my head is how quickly “we” forgot how in 2020-21, men in the field published a massive number of papers, maps, datasets as well as grant proposals and basically admitted it was because their wives (including academics) did everything else for them
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Maybe that’s cruel in publish or perish but oh wait who are you leaving to perish?
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All prisons & especially private prisons are state-sanctioned slave labor intended for profit, and the researchers in this study opted into consciously exploiting prisoners for a study. Our president just called certain people “animals” - this is the SAME narrative, folks
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And it’s also time to admit that schemes conferences have set up where a couple Euros are donated to whatever? Is about guilt. Planting trees in grasslands will harm climate. Investing in capitalist ventures developing tech that doesn’t exist yet and won’t work is not OK.
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Please can you wear a mask. For me. When you go out think of ppl like ur friendly local Divya who can’t even take the bus to get groceries or see a doctor for urgent medical needs because no one else masks, going months on end without seeing a person
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Ask yourself:
- who does this vocal “ally” amplify
- how do they do the amplification - is it just when most visible and flashy?
- do they recite talking points you’ve heard from junior and more minoritized people?
- who are their co-authors? and who’s first author?
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I always understand the impulse of statements like “we as a society need to treat mental health as seriously as physical health” but I insist that we face the fact that physical health is not treated well at all & we should aspire to better for both!
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And when much of a conference for the most privileged is about exclusionary socializing that often results in sexual harassment or just maintaining the status quo?
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What’s the gender skew of the reviewers right now? Is that going to mean even more male author-led papers *accepted* as well? Would it mean an exponential increase of men-led papers relative to women? Who’s cooking and cleaning and child-rearing for the reviewers?
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I left undergrad 3 times because of my illness but now I'm doing my PhD in space science & publishing a book
#WOCAffirmations
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this is what we mean when we say that institutional, systemic patriarchy & white supremacy & ableism will manifest in & color any and all experiences in the academy, they're not organic, there's not some new bogeyman of "bias" popping up, this is how the system works
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arguing with cashiers is not activism
Grassroots activism among suburban women may be leading the "Resistance"
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Hey, quick thread. Don’t disclose your students’ disabilities to others without their consent. PERIOD
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I took mechanics 4x, retook 4 other courses, & left college 3x b/c of illness. Wrote my thesis from bed & finished my degree @ a JC. My advisor wouldn’t write me grad recs b/c of my illness & my apps were sabotaged.
I’m now doing a PhD (at the lab I was banned from applying to!)
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not to continue to rehash this because I'm, frankly, exhausted (and extremely moved by the stories shared with me here & on other threads) but I want to talk about this exhaustion and the guilt we feel when we can't attend class (etc.)
You ever just Really realize how much academia hates disabled people
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I want space folks to pay attention to the combination of these two points
1. unlimited resources in the solar system (which isn't true, by the way)
2. "zoning" the earth for residence, i.e. other "colonies" as industrial centers
given how Amazon etc. functions re: labor
Bezos: "The good news is that if we move out into the solar system for all practical purposes, we have unlimited resources."
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women are more likely to have chronic conditions; women are more likely to have caring responsibilities outside of the immediate family; female staff & students are less likely to feel supported by their institutions on a normal day; women are given more academic housework
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In climate justice, activists talk about how the 1% don’t care about climate even if they believe it because they KNOW it won’t affect them. Are we any different? We have to at least say it
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Remember when you see people breaking. Ask what the pressure was, rather than looking at their strength or lack thereof. It takes so much to disclose. To make complaint, as
@SaraNAhmed
writes.
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An astro prof (among others) once told me that I would eventually have to choose science over my art. I’m now a published, award-winning poet who’s performed (& is read) internationally, with a self-produced album of my compositions. I’m 1.5 years into my PhD in space science. 👊🏾
Name a time you proved someone wrong who doubted you. Be as petty as you like.
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at some point we have to confront that diversifying a graduate student pool does not equate to raising consciousness & collective responsibility in the sciences, and making this equivalence w/o actually uplifting & giving resources to those students is called exploitation
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Don’t put “men and masculine people” on my feed esp. in discussing assault. It’s cowardly and really violent and like...deliberately obtuse
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@Lilly
hi. (Bi!) Indo-Caribbean woman here to say you are not and never will be a “bad gyal.” Stop this.
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@zeikonline
Exceptions instantly turn into means testing. Suddenly people have to show, what, paperwork at a starbucks? So many companies that won’t give us a chair, remove or block accessibility features in bathrooms, block automatic doors, no masks for their employees, etc etc etc
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If you mock your students on Twitter it’s an instant block from me.
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omg did I ever tall yall about how I emailed an application for a NASA-run analog astronaut program and they immediately emailed back “sorry, we don’t take foreign nationals.” 🙃
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forgive the self-indulgence but when do I get to be Jane Bond ?
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Travel or whatever but what does it say to the public who need to trust what we as scientists say about climate? When we fly to so many conferences?
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every geology class I have ever taken has featured a little rant about how soil is the rarest most precious thing we have and we must protect it
“There’s a difference between diamonds and dirt” yeah dirt is actually important.
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the grace offered to a white woman who's a public figure and participates in Islamophobic rhetoric vs. the grace denied to a woman of color mourning her people
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it is 2018 and I’m almost a year into my Ph.D. Can the “I didn’t study for my chem final” dreams please finally stop @ God
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- is your whisper network the same one used by junior researchers of color? (white women: we are not using the same whisper networks as you!)
- how many years have they been “leading,” and have they ever ceded the floor?
- how many talks do they give at conferences?
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Hey science twitter, THIS is what I mean when I say professors don’t even believe we deserve accommodations and put the blame on the disabled, & not the institution.
#ChronicallyAcademic
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2019 is the year of blocking professors on sight if they suggest in ANY way that disabled students deserve to suffer
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After eleven years I'm proud to announce I'm breaking up with diversity work ❤️ I'm looking forward to this next stage of my career in the field of not giving more time and sweat to institutional co-optation for little to no payout. Up the workers!
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++ yes some of these men are single & of course struggling with mental illness etc. right now, but I'll point out that women are conditioned to clean; we are conditioned to be clean and put together 24/7 and have to be more presentable whether in the office or on Skype;
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like I’m almost glad that at least academic Twitter is maybe finally having a sweeping conversation about ableist practices & power on social media after disabled / students of color have been trying to jumpstart it for...years
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I was once an undergrad who exclaimed “please let’s talk about the positives of grad school b/c you’re scaring me” but those were all lessons that have returned to me during critical times. We have got to stop treating these as trite “complaint culture” existing in a vaccuum
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- do they do anything meaningful outside the public eye? eg have you seen them be effective bystanders, protect people, give someone resources, or find someone opportunities?
- do they make space on the proverbially sidewalk or are they the loudest in the room?
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not to distract from that Tweet but if that was your line for unfollowing & ending your public support of NdGT and not the sexual assault...ok.
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can’t wait until I get serially confused with another Desi woman space scientist my age. because it’ll mean there’s actually one in my proximity and we can become friends
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re: Ansari // I do so appreciate analyses of what masculinity teaches men & especially MOC in the South Asian diaspora etc. but I think sometimes it errs on the side of...too forgiving & too soft. He knew what he was doing. It was predatory. Center the survivor. Period.
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starting tomorrow I am saying a hard no to:
🐋 unpaid gigs (not including outreach/charity-funded events)
🐋 invitations to water down my message to lend credibility to something
🐋 any conversation that doesn't affirm my chosen viva deadline
Not a subtweet. Wish me luck
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this is why our system of publishing - extractive, exploitative, exhausting, expensive - will always hurt people the academy & beyond already disadvantage
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@cosmonist
Arthur, I am so sorry you went through this, what a nightmare. UCL space science was a poisonous, terrible experience for me and my heart hurts knowing this is a common experience between P&A and MSSL. I hope you can have the support you deserve in your next role.
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Quantitative // Qualitative
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“Masculine women” don’t have power over other women smh and to say so is so lesbophobic and transmisogynist and racist
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Really want disabled artists to flood all these calls for poems & article pitches & virtual art residencies about “isolation.” But who has the energy to etc
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- do they have reports of harassment against them, or rumors thereof?
- do you see junior minority folks approach them by choice? or do they mingle with their own demographic?
- do they mentor Black & brown people in the summers then only have white PhD students?
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My $0.02 on voting, as always: elections can be effective but material change does not rely on voting and it doesn’t take much empathy to forgive cynics of the US voting system and not be condescending - but we also need to pay attention to voting suppression & local politics
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everyone shocked at the replies to Nature's tweets...you know that's what your Black colleagues' mentions look like, right? especially recently?
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Women are also more likely to have large friend groups; think about the amount of time we spend emotionally supporting each other (and when living with men...men). Extrapolate to an academy that doesn't care about female staff and students, we are the support network
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- do they “collect” minoritized people around them in a way that is Othering rather than forming genuine, horizontal, relational connections?
"There are White mentors who will “collect you.” They are mentors who will want to add you to the cadre of students of Color that they have decided to help."
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