Dr Heather Williams MBE
@alrightPET
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Consultant Medical Physicist at The Christie; Positron Emission Tomography (PET) specialist; Mum; @Science_Grrl Director; #scicomm -er. She/her. Views my own.
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If your employer wants you to use multi-factor authentication, then I would say they need to provide you with two internet-connected devices to do it.
I'm all for improved security, but since when was it ok to make my personal phone essential for accessing my work email account?
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I can't help but think it should be Prof Sarah Gilbert, the actual expert overseeing the Oxford team who developed the vaccine, whose face features in these announcements.
#womeninSTEM
It is truly fantastic news - and a triumph for British science - that the
@UniofOxford
/
@AstraZeneca
vaccine has been approved for use.
We will now move to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible.
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So,
@ProfBrianCox
... you know that job you said you thought I should do?
I interviewed for it on Friday.
I start (not particularly fortuitously) on 1st April.
Here goes!
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I have three physics degrees and over 25 years of professional experience.
Next month I reach the maximum salary I can ever expect as a consultant healthcare scientist, heading up one of the largest UK Nuclear Medicine workforces.
I will still earn significantly less than £100k.
BREAKING: £100,000 a year 'not a huge salary', chancellor claims
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Genuinely concerned that our political leaders seem to think they'll still have NHS staff whatever they do or say.
We are not born doctors, nurses, radiographers, physios, administrators, clinical scientists... we are capable people who can work elsewhere.
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@gothspiderbitch
@Dr_AnnieM13
In other words, she didn't do a Kardashian and trash Monroe's dress (which didn't fit her anyway 🙄), and wore "vintage" in a way that shows she really does care about historic fashion.
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I got my PhD for a negative result, I even managed to publish it.
Finding out your hypothesis was wrong is still a hard-won contribution to knowledge, which requires all the same skills as a positive result. Nothing to be upset or ashamed about!
A reminder to anyone that needs it that negative results don't mean you have failed your PhD. You have explored the unknown and found something new.
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@neuroeden
@C_Pley
@DrNoMxMo
"My fascination with you is like brain worms"
Nah mate, think I'll pass.
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Came home to find the postie had left my MBE certificate behind the blue bin... ah, keeping me humble! 😂
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@fesshole
Grief is love with nowhere to go.
But love keeps on trying to connect, like re-dialling the number over and over because you're so desperate for them to pick up.
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@NBrightonBelle
This is the right balance - some understanding of why those women didn't turn up is needed. I'm not convinced angry public rants are the way to improve attendance rates. If I were her patient, this tweet would make me less likely to visit her practice.
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I am a consultant medical physicist who has led a team delivering cancer diagnosis and treatment throughout this pandemic.
I have had all three doses of the vaccine because they are effective, safe, and protects against severe illness and death.
Please
#GetVaccinatedNow
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I'm a consultant medical physicist, state educated.
Thing is, most people are state educated. I'm normal. I'm uncomfortable promoting my career path as exceptional, or unexpected - it should be normal that state-educated people succeed in all walks of life.
#IWentToStateSchool
Did you go to state school? Join our campaign and help inspire young people by sharing a video or a tweet about your journey from school to now.
#IWentToStateSchool
#nowrongpath
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@MikeHolden42
@chris_bore
What on earth did Whitty say? He looks furious. Hancock looks like he's seen a ghost, Johnson looks like his parentage has been called into question, and Cummings looks like someone's smacked him in the face with a frying pan.
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Muting this now. It appears expecting to be given the tech you need to do your job by your employer is a radical concept....
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Honestly, our leaders have lost the plot.
"British Aerospace and Tesco decided to plot against a no deal Brexit". Yes, of course they did. They met covertly in an Asda cafe and invited Sony along too, in the hope everyone would get free Playstations. The EMA bought the coffee.
Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns on food retailers warning of huge disruption if there’s a no-deal Brexit: “We expect businesses to come out with more fear-mongering as we get to the 29th March”
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@NogginTheNog_
You mean, the one who expects to be given the tools to do her job? What outrage!
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Does anyone else find
#JACKIEWEAVER
not at all funny? It brought back to me how it felt to be shouted at, belittled and laughed at when trying to do sensible and necessary things in the face of aggressive, irrational opposition designed to intimidate me into backing down.
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@RussInCheshire
Nothing gave me more pleasure than seeing Meghan rock up to Westminster looking happy, fresh and modern in flawless top-to-toe Dior over the Platinum Jubilee weekend.
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@thhamilton
Schrödinger's teenager, simultaneously old enough to be earning in the kind of job that got furloughed AND so hopelessly work-shy and feckless that they need to be forced to work through National Service.
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@dendromecon27
I have a work phone. It is switched off when I'm not working and most of the time lives in the office unless I'm working from home.
A small number of colleagues have my personal mobile for absolutely dire emergencies, but the department runs fine without me.
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@fesshole
If it's all her money, the house should absolutely be in her name only. She's not put it all that diplomatically, but this is probably the first time she has had the security of being able to pay her own way in the world and survive alone - I wish more people had that freedom.
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This is Twitter at its finest - those actually working on Mars rovers taking the time to encourage a child who's being teased for dreaming of doing the same.
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@katebevan
Now we know how they all got away with it - I wonder how many other women have been abused in that district?
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@ThisisDavina
I have a brother, a male partner, and two sons.
It's not bad for any of them to be reminded they are responsible for their behaviour around women and to expect that they will behave as decent human beings, and to call out men they know who behave otherwise.
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I cannot tell you how angry this makes me. A social mobility "expert" who is deliberately ignoring the cultural assumptions around physics and maths that put girls - who are just as good at them - off pursuing a career in these fields.
I feel like we've gone back in time.
“Physics isn’t something that girls tend to fancy. They don’t want to do it. They don’t like it… There’s a lot of hard maths in there that they don’t want to do.” 🤦🏻♀️
@Miss_Snuffy
, UK Government Social Mobility Commission Chair
#WomenInSTEM
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@danbloom1
Good answer. He's not prepared to play in a leading role in the "is this racist?" pantomine and just gets on and points out, from personal experience, how people from all over the world are contributing to the UK.
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@Mr_Minchin
@Missy_E36
If the school has an iPad as mandatory school equipment, something is seriously amiss, IMO.
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MBE secured 👍
Nipped into Asda on the way home to pick up some celebratory pizza whilst still wearing it - now back in its box so I don't spill my tea all over it!
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@sTeamTraen
Having the PM dressing up as a stereotypical scientist (white guy with ruffled hair in lab coat and goggles) instead is making it worse, I think.
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@PeakTobi
Ah, thought so.
So you just have to manage you, not the household or the 6 kids and everything that goes with that, because that's your wife's full time job.
The original tweet looks pretty misleading now, to be honest.
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Thankyou all - muting this now but... happy
#WomenInScience
day! If you're on instagram, check out the new
@Science_Grrl
community, launching today:
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@guardian
Ohforgoodnesssake. Most people I know under the age of 40 can't put enough aside for a deposit, how in heaven's name are you meant to do it if you're homeless?
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@BBCWomansHour
Personally I'm rather more bothered about the collapse of public services, the cost of living crisis, and apathy in the face of the climate crisis; I am not falling for this far-right dog whistle from the Tories.
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@chrischirp
I don't know why they're even asking the question. There has been endless research done in this area over decades and submitted to Parliamentary enquiries. I watch ill-informed nonsense like this and feel like I've just been wasting my time.
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@Drew_Turner1
@PamKeithFL
Oh mate. I'm a Christian and a physicist. Big Bang, evolution, faith in Jesus Christ can all coexist in one brain. Lots of us do it. They are not in opposition to each other. Being a person of faith doesn't mean chucking science in the bin.
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@cdisalvo
I've always designed posters in PowerPoint. It's not hurt my career in the slightest.
Did they communicate my work effectively regardless? Yes.
Would I have liked them to look prettier? Yes.
Did I have time to make them prettier? No.
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@daraobriain
He searched the internet for a picture of a monkey to tweet in comparison to a mixed race child, just born to a woman who's received endless racist abuse; didn't stop to think that this might not be funny. His apology afterwards was lacklustre to say the least. Really?
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Dear tweeps, I present my Mother's Day gift from my sons.
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@3peasinmypod
If you don't vaccinate, you put your child and everyone else they come into contact with at risk. I can't be neutral about that choice, and endorse it as equally valid to vaccination.
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@SonjaCowling
Personally, I think you can tell a lot about someone by how they treat the lowest-paid workers in any context, be they cleaning your office, checking your train ticket, scanning your shopping, or taking your dinner order.
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@LMSChairman
I don't want to be rude about this lady, but...
Well, you had the option not to be, and you were.
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@paullewismoney
Well, yeah, exactly. Having privacy means that you get to share what you want to share with the world, every detail of your life isn't automatically tabloid fodder because you married a prince.
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At a time when we need the strongest, sanest leadership the nation has seen for decades... we get this.
Conservative MPs are throwing fish into the Thames in protest at Theresa May's Brexit deal
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To those who haven't already heard via the incredibly efficient Medical Physics grapevine - I recently applied to be lead Consultant Medical Physicist for Nuclear Medicine at
@TheChristieNHS
... and I got the job 🙂
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@DJGould94
It's way better having a title based on your academic achievements than one reflecting your marital status. That's mainly why I use it.
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@ArchewellBaby
@natcatvins
Harry's very public relegation to the pews occupied by minor royals, despite being a son of the king, in this ceremony is really petty and intended to humiliate. He bore it well.
Meghan did well to stay away.
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@PaulBrandITV
The absolute state of this, encouraging a Twitter pile-on on someone whose child is ill and who is rightly calling out
#NHS
cuts.
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Academia is not a calling. Neither is being a healthcare worker or teacher, or any other role where a sense of vocation and working for the common good is too easily exploited by your employer.
No-one can pay their bills with fuzzy feelings. Workers should receive fair pay.
Graduate students are primarily students and trainees, not ordinary workers. Academia is a calling. I suspect unionization will tip the balance so faculty prefer, at the margin, to hire post-docs to do research in their labs rather than students.
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@SPhinbow
My personal number is very much a personal number - I have a work phone and few colleagues have the personal one, and then only call if there's an absolute disaster that requires my intervention.
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Her name is AMAL CLOONEY, and the Nobel Prize nomination isn't for being married to George or giving birth, it's for the THIRD THING on your list.
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@MarinaPurkiss
Sounds like Lee Anderson should pop round and give him some advice on how not to be a scrounger.
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@igordownunder
@professor_dave
There's nothing disrespectful about a woman wearing trousers.
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@IanDunt
You don't have to turn up to every fight you're invited to. There's a lesson here - sometimes standing by the sidelines and watching your adversary flail around trying to bait you is more likely to get you the outcome you want in the long run.
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@DrPragyaAgarwal
Good grief. So much clear racism and ableism there, even down to the weird little walking action which suggests an assumption that you don't really understand English...
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I'm an
#NHS
worker, have been for over 20 years. I don't want
#clapforheroes
. I want enough staff on hospital frontlines, and those on lower pay bands to be paid much more. And I want everyone else to stay home as much as they can, to give us a fighting chance of doing our jobs.
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Line-managing a large team has taught me how many brave people there are silently carrying huge burdens and wrestling with massive personal challenges and still turning up to work every day.
I want work to be a place that helps them, not the place that finally breaks them.
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@johnredwood
Dear John, "delaying the virus" and "limiting transmission" are the same thing. Best, Heather
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Under the mask, I'm smiling.
I just got my first dose of the Pfizer Covid19 vaccine at
@TheChristieNHS
, as part of the drive to get patient-facing
#NHS
staff vaccinated.
I am so grateful for this wonder of science.
#LetsVaccinateBritain
#covid19uk
#vaccination
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I am astonished. This is a clear attempt to shift responsibility and blame on to *patients* if they run out of meds because our government can't deliver an orderly Brexit.
Press the pause button now,
@theresa_may
. Give yourself time to do it properly. No-one voted for this.
SHOCKING: Patients should consider stockpiling their own medicine supplies before Brexit because there isn't enough infrastructure for companies to do it, says the British pharmaceutical industry.
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@afuahirsch
@HackneyAbbott
Remember how she was eviscerated for drinking a can of mojito on a train? Johnson et al had to get smashed in No10 on the night before Prince Philip's funeral during a national lockdown to attract the same degree of outrage.
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Just had a really useful chat with a local physics teacher who is trying to find more role models working in physics and engineering who went to regular, non-selective state schools, who her students would find more relatable.
Holler at me if that's you!
#ChatPhysics
#asechat
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@Gilbers84
@chloewcollins
I had a similar conversation about posting photos being an invasion of privacy when you literally couldn't have a friend or relative come over for the first time without them ending up on the WhatsApp for "driving suspiciously" (i.e. slowly, looking at house numbers)
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Absolutely delighted!
Catch a very excited me on
@BBCRadioManc
at 7:50am and
@GranadaReports
(during lunchtime and evening bulletins) tomorrow, and in
@MENnewsdesk
shortly afterwards.
And *high five* to all of you working to make science truly "for everyone".
#NewYearsHonours
Congratulations to ScienceGrrl Director, Dr Heather Williams
@alrightPET
on her
#MBE
for services to diversity and inclusion in science!
#newyearhonours
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@RepMateo
@Aliafonzy43
@iheartspence
So basically, look a bit androgynous and you risk being kidnapped? That would have been me most days before the age of 15.
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I just asked my 8 year-old niece to be my bridesmaid.
Her face! Pure joy 😮😁😍
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I'm in an NHS management meeting and someone is joining from their car whilst on holiday overseas.
Senior leaders, please don't do this. If you're on leave, you're on leave - delegate.
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And who's going to check the scanners, acquire the images, and interpret them? Buying new shiny kit is the "easy" part - the
#NHS
urgently needs to recruit more medical physicists, radiographers and radiologists.
@ipemnews
@SCoRMembers
@RCRadiologists
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A gift to all statistics lecturers covering correlation and causation this week :
Joe Rogan and Elon Musk discuss the dangers of ventilators.
Joe Rogan: "Like 80% of the people they put on ventilators died."
Elon Musk: "This is what actually damaged the lungs, not Covid. The cure is worse than the disease."
h/t
@VigilantFox
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So, that's me done for 2021!
Wishing you peace and joy over Christmas and see you in the new year 🙂
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Rest of the UK take note - Yorkshire defines "large ice-cream"
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@LMSChairman
Oh please, Joseph. She's in a different church tradition to you, and is celebrating the start of her ordained ministry within that tradition. And you describe that as a "stylus squealing on a slate"? Rude is the polite description of your comments and you know it.
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@JessPected
Never marry a man who thinks his commitment to you is anything but a privilege. Anyone behaving like this, playing the vows for LoLs from the boys, is not husband material.
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@agnesjuliet
@GilesPalaeoLab
Dear God. "We're trying to force her out, and are doing so in the form of the resentful advert for her maternity cover".
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@Sorrelish
I had someone come up to me at a science festival where I was helping her kids with activities and say very loudly that she was a TERF and proud, and was raising little TERFs. She wanted a reaction, she didn't get one. These people actively seek drama and discord.
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@NogginTheNog_
I do have a work phone and I don't use it for personal use, that's the WHOLE POINT.
Blocking you because this response is all a bit weird.
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@j_coatsworth
@DouglasCarswell
He's going to be so mad if he ever actually reads about the stuff Jesus used to get up to.
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@AlexNevard
It is literally the job of radiologists under UK law to decide if a scan using ionising radiation is justified to answer the clinical question.
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I was pondering the progress made since I'd started working on gender equality in STEM about 20 years ago, and wondering if initiatives like
@Science_Grrl
were close to being obsolete.
No, not yet. Thanks Kurt for confirming we still have A LOT of work to do.
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@shycollie
@jjfitzgeraldMD
I have had several conversations with husbands of friends recently who only sought medical care because their wives "nagged" them to, and it showed something that needed attention.
I said to each "THIS is why married men live longer!"
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@laurie_winkless
Cheeky monkeys. "Let me steal your ideas for free, because they're only yours, they're not owned by another big company with a scary legal department".
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A bit of a retirement do this morning for my boss - and our lead technologist made a PET scanner cake!
#lovemyjob
#NHS
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@sarahditum
He's a drag artist and he's not saying that at all. As a physicist I think he's drawing some interesting parallels.
It would help if you actually listened rather than summarily dismissed and mocked someone because of the way they look.
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Recording lectures today? I recommend placing something you can talk to just above your webcam. A smiley positron seems to work ok.
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@amylandengineer
@M_Wolf_Meyer
@kaminisingha
@jsmilges
Personally I think someone senior in the department needs to see the horrible things that are being said about their staff by their students, and decide what they're going to do about it. As a senior manager, I'd much rather see this ugliness and shield my staff from it.
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@ShippersUnbound
@AndreaMann
It's an odd world where the chief political commentator for a major national newspaper bases their judgement of what is best or even normal for all people in all workplaces solely on their own preferences.
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I'm a scientist in a movie. I have unmanageable hair, a dress sense which is most kindly described as quirky, and have no interests whatsoever besides my work. Despite being a genius, my work goes unexpectedly wrong and endangers people on a regular basis.
I’m an author in a movie. After settling at my immaculate desk I stare into the middle distance for a moment before beginning to type. I don’t stop until I have an impressive stack of printed pages next to me. I don’t check Twitter or Instagram and I am always dressed.
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