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Scientists Don’t Succeed in a Vacuum. Why Expect This of Graduate Students?
Scientists Don’t Succeed in a Vacuum. Why Expect This of Graduate Students?
Graduate student isolation existed long before the pandemic, thanks to go-it-alone culture in physics programs. Then as now, peer support groups can help.
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Crosspost: The Unwritten Laws of Physics for Black Women
Written by Katrina Miller for Wired
STEM Statistics to put the Gender Gap into Perspective
☆ women make up roughly 17 percent of the physics workforce, but at the current rate of women working and studying physics, it would take 258 years to achieve gender balance.
☆ good news though! more women are graduating with degrees in STEM. for a rough estimate, the number grew from just over 140,000 in 2009 to over 200,000 in 2016.
☆ the myth of the "math brain" is a destroyer of confidence in girls. most girls lose confidence in math in third grade, while boys are more likely to feel they are strong in math.
☆ in 2019, about one-third of non-binary and transgender scientists reported discrimination for their sex or gender identity. about one-fifth of transgender scientists considered leaving their job.
☆ among STEM company CEOs, only 3 percent are women.
☆ 19 of the 616 nobel prizes awarded between 1901 and 2019 in physics, science, medicine and physiology were awarded to women.
Shirley Ann Jackson
(born 1946) Nuclear physicist
Shirley Ann Jackson is a nuclear physicist and President of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. She was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She served as Chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board during the final two years of Barack Obama’s tenure as President.
Number 170 in an ongoing series celebrating remarkable women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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Work on complex systems, including Earth’s climate, wins the physics Nobel Prize My article in Science News
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Astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is only the second woman to be awarded the Copley Medal.
A leading astrophysicist from Northern Ireland has been awarded the world's oldest scientific prize for her work on the discovery of pulsars.
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is only the second woman to be awarded the Royal Society's highest prize, the Copley Medal.
The medal is awarded for outstanding achievements in scientific research.
In 1967, when she was a 24-year-old student, she was part of a team that discovered the new type of star.
Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, so named because they appear to pulsate when viewed from Earth.
At the time she was overlooked for a Nobel prize in favour of her male collaborators, although she has argued the prize was awarded appropriately at the time due to her student status.
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Research by Cech and Waidzunas found that scientists belonging to the LGBTQ+ community are more likely to experience harassment in the workplace and be overlooked for opportunities, limiting their career progression. Inequalities within STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) fields based on gender and ethnicity are more high profile, and it is believed that these inequalities exist due to underrepresentation of women and people belonging to ethnic minorities discouraging engagement with STEM. This is a seemingly vicious cycle which likely explains the poor visibility of LGBTQ+ people in science.
LIVE with Scientists is committed to ensuring that science is accessible and inclusive. In the coming months, we aim to build upon the diversity of our amazing contributors and showcase the real stories and research of scientists who are often under-represented. To do this, we are collaborating with Pride in STEM: a charity established in 2016 which aims to increase the visibility of queer scientists and raise awareness of the issues that LGBTQ+ people face in STEM. Pride in STEM established LGBTQ+ STEM Day (November 18) which is celebrated globally, and run ‘Out Thinkers’ events which give LGBTQ+ scientists a safe and accepting space to talk about their research.
LIVE with Scientists wants to harness the spirit of ‘Out Thinkers’ and invite LGBTQ+ scientists to share their research. We would also love to highlight the experiences of LGBTQ+ people in science and academia, too.
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A documentary and a Bollywood film highlight two disparate paths in mathematics My article from Science News
I will reblog this every time.
Literally this.
Getting dirty, asking questions, being unapologetically enthusiastic about things, going overboard on projects. These are a few of my favorite things.
This is so heartbreaking, but so true.
And it’s even more heartbreaking when you see the transition and how performative it is.
I was a camp counselor at a science/nature camp when I was 16, for a bunch of 10 and 11 yr old girls. And one day while we were waiting around for the naturalist to come get us to go on the day’s hike, the boys cabin we were grouped with was exploring the area and overturned a log and found a salamander. One of the boys picked it up and they brought it over.
My girls all went “ewww, gross, keep it away!”
…right up until I said “whoa, cool, can I see it?”
This boy handed me the salamander and all of a sudden my girls were clustering around. They wanted to hold it. They were asking questions about it. They had stories of other times they’d seen a lizard or caught a frog or something. A couple of them went with some of the boys to look under another log and see if they could find another one.
All they had needed was permission to be curious, to show interest instead of disgust. And as soon as someone they were looking to for cues on “how to be a girl” showed interest, as soon as they didn’t feel like they had to perform socially-acceptable girliness and pretend to be grossed out in order to gain adult approval, all that natural curiosity and the fascination most kids have for the natural world just came bubbling right up.
As a female engineer, I have to reblog this.
Graduation Photos
*boyfriend blurred out upon request
Fall 2019, during my first semester of research, the dept. lab manager took this picture of an eager Sara. Jack made sure to stop me in the halls often over the years to ask how things were going and tell me he was “prouder of me than usual.”
When I struggled to balance all of my work, and I didn't feel like I was fit for research, I always knew I had a “friend and colleague” in my corner who believed in me even when I didn't believe in myself.
The fact that I stuck with research and inevitably fell in love with it, failures and all, is largely thanks to Jack’s unwavering faith in my ability to overcome any obstacle.
Thank the people in your corner and strive to be a person that passionately believes in other people
I can’t stand elon musk’s simp army like okay maybe they could idk pay for a concerted clean up effort with those billions of dollars they have? You can’t just destroy this planet to get to other ones lol. source
I live in the city Elon Musk built his SpaceX spaceport. Brownsville, Texas. It is a border town with majority of the population Mexican and Latino. With a significant amount of the population immigrants who crossed the border over for a chance at a better life. And as a Mexican and local, I can tell you things here are much worse than it seems.
The debris of his spaceships have landed on land that is considered a wildlife reserve for endangered-species.
Its home to an extremely rare beetle (the Boca Chica Flea Beetle.) known for its golden brown hue. This beetle is classed as a ‘Species of Greatest Conservation Need’.
And a little known ant species that hasn’t even been given a scientific name yet! (Its only been found in one other place in texas and Nicaragua.)
Oh but that’s not the end of it!
He’s been buying off local politicians and judges, bribing them with free teslas and campaign donations. That’s how he’s managed to get away with the mess he’s caused so far.
But, he fucked up. Because the locals here were furious with how he’s treating the environment and the news stations caught wind of it. And to save face, donated 30 million to the city.
He’s also been buying off properties here and after his tweets asking people to move here its obvious prices are going to skyrocket(he’ll make lots of money). But this in turn with push locals out and gentrify everything. And because we’re all Latino and non-white, and most immigrants no one will care!
All of this for the sake of ‘interplanetary exploration’ and living in other planets!
I don’t want other planets!
This isn’t “an insignificant piece of land”! This is my home!
