This is What an Engineer Looks Like

Is it a fashion blog? An engineering blog? Why not both?

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What is this shirt doing? Woollen tassles? Bauble buttons? Gothic lace collar? I love it, but why???

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Spoopy Office Wear! Coding is both Goth and glam if you try hard enough.

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Finished my report! Like a boss! Or more accurately like an Assistant, but shhhhhh.

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Looking pretty awake for someone whose had 4 hours sleep. Building me a pretty gui today.

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I have one million simulations to write. My hair is super cute and my make up is on point. LET'S DO THIS!

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I dyed my hair at the weekend, it's green at the ends now. Today I argue against having to do simulations I already know the results of.

[sciencetylia]

Hey Shychemist. I've been following your blog for awhile and I want to bring up something that seems dated but nonetheless holds to be accurate today. I feel like the girls who consider themselves to be on the science side of tumblr to be horribly mistaken. It's statistically proven that women applicants struggle to get into stem doctorate programs, and rightfully so, they don't belong there. examples- atomic-o-licious, brainsx , adventuresinchemistry, i can't fit anymore but you get it

It doesn’t seem dated, your attitude is dated. This is the 21st century.

Women deserve to be in STEM programs just as much as men. I’d wager they deserve to succeed in the Sciences even more than men because of the sexism and misogyny they experience.

They struggle to get in because they’re the minority, and a lot of people who could admit them are sexist (regardless of gender) because of the society they grew up in. Its not through any intellectual weakness. These women are amazing and just as smart as the men in their fields.

You have no right to say these things to these amazing women, many of whom I consider to be friends.

[smilesandvials]

Wow. That seems like really fucking wrong. And offensive. And I would love to take some more time out of my day to be pissed about it. But…

It seems that I have a lot of fucking science to do.  So, uh, screw that. If anybody needs me, me and my lady bits will be getting some fucking science done.

[adventuresinchemistry]

I’m oddly excited to have been name checked by this shitty anon. Because it means that the very fact that I got into an Ivy League, top 15 science PhD program (where I fucking belong) is a giant fuck you to shitty anon. Also, shitty anons make Lewis sad. Because Lewis is a feminists science hippo.

[scientistsarepeopletoo]

Best way for me to deal with shitty nonnies who think women can’t do science? DO MORE SCIENCE!!!! MWAHAHAHA

[zygodactylus]

Crap, I’m a woman biologist. I’d go get another career but I have a groundbreaking thesis on rapid evolution of reproductive isolation between seed beetle populations to finish. 

[anxious-adventure-deactivated20]

I’m not a well-known tumblr scientist…but I am a scientist all the same. And while I could probably obtain a more gender-appropriate occupation… I’m pretty content with the fact I’m an atmospheric chemist Additionally, I am also one of the few women who have managed to be selected to intern at NASA’s airborne research program. 

Do I not deserve a place in the STEM fields, anon? 

[bisexual-bifurcations]

Hey ladies! Mind if some physicists join in?

At the CERN visiting the CMS part of the LHC where were were working for 8 months on both computational and experimental work:

Presenting our research at a conference on Physics of Living Systems:

And visiting the Wind Tunnel experiment after presenting our research at Max Planck Institute at a Advances in Cardiac Dynamics Workshop

[hammerforscale]

Yo, I haven’t posted for a while, but I’m doing a PhD in isotope geochemistry and this made me mad enough to come out of the Pb isotope lab and take this ‘selfie’ to make damn sure no-one thinks that girls can’t do science. I do what I do because I love it, and you know what? I kick ass at it. So jog on hateful anon, we’ve got science to do. 

[sciencetoastudent]

I’m just a guy who happens to be a science major, but even I feel outrage when I hear that girls/women either do not like or are not good at science.  This is such a preposterous notion!  Those who hold to this idea are either unaware or ignore the enormous amount of data that proves otherwise.  See my post here.

[madamjellyfish666]

Marine biologist reporting in! Saw this on my dash and thought I’d join :P This is just me plodding along doing some coral growth monitoring assessments, bioimaging, endless GC work on isoprene production in marine bacteria, analysing data and debating with my internationally recognised (female) peers about the implications of future climate change on the tropics etc.  But its science! And I friggin love it. So please anon, don’t tell me what I can’t do.

[pencilspensandhighlighter-deact]

You go girls! Hopefully you all will be the role models of my future children!!!!

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🙌🏽 🙌🏽 🙌🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

[ruestudies-blog]

Im not a qualified scientist yet, but im going to be one day! 🐢🍀🌍☁🌱🐉

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Railway Systems Performance Engineer over here! Not science, but still STEM. And lemme tell you, I belong here. I recently optimized a process that was taking a week, and made it a half a day job. I have a first class degree from a top university. And I am *not* a magical special snowflake exception to the rule. Women belong in STEM. The end. 

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Casual Friday Doggo Jumper! The most derpy doggos!

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TARDIS skirt! Awww yeah!

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Today I am designing a simulation in my super glam dress. Awww yeah.

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It me, wearing a flower fairy skirt. Because everyone needs a bit of glitter on a Monday.

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Enjoying casual Fridays, in this top which was a hand-me-down from one of my little sisters friends. (I'm v small, fun fact) Also, as an added bonus, it's now cold enough to wear my new "straight out of an anime" coat :D

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I'm back! One of the reasons I vanished was that I was having a bit of a crisis vis a vis my career. Luckily, things are back on track, I'm now in a permanent job, doing systems performance engineering (running computer simulations of trains) Today, I am doing so in a jacket that was probably made out of the grizzly remains of a murdered sofa.

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So, I've been very quiet recently, cause I've been a little busy with a certain big life event... So this is what an engineer looks like on her wedding day! (Pre the dress going on!)

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It's Grumpy Monday! Today's grump: "can we please stop referring to all unknown engineers/technicians/train drivers as male by default. Maybe they're not men! It could happen!" Also this jacket is lovely.

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Today's aesthetic: sulky pastel-goth librarian.

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Today I am wearing my super cute new dress. I have wanted it forever and it was in the sale yesterday and it was the best thing. It has woodland creatures and mushrooms and red riding hood on it. Also wearing pigtails. Because I'm an adult.