Prof Rachel Oliver 🐯
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Tweeting about the wonders of gallium nitride, the joy of microscopes and a dream of equity in science. Personal views. (She/her).
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Proud & excited to see this article out in
@NatureChemistry
with co-authors
@JulieJebsen
@i_jayas
&
@knicollb
. Working with this amazing group of women has allowed me to dream and think bigger about gender equity in STEM than ever before! Please read!
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Head teacher who can't understand why girls are even less likely to take physics A-level at her school than elsewhere, is excited to introduce her students to a man who deliberatley distorted the evidence base to propogate the idea that women aren't interested in science.
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11yo son had COVID 12 weeks ago. Today is the first day he is eligible for the vaccine and he's booked in for a jab tomorrow. Except, this morning he tested positive for COVID AGAIN. Back in isolation and no jab for 12 weeks. Aaaaaargh!
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Female academics use our "Dr" and "Prof" titles to signal our expertise, in a male dominated world given to assuming we are waitresses or secretarial staff. I'm always bemused when people - particularly other women - tell us to step away from our proper & earned forms of address.
Seeing "Dr. Ford" trending reminds me anew of how much I hate when PhDs who are not medical doctors want to be addressed as "Dr." It undermines authority rather than underscores it. That goes for you, too, Dr. Jill Biden.
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I have really had enough of this. University staff are working incredibly hard, often from home and with limited support and improvised technology, to try and create engaging, effective online teaching materials. Many of us will be both recording our lectures to allow...
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Really disgusted by some comments under this post. Clara is an amazing advocate for EDI, across the board not just LGBTQ+ folk. E.g. She worked with me to help change IOM3 policy on harassment, making all women safer. A damn sight more than most of the haters below have done.
We’re delighted to announce
@ClaraMBarker
as the new IOP Inclusion and Diversity Representative.
Dr Barker says: “I look forward to working with different groups who share a passion for physics but feel they cannot achieve their maximum potential. (1/2)
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@i_jayas
Although we already knew this in general, the numbers & details there are pretty stark. That said, I can also think of men I knew early in my career who were absolutely blatant about their evasion tactics when at Associate Prof level and who have very clearly benefited from that.
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It's
#InternationalWomensDay
(
#IWD2022
) &
@cgl_119
& I have one thing to say:
#SmashThePatriarchy
There are a whole lot of other things I *won't* be doing today. 👇
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As a cis woman in STEM, I get misgendered remarkably frequently. Since it has happened yet again today, I'd like to note that I'm really glad that trans and non-binary people have encouraged more of us to share our pronouns, since it helps me to remind senior men that I exist.
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After
@CommonsSTC
were told “Physics is not something that girls tend to fancy”,
@jesswade
,
@i_jayas
,
@chrischirp
, Angela Saini & I wrote to the committee with an evidence-based counterpoint. Our letter has now been published as part of the inquiry:
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Academics who work all weekend: when do you do stuff like laundry, grocery shopping etc? Or indeed get some exercise?
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Dear Academic Colleagues,
When you receive an email auto-response from me explaining that COVID-related caring responsibilities may delay my response to your message, emailing my superiors to complain that I have not answered you quickly enough is exactly the wrong response. 🤦♀️
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I have really had enough of reviewers reports for grant applications which could be best summarised as "This work should not be funded because the applicants cannot prove definitively what the results of their planned experiments will be".
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... asynchronous learning and running live Q&A sessions as well, so actually providing *more* teaching than in a normal year. The increased preparation and delivery time has more than doubled my teaching workload, and the need to prepare prerecorded material, has squashed that...
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... increased workload into a shorter time period. Yet all I'm seeing on twitter is people claiming that we aren't going to deliver teaching, and thus our livelihoods should be put at risk by taking away one of our employers' income streams. Get a clue
@Andrew_Adonis
.
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Tell you what, any women who feel they've been treated unfairly at Parkrun this week, can have a free run next week.
Unfairness for females at
@parkrunUK
continues! 😡 Thread.
I have found four males who ran in the Female category at parkrun today. I’m sure there were many more. Parkrun’s new hiding data regime makes it harder to find them but I have.
Male A: top ten in Female category,…
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It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science
#IDWGS2022
and I have this to say:
Lack of progress towards equity for
#WomenInSTEM
is not caused by women's ability, attitude, behaviour or style. It's caused by systems of patriarchal oppression.
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I was today years old when I learned that the "Auger effect" (which is really important in GaN LEDs) was originally discovered by Lise Meitner, with Auger's work coming later, but Meitner's work was ignored. Very encouraged that this was pointed out by a senior white man who...
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It's been kinda cool to see UK
#AcademicTwitter
come together today to stand up to bullying by Research🐠. Could we maybe all make this much noise next time UKRI release data showing appalling under-representation of minoritised scientists in their funding awards and processes?
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The frequency of use of the word "unqualified" in student reviews of women teaching engineering is so high compared to that for both men and women in other disciplines that it barely fits on the graph. Lads, do you really think unqualified women get to teach tech at universities?
This shows frequency of the word "unqualified" in teaching reviews. Women in orange, men in blue.
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I've done some excellent, high quality saying "No" in the last couple of days. Can I get some appreciation of this excellent achievement?
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I *won't* be making lists of inspirational women.
It's not a lack of inspirational women that's the problem. It's patriarachal systems of oppression which prevent those inspirational women being heard, or (worse) prevent women reaching their potential to be inspirational.
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2020: I'm sorry I'm late. In the 30 seconds between two zoom meetings, I needed to prepare family lunch, organise afternoon home schooling and find the lost coloured pencils. You know, actually, I'm not sorry at all. Cope.
2019: sorry i'm late, my train was delayed
2020: sorry i'm late, i fundamentally don't respect you enough to click a zoom link on time
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SO tired of this attitude. The question of WHO should pay for University education is a separate one to the question of WHETHER it should be paid for. The suggestion that University staff should work day and night to pivot to online learning but do so unfunded is a pile of 💩.
Charging £9,250 tuition fees for university by zoom or microsoft teams is daylight robbery
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Folks... tell me with your favourite fictional scientists who are not white men as alternatives to the lineup below?
Morning everyone. I wanted to start today with a quiz. Can you name all of these fictional scientists. 😀🤙😈
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@emilyxax98
I had a serious conversation with colleagues yesterday about whether 10 til midnight or 4 am til 6 am was the best lecture recording window for homeschooling academics.
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Love this post... Translation: "in Australia there is a "blue banded bee" and it looks like a normal bee which has put on its blue pajama bottoms."
The description may even be cuter than the photo.
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I wonder how many hours each year academics spend desperately trying to shorten pieces of text to meet arbitrary word limits?
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Oh my goodness! I'm on the front page of the
@Cambridge_Uni
webpages today for
@WomenScienceDay
! If you'd like to read a bit more about my work, both in terms of
#science
and
#equality
#diversity
and
#inclusion
, you can read the article here:
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I took my 5 month old son to an ERC interview, in person, in Brussels, because he was exclusively breast-fed & so I couldn't leave him. At the time ERC offered no accommodations to nursing mothers. He threw up on the carpet of the European Commission. They thoroughly deserved it.
Congratulations but I have very mixed feelings about the message of the “superwoman” and how toxic this is to be normalised in the workplace, IMPO of course
Surely giving birth to a human being could impact on on how the selection process can be done, one should have thought
👩🏻🔬
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On a day when
#AcademicTwitter
is basically in total agreement that a woman scientist won the Nobel prize for brilliant research despite being dismissed & discriminated against by her Uni, tangibly demonstrating the value of diversity in science, this really isn't a good look 👇
NEW: Conservatives are safeguarding scientific research from the denial of biology and the steady creep of political correctness.
@michelledonelan
announces plans to depoliticise science at
#CPC23
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Apparently Florida is banning University courses that are "based on unproven, theoretical, or exploratory content".
Physics departments are going to have a tough time then, if no theory is allowed!
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What does a middle-aged female Professor of Materials Science do with her Saturday morning? Think erudite thoughts? Write papers? Do laundry? Nah. I went to a bike park and attempted to jump my mountain bike over table-tops!
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Today, it's
#InternationalWomensDay
, and I'm asking the men who hold power, who can make change with something larger than a little chisel:
What are you doing to
#SmashThePatriarchy
?
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I *won't* be attending a training session to learn to be more confident, more assertive, more loud, more like a man. I won't be training other women to fit the patriarchal mold.
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It's me!!
World-leading materials engineer
@ProfRachelGaN
is elected as a Fellow renowned for her study and innovative applications of gallium nitride (GaN) for electronic and optoelectronic devices:
#RAEngFellows
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I cannot emphasize this enough: Stop. Trying. To. Fix.
#WomenInSTEM
!
There is nothing wrong with us. We do not need fixing. The problem is your system, not our voices, posture or other aspects of our appearance.
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Do other
#AcademicParents
sometimes feel that they really need a proper day off, not just from academia, but also from parenting?
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Toxic academic of the day: As a symposium organiser got email from man whose abstracts were selected for posters not talks, saying major international conference not worth his "time & money as a full professor" if he doesn't speak & threatening to withdraw unless we upgrade him.
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I am incredibly excited to announce that I have been awarded an
@RAEngNews
Chair in Emerging Technologies to support my work on porous GaN! This is the technology which underpin the amazing progress
@Porotech_Ltd
have made on microdisplays & it has so much potential to do more...
The Academy is thrilled to reveal, the four new appointments made to the prestigious Chairs in Emerging Technologies scheme. £10 million will be awarded to fund pioneering disruptive technologies to deliver economic and societal benefit:
#RAEngResearch
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Bloody hell. Working from home UK university staff figured out basically from scratch how to make the whole damn curriculum work in a remote format. And did a million other things. So no, we did not just make coffee and eat cheese, & I don't suppose other professions did either.
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I *won't* be organising events to get women together to support one another.
It's not lack of sisterhood that's the problem. It's patriarchal systems of oppression which put huge pressure on women's enormous ability to lift one another up.
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Can I just say that I really hate ResearchFish?
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Sigh. I engaged with so many events, consultations & workshops about the semiconductor strategy & at all of them the community emphasized the importance of making it easier to bring talented people from overseas into the UK. So what does the govt do? Makes it more difficult!
We’re increasing the minimum earnings threshold for skilled workers by 48% to £38,700, encouraging businesses to look to British talent first and invest in their workforce.
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Very pleased to have been made a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mines
@iom3
just in time for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Any other women in materials science who need support with an application - let me know!
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Personally, I think it would be more appropriate to ask the other passengers to cover themselves. If you can't cope with seeing a breastfeeding mother, you can solve this problem without causing offence by putting a blanket over your own head.
@HeatherYemm
Breastfeeding is permitted at KLM flights. However, to ensure that all our passengers of all backgrounds feel comfortable on board, we may request a mother to cover herself while breastfeeding, should other passengers be offended by this.
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Reviewer 3 strikes again. Apparently, we shouldn't be pointing out a likely artefact in another group's data because the data in question is in a paper which has been peer reviewed. Cease critical analysis immediately everyone: reviewer 3 has spoken.
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I *won't* be giving a
#IWD2022
talk to help some University tick their Athena Swan boxes.
It's not a lack of box ticking that's the problem. Box-ticking does not
#SmashThePatriarchy
- we know this already.
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What is it about the words "Professor Rachel Oliver" in my email ID and signature which makes older men assume I am the group secretary?
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Is anyone else concerned that the rate at which emails arrive may soon reach a point at which it becomes physically impossible to process them all?
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I now have a policy, when I am asked to speak at a prestigious/private school, of only accepting if that school will organise an opportunity for me to also speak at one of their local state schools. Others might like to consider adopting this approach?
Weird how many one off outreach talks happen at prestigious/private schools, but it's because they contact a person/department in Oxford and ask for outreach. State schools, especially those not in the Oxford area, ask us to come and talk to you!
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Very excited to share that I have been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. The achievements which brought me here belong as much to my co-workers as to me, particularly the Cambridge Centre for GaN at
@cu_mat
, the
@porotech
team and everyone in
@tigerinstemm
.
We are delighted to announce our new Fellows for 2021. 69 leading figures from the world of engineering who have made exceptional contributions to their sectors in many different ways. Welcome to our Fellowship!
#RAEngFellows
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In case anyone thinks I'm being an over modest woman not changing my twitter handle to Prof, thought I'd say my chair won't exist til 1 Oct. Come 1 Oct I'm changing my twitter, my business cards and the sign on my door. Hell, I might get it tattooed somewhere.
#ImmodestWomen
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E-mail from journal asking me to peer review, sent 5.20 pm on friday, pickup by me at 9.15 am Monday morning, by which point I'd already received a reminder (late Sunday night) poking me because I'd not responded. These automated reviewer hassling systems need to get in the bin.
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Really useful guide to how to make a great poster.
An extra tip: if you print out a draft of an A0 poster shrunk down onto on A4 paper and there is any text you can't read, that text is too small. This applies to bullet points, figure legends, axis labels, etc etc.
#phdchat
"The secret: a scientific poster is simply a visual abstract." I so love this guide on how to make a poster!
#PhdAdvice
#PhdChat
#ECRChat
#postdoc
#gradschool
#SciComm
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I am really fed up with people convolving EDI activity and schools outreach. There is no point in attracting a diverse range of young people to join our sectors, if we don't first create an inclusive and welcoming environment in which we can support and retain them.
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Hello, I'm a female materials scientist. You might know me from my greatest hits such as "No, I don't work on textiles" and "I'm sure fashion is a nice career for a girl, but actually I work on solid state physics".
Hello, I’m a physicist. You might know me from my greatest hits such as "No, I don't work at CERN" and “No, I don't know Brian Cox”
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I *won't* be engaged in focussed activism, to chip away at a tiny bit of the mortar in the walls of the patriarchy with my little chisel of truth. Not today.
Today, I will say that we need to
#SmashThePatriarchy
, not slowly abrade it away over 1000 years.
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Today, I ran the Cambridge half marathon.
Before I set off, my husband asked me what my pacing plan was. I said I was planning to run slowly and high five children in the crowd.
And I did. I was a long way off my personal best, but I had a fun time.
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More information for those who are interested:
"A renaming proposal: “The Auger–Meitner effect”: Physics Today: Vol 72, No 9"
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If anyone thought the govt's war on "cancel culture" was really about free speech & not about shoring up the platform for specific right wing views, this news should shatter their illusions:
@PriyamvadaGopal
has had a talk to the home office cancelled because of her views. 1/n
🚨Home Office cancels Black History Month talk by controversial Cambridge academic after Guido exposed hard-left anti-Priti comments of speaker
🚨Notorious prof Priyamvada Gopal is accused of having "racist" views
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Some excellent stories here under a terrible headline. I am so bloody tired of this narrative that it should be female scientists who confront gender bias in STEM.
#WomeninSTEM
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I love physics!
Certain people, who don't deserve the oxygen of publicity, are claiming women just aren't into physics.
#WomenInSTEM
if you love physics, tweet it loud and proud today.
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If I have learnt one thing since the start of the pandemic, it is that I have to schedule zoom free days in my diary for the sake of my mental wellbeing. I'm having one today and it's marvellous.
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Amused, or possibly disturbed, by the number of people who thought this post was asking for advice on how to work all weekend, rather than expressing bafflement that anyone would ever want to attempt to do such a thing regularly.
Academics who work all weekend: when do you do stuff like laundry, grocery shopping etc? Or indeed get some exercise?
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Lovely people of twitter... Please can we stop retweeting that weekend working woman? It's honestly not an opinion that needs to be amplified, even by hot takes about how bad it is.
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... then carefully referred to the effect as the Auger-Meitner effect throughout his talk. I shall aim to do likewise in future.
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@Mickeymoneychat
Yeah, but lots of services aren't normal at the moment. If you go to a pub that is covid safe, do you expect to get your beer for free, because the atmosphere is a bit muted compared to the usual pub experience?
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Absolutely. But also remember that women can choose not to engage with fashion or makeup, and this doesn't make them any less competent at science. Such
#WomenInSTEM
don't deserve to be called "you ugly little woman" as happened to me recently, or other related insults.
Normalize femininity in STEM. You can be a great scientist and also be into fashion, makeup, and wear cute dresses. It doesn't make you any less professional.
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These days, when asked to do academic service, I request an "equity rider": a reqirement that some efforts are made to address equity issues with the activity if I agree to serve. As a consequence, a big conference in my field has a Code of Conduct for the 1st time. Very chuffed!
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Key quote: "In the sciences today, there remains this implicit assumption that the careers of young women are disposable while those of older men must be protected at all costs".
We must change this culture. It's not just damaging women. It's damaging science.
“We talk about a leaky pipeline all the time, It’s absolutely not. Women are being shoved out the back door quietly.” Imperal Physicist Emma Chapman, an outspoken champion for women facing sexual harassment in science, talks to
@AngelaDSaini
for
@NatGeo
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So
#proud
to have won this year's
#ewTechAwards
academic award! Thank you
@JulieJebsen
@OptoLia
and
@idrismonsur
for all your work on my nomination!! What a great experience!
Congratulations Professor Rachel Oliver, Professor of Materials Science at University of Cambridge
#ewTechAwards
#Womeninstem
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So, this is where I'll be tomorrow: at the Houses of Parliament talking to
@commonsSTC
. If you agree with me that we need funding systems which remove barriers to success for scientists with diverse characteristics, wish me luck and cross your fingers!
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An
#InternationalWomensDay
story: in my first industrial placement as an engineering student, I was taken onto the shop floor to be introduced to the foreman. My boss opened the conversation with the words, "Eh up, Jack. I've brought you a present." Me. I was the "present".
An
#InternationalWomensDay
story. I went down to the technical workshop with a male colleague (whose boss I technically am). Guy in workshop to my colleague: "So I see you brought your pretty assistant?"
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One of the problems with academic life appears to be that it involves multiple roles in addition to your official "job", and other people seem to think that there is no such thing as annual leave with respect to those addtional roles.
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When I die, I suspect they will carve the phrase "Where are your error bars?" on my headstone, since I say it so often.
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I am absolutely aghast that someone with no background in or experience of physics would make such a sterotypical & discriminatory claim in an evidence session about the issues with diversity in
#STEM
for a parliamentary committee (
@commonsSTC
). I just hope that the committee...
“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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ECR sends me an email about joining my group as a postdoc addressed to Dear Sir. As I am not a Sir, I do not respond. ECR follows up with cross email addressed to Dear Dr Rao. 🤦♀️ Top tip: making some (any) effort to check who you are writing to goes quite a long way.
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Some days, I'm determined to use my position in academia to advocate for other women & broadly for minoritised folk. Some days every bit of my energy gets used up advocating for myself as a woman in a hugely male-dominated space. I wish there were less of the latter kind of day.
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Today I resurrected a data analysis code which I believe I wrote in 2006 for a masters student to analyse a new data set. Things I learnt:
(1) Storing code is cheap. Don't delete anything.
(2) Comment your code people. Current me is pretty pissed off with past me on this one.
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Oh look. The academic establishment can still manage to erase a woman even when she's just won a Nobel Prize.
Blinks repeatedly in disbelief. 🤯
The magazine
@EconomicTimes
refers to the Nobel prize *Esther Duflo* (yes that *Esther Duflo* who has revolutionised experimental economics) as the “wife”.
Appalling, but also quite in line with how
#women
are treated in
#economics
(academically and empirically)
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(Aside: Worth noting that
@jesswade
& I organised ourselves to start writing this via twitter with encouragement from other tweeps. I know twitter is sometimes a hellscape, but it's also a place we can use to find allies and organise for change).
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Off to a conference in Germany tomorrow. This evening had an experience all too well known to academic parents. One small blonde boy sat in bed saying "Please don't go Mummy. I don't want you to go!". 💔😭 Sometimes academia is bloody hard on families.
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Dear Student,
If you knew how hard I have agonised about whether to give you an extra half mark on question 4(b) you would be amazed.
Best wishes,
Your examiner.
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So,
@UKRInews
responded to Michelle Donelan’s letter last night: . Having slept on it, I want to offer some measured thoughts. Whilst I don't like the response, my thoughts have some nuance & twitter isn't a great place for nuance. Nonetheless, here's a 🧵
This feels like a crunch moment for
@UKRI_News
. Will they stand up for academic freedom and meaningful action to reduce inequity in STEM?
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Tomorrow, I will get my little chisel back out, and go back to scraping away at the walls of the patriarchy.
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@NotoriousCath
@Phil_Baty
That's not what Adonis said. He said students won't be receiving full tuition. We are doing our damnedest to make sure we teach them everything we usually would, albeit in a different format.
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Some people who object to the Colston statue in Bristol being toppled have booked slots to visit an exhibition about that statue with no intention to go. But
@mshedbristol
can accomodate dropins without bookings if it's quiet, so if you're in Bristol please consider dropping in!
So here's people who had not heard of Colston a year and ago, and who do not live in Bristol, seeking to prevent the people of Bristol from accessing an exhibition at their own museum on a part of their own history.
via
@MailOnline
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(Just in case anyone is wondering... I'm planning on ignoring anyone who imports the hateful stuff under this post, but feel free to talk to yourself in my mentions if that gives you some form of perverted satisfaction).
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OK... Further clarification... By isolation I mean staying home and not seeing friends or extended family.
People making out that I've locked the boy in his room alone for 12 weeks are very keen to demonise people who hold opposing views, I guess.
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Emailing with one of my PhD students who is currently writing up. He tells me he is mindful of one key piece of advice I gave him: There are two basic types of PhD thesis: perfect and finished. These categories are mutually exclusive.
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I have a confession to make: today my husband went to work, my son went to orchestra camp & I sat down & drafted a paper. And to be honest, I was totally in my happy place. I even did a bit of analysis & ran some models & it was everything my job should be but often isn't.
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The Cambridge University Reporter is not something I'd normally be enthused about posting a link to, but since this one announces that I will be promoted to (full) Professor I'm making an exception.
Feeling rather happy right now!
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Dear
#Reviewer2
,
You are completely right: we do not know what the lifetimes of these devices will be in a commercial context. That's because noone has ever built a device like this, so lifetime testing is a little tricky at this stage.
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Woah. This appears to translate as Sheffield Uni saying "If you won't take on a load of additional work at the busiest time of the year when you are already doing many more hours than you are paid to do, we will dock 100% of your salary". This surely cannot be legal???
Lastly, the recently announced decision to pursue 100% deductions from staff who are not themselves participating in the boycott, but refuse to take on additional marking, is punitive, and may have unintended consequences. 10/10
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So we finally have a science minister. Not one who has any background in science, but instead a "science minister who, as Covid-19 tore through university campuses in autumn 2020, played a part in founding the anti-lockdown Covid Recovery Group". Good stuff. [Screams internally].
NEW on Wonkhe: We have - at last - a new Science Minister. David Kernohan asks who she is and what she might do in the role
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Today, for totally valid professional reasons, I had to update my CV and I am now deeply smug about writing my name on something as Prof Rachel A. Oliver FREng for the first time.
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By my estimates, more than 10% of the women Professors in the UK have now signed this letter protesting against the profound equity implications of the
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. Let's keep the list of signatures growing!!
'We are writing as women professors at universities across the United Kingdom, to voice our deep concern about the harmful impacts on women of the planned pension cuts. In a sector increasingly characterised by precarity, it is our responsibility as senior academics to oppose...
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