absolutspacegrl, to space
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My office at work currently has 4 women and 1 man.

I have been the “only” woman in an office full of men so many times - this is the first time it’s been reversed! And I’m having so much fun! (Sorry, Thomas, for all of the silliness!)

sysop408,
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@absolutspacegrl did it take any getting used to? For various reasons, I've repeatedly been the only man in places run by women.

I'm so used to it that when I'm in a room where the tables are turned and it's almost all men, I become hyper-self aware like I'm watching myself from out of body instead of just being there.

My wife has had similar experiences, but with ethnicity. If she's the only white person in a room, it feels normal. If everyone's white, it feels weird to her.

I'm sure you don't need any help getting comfortable in a room full of men, but based on what you've seen, what could your average guy do if he finds himself in a chance social situation where there's exactly one woman?

absolutspacegrl,
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@sysop408 Great question! Yes & no it- it was gradually introduced. 1st, it was me & 2 other men…1 of the women was out for maternity leave. She came back, so 50/50. Then one of the men took another job, but he wasn’t replaced immediately. Then he was, w another woman, then we got an intern who’s a woman just this week.

When I notice it I think about how unusual it is, but we get along & are friendly, & I realize that’s not always the norm. It’s different on 2 levels but welcome!

skrishna, to space
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We have the first science images from the ESA’s Euclid telescope and they are STUNNING. Euclid can take detailed photos with a wide field of view. Here’s a breakdown of what you’re looking at and why it’s important.

Newsletter goes out tomorrow: adastraspace.com

https://youtu.be/dLInbdOO4pA

skrishna, to space
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Could recent information about dark energy fundamentally alter our understanding of the universe? It's possible. Here's a deep dive into what dark energy is and how new results on the expansion history of the universe may change everything we thought we knew.

Newsletter version: adastraspace.com

https://youtu.be/YoGWou8hDZ4

minouette, to random
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Happy birthday to #paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 –1847)! She was the wrong class, sex & religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work & communicate her results or garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime most people thought Earth was a mere few thousand years old, based on a very literal interpretation of the Bible & found the idea of extinction did not fit in with the story of creation. 🧵1/
#linocut #sciart #womenInSTEM #printmaking

bluerehn,
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@minouette Great details in that linocut!

Whenever I think of Mary Anning, I think fondly of this old comic by Kate Beaton http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=399

skrishna, to space
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This week in space stuff:

  • Video coming today on dark energy
  • First science results from the ESA’s dark matter/energy observatory Euclid expected Thursday
  • Possible geomagnetic storm May 24-25, but likely nothing as strong as the one that made the aurora so visible
  • Boeing Starliner currently scheduled for launch Saturday May 25, but this could slip further

richard,
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@skrishna Starliner, more like Starlinger, lol

skrishna,
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@richard ok I laughed out loud

TechDesk, to tech
@TechDesk@flipboard.social avatar

What should Melinda French Gates do now that she’s announced her departure from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? How about fixing the tech industry’s broken “brilliant jerk” culture? Tech Crunch’s Julie Bort elaborates. https://flip.it/SdsCmi
#Tech #GatesFoundation #Technology #Women #WomenInStem

winterschon, to mentalhealth
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💔 Daily Early Morning Worry 💔

one of my clinical anxiety syndromes [1] manifests a binary symptom, which I've termed “impaired focal-state partial blindness upon waking”.

Let's play "Choose Your Own Adventure" this morning!

  1. Non-Critical: temporary medication effect (multi-rx additive symptoms)

  2. Critical: direct effect of hypophysis-cerebri tumor growth, ocular-nerve compression inducing eyesight loss (partial/full) 🧠

[1] ICD-10 F41.1

skrishna, to space
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Why were the northern and southern lights so visible over the past weekend? Let's talk about the sun's solar cycle, solar maximum, what causes the northern lights -- and even a conspiracy theory that the aurora were artificially created.

Newsletter goes out tomorrow at 11 am ET, sign up: adastraspace.com

#space #science #scicomm #womeninstem #aurora #northernlights

https://youtu.be/3ramBphEkXY

minouette, to random
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Happy birthday to Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my with many from her collection.

Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous , published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, talented scientific illustrator, 🧵

minouette, to Nursing
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Happy birthday to founder of modern nursing, social reformer, statistician, data visualization innovator & writer Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)!⁠
Nightingale earned the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp" during the Crimean War, from a phrase used by The Times, describing her as a “ministering angel” making her solitary rounds of the hospital at night with “a little lamp in her hand”. 🧵1/n

minouette,
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In 1859, Nightingale was elected the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society. She later became an honorary member of the American Statistical Association.⁠

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/198661732

🧵5/5

mwfc,
@mwfc@chaos.social avatar

@minouette
You might enjoy https://youtu.be/BEo6eQ7Vb3g from the German nursing association from 3 years ago (year of the nurse)

Florence helped to get the modern nursing profession started. Well worth remembering her and her achievements.

minouette, to Astronomy
@minouette@spore.social avatar

Happy birthday to #astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), trailblazer for women in #astronomy who discovered that hydrogen and helium are the most common elements in the universe.⁠

Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College Cambridge in 1919 where she heard a lecture which changed her life. She wrote, “My world had been so shaken that I experienced something very like a nervous breakdown.” 🧵

#linocut #physics #sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #MastoArt #astronomer

CarveHerName, to history
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, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.

peterdrake, to datascience
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ml, to Ethics
@ml@ecoevo.social avatar

Making "PhD student" a metonym for "grad student" is one of my raging peeves. Normally I'd correct them about it, but I just saw who the sponsor is.

You can have it.


@academicchatter

skrishna, to space
@skrishna@wandering.shop avatar

NASA found something weird at the edge of the solar system.

Let’s talk about what New Horizons found in the Kuiper Belt, and why we know so little about this part of our solar system:

https://youtu.be/CRKl0SeGlPw

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