Alex Asal

Public historian, archives enthusiast, and all-around nerd. she/her.

[Alex Asal @Alex_In_Public]

@SEPTA If buses are being subject to cancellation you need to ACTUALLY cancel them in the app. I’ve spent a total of 80 minutes this morning & afternoon waiting in 90+ degree heat for buses that were never coming. Unacceptable.

[Alex Asal @Alex_In_Public]

@yourlittlelana @caityweaver It takes absolutely NO time or effort to be kind to someone still reeling from the loss of a parent. You’re a stranger on the internet and she’s allowed to talk about her reaction and frustrations without justifying herself to every random person who stumbles across a tweet.

[Alex Asal @Alex_In_Public]

It’s so not going to change anything, but I am not in the mood to gloss over it. This is not a feel-good girl power tour.

[Alex Asal @Alex_In_Public]

Giving a tour on the history of women in chemistry today. Usually I focus on Title IX and the EEAO when talking about the women’s rights movements and employment… but yeah, today we’re going to be talking Griswold and Roe, too.

[Matt Lindner @mattlindner]

The CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods on LinkedIn

[J(enna) Wortham @jennydeluxe]

intellectually knowing that something is coming does not prepare you for the devastation in the body when it hits

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

These guys are just politicians. The Constitution to them is just a fun tool to help them impose their political views on the entire country. The implausible inconsistency of the guns and abortion rulings is both sickening and revealing.

[Vintage Gay @vintage_gay]

One Magazine, Los Angeles, 1958. @ONEarchives

[Science History Institute @SciHistoryOrg]

In the 1950s American jewelers found their inspiration in the Atomic Age. The result was explosive: jewelry made to look like rockets and starbursts. 💥💥🚀

Read more about this show-stopping jewelry in our #Distillations article:
https://t.co/AnZw8hN32l

[ABC News @ABC]

“Why are you here?!"

A furious Sen. Chris Murphy demands answers from senators following Texas school shooting.

“Why do you spend all this time running for the United States Senate...if your answer, is as the slaughter increases, as our kids run for their lives—we do nothing?”

[J Coley @JColey716]

These Black-led Community Organizations in Buffalo could really use your support after the anti-Black white supremacist mass shooting that took place on May 14th. 🧵👇🏿

[Science History Institute @SciHistoryOrg]

Join us on Saturday 05/28 for our Women in Chemistry Tour. This drop-in tour profiles women chemists from antiquity to the present by sharing stories of innovation, resistance, and change.

Admission is free, and no reservations are necessary
https://t.co/n6Sub4uz4x

[Alex Asal @Alex_In_Public]

* edit: exposed "to my knowledge," rather

[Alex Asal @Alex_In_Public]

The condescension in the replies and retweets of this article is pretty infruriating, especially because a lot of it is clearly coming from people who 1) haven't read the article, and 2) would otherwise be calling people to believe/trust scientists.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Scientists around the world are investigating how a dwindling number of people have managed to dodge the coronavirus for more than two years, even after the highly transmissible omicron variant drove a record-shattering surge in cases this winter. https://t.co/v56knNTG6p

[Alex Asal @Alex_In_Public]

I've been knowingly exposed to COVID three times; one of those exposures was via someone who was similarly vaccinated, worked from home MORE than I did, and was consistent in wearing masks. She got a breakthrough infection, I didn't.

[Alex Asal @Alex_In_Public]

We want to know how COVID works. We want to prevent & treat it more effectively. We want solutions that don't rely on people's behavior, because if there's one thing the last two years have proved, it's that behavior doesn't stop it.

[Alex Asal @Alex_In_Public]

I didn't get smug about my luck, because catching COVID isn't about morality. At a certain point, luck and (potentially) genetics plays a factor, something which is fully covered in the article.And yes, we do want scientists studying those scientific factors.