Dr Margi Vilnay

Structural Engineer | Dundee University Lecturer | Steminist | STEM Outreach | COMEC | Twitter novice

[UoD Structural Engineering @UoD_Structures]

Two of our fantastic students at @dundeeuni - Zoe Johnstone and Sarah Ross were shortlisted for the Northern Scotland @WiPUK Student Awards.

We’re delighted to report that on Thursday Sarah Ross was announced as the regional winner 🥳 Congratulations 🥂

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers:

Revenue:
Elsevier: $3.9 billion
Springer Nature: $2 billion
Taylor & Francis: $800M
Wiley: $1.8 billion

They pay:
Academic authors: $0
Peer reviewers: $0

[Dr Margi Vilnay @Margi_StructEng]

@UoD_Structures @LeonChernin @tsanghho @Xuemei747941 Finally not just you on your own on the MEng @LeonChernin. More time for the gym? 🤣

[the Dude 😎 @aliblahblah3]

Looking to sell my caravan in Wales to a Veterans charity, so others, like me, could benefit from a place to go & stay in an environment that is peaceful and safe. Do you know any Veterans charities that may be interested in discussing this.?
#Veterans 🇬🇧
#MentalHealthMatters 💙

[Dr Nicholas A. Bill @NicholasABill]

@Margi_StructEng Comments like that reinforce my view that academia has completely lost its way.

[Dr Margi Vilnay @Margi_StructEng]

@CRCPress Thanks so much 🥳

[Dr Margi Vilnay @Margi_StructEng]

@NicholasABill I absolutely agree :(

[Dr Margi Vilnay @Margi_StructEng]

Really delighted to have our book on #Tensegrity #Structures published by @CRCPress 🎉
Also happy to have been able to include both my membership of the @ICEScotland and my role in @ComecUSU as career highlights

[Sir Geoff Palmer @SirGeoffPalmer]

Our History/UML Film: Scotland, Slavery and Statues…to Plaques. Pleased that other people have noticed our evidence-based view that cruel consequences of the past such as racism can be changed for the better using educational truth.

[Highland Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Association @hrfca]

With #Ginuary coming to an end, we want to give a #shoutout to @DundeeGin for hosting some of our #ArmedForcesCovenant signatories and Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) Award holders for a drinks tasting and #networking event: https://t.co/qmn4lAqjBq. 🗓️🤝🥃 #SilverERS23

[Highland Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Association @hrfca]

#OnThisDay last week, the range of exciting Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (#STEM) opportunities available to women in the @RoyalNavy was highlighted during an event in Dundee: https://t.co/BQ4OW3ZHVm! 👏🤝👏

#WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #IDWGIS

[Ben Mcbean OFFICIAL @benmcbean]

Albie’s 6 now. Little rascals been talking about me in school again as it’s that time of year.
He told me this morning on the way that he told his class about me. I got blown up but didn’t cry. If anyone else did they’d have cried for 1000yrs. That’s why he spent money over the weekend donating to the RBL. And told them about me too.
He’s not sure if he’s going reveal more about me today in class because he might cry he said. But he’ll let me know when i pick him up. 🥹.
I’ve not said anything to my son about my injuries but I’m proud of him for trying to figure it out and having the confidence to try and explain to his whole class. I’m going to sit him down soon I think. Bless my son. The legend! Albie!

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

There is no Semitic race or ethnicity. There are Semitic languages that include Aramaic, Amharic, Arabic and Hebrew.
Antisemitism is racial profiling and persecution of Jews in Europe in the nineteenth century, and globally thereafter. Jew hatred, antisemitism, doesn't include hatred of Arabs. When Arabs hate Jews, they are antisemitic, even if their mother tongue is semitic.
Please understand this and put to rest that "We Arabs are Semites and therefore can't be antisemitic." Yes we can be!
Antisemitism is the hatred of Jews for being Jews. Disagreeing with Judaism or policies of the Israeli government is ok. Disagreeing with the existence of the internationally recognized state of Israel is antisemitism. Blaming Jews for imagined conspiracies, such as Jews control the US government, or all world governments, or global finance or banks, or media, or Hollywood are all untrue and known antisemitic tropes.
The Jews are not a secret cult that controls governments, finance or media, and don't run the world and conspire against non-Jews. Jews are like everybody else, they come in all sizes and shapes, agree and disagree on everything. They share a culture, common past experience, and most importantly, the suffering of unfair bias and hatred against them.
So please, stop trying to discredit antisemitism. It is real. The Jews lost six million in the Holocaust. On a per capita basis, that might be the biggest loss of any group throughout history. The Holocaust is the biggest dark spot on human history. Recognize it, and tell your Jewish friends that you understand the anxiety that they have inherited from their ancestors, as well as the anxiety that they suffer today because of similar Jew hatred.
And no, Islamophobia is not equal to antisemitism. There are over 1 billion Muslims globally and less than 20 million Jews. A muslim never feels like a minority even if living on the moon. Jews always do, unless they are in Israel.
We cannot realize peace until everyone feels safe. As long as the antisemitism injustice continues, there will be no peace, not because the Jews will be forced to defend themselves, but because all of us non-Jews continue to peddle the same hatred and pass it on to generations after us.

[Dr Margi Vilnay @Margi_StructEng]

@aliblahblah3 it’s words like yours that are healing a very broken world. It means more than you know 🫶🫶

[Dr Margi Vilnay @Margi_StructEng]

Today someone I quite admired in a professional setting slid into my dms, mansplained why my lived experience was wrong and then proceeded to talk about peace and standing up to racism while actually using every anti Jewish trope as defined by IHRA.

I am tired…

[Dr Margi Vilnay @Margi_StructEng]

@aliblahblah3 looks amazing! Thanks for sharing 🫶

[Dr Margi Vilnay @Margi_StructEng]

@aliblahblah3 Please continue posting your adventures. They give my timeline a much needed cleanse 🫶

[Dr Margi Vilnay @Margi_StructEng]

@MeshugaNinja I’m so sorry to hear. I hope he’s ok and that the school react appropriately.