Rachel Petherbridge

just a scientist doing international public policy

[MIT Graduate Student Union @MITGradUnion]

WE DID IT: with a landslide margin of 1785–912, we are officially the MITGSU-UE!!!

What started 4 years ago with a dozen students in an MIT classroom discussing the needs of graduate workers has culminated in this historic victory for student-workers at MIT. Now, we celebrate!

[Rachel Petherbridge @RachelPetherbr1]

@EtienneT_Esq @OlufemiOTaiwo @DavidpStein Third party arbitration for cases of harassment and discrimination where adviser/faculty harasses a worker! Currently a biased internal system for sexual harassment, no system for racial discrimination.

[Harvard Grad Students Union-UAW Local 5118 @hgsuuaw]

🚨🚨🚨First-year students stage a walkout from President Bacow’s address at Parents Weekend in solidarity with student workers. Here’s what they had to say ⬇️ #HarvardonStrike 🚨🚨🚨

[Rachel Petherbridge @RachelPetherbr1]

Today, as a member of Harvard’s graduate student union, I voted to authorize a strike for this fall. Their current proposals on raises and sexual harassment protections (e.g. lack thereof) are unconscionable.

@hgsuuaw
#strike #realrecourse

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I am once again asking you to get vaccinated.

[Rachel Petherbridge @RachelPetherbr1]

@SamanthaKoplik I do iPad so I can write on it! (Also so I can blow up the text so I can actually read it lmao)

[Rachel Petherbridge @RachelPetherbr1]

I think the most unrealistic part of @YoungSheldon is that Sheldon knows quantum physics but doesn’t know how to differentiate under an integral.

That and scientists actually wearing white coats.

[Rachel Petherbridge @RachelPetherbr1]

Been reading a lot of old papers recently (1970s-1990s) and like every other young scientist before me, I am awed by how scientists long past made shit work with NOTHING.

Need a protein fusion hybrid? Oh no biggie just MAKE 800 MUTANTS AND HOPE ONE WORKS.

PCR? WHO’S SHE?

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

He seems like a very happy old man looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!

[Rachel Petherbridge @RachelPetherbr1]

Is it too early in the day to call for DC statehood?

I’m just messing, it’s 50+ years too late

[Rachel Petherbridge @RachelPetherbr1]

Can I get whatever these “Trump is the sole beacon of truth” people are on? Those hallucinations look FUN

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

For those who (rightly) want to punish those who invaded the Capitol but look forward to working again with Trump’s elite enablers, recall Lincoln:
“Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wiley agitator who induces him to desert?”

[Rachel Petherbridge @RachelPetherbr1]

Ok so like I’m 100% on @SenAngusKing’s side rn but more importantly I’m 110% obsessed with his mustache

[Rachel Petherbridge @RachelPetherbr1]

Hugely impressed with republican senators voicing their affirmation of the electoral college votes on @NewsHour but also like.... where were y’all like yesterday

[Rachel Petherbridge @RachelPetherbr1]

Christening my return to Twitter on a day where absolutely nothing important happened. Obviously.

In other news the Senate chamber is good entertainment right now.

[Rachel Petherbridge @RachelPetherbr1]

@joepesciscousin Guilty as charged ⚔️

[Rachel Petherbridge @RachelPetherbr1]

Yeah I’m an adult