Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang

Mathematician & Professor at University of Toronto | BSc @queensu, PhD @umich

[Rick Warren @RickWarren]

My biggest regret in 53 years of ministry is that I didn’t do my own personal exegesis sooner on the 4 passages used to restrict women. Shame on me.
I wasted those 4 yrs of Greek in college & seminary. When I finally did my proper “due diligence”, laying aside 50 years of

[Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang @SMayesTang]

@AtheneDonald's recent book on #WomenInSTEM is a well-written, comprehensive, and up-to-date summary of why science NEEDS women (not why women need science).

I can see using this as a text for a course - every serious university needs to have a (required?) course like this.💕

[Athene Donald @AtheneDonald]

And …..it’s PUBLICATION DAY! My book should be in all good bookshops today….My copy already looking well-thumbed

[Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang @SMayesTang]

"It's the leading cause of preventable death in Canada." https://t.co/x4j35AYioc

[Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang @SMayesTang]

@aliciaandrz If you have to know what is in them for a dossier or something like this, I echo the suggestion of getting someone trusted to summarize them. If you don’t, don’t read them at all the more, I learn, the more I believe that this could be considered a form of workplace violence.

[Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang @SMayesTang]

SO MANY PEOPLE I haven't seen since 2019!! at the Community Engaged Learning Institute #CommunityEngagedLearning #AcademicChatter #CCP

[Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang @SMayesTang]

"She poses a problem because she keeps exposing a problem." 🧐Seen at the Community Engaged Learning Institute, Hart House #CommunityEngagedLearning #AcademicChatter

[Support Our Science @SupportOurSci]

3) Increase the number of graduate and postdoctoral fellowships to reflect the 100% increase in the number of graduate students in Canada during the past 20y

4) Increase in the Triagency research grant budget by 50% to support higher pay for grads/postdocs 4/5

[Support Our Science @SupportOurSci]

Support Our Science supports the #BouchardReport & is asking the government to:

1) Increase the value of grad scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to reflect inflation since 2003 (when they were last increased)

2) Index scholarships/fellowships to inflation going forward
3/5

[Alejandro Adem @alejandroadem]

Canada must address this important issue not only because it’s the right thing to do, but also to remain competitive as a global player in science and innovation. https://t.co/lzdIzF5DWA

[Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang @SMayesTang]

@SJDJ Congratulations!!!😊🤹 this is amazing!! While I don't know you in person, your tweets always provide education and encouragement, and I'm sure that you do the same in the classroom. Enjoy, celebrate, and soak in the praise!

[Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang @SMayesTang]

A year or so late, but I just need to share these beautiful pictures of women in math🧮 (including @diana_terese) found from @WISESTualberta!

(alt:images of five diverse smiling women against brightly coloured backgrounds enhanced with math)
https://t.co/8PpEjzTENz

[Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang @SMayesTang]

I 💕💕💕 @sarahlovesmaths's new book Once Upon a Prime.

It's Math 🧮+ Literature 📚 combined in an authentic and sophisticated way. What could be better?

Book Recommendation for @zibbyowens and @booktalketc?

#mathchat #Mathematics #WomeninSTEM

[Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang @SMayesTang]

@Anthony_Bonato I think that images like these are largely self-fulfilling. If we say that we are a community of eccentric people, certain people just don’t want to be part of that. Who is less likely to want to see themselves as eccentric? In my experience, young women and girls. #WomenInSTEM

[Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang @SMayesTang]

"The next wave of innovation will come from people who choose to leave those systems rather than stay and fight.” - Charlene Theodore @CharleneYYZ
#gapconference #genderequity

[Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang @SMayesTang]

"Our organizations are built by white men for white men, and I think that we need to change that... In order to change an organization we have to change the systems, not the people." - Darrell Bowden @GenderEconomy #gapconference
#genderequity

[Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang @SMayesTang]

(pt 4, final) I am still in daily, often agonizing, pain. My symptoms did not go away with stress. My body is weak.

But I am stronger💪 because I am firmer in my mission, my belonging, and my community, and hope to act in ways that affirm this.

#AcademicTwitter

[Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang @SMayesTang]

(pt 1) Today is my first day (officially) back at work since January. ✍️

It was difficult to admit that I could not get over the work burnout (due to pandemic teaching + lots of other factors) or manage my severe pain⚡️ + other chronic symptoms while continuing to "do it all".

[Dr Sarah Mayes-Tang @SMayesTang]

(pt 3) I did a lot of thinking, reading, reflecting, and writing about my burnout and how I react to my work in the Department.

I read a lot of @parkerjpalmer at the beginning. I read a lot of memoirs of academia and chronic illness. 📚I had a lot of therapy throughout.💬