✨franzi✨

(she/her) For following politics; maybe also sports and science. Astro/physics PhD student. Erstwhile toastie, ex-expat brat (🇫🇮🇺🇸🇩🇪), and former SC girl.

[higgs / higgsbees on blsky @kerebrin]

Happy 25th of May, have a Vimes Boots Theory

[ADHD Jesse @adhdjesse]

I need to take action on this email, so it’s important I keep it unread and sitting in my inbox for the next 3, 6, or 12 months so I feel guilt and shame every time I see it which is 20 times a day.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

We shouldn’t have to work this hard for so little money. We shouldn’t be this exhausted from preventable crisis after preventable crisis. We shouldn’t have to accept the sacrifice of our kids in some never-ending lottery. We can build a better world than this.

[Sam Biederman @Biedersam]

Do not underestimate the political power of being annoying. I worked for years in politics and government and I was very often the guy who answered the phone. There were a few people who would call ever single day to make or check in on their case, and if they weren’t

[RealScientists @realscientists]

28/n

I'll end with this paragraph on women's sport as a radically inclusive space

https://t.co/14gxDnVo1q

[RealScientists @realscientists]

9/n

More examples exist but the pattern is clear:

Where women were included (or simply included themselves) it was only when they started threatening men's dominance/entitlement that we were segregated into a separate category.

It is why we still see Sport & Women's Sport 👀

[✨franzi✨ @SamVimesBoots]

@jesswade ...well, i sure do mind! it sucks being one of the only women here.

[✨franzi✨ @SamVimesBoots]

if anyone wants to get mad at the malicious application of pseudoscience and rampant abuse of „„"„quantum physics"„ """ (read: terms from, wildly misapplied), check out this article https://t.co/9S14NOBlBf

[✨franzi✨ @SamVimesBoots]

every day I walk past a sign in the physics building that says graduates with a bachelors in physics have an average starting salary of $90k in the private sector. "look! major in physics! someone will pay you $90k!"

"Not us though. we pay our grad RAs and TAs only $24k."

[✨franzi✨ @SamVimesBoots]

incredible how well the actions of UPenn in this story align with the actions of @UChicago after several of my peers were sexually assaulted and reported it to the university.

[David Duriesmith @DavidDuriesmith]

What this means, is that if SETs are being used in promotion, probation and hiring (which they often are) what is being assessed is not just whether they are a good teacher, but how well women are adhering to gender-stereotyped ways of teaching. 7/11

[David Duriesmith @DavidDuriesmith]

Student evaluations place unfair and harmful expectations on women university teachers to perform labour-intensive forms of work even when they do not receive lower overall scores. A thread on our new research. 🧵1/11

[Colin Carlson @ColinJCarlson]

So you want to know what's going on with climate change, but AR6 WGII is a whopping 3,675 pages. How do you read an #ipcc report? Five easy steps:

[Tim Mak @timkmak]

Perry put a brick of $100,000 on the desk of a medical supplies company.

He has cash, but even bricks of money can’t solve the problems he’s facing in Polish border towns, where everything is sold out.

Including medical supplies and necessities he’s trying to get into Ukraine.

[Kingfisher & Wombat @UrsulaV]

O best beloved, if you are doomscrolling Twitter today, ask yourself if there is anything you can personally do.

If there is, do it. If there isn’t, remember that anxiety is not activism. Your misery does not improve the world a single iota.

[Jack Herrera @jherrerx]

Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He wrote this poem in 2013.

[Janne M. Korhonen is moving to BSky & LinkedIn! @jmkorhonen]

Greetings from a Finnish leftist! The international situation has apparently left many people in the English-speaking countries confused. I write this thread in the hopes of sharing a perspective I believe is widely if not unilaterally shared in Finland, most leftists included.

[✨franzi✨ @SamVimesBoots]

(please, dad, everything will be fine if you don't trim the brush until next month. now is not a time for lots of precarious ladder-based activity.)

[✨franzi✨ @SamVimesBoots]

does anyone know where i can find up-to-date information on Charleston, SC area hospital capacities? everything i can find has info that is over a week old.

[✨franzi✨ @SamVimesBoots]

(I'd like to ask my parents to be extra cautious not just w.r.t. covid but w.r.t. activities that could lead to injury in other ways, since I am concerned about hospital capacities, but my dad won't take me seriously if I can't show him numbers.)