Dr. Emily First

| postdoc researcher | volcano lover | planet explorer | experimentalist | outreach enthusiast | mom | 🌋🔬🌒
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[Dr. Emily First @EmilyScience]

Like Belle with shelves of rocks instead of books. (But I would take that library any day, too!) Searching for powders of some samples I'm polishing, to use for XRD. I guess searching for rocks is today's theme... #DayOfScience #ScienceAThon

[Dr. Emily First @EmilyScience]

Smith & Konter Families - Immediate Needs https://t.co/pZzSPF1Qqg

[Dr. Emily First @EmilyScience]

Got some awful awful news from the UH ohana last night. I always admired Jasper, a really wonderful human. If everyone could send a little extra care and love to this broken world today, it would mean a lot.

[Dr Val Finlayson @justsomeisotope]

Jasper Konter. My PhD advisor, and one of the best, kindest, most brilliant humans I know. Fantastic mentor, an ongoing collaborator, and occasional awkward clothing twin (see photo).

Gone far too soon. I'm shattered.

[Dr. Emily First @EmilyScience]

I have alternated between weeping and rage too many times to count today. I don't even want to send my son to daycare tomorrow, I just want to squish him in my arms all day. What the FUCK is wrong with this country. My heart aches for the families of Uvalde.

[Heidi Stevens @HeidiStevens13]

or learn the shameful parts of U.S. history or have “love is love” photos in their yearbooks and honestly, what the fuck are we doing. All those dead children. All those broken families. Mothers who fed and bathed and loved those babies and trimmed their little fingernails …

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity—it’s inhumanity.

[Dr. Emily First @EmilyScience]

@LeaderMcConnell Your prayers mean nothing without action. If you and fellow GOP members are so heartbroken, DO SOMETHING. This is a gun problem and an American problem, and the GOP actively enables this utterly tragic violence. Guns kill people. Children. DO SOMETHING.

[Andy Smith @aws818]

@LeaderMcConnell

[Dr. Eileen Gonzales @EGonzales788]

Working hard on your Juneteenth essay for the @BlackinPhysics Essay Contest? Make that essay shine by dropping in on our help session with @AIP_Library. Happening today from 4-6 pm ET on our website: https://t.co/RPtddZpbhx

[Dr. Emily First @EmilyScience]

@EricRSammons It irks me that it's only the "physical reason" taken into account, by this MAN who knows best. What about the huge numbers of women who are simply too exhausted or don't want to deal with the pain and constant need to feed or pump? It's often not compatible with modern life.

[Dr. Emily First @EmilyScience]

Oh gosh, I'd better get right on that obligatory submission to save a person from this unfortunate period!! 🙄🤷🏻‍♀️ This is one of the best of these I've gotten so far (that was not spam filtered). #academicspam

[Dr. Emily First @EmilyScience]

@Dr_Perreault 5 years, woman. (2 postdocs; one pregnancy + leave that ended as pandemic began)

[Dr Janine Krippner @janinekrippner]

You matter. Your life matters. Your body matters. Your health matters. Thank you for being here.
If you needed to hear that today ❤️

[Mrs Whatsit's burner phone @MadeleineLEngle]

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”
A Wrinkle in Time

[Dr. Eileen Gonzales @EGonzales788]

📢 ATTENTION EDUCATORS 📢 @BlackinPhysics is hosting a Juneteeth Essay contest for middle schoolers with PRIZES! We are hosting a drop-in help session with librarians on our website for students tomorrow 4-6pm. More at: https://t.co/hGwsPQSot1 #MiddleSchool #STEAM #edutwitter

[Dr. Emily First @EmilyScience]

This unfortunately happens way more than I used to think. Collaboration and support >> toxic competition. Don't share your best ideas too widely or without record until they are published.

[Dr. Ijeoma Opara @IjeomaOparaPHD]

A thread on stealing peoples ideas in academia.

In short, don’t do it.

But, I have some advice (1/24)

[Dr. Emily First @EmilyScience]

@smitchell_sci Regardless of what they look like or what the commenter's bias(es) are!!

[Dr. Emily First @EmilyScience]

@smitchell_sci Sam is the most geology geologist in the geo land! I mean have they not met you?! Sheesh. You*literally* are. a. geologist. In all seriousness though, I'm sorry this happened. We as society still have a ways to go in realizing people can be whatever the heck they want to be. ☹️😡

[Dr. Emily First @EmilyScience]

@DrWendyRocks I'm so very sorry, what an awful thing to find out. Sending out prayers, universe vibes, all of the above for peace and comfort to you and to their family. 💔

[Peter Gao @PlanetaryGao]

Yesterday I was part of a discussion on paper writing and I would like to share a tidbit that has stayed with me for many years regarding writing a paper's introduction:

Write it like you're crafting the movie version of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

[Dr. Eileen Gonzales @EGonzales788]

We’ve got something for the little writers as well!