Maud Formanek

Physicist @SLCUplants with a penchant for all things cellular. Cake and costume maker. Polyamorous bisexual. Thriving with cerebral palsy. Nerdy podcast sponge.

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

During undergrad I was very much into cake design. One of my coolest projects was this cell cake. After listening to the panel discussion about scientific illustration at #EESMTs, I'm very motivated to make more biology inspired cakes in the future! Covid-cupcakes, anyone?

[Photogrammetry @ TU Wien @photo_TUW]

Jingle beans, jingle beans, jingle all the way! Oh, what fun it is to brew, in a new coffee machine! ☕️

🎅A Christmas miracle has come true - we welcome our new coffee machine and say goodbye with gratitude to one of our oldest team members 🫡👋

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

For many these are worth the added safety of sex. For some, like me, they are not. Condoms protect against pregnancy AND STIs. #OurBodiesOurChoice #SavageLovecast

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

Never thought I would get angry at @fakedansavage, but telling women what contraception they must use did it for me. Hormonal birth control is not a vitamin. It has side effects and increases the risk of cervical cancer.

[Edwige Moyroud @Edwige_M]

Exciting time!!! We are looking for a new professor AND a new group leader to join us @slcuplants if you are looking for a fabulous and very stimulating environment to start your group or move your lab, please apply! https://t.co/3sroTP3kHS 🌱🌺🌾🌼🪴🌵

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

How amazing are these compostable masks containing seeds?
https://t.co/3vS8IWlu14

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

Mine's the LH-D :D

[David Hoey @DavidJHoey]

Here is an updated picture of the first Marchantia accessions (pics all taken at 3 weeks old). Soon these easy to mix-up numerical identifiers will be replaced with accession names which the collectors will have picked out themselves (participants will be emailed about this soon)

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

Eevee loves to find things of her size. @dinky_doors #Cambridge #tinyworld #pokemonadventures

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

This is absolutely outrageous. CP is not a disease, it's a disability. And it makes us experts in falling, which is why we never break anything.

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

Rosie says it best. Thanks for being my fellow palsy hero.

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

And no, I don't save money by working from home. My electricity bill is higher and it's hard to get reimbursed for paper, ink, etc. When I was going to the office, I cycled and I brought my own food.

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

What happened to 'equal pay for equal work'? Those of us who worked all through the pandemic because our jobs allowed us to are now supposed to be punished for it?
https://t.co/UmUa9KAGzg

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

@fakedansavage Glad to know us Austrians are "bossy, but in the right way". I'll be sure to quote you next time someone complains about my up-front personality #savagelovecast

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

I have a joke about Monte Carlo, but it's stuck in a local minimum.

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

@samwalds I always get requests for Marillenschnapps and Kürbiskernöl when I go home 😋

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

As a clarification, this was how someone justified another person's behaviour towards me and it made me really angry.

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

Having a tough time due to mental/physical/economic problems is not an excuse for violating my boundaries (or the 2m distancing rule). My body is not a charity shop!

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

I'm always one day late to these international days of [insert identity/condition/political issue here]. But anyway, yesterday was International Non-binary People���s Day and I will try to incorporate these 10 ways to step up as an ally to non-binary people https://t.co/mbPKuVT1Ju

[Maud Formanek @mformlos]

@ColliniMelissa @AcademicChatter Hydrodynamics. I can type it, but don't make me say it!

[University of Cambridge LGBTQ+ Network @cambridgelgbt]

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