Catherine McCaughey

Sassy & Stubborn✨Chemistry PhD
inspired by biology 🔬
motivated by chemistry 👩‍🔬
*she/her*

[Uahikea Maile @uahikea]

Reports are confirming 80 dead, so far, and the @nytimes is reporting that a white settler couple successfully recovered a ROLEX watch from their Lāhainā home.

[TSSU @TSSU]

TSSU shut it down today! Picket lines were lit 🔥
This is what solidarity looks like! ✊✊✊✊

[Brandon Bradford @BrandonLBradfor]

I have incels in my DMs complaining about how Lizzo is unhealthy, for some reason, and I would like to reiterate my original challenge: Do one of her dance routines and play any wind instrument. You can even do it in flats. Show her up

[Dr. bugatti spaceships 🚀👩🏾‍🚀🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @astronaia]

We r losing 2 many to suicide. & you never know what it is that created that hopelessness in a person. what I do know is many of us are trying to navigate systems that r not built for us. & we blame ourselves for not succeeding in the traditional ways that these systems encourage

[Nature Portfolio @NaturePortfolio]

Data from a postdoc salary and benefits survey may assist in retaining PhD holders interested in academia but considering alternate options owing to financial considerations, according to a @NatureBiotech careers feature article. https://t.co/i72fInTSON

[SRS @ UCSD @SallyRideSci]

While working on her PhD in chemistry at @UCLA, Samantha Mensah has put in long hours trying to make chemistry more welcoming to underrepresented people. She cofounded the nonprofit @BlackInChem, which helps Black chemists network and support each other: https://t.co/zAF5fcdkOR

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

I am so angry for my disabled students. So many come to office hours to tell me about how the were turned away from jobs, told not to pursue certain coursework and careers, and told they're not a good "fit" for internships. These are goddamn brilliant kids. 1/3

[Catherine McCaughey @nerdcitycat]

Sounds a lot like grad school to me

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

If we saw these children’s distress as feedback, maybe instead of sending them to see a psychologist, we’d be asking how we could change the school system so it prioritised flourishing over curriculum, so it put emotional well being on a par with test scores. 5/

[that one nurse epi 🐀🏳️‍🌈 @SobsInEpi]

3+ years into a pandemic, the general public is still generally confused about what to do when they test positive for COVID19.

So let me walk you through what I, an infectious disease epidemiologist public health nurse, am doing since I tested positive on a rapid antigen today.

[Frank Waln @FrankWaln]

James Cameron called the Lakota nation a “hopeless” and “dead end society”

Besides that statement being a blatant lie he was actually talking about his films post ‘97. All hopeless dead ends and now he’s dying at the final dead end

[🌽Asdzáá Tłʼéé honaaʼéí🌽BA, CertAIS🌽(She/Her)🌽 @asdza_tlehonaei]

Do NOT watch Avatar: The Way of Water

Join Natives & other Indigenous groups around the world in boycotting this horrible & racist film. Our cultures were appropriated in a harmful manner to satisfy some 🏳 man's savior complex.
No more Blueface!
Lakota people are powerful!

[Giannina Guzmán Caloca 🇵🇷 @GianniG97]

tbt to when the Physics dept at my undergrad didnt adjust my grade after i caught a professor notoriously known for being sexist deliberately grading me lower, implying a C+ wasnt the end of the world

wanna guess what one of my NSF GFRP reviewer's only criticism of me was? :)

[Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel]

Hello, it's me, a postdoctoral student. A student with a whole PhD, 11 first author publications, teaching classes of 200+ students at a time. A mere student. I hope I get an A in being a postdoc.

[Kurt Anderson🦠🐛🐟 @kurt_ecology]

This doesn't look like good faith bargaining by UC. It is recruitment season for new grad students to our labs. They see what is happening. How am I supposed to recruit new students when they see current ones ask for enough money to pay rent and eat, and UC responds "lol no." 2/

[Amanda Nichols @saidthegadfly]

"Railroad employees have a separate retirement system from social security & if they resign their position and take a job outside the industry they lose their railroad retirement benefit, thus holding these senior employees hostage in an unfriendly & hostile work environment.
3/