Sheeva Azma

I founded @FancyComma, where we translate STEM to impact. A rarity in science, I'm a neuroscientist and writer who's worked in Congress and as a civil servant.

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

👩🏻‍🔬#SciComm improves science. https://t.co/WoLwzCvmf9

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[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

@PabloReports Frontline is my jam

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

Rampant misconduct among scientists in the Epstein files https://t.co/zSDv0XyomY via @FancyComma

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

I didn't realize we could live-tweet our phonebanking. I miss phonebanking in AZ in 2024 when some Spanish-speaking man picked up the phone, listened to my Spanish, and then just said, "gringaaa" holding out the aaaa

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

Live tweeting my Phonebanking for Abdul .

A thread 🧵!

First call of the night. Older woman. Already voted for all Dems on the ballot

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

@WakeUp2Politics OF COURSE another Hoya has as extensive a political book collection as I do. I'm on a presidential speechwriter and comms person kick and have read many a White House speechwriter's memoir

[Rachel Janfaza @racheljanfaza]

First-time voters this November were 8-years-old when Trump won in 2016.

[Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro]

1500 dollar bills after the hottest summers on record and life or death.

This Is What America’s Utility Bill Crisis Looks Like https://t.co/EZ33aGbX6V via @NYTimes

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

It's happening! It's happening! A coalition of STEM-minded investigative journalists have joined forces to report on science and tech in the Epstein files. Check meowt here: https://t.co/l4oG9vz28C 😼

[United Nations @UN]

Every girl and every woman has the right to be safe.

We cannot accept a world where violence is a risk they are expected to navigate.

It's time to prevent violence, hold perpetrators accountable and put an end to violence against women and girls.

— via @UNICEF

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Women with high cognitive ability face "detrimental interpersonal ramifications" at work

Men do not.

The theory is that smarter women violate perceived social role expectations leading them to face backlash that men do not receive https://t.co/zxVuguH585

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Exclusive: “The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race.” So wrote James Watson in The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, his controversial account of how he and Francis Crick deciphered the structure of DNA in 1953.

The image, now known as photograph 51, showed an elegant, symmetrical pattern of spots formed by x-rays diffracted from strands of DNA—the fingerprint of the molecule's helical structure.

Rosalind Franklin, an x-ray crystallographer, had produced the image in the spring of 1952. But Watson's 1968 book, amid other slights and sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his alone.

Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson's dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958, a decade before his memoir was released and became a bestseller.

But a new analysis of her notes on another x-ray image, which she made just days earlier using the same DNA sample, offers a firm rebuttal.

Learn more: https://t.co/GelhBz9Sb5 @NewsfromScience

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

I feel insane thinking about politics

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

Man, people in physics do not like hearing that the 2026 physics Nobelist has Epstein files mentions. New journalist achievement unlocked: physics students calling me "lazy" and "dishonest" for pointing out actual, real, true facts.

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

I just realized I never posted about the Nobel Prize in physics last week. Francis Halzen has 3 Epstein files mentions. When I posted about it, people lost their minds. Many asserted that a(nother) physics Nobelist being in the Epstein files means nothing. Except...it means a lot

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

@DaniBeckman You are preaching to the choir, my friend. 😀 It's sad how many people are not prepared to deal with the truth and reality of our current scientific climate. Being a sexual predator in science, or associating with a sexual predator as a scientist, is not okay

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

Ed Boyden did not win the Nobel Prize for optogenetics today. He did garner 968 mentions in the Epstein files. Here's what we know about his Epstein ties from the files🧵

[Danielle Beckman, PhD @DaniBeckman]

@SheevaAzma I wonder how many of those asking “Where is Ed Boyden?” in the Nobel discussion knew his name appears in roughly 969–1,249 documents in the Epstein files, with multiple documented meetings after Epstein’s conviction.

Scientific brilliance shouldn't exempt anyone from scrutiny.

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

I am done tweeting about scientists in the Epstein files not winning Nobel Prizes today. See y'all tomorrow for physics!

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

@josiezayner I really wonder to what extent all of this played a role. The man has 968 mentions in the Epstein files. https://t.co/KplPlino2N

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

Ed Boyden did not win the Nobel Prize for optogenetics today. He did garner 968 mentions in the Epstein files. Here's what we know about his Epstein ties from the files🧵

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

Didn't even apologize for all of that and just said he is continuing to learn from the experience

https://t.co/EGEiFBCpC8

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

Potentially visited the Epstein ranch https://t.co/MIkmgq5b9Y