Ex-🇦🇺 now 🇬🇧 Microbiologist | Alt-Ac AMR Research Manager | Bad Feminist | Enjoys Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis 🌈 +pan&poly she/her
Aug 14, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
It’s because anyone who refuses to let go of their principles to assimilate into the shallow mediocrity of post-Howard era Australian Society, gets beaten up by bullies. In related news, I’m migrating to the UK and am unlikely to return to my native Oz as my leadership….
…made too many uncomfortable as it exposed their petty biases and intellectual laziness to ‘do the work’ to improve themselves. Instead? I was punished for being ‘outspoken’. I think you’ll find I was just ‘spoken’ but due to misogyny (explicit and internalised) I was shunned.
So, the pets has fun in the @Jetpets departure lounge before boarding their flights, apparently! #MelsMigrationMadness
May 15, 2020 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
So, I’ve recently applied for two jobs at @CSIRO in Geelong. One is to grow #SARSCoV2 in a space suit as a jobbing Virologist. Pay? $65-90k plus Super. The other is to be an ‘innovation consultant’ like I did for the Quango I used to work for. Pay? 120k-135k plus super.
All that is WRONG with the current Federal Government approach to the STEM industries is nearly encapsulated in the above tweet. I’m sorry @karenandrewsmp but this situation is wrong. My virology skills & knowledge should be highly valued in these times. Not my schmoozing skills
