Astronomy postdoc working with machine learning and star clusters.
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Queer 🏳️🌈, trans (she/her).
Mar 18, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
You're going to hear a lot about how Lia Thomas won the NCAA 500m freestyle with a time of 4:33.24 today!
Last year's winner, Paige Madden, got almost the exact same time as Thomas with 4:33.61.
Kate Ledecky's all-time record in this event is almost 10 seconds faster - 4:24.06.
As much as 1% of the population is trans, so you'd expect ~ 1 in 100 top athletes to be trans.
But the rate we actually see is MUCH lower than this - heck, it was only last year that the first ever openly trans people competed at the Olympics.
Oct 6, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Today is the first time EVER that the Nobel committee has awarded a physics prize to a woman astronomer/astrophysicist, and only the fourth time in 117 years that a woman has won the general physics prize.
Big congratulations are in order for Andrea Ghez & other prize winners (Roger Penrose and Reinhard Genzel), but it persists that fantastic woman astronomers like Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Vera Rubin were snubbed by an organisation that refuses to correct glaring past sexism
Jan 3, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
This tweet is disgusting. It's 2020, and the Nobel Prize is still actively upholding past sexist and anti-semitic decisions.
Here's why calling Hahn the "father" of nuclear chemistry (and leaving her at the back of the picture - literally) is such an injustice:
Meitner, a Jewish woman, worked with Hahn and Fritz Strassman in Berlin at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, but was displaced by Nazi persecution in the run up to WW2. She escaped to Sweden, but maintained correspondence with Hahn.
[pic: Meitner & Hahn before she became a refugee]
Jun 3, 2019 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
Have you ever wondered/worried about the correct way to use a microphone when public speaking? This thread has the answers!
I've done a lot of public speaking and also have 9 years of both amateur and paid sound engineering experience, so I hope this can help 😊
First off: why even use a microphone?
Even if you're a loud presenter, they're essential in large venues or for recorded events. Anyone with hearing issues will benefit a lot - especially if the venue has a hearing loop, which will transmit your voice directly to hearing aids.
