SO EXCITED for the @ExRdFestival this weekend (June 18/19). Join the #ChiralCrew in the Magnificent Molecules zone to talk spiral shells, drug design, spin control and the future of technology. 🧪🌀 #ChemTwitter greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk We’ve even got merch! 😃🌀 #ChiralCrew

“Physics isn’t something that girls tend to fancy. They don’t want to do it. They don’t like it… There’s a lot of hard maths in there that they don’t want to do.” 🤦🏻‍♀️ @Miss_Snuffy, UK Government Social Mobility Commission Chair #WomenInSTEM
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/f1… “We’re certainly not out there campaigning for more girls to do physics. I wouldn’t do that, and I don’t want to do that, because I don’t mind that girls make up only 16% of students taking the subject.”

Today is #ShutDownSTEM / #Strike4BlackLives day, so let’s talk about what’s going so wrong in UK physics. Of *all* the physics academics in the UK, 𝟬.𝟭% are Black. (IOP, 2012) iop.org/publications/i…

https://twitter.com/NatRevPhys/status/1270633935257681921

I'd argue that the anti-Black bias in UK physics starts long before people reach the ivory tower. Bear with me, the data are (a) depressing (b) difficult to come by — in the UK don’t collect/report ethnicity disaggregated data very often.

alongside exposing the sexism and racism that is rife within academia and @Wikipedia, last night’s attempts to takedown the biographies of the superstars of #BlackBirdersWeek exposes some outdated elitism that should embarrass both communities. 1. that graduate students are ‘only graduate students’ and that graduate can’t be considered important in academia or real life, irrespective of whether you’ve been on international news. 🤬

🧮📈 Meet Prof Margaret Wu, emeritus statistician @unimelb who works on educational assessment. In the ‘70s Wu worked on the Watterson estimator, a statistical test to evaluate the genetic diversity of a population. New @wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_… #WomeninSTEM Wu’s contributions to computational biology were unearthed by Emilia Huerta-Sánchez @BrownUniversity and Rori Rohlfs at @SFSU. 😅 #HiddenNoMore

https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/1095008036219994112?s=21

The @Wikipedia page of Dr Clarice Phelps (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarice_P…), researcher @ORNL, has been nominated for deletion because the references fail to establish notability. 🙏🏽 Please vote en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia… and help improve the biography. #BHM #womeninSTEM

https://twitter.com/jesswade/status/1036555725458362368

The problem is not that she’s not notable, or that @Wikipedia editors are a bunch of sexist trolls waiting to jump on the bio of an impressive scientist, but because despite her success there are very few reliable references I could use. She may have discovered an element, ..

On Friday I spoke at a CERN workshop on gender and high energy physics. I shared the work of @PhysicsNews’ Juno Award, the @1752Group and other evidence-based institutional programs. The head of theory @CERN gave a 30 minute Damore-esque manifesto against #womeninSTEM.

https://twitter.com/sheydaipek/status/1046205301957976064

After my talk (indico.cern.ch/event/714346/c…), he told me British undergraduates faced huge debts after their studies because of the amount of money we spend on equality and diversity training. Apparently #womeninSTEM in Italy face no debts or sexism...

Why do I care so much about getting a copy of #Inferior into all schools? Because I don’t want to just tell girls they can do anything. I want them to read it, be empowered, and join our fight for equality. #thisgirlcan justgiving.com/crowdfunding/i… The @PhysicsNews Improving Gender Balance Report includes recommendations to challenge gender stereotypes. #Inferior provides evidence, engages readers with the issues and educates students and teachers in their own unconscious bias. Read it: iop.org/education/teac…