PhD candidate @UChicago | Behavioral ecology, visual communication & #colsci | I film birds in high-speed on 🏔 | @Cal alumna | Слава Україні 🇺🇦 | she/her
Feb 28, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 I am extraordinarily proud of my country & the spirit and resistance of my people. But for folks abroad, please be careful not to flatten this into a narrative of a scrappy army of badasses led by their relatable, lovable leader. This is a very real war.
My parents and I are on the phone with our friends and family members everyday. They are hiding in bomb shelters, in their basements, in their pantries as air raids sirens ring out every night. They are watching explosions out their windows as missiles fire down onto our cities.
Mar 15, 2018 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
This thread is an excellent response to this problematic article and I would highly recommend reading through it. One specific aspect that alarmed me in the op-ed was the patronizing language used and I want to expand on that a bit
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The article author writes of women #scicomm instagrams being full of “pretty selfies, fun videos, and microscope images captioned with accessible language and cute emojis.”
