You are not a bad writer, you are not getting the help you need. Mentorship for writing in #academia and #gradschool tends to be poor, especially for marginalized groups.

Reading and writing poetry is a great way to stimulate the brain. Replacing human-written poetry with #AI poetry defeats the purpose of the capturing the human experience feministscientist.substack.com/p/is-ai-comi...

Rossiter, in Women Scientists in America, examines women scientists in WWII. Overall, she concludes that women's science skills were often underutilized and highly qualified doctorates were assigned to merely teaching or simpler reporting. #womeninstem

Dorothy Swaine Thomas (1899-1977) was an American sociologist & economist. She was the first female President of the American Sociological Association. During World War II, she conceived and headed the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study. #womeninSTEM

Psst...papers older than 5 years have good science in them. not going to recommend any fancy AI software to generate lit reviews either. #academicsky #writinglife

Theoretical physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer was born #OTD in 1906. She shared the 1963 #Nobel Prize in Physics (w/Wigner & Jensen) "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure." She was the second woman to win a Nobel in #physics. (Who was the first?) #WomenInSTEM

#academicsky RED ZONE—Spans start of fall semester through Thanksgiving break, when more than 50% of all campus sexual assaults occur. New and 1st-years are especially vulnerable as they navigate a new environment #mentalhealth #college

Cynthia Westcott (1898-1983) received a PhD from #cornelluniversity in 1932. She ran the first ornamental disease diagnosis business called Plant Doctors.

While a few women had high-ranking roles on classified research projects, overall, women’s STEM skills in WWII were underutilized, except in the realm of teaching. #womeinSTEM feministscientist.substack.com/p/when-women...

How NOT to inspire women to #STEM? Making everything pink: There are many superficial interventions grounded in feminine stereotypes (“painting STEM pink”) that do little to equip women to survive in hostile STEM spaces. feministscientist.substack.com/p/the-elle-w...

Sipra Guha-Mukherjee (1938-2007) was a pioneer in plant genetics. Earning a PhD in 1963, she held academic positions at universities in the United States and at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, India.

I’ll never forget when this vaccine came out and an uncle-in-law ranted over email about the evils of this vaccine and how it would lead to promiscuity. Anyway, that dipshit was dead wrong, in about a dozen different ways so far. My kids received this vaccine, because vaccines save lives.

Burying emotions hampers creativity, empathy. The Biggest scientific discoveries come from passion! #STEM #feministscience

Despite corporate windfalls, many research universities were retrenching expenditures, particularly in the areas of graduate education. This era of “retrenchment” set the stage for greater alienation between faculty and administration feministscientist.substack.com/p/start-up-c...

The worst paper in science history feministscientist.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Back up your data!

#academicchatter Good mentors know their limits but work to build trust with their mentee

Feminist Science Studies has worked on historical recovery of #womeninSTEM, exposing sexist power structures, and critiquing how science is produced. #feministscience

*New Post* I analyze Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (1963), Suzanne Scanlon's "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen (2024), and Anna Marie Tendler's "Men Have Called Her Crazy" (2024) and what they say about mental health care in the US feministscientist.substack.com/p/seeking-co...

Applying to a job seems like filling out a lottery ticket right now. #jobmarkethell #academichatter

I started a LinkedIn to help spread the feminist message: Follow me I only have 1 follower! www.linkedin.com/in/feminst-s...

My #instagram account is officially disabled since they think I’m a bot and want a photo. No way. I worked that algorithm so hard and it pulled in 1000s of subscribers to my #substack, so I can take comfort from that. I also saved all my posts ha ha and cross post. feministscientist.substack.com

#gradschoollife. I expected hard math not so much bureaucracy that would wear me down!

Flossie Wong-Staal (1946-2020) earned a PhD in molecular biology from #UCLA in 1972 and became a ground breaking researcher in HIV/AIDS research. Her work was crucial to prove that HIV caused AIDS. She was the most cited female scientist in the 1980s.

#womeninSTEM #feministscience

Elmina Wilson is celebrated as the “First Lady of Structural Engineering” & was a foundational pioneer for #WomenInSTEM. + First American woman to earn her 4-year Bachelor's and Master's degrees in civil engineering + First full-time female engineering professor in the US She died #OTD in 1918.

Content warning, this is a very disturbing and saddening post, but was so shocking when I first read about this years ago— feministscientist.substack.com/p/homophobia...

How to push women out of #STEM #womenhowcode #womenengineers #womeninstem

Marie Maynard Daly (1921–2003). In 1947, she was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. from #columbiauniversity and the first African-American woman in the US to earn a Ph.D. in #chemistry.

As an adult, it is recommended to exercise on a regular basis! I do #ballet -related workouts. No, I have not performed on stage since high school, and don't really care to ever again (or go on pointe), but I love ballet. And it keeps me flexible, strong, and self-regulated.

I will never forget the parents who refused to vaccinate their daughters with the HPV vaccine in high school 20 some years ago because they assumed it would encourage promiscuity.

*New Post on #substack* From the days when female spouses graded and did lab work for their male professor husbands, to modern day overload, women have been contributing A LOT of unpaid labor to academia. feministscientist.substack.com/p/academia-t...

#academicsky #academicchatter #feministscientist #womeininSTEM feministscientist.substack.com/p/academia-t...

#gradschool let me do what I love--designing independent research

Dr. Hannah Croasdale (1905-1999) was the first tenured women at #DartmouthCollege. Despite earning a PhD, she started off as a technical assitant in 1937 and was not promoted until 1953 as a research associate, then associate professor in 1961. 26s

If you’re a boss and responding to your employee who is begging for help with a 1 line corporate BS response or even worse—a sarcastic response— the only thing I can say is: You suck at your job. #jobmarkethell

The professors who tell you to work 80 hrs a week I guarantee you are not pulling the same hours. .Stipends = guilt tripping grad students- cater to undergrads since they are paying tuition (I beg to differ since I was treated poorly as an undergrad).

Creativity is vital for #engineers but is often neglected in undergraduate curriculum: feministscientist.substack.com/p/the-creati...

I heard this interview of SA survivor Nicole Kluemper on NPR today-cannot stop thinking about it. Dr. Elizabeth Loftus was on the defense team for Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Cosby and has numerous inaccuracies in her work. Content warning on triggering details on these articles

#academicwriting is difficult. Work on developing skills. Attend writing events and workshops, study published manuscripts and learn the style, set goals, work on developing clear arguments, revise and maker your writing as concise as possible.

In the job market, “Merit” becomes a malleable, ever-shifting standard. Often doctorates get punted to lower paying contingent (adjunct) work where the pay is low. Indeed, women and people of color are overrepresented in adjunct positions. feministscientist.substack.com/p/superstars...

I experienced profound anxiety and depression during my #undergrad degree. This is a systemic issue in STEM spaces--substance abuse, binge drinking, bar fights, smoking, cliff jumping, reckless behavior were common things I saw with my peers. #lablife #womenwhocode #mentalhealth

Lilian Gilbreth (1878-1972) best known as the matriarch in "Cheaper by The Dozen" earned a PhD in industrial engineering and was the first female professor in #purduengineering

If you're struggling in un-airconditioned spaces I'd recommend getting a cooling vest. The ice cube in front of the fan melts in 20 min. Opening windows at night and adding fans only lowers the space 2-4 degrees while it rises 8 degrees during the day with windows covered.

Esther Lederberg (1922-2006) was a pioneer in microbial genetics, collaborating with her husband Joshua Lederberg. However, Lederberg won the #nobelprize and in his winning speech recognized his wife's “companionship,” only briefly referencing her discovery of lambda phage.

Eight years single this year #singleladies feministscientist.substack.com/p/7-years-si...

In honor of the #outlander finale tonight, let's celebrate Brianna who is one of the few female engineers in pop culture, inspired by her mother Claire who became a surgeon in the 1960s.

There were huge technological advances from 1981 to 2020 resulting in much faster viral isolation, genomic identification, and treatment development for #covid compared to HIV/AIDS. So why did millions still have to die? feministscientist.substack.com/p/how-a-pand...

My favorite book!