I've been on the #academic job market since 2019 and this is by far the worst I've ever seen--even during peak Covid in late 2020 I was getting far more interviews per app submitted.

There will be another airborne pandemic virus again--and how #hantavirus has been covered in the media and how poorly containment has been handled for an easily containable situation on a cruise ship is not comforting.

#sciencepublishing is difficult Female authored studies are more likely to be rejected from scientific journals despite having comparable or even better writing quality Read more on my #feministscience substack feministscientist.substack.com/p/will-your-...

Elizabeth Packard (1816-1897) was wrongfully committed to an insane asylum for 3 years by her husband. She witnessed unimaginable cruelty towards fellow female inmates. She became a leading activist for #mentalhealth reform and women's rights. #feminism #feministscience #feministsciencestudies

In honor of #mothersday there are Section 8 housing filled with mothers who are food insecure. 14% of the elderly poor in the US are widowed women with children. www.everycrsreport.com/files/201907...

My academic struggles in undergrad #engineering were tough--large class sizes, curved exams with low medians, and lack of access to TAs and professors made it hard--let's break down the grades I got #womeninSTEM #engineeringeducation feministscientist.substack.com/p/lets-break...

Ruth Hubbard (1924-2016), the first woman tenured at #harvarduniversity Biology, credited #feminism for strengthening the connections she developed in her work--she challenged the 'myth' of objectivity in science,

Us 30 something women are bombarded with egg freezing ads. But they offer overly-hopeful promises for preserving our fertility feministscientist.substack.com/p/freeze-you...

#engineering has a large attrition rate for women. Up to 50% of women with engineering degrees leave the profession by 35. Let's hear why. #feministscience #womeninSTEM

It's not a lack of desire, bidding wars, lucrative job offers in industry, lack of ambition, intelligence, or having kids. It's lack of support, and systemic barriers-- feministscientist.substack.com/p/the-pipeli... #academicspaces#highereducation #academicchatter #womeninSTEM

· #AcademicSky · #EduSky · #AI · “A study that claimed OpenAI’s ChatGPT can positively impact student learning has been retracted nearly one year after publication. The journal publisher, Springer Nature, cited ‘discrepancies’ in the analysis and a lack of confidence in the conclusions.”

AI in #highereducation? Colleges have decades of datasets amassed. From electronic id swipes, to sports scores, to grades, to syllabi, to library downloads--ripe for AI training. feministscientist.substack.com/p/data-is-mo...

Remember with the #pulitzerprize announcements today, AI use is not a disqualifier for winning!! I'm spilling the tea on this in an upcoming article.

On #substack I went from 0 to 20K subscribers in 15 months!! Thank you to my amazing readers. My tips below:

#engineering education needs to improve. #feministscience

Ruby Payne-Scott | Australian physicist & pioneer in radiophysics & radio astronomy. She is considered by many to be the world's first female radio astronomer. She died #OTD in 1981. scientificamerican.com/article/the-... #WomenInSTEM #WomenScientists #physics

Marcia Keith (1859-1950) was an American Physicist, earning her bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke. Like many #womenscientists at the time, she sought further education in Europe. She was a charter member of the American Physical Society & worked to improve physics education. #feministscience

"Video footage obtained by The Sun shows Students for a Democratic Cornell members Aiden Vallecillo ’26 and Hudson Athas ’27 being struck by the car. In the video, no person can be seen touching the vehicle before it drove into Vallecillo and Athas."

Alice Augusta Ball (1892-1916) was a chemist whose work resulted in a treatment for Hansen's disease (formerly known as leprosy) at the University of Hawaiʻi. She died in 1916, likely from chlorine poisoning after a lab demonstration. Her work was published posthumously without acknowledgement.

Charlotte Fitch Roberts (1859-1917) was an American Chemist who earned a PhD from #yaleuniversity at a time when the undergrad college was not co-ed (it would not be until 1969). She spent the bulk of her career at #wellesleycollege She also never married #womeninstem

Ancient mathematicians were scared by infinity and irrational numbers (they equated them with ‘feminine energy’). Then we have Freudian and Lancan interpretations of math notation... W1e RARELY talk about how STEM symbols and equations were developed. feministscientist.substack.com/p/is-math-se...

Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer, were co-directors of the Home Economics College at Cornell University. Not only were they the first full-time female professors hired at the University, but their lesbian relationship was affectionally known as "Miss Van Rose". www.jstor.org/stable/4617244

A must listen too by @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social www.direstraightspod.com/p/they-sent-... My Catholic great-grandmother was sent away in the 1920s, & was coerced into relinquishing her daughter for adoption. She later married, had children, and struggled with life-long alcoholism.

PSA in most states in the US it is illegal to cross your vehicle in a crosswalk when a pedestrian is in it.

Perhaps I should have gotten my PhD in Nancy Drew History.

This is a MIND BOGGLING read about teenagers and AI startups. All I can say is that colleges with their embrace of AI aren’t doing much to stop it. harpers.org/archive/2026...

International call for writers! Women engineers (1975–today): we want your story for a new anthology. Deadline: June 30, 2026 forms.gle/dnYc1zPex8Gf... #WomenInEngineering #GlobalSTEM

Beulah Louise Henry (1887-1973) was a self-taught engineer who patented the use of carbon paper to make multiple copies of a document on a typewriter. #womeninstem #feministscience #feministsciencestudies #academicfeminism #feminism #womeninengineering

#academicchatter My researchers and #writers out there-back up your data EVERY DAY. A grad student in my department never got his masters because his computer crashed and he lost all his data and didn't back up. ' The easiest way is having a system that synchs to a server or cloud.

'The Big Bang Theory' is a major pop culture influence on #womeninSTEM I generally found it sexist and cringy...except for Amy's character arc. feministscientist.substack.com/p/amy-farrah...

At 35, Hopper divorced, joined the Navy, and became a programmer. Like her female #STEM peers, she was relegated to academia until WWII. Post-war she fought for industry work. She faced professional isolation, mental health challenges, and loneliness. feministscientist.substack.com/p/grace-hopp...

Mentoring is a huge buzzword in academia but how can you tell what is good mentoring and bad mentoring? #academicchatter

Here are some 'old fashioned' ways to edit your writing. #writingtips #academicchatter

For better or for worse, "The Big Bang Theory" (2007-2019) is still a reigning cultural depiction of #womeninSTEM and science careers in general. Read Part I below, Part II drops Thursday!! feministscientist.substack.com/p/the-big-ba...

Undergrad research was the best thing I did in undergrad. I was happier, mor connected, my grades improved, and I was learning so much I couldn't learn in the classroom.

Official health institutions, universities, and academic journals are poor at connecting with people outside their “bubble”. Although they have large followings, these audiences often show low engagement and are unlikely to disseminate the content. feministscientist.substack.com/p/toxic-algo...

Indeed people want to be aesthetically satisfied and feel a sense of care and connection on social media spaces when seeking health info. theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/did-the-ol... #Scicomm #socialmedia

Paper mills, the open-access craze (costing $1000s to publish), and now the preprint craze of the 2020s. But who is really ‘winning’ in all this? Not the authors. #sciencepublishing #academia #STEM #feministscience

Very humbling to see 25 yr old grad students with romantic partners getting invited by faculty to personal events while I’ve never received such invitations. The only time I was in a relationship was for 6 months in grad school and it was night and day different how I was treated #academichatter

#STEM research publishing has shifted wildly in the past 20 years. The open-access craze of the 2010s is now thee preprint craze of the 2020s. #academichatter #feministscience #academicpublishing feministscientist.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...

#socialmedia #feminism

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

Update on the Queen Bee women in STEM post from yesterday. This STEM influencer then publicly shamed me by creating a post called ‘hate comments’ I got from the post of yesterday and screenshotted my post with my username and said I was ‘bean soup theory’ whatever that means. #academichatter

When they say 'science can't keep up' and start ditching traditional research models in AI or medical research don't believe them. Hire more researchers-research jobs get 100+ apps pers position right now. And we are working on shoe-string budgets and juggling multiple projects. #researchlife

Yes indeed. I examined tiktok and the health info was very 'shallow' or actively harmful. Also used ChatGPT and GenAI and only like 30% accuracy. Yet, the knowledge-seeking behaviors (based on metrics) on these platforms were VERY high so people are not going to stop using them.

I’m niche and have like followers in the 100s so not sure why these women care so much about my comments and posts. I’m also not a famous person and have 0 name recognition in real life and have 0 clout. But they are SO defenive of OP and they are real not bots. #feminism

#feminsm #academicwomen #womeninSTEM

Don't like the vibes of this post because A) industry jobs are hard to get in some fields and require tons of connection to get. B) very disrespectful to the hardworking staff in academia who make much less money #academichatter

When it comes to career advice, people believe in fairytales; they weaponize our vulnerabilities against us. They call us jealous, hostile, insecure, crazy for daring to raise any critique of the system with hard data and decades of theory. #academichatter #feminism

Some might call me jealous, and I am some. But I’m madder that only 25% of doctorate owners in the US earn over $171,000. And that in 2023, new female PhD recipients had a median salary offer of $87,000, while men received a median of $110,000 #academicchatter wiareport.com/2025/01/the-...