Tech books often lack the technical background. I had issues w/ Algorithms of Oppression and Data Feminism-tech is treated like a black box-this misses the huge areas of bias tech further contributes to. On my Substack I get into the nitty gritty. feministscientist.substack.com/p/neural-net...

In 1922, African American home agents in South Carolina reported that canned produce from their demonstrations exceeded $79,000. Unlike white female agents,they emphasized earning money, rather than saving #feministscience #womeninSTEM #womenshistorymonth

Check out some great #feminist substacks from last week! feministworks.substack.com/p/feminist-s...

Easily call your Representative now to demand the removal of HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Visit the link, type in your address, a script will pop up and help you connect your call. Let them know he's a public health menace. (1/5) Call your rep to impeach end remove RFK Jr: tr.ee/removeRFKJr

#sexism and purity culture hurting your daughter's health??? #vaccineswork #feministscience These parents were spouting the same BS-their girls were 'good' and didn't need it (ignoring that HPV can also be transmitted w/o intercourse). I got the vaccine & encouraged my peers too.

Data fabrication and abandonment of the scientific method is not rare--it is more common than we think. People twist science to meet whatever agenda they have. #academicchatter #academicpublishing #science #femninstscience feministscientist.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Except in many cases these theories were built on fabricated data (Alzheimer's paper), abandoned statistical model (eugenics) or not even using the scientific method at all. Many of them did not follow the data or actually follow the scientific method! So indeed, pseudoscience.

I hit 10K subscribers on my substack 13 months after launching. I NEVER thought anyone would care about what I would have to say about #feministscience. In the past 6 months I expanded to Instagram & Bluesky. Learn more about my #substack journey feministscientist.substack.com/p/2025-the-y...

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Dating apps use algorithms to rank users based on racist and sexist beauty standards: #feministscience #singlewomen feministscientist.substack.com/p/toxic-algo...

The algorithm that keeps the internet running was written by a woman in one weekend. Radia Perlman created the Spanning Tree Protocol in 1985, preventing network loops that could crash early networks. Computer scientist. Inventor. A mind behind the internet. #SheShed #V4V #WomensHistoryMonth

How women were driven out from tech jobs was not mysterious in the slightest. The main weapon used against me and other women was sexual harassment, which takes many forms. Example: a guy said to me “You look tired” every morning for six years.

*New #substack Post* Dark military money in academia. And fake science from former actor presidents have real military consequences. #feministscience #academia #STEM feministscientist.substack.com/p/vietnam-st...

Unless they are learning how to build their own LLMs and train and test them ethically with high accuracy (Ie computer science and hardcore coding--I can actually do this and its a fabulous skill) it's just warmed over prompt engineering which is useless. #tech #feministscience

I am also 100% single. I don't date at all. Never been on an app. Don't participate in hook up culture. Completely focused on my job, writing, and creativity. #feministscience #singlewomen You can read about it here: feministscientist.substack.com/p/7-years-si...

My Substack also works to decrease the stigma around being single. The % of single US adults has declined since 2020. It's very hard being single (cough, $$) even w/o shaming or negative messaging from family/ society #feministscience #singlewomen feministscientist.substack.com/p/the-single...

Being single w/ no kids does not mean you are in some 'extended adolescent'. You are an adult full stop. We deal with bills, insurance, work responsibilities, harassment, and many other 'adult things'. #singles have nobody to support us, so the stakes are higher. #singlewomen

There's more than just the lab. In fact many scientists I talk to hate data analysis and writing, but there is an entire world in it. #academicchatter I love writing, data analysis, editing, mentoring, and teaching. #feministscience #womeninstem

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

Dr. Kittrell was the first African American to obtain a Ph.D. in nutrition, and the first African-American woman to obtain a Ph.D. from Cornell University. While there, she struggled with housing discrimination. #feminism #feministscience #womeninSTEM #womenshistorymonth

I'm restacked! And check out these other amazing #feminist writers on substack: feministworks.substack.com/p/feminist-s... And women writing about #tech shewritesai.substack.com/p/2026-03-15...

#sundayscaries hit so hard. Everyone told me to major in #STEM instead of English lit and it's just been constant rejection, lack of support, criticism, feeling like I don't belong for decades. I'm in a room and every door and window has been shut in my face. I need a change but don't know what.

Dear trolls: I will make a cutting remark then block you. I will look up your profile. I am a tech and data science master. I have filed sexual harassment complaints against people. Stay in your lane.

Without federal legislation, #diversity in #STEM is not prioritized by the research university Read more about how Title IX transformed the experience of women in STEM. feministscientist.substack.com/p/towards-ti... #feminism #feministscience #womeninSTEM #womenshistorymonth

More than you think, but still not enough women in STEM -history of women in STEM in the 19th and early 20th centuries #feminism #feministscience #womeninSTEM feministscientist.substack.com/p/more-than-...

Everybody should know who @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is. In this day and age it is more risky to keep your head down than to be the whistleblower that we needs. Right now, being called "a radical leftist" is a badge of honor. And imperative. Read her story here. 🧪 www.statnews.com/2026/03/12/n...

The attack on science comes from many areas racism/sexism in academia; political lobbying; pop culture; for profit publishing; censorship #VaccinesWork #ScienceIsReal #GetVaccinated #climatecrisis #globalwarming #feministscience #academicSKy #scienceisreal #academichatter #phdlife #postdoclife

As someone who started in environmental research, yeah the politicization over environmental regulations & #climatechange was the 1st step to mass science distrust. #climatecrisis #globalwarming #feministscience #academicSKy #science

It staggers me how fast the vast majority of people - including medical professionals - have normalised infection with a virus that can cause cognitive dysfunction / anosmia. SARS-2 is definitively not 'just another respiratory virus', yet society is just shoehorning it in there.

Did you know that the US revised millions of textbooks for Iraq's 5.5 million schoolchildren in 2003 to enforce US propaganda? www.theguardian.com/education/20....

New Post - As a US citizen I am horrified & disgusted by my country’s current bombing of Iran. Here is a history of how the US used higher education to establish global influence in the 20th century. #academicchatter #highereducation #feministscience feministscientist.substack.com/p/the-imperi...

I get ridiculed for having a 2005 reference in a paper but my peers can have incomplete sentences, typos, sloppy figures, poorly defined methods and still pass their dissertation/get published. What is wrong with #academicpublishing? #writingcommunity #aislop #academicchatter #postdoclife

A bright spot today one of my favorite contemporary poets @leilachatti.bsky.social has a new poem on Poem-a-Day called "The World Is Too Much With Us"!! #poetry #writingcommunity . Her poetry does an excellent job exploring the intersection of science and human experience. poets.org/poem-a-day

Academia was SO paranoid about us cheating-banned calculators in calc class and made us handwrite CS exams in the 2010s (even us take off our shoes lest we slip in notes) & did little to examine cultivating creativity, valuing humanities in a tech driven world and are now scrambling #academichatter

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

FYI I'm up to 1112 rejections since June 2020! feministscientist.substack.com/p/1000-rejec... #100rejectionschallenge #writingrejection #feministscience #poetry #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writing #writer #writers #writerscommunity

Another example- I wrote a 300 page novel PHD thesis with pioneering machine learning for the field--code I built from scratch. Did not get best the best department thesis. White guy with his 150 page dissertation on improving a current method won. #academichatter #feministscience #phdlife

Yeah classic. I developed a novel method. My male coworker used that method and flew through peer review with 1/2 page comment. Me, the paper rejected with 14 pages of reviewer comments nitipicking said method as biased. #academichatter #feministscience #academicpublishing

‘Faculty critics say the growing use of generative AI is already affecting classrooms.They fear AI shortcuts will encourage surface-level thinking and cripple critical thinking skills. They worry that the system’s adoption of AI normalizes the behavior’ #academichatter www.cpr.org/2026/03/09/c...

#very person I know got tied down before 30. As awful as the social ostracization has been (and it's rough), I've been able to grow so much intellectually, emotionally, psychologically. Do therapy, write, move around the country, start ballet again, explore my passions. #feminism #feminiscience

Loved this by SMIZZO whom you must check out on #substack As much as I struggle with loneliness, I have negative desire for this lifestyle. I want something different. #feministscience #feminism substack.com/home/post/p-...

"Marriage Pact" is a online matchmaking service at college campuses. When I was in college we were deluged with 'advice' to find a spouse. This is what I call "Scarcity Mindset" feministscientist.substack.com/p/leaning-in... #feministscience #academicchatter

What's with no office space on campus too? Our 6 floor building has 4 tiny conference rooms, 200 sq ft offices with 4 people crammed in, but huge open spaces (noisy too) with students to congregate at eat at tables. If they want us on campus they need to make it worth our while. #academichatter

There's also been a huge trend on removing on-campus housing for graduate students and visiting fellows in the past decade, and forcing them on the open market where rent is easily $2000+ per month. Even 10 ys ago it was not impossible to get on-campus/dorm subsidized apartment. #academicchatter

This is Dr. Flemmie Kittrell (1904-1980), expert in child health and nutrition. She was a leader in Home Economics--the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in home economics and to get a Ph.D. from Cornell University #womeninSTEM #academichatter #feministscience #internationalwomeninSTEM

This is Dr. Nancy Hopkins at the MIT Cancer Center, 1980s. Hopkins is a cancer scientist and activist for advancing women in STEM. She also exposed THE Larry Summers when he was at Harvard and denigrating women's aptitude for STEM. #womeninSTEM #feministscience #academichatter

'The skills that could lift you out of the new permanent underclass are not the skills that mattered before. For a long time, the tech industry liked to think of itself as a meritocracy: it rewarded qualities like intelligence, competence, and expertise.' harpers.org/archive/2026...

Why are we putting pressure on college students to find a spouse? When will this end? Note that American Eugenics classes in the 20th century really promoted white college students marrying each other. #feministscience #AcademicSky #highereducation www.browndailyherald.com/article/2026...

50 books a year? Rookie numbers. I read 113 last year! 65 of which were literary fiction including 'Tom Jones' and "The Rainbow" by DH Lawrence. Also read about 25 romance books, the rest nonfiction including re-reading Heather Clark's Plath biography 'Red Comet'. It totalled 38,000 pages.

"Toward the end of our conversation, Lee told me that she read an eyepopping 50 books in 2024. That averages out to about a book a week, and it completely lapped what I had accomplished in the same time frame. " Those are rookie numbers