Well. I think from now on I’m going to have a voice that says “If Senator Booker can talk like that in hour 24, I can probably call my representatives” or whatever action of the moment feels hard.

02.04.2025 00:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well, given that the only nationwide legal “leave” is that they who gave birth can’t be fired for taking 12 wks unpaid leave from a job they worked >1250 hrs the past yr at a company with >50 employees… yes. (Some states have marginally better laws, & some jobs pay or allow use of vacation days.)

07.12.2024 22:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I applied to European postdocs because they had longer post-grad qualification with amazing statements like “extensions will be considered for circumstances such as parental leave” 😱😍🥲 Acknowledgement of families?! Unbelievable to these American eyes.

07.12.2024 21:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

She said that sounded great, because she’s so tired of needing to prove she belongs there every time she walks into a room. Already. She’s 3 years of college in. (2/3)🧵

07.12.2024 04:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

12/6/89: 14 women were killed because they dared to study the male-dominated field of engineering.
12/6/24: I told a student that working at my company is great because we are above industry average with 17% women! And I’ve only experienced a few microagressions! I was serious. (1/3)🧵

07.12.2024 04:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I want to highlight the scholarship for #WomeninSTEM returning to the workforce. I have never seen such a thing, and while it has stipulations I have Opinions on (a *one year* gap? Oh noooo) This is to be applauded (and more likely than the others to apply to people I know) bsky.app/profile/fran...

07.12.2024 01:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

AWIS Announces 2025 Scholarship Cycle The Association for Women in Science is proud to announce its 2025 scholarship program, designed to support women in scientific fields at various stages of their academic and professional journeys.

Applications are open for the AWIS (Association for Women in Science) 2025 scholarships, including awards for undergraduate students (~$2k), doctoral students ($10k), and women re-entering the STEM workforce ($2.5k)!

More info: awis.org/awis-announc...

#AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM 👩🏽‍🔬

06.12.2024 15:46 — 👍 10    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

The first three years were great! It’s the next seven that were rough.

I remember the mom of a friend saying a very similar thing about her bachelors, and suspect it’s not a coincidence that’s the point at which we each had kids…

Mostly, like every phase of life, I found it had good parts and bad.

24.11.2024 19:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A large, healthy aloe plant sits on a windowsill. Behind it to the left a jade plant peeks out, and to the right is a bit of an urban view with apartments and road construction on a cloudy day.

A giant monstera deliciosa fans out on top of a half-height book case, reaching the ceiling. It is supported by metal poles, and many of be leaves are deeply generated. The bookshelf hosts a rainbow of book spines, with Crucial Conversations and Queer X Design propped facing front.

It seems pretty serious and academic in here. Can we post random stuff too? How do I want to enter this new space? I guess I’ll present my current proudest plants: a luscious aloe that is killing it, and a monstera that is becoming problematically monstrous. The photos do neither of them justice.

12.11.2024 08:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0