Rachel Tompa

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"this doesn't take away your rights, it means you have to sue to ensure your rights" isn't the most compelling argument

Oh my gosh, I love @joshgondelman.bsky.social as a stand up and author, but because I'm an editor (#wordnerd), um, this is right up my alley! Hilarious. I'm gonna need to find dirty strunk funk on a t-shirt too.

next up: can you primary the times ed board

It would be great if America’s pundits would pause this entire genre. “Burning down my house means I don’t need to take out the trash!” Your cleverness is not winning the day right now.

This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.
 
If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

@clairewillett honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion 6:00 PM • Aug 12, 2020

once again I must tap my own sign

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.

Seems like however bad the current NIH-funded science climate is, it's probably going to get a whole lot worse in short order. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

There are a lot of things that are gross in journalism but the abject careerism and moral bankruptcy of the NYT reporters who jumped on the the youth gender medicine “story” is one of the more disgusting things I’ve witnessed

Wow. Now do science.

Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages

Fuck this, absolutely fuck this, everyone who loves audiobooks loves their favourite narrators because they are great at their jobs and interpreting the author's words and they make the experience what it is www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

It's been 503 days since we unionized.
We still do not have a contract.

@society4science.bsky.social
@sciencenews.org.web.brid.gy
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I'm working on a story for @thesicktimes.bsky.social about how the latest NIH cuts to COVID-related grants are impacting scientists working on Long COVID. If you have info to share, please email, DM, or reach out on Signal (betsyladyzhets.25).

yeah, he sounds real caring.

One of these things is not like the others

Heck yeah Senator Murray!! Let's see this from ALL Dems!

Mark Kelly is a retired Navy pilot, astronaut, and dedicated public servant. He is a hero.

Elon Musk is a self-absorbed coward.

Hope that clears things up.

BREAKING: French satellite company Eutelsat is replacing Starlink and plans to send approximately 40,000 communication terminals to Ukraine

Their stock has rocketed 390% in the 3 days as Tesla, Starlink, SpaceX and X continue their
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ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

This is illegal, and it endangers the rights of all Americans.

In this country, people must be free to express their views — left or right, popular or unpopular — without being detained or punished by the government.

If Musk and his Technoboyz can't stop a cyber attack at X, maybe they shouldn't have access to our Social Security? Just brainstorming.

some helpful reminders:

-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Many resources here- this is more like a directory of other help but it's huge

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Free career services ⬇️

I've heard that other societies might be working on opening up resources to at least their members, but I haven't seen anything concrete besides what's below

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SciComm Office Hours | Virginia Schutte A collation of where you can find SciComm jobs online and how you can have job alerts come to you for free.

I offer free resume/cover letter reviews and interview coaching for 🧪 through my office hours: www.virginiaschutte.com/scicomm-offi...

Reply or DM to set up a slot, and note that these meetings are open to other folks who register, so the whole group can learn at once, and from each other

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I'm covering the NASW/CASW conference drop and wondering if anyone loosely affiliated with NASW (not as a spokesperson) or those working as science writers would be willing to comment on this impact this has on the health of the science writing community etc.
Please email or DM me, thanks!

A screenshot of Rachel's LinkedIn post from 1 month ago, which says: "Need resume/cover letter help?? Hey LinkedIn, I (like everyone) have been reading the news and growing increasingly worried, for so many things, including for the wellbeing of folks who work for our federal government, directly or indirectly. I've been trying to think of what I can do to help and would like to offer to anyone* affected by the current chaos in the U.S. federal government, if you are job hunting or thinking of job hunting and need help with your resume, cover letter or personal website copy, hit me up and I will help you update them or catch typos or help you brag about yourself. No charge. Note: I am not a professional career coach, I am a writer and editor who reads Ask a Manager religiously (highly recommend) and enjoys helping folks with their careers. I've done this for a few friends and hopefully it was helpful to them. I probably can't help you with your academic CV, but if you are wanting to translate an academic CV into a two-page resume, I might be able to help with that. DM me if you want some help along these lines. If we're not connected, send me a connection request and then DM me. *US federal workers, federal contractors, anyone who relies on federal funding (hello all of science), freelancers whose clients are federal or federally funded (this is me too so we can freak out together). #resume #coverletter #jobhunting"

Job search resources for 🧪, compiled from a few places. Feel free to reply with more things you've found helpful!

@racheltompa.bsky.social is offering free coaching (see the image or www.linkedin.com/posts/rachel...)

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