Molly A

PBS NOVA is the reason I became a scientist!

She hates him lmfao #NoKings

It’s a mistake to outsource most writing to AI.

Even if the output is accurate and engaging, something valuable is lost in the process. Jotting down intuitions and spelling out hunches is how we develop and refine our ideas.

Writing is where we do our best thinking.

Elon Musk's DOGE has spent the last several months dismantling the departments & agencies that regulate HIS businesses.

Our report found that Musk has a direct business interest in over 70% of the agencies & departments DOGE targeted.

The conflicts of interest are endless.

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

LEEDS BACK TO THE PL WHAT A GREAT START TO THE WEEK

I picked Tennessee to win March Madness not with my brain but with my heart, and that is what ultimately sealed their fate

When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.

Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.

Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"

Scientists who are actively against fascism because fascism is bad, not just because sometimes it hurts scientists, are my people

Of course, it should go without saying that a President of the United States and especially an illegitimate one can’t constitutionally abolish a cabinet department—say the Department of Education—established by Congress.

Construction crew has been pile driving right outside our lab which means I got to operate in a shaking control room all. day.

I’m a PhD student in nuclear engineering. I would not be who I am today, or the scientist I am today, without The Chronicles of Narnia, The Land Before Time, The X-Files, Frankenstein, Brothers Karamazov, and so many more.

Through DayQuil, all things are possible.

I don't believe in Hell, but if I did I would die happy knowing there was a special seating section for anyone currently railing against "the sin of empathy," and every one of those seats is made with hot rusty barbs

Chien-Shiung Wu's trailblazing experiments in particle physics The Chinese American physicist led groundbreaking experiments that demonstrated parity violation and photon entanglement. Many in the physics community say Wu d

A fantastic article about experimental physicist Chien-Shiung Wu and her contributions outside of the Manhattan Project. ⚛️ 🧪 #scicomm

pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding”

Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure.

We are all in this together, and we all go down together.

I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

Unfortunately my body cannot tell the difference between deploying our new injector system and being chased by a bear, so I will be spending the weekend sick in bed

You’re right, I WAS foolish to think that I’d be able to afford tickets to the Ireland/New Zealand rugby rematch

I’m considering doing this too! Would love to chat about it once I’m closer to writing time

WE ARE TURNING MY INJECTOR ON ON MONDAY!!!!!!!

This isn’t particularly groundbreaking stuff here, but I’ve seen one too many Instagram comments about it that now I’m feeling angry all over again

I don’t love to post things in absolutes online but this one I feel quite confident about: diversity, equity, and inclusion are ALWAYS necessary in scientific spaces and in fact, we can’t do good science without them

Accidentally overshared to one of our scientists today about how emotional Space Oddity makes me

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

I think we’re allowed to be a little bit evil, for a treat

Happy national girls and women in sports day! And yes, that of course includes trans women and girls! You belong in sports too!

DEI aims to hire qualified, talented people who had been shut out due to prejudice and the legacy thereof.

One can reasonably criticize how a program works in practice, or anything along those lines. But the idea is make orgs stronger via diversity, not hire unqualified people and make orgs weaker.

Molly is bundled up in winter clothes and is standing in front of a small wooden shack on an icy lake. She is holding a large fish that she caught!

Sitting in an ice fishing hut sure is a great way to avoid The Horrors

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data