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Scientists Don’t Succeed in a Vacuum. Why Expect This of Graduate Students?

Graduate student isolation existed long before the pandemic, thanks to go-it-alone culture in physics programs. Then as now, peer support groups can help.

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Thursday, June 30, 2022

Crosspost: The Unwritten Laws of Physics for Black Women

Written by Katrina Miller for Wired

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STEM Statistics to put the Gender Gap into Perspective

☆ women make up roughly 17 percent of the physics workforce, but at the current rate of women working and studying physics, it would take 258 years to achieve gender balance.

☆ good news though! more women are graduating with degrees in STEM. for a rough estimate, the number grew from just over 140,000 in 2009 to over 200,000 in 2016.

☆ the myth of the "math brain" is a destroyer of confidence in girls. most girls lose confidence in math in third grade, while boys are more likely to feel they are strong in math.

☆ in 2019, about one-third of non-binary and transgender scientists reported discrimination for their sex or gender identity. about one-fifth of transgender scientists considered leaving their job.

☆ among STEM company CEOs, only 3 percent are women.

☆ 19 of the 616 nobel prizes awarded between 1901 and 2019 in physics, science, medicine and physiology were awarded to women.

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Shirley Ann Jackson

(born 1946) Nuclear physicist

Shirley Ann Jackson is a nuclear physicist and President of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. She was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She served as Chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board during the final two years of Barack Obama’s tenure as President.

Number 170 in an ongoing series celebrating remarkable women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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Registration is OPEN for OURFA2M2 2021! This year, we're planning TWO days full of resources, stories, community building, and math, to help marginalized undergraduate mathematicians build their careers. Register and find more info at https://bit.ly/3lUmdkk.

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Registration is OPEN for OURFA2M2 2021! This year, we're planning TWO days full of resources, stories, community building, and math, to help marginalized undergraduate mathematicians build their careers. Register and find more info at https://bit.ly/3lUmdkk.

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Work on complex systems, including Earth’s climate, wins the physics Nobel Prize My article in Science News

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Paving the Way for Future Generations of Women in STEM via NASA https://ift.tt/38gc61A

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A leading astrophysicist from Northern Ireland has been awarded the world's oldest scientific prize for her work on the discovery of pulsars.

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is only the second woman to be awarded the Royal Society's highest prize, the Copley Medal.

The medal is awarded for outstanding achievements in scientific research.

In 1967, when she was a 24-year-old student, she was part of a team that discovered the new type of star.

Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, so named because they appear to pulsate when viewed from Earth.

At the time she was overlooked for a Nobel prize in favour of her male collaborators, although she has argued the prize was awarded appropriately at the time due to her student status.

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Research by Cech and Waidzunas found that scientists belonging to the LGBTQ+ community are more likely to experience harassment in the workplace and be overlooked for opportunities, limiting their career progression. Inequalities within STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) fields based on gender and ethnicity are more high profile, and it is believed that these inequalities exist due to underrepresentation of women and people belonging to ethnic minorities discouraging engagement with STEM. This is a seemingly vicious cycle which likely explains the poor visibility of LGBTQ+ people in science.

LIVE with Scientists is committed to ensuring that science is accessible and inclusive. In the coming months, we aim to build upon the diversity of our amazing contributors and showcase the real stories and research of scientists who are often under-represented. To do this, we are collaborating with Pride in STEM: a charity established in 2016 which aims to increase the visibility of queer scientists and raise awareness of the issues that LGBTQ+ people face in STEM. Pride in STEM established LGBTQ+ STEM Day (November 18) which is celebrated globally, and run ‘Out Thinkers’ events which give LGBTQ+ scientists a safe and accepting space to talk about their research.

LIVE with Scientists wants to harness the spirit of ‘Out Thinkers’ and invite LGBTQ+ scientists to share their research. We would also love to highlight the experiences of LGBTQ+ people in science and academia, too.

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A documentary and a Bollywood film highlight two disparate paths in mathematics My article from Science News

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Graduation Photos

*boyfriend blurred out upon request

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Fall 2019, during my first semester of research, the dept. lab manager took this picture of an eager Sara. Jack made sure to stop me in the halls often over the years to ask how things were going and tell me he was “prouder of me than usual.”

When I struggled to balance all of my work, and I didn't feel like I was fit for research, I always knew I had a “friend and colleague” in my corner who believed in me even when I didn't believe in myself.

The fact that I stuck with research and inevitably fell in love with it, failures and all, is largely thanks to Jack’s unwavering faith in my ability to overcome any obstacle.

Thank the people in your corner and strive to be a person that passionately believes in other people

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I can’t stand elon musk’s simp army like okay maybe they could idk pay for a concerted clean up effort with those billions of dollars they have? You can’t just destroy this planet to get to other ones lol. source