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It is my considerate opinion that mathematics worldwide needs @pwr2dppl to teach us how to behave humanely to each other. Just because we've seen something done again and again, it doesn't mean it's right.
Algebraic Geometer
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Algebraic Geometer
@BarbaraFantechi
Full Prof, cis white woman, #BiInSci.
Opinions my own.
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- When your imagination is so limited that you don't notice a scientist DOES rule a large nation, because she doesn't fit your a priori idea of how a scientist looks like.
- This is how entitled white men keep out of academia women, non white people, first generation students, and any intersection of the above. Not everyone has the time, energy and chutzpa to apply for a job that doesn't exist. It's a way to hire only PhD students of your friends.Heard from an uber talented PhD student today that they would only apply to advertisements/postings for p-doc positions, i.e., no unsolicited applications. To be clear... I am ALWAYS looking for talented trainees and never post these positions!
- Just because there's no matrices involved it doesn't mean it's not linear algebra.just because there's matrices involved it doesn't mean it's linear algebra
- That's not the kind of missing a period women are afraid of
- I didn't get a PhD, but my thesis research can be found in the paper "Deformation of Hilbert schemes of points on a surface". It had zero citations for at least a decade after publication and still has very few. I did become an expert in a uselessly narrow topic! ...
- Replying to @JuliaZeitlinger and @AnimaAnandkumarCan I be completely honest? I don’t think this tweet is helping your career. It gives you short-term attention, but silently hurts your chances of building long-term professional relationships. Being misogynistic is luckily a double-edged sword for women.
- I am a maths professor, and since 2002 work full time in a university that only has graduate students. This is 🐮💩Yes. Math is hard. And unless your brain is wired a certain way, you will never be exceptional or even very good at it. You can survive, and perhaps do well using math in real life, but deep mathematical intuition and insight will always remain out of reach.
- I teach pure mathematics to graduate students. Politics and history are naturally part of my lectures, because mathematics is created by people who are or were NOT apolitical.Replying to @AlfonsodlTorreNo pues creo que ese es parte del problema! La idea de que “yo hago matemática pura por ende no necesito contextualizar nada”
- We = white men, apparently.
- She has hated mathematics in particular for a very long time. I didn't keep receipts (why would I?) but I remember her sneering (in writing) at theorems and insisting mathematical rigour served no purpose in theoretical physics.Very revealing exchange here IMO. You can judge the quality of the claims yourself but fwiw this seems to me to be an argument against publicly funding public goods in general.
- THIS. I was recently chatting with two male colleagues, who said they couldn't relate to my productivity having taken a hit when the kids were small, and it turns out BOTH had stay-at-home wives with a PhD.
- Today I attended* a Master thesis defense. At the final "are there questions?" I wanted to ask "Shouldn't we give her a PhD?" Yes, the maths was THAT good. *Zoomed
- There's an 🇮🇹 athlete making me extra proud of my country! Alice Bellandi, a judo gold medal winner who celebrated by kissing her girlfriend. Note M3l0ni's face.
