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Sue Nelson
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Sue Nelson
@ScienceNelson
Science journalist Boffin Media. Wrote @WallyFunksSpace Writing book on autism & empathy. Host @SpaceBoffins Former BBC science correspondent. Views own.
- A male academic publicly denigrates a woman’s academic achievement by tweeting to his ~23k followers the ‘typos’ in her dissertation - most of which are non-use of hyphens - often dictated by style guides anyway. This is so unbelievably pedantic, petty and pathetic.
- I love the fact that William Shatner is emotional and has gone into full Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds mode explaining how he feels after his Blue Origin flight. He’s right of course. The Earth’s atmosphere is fragile. Space travel is extraordinary.
- I’m on the verge of (happy) tears. Just phoned Wally Funk and apparently I’m the first to publicly congratulate her - “oh have they told everybody? I thought it’d be next week!” She can’t wait, has a window seat and is doing her exercises. “I’ve been waiting a lifetime, honey...”
- I can’t quite believe this. A science reporter for a national newspaper telling a woman who believes in biological sex that doing so is akin to being a Nazi. This is outrageous.
- Just discovered you can track gritters in Scotland and - even better - they have names like Gritney Spears, Spready Mercury and Licence to Chill... ❄️ arcgis.com/apps/webappvie…
- Replying to @ScienceNelsonAnd I will add that as editor of The Biologist magazine for five years (I put the first woman on its cover), I do have experience of choosing covers and pull out quotes. The Lancet is making a political statement.
- I have mixed feelings about today. I’m a massive Star Trek fan (first crush Captain Kirk) but William Shatner is about break my friend Wally Funk’s short lived record later as the oldest person in space. I’ll just hold onto the memory that she did it. She actually did it! 😉
- 57 years ago today Valentina Tereshkova became the world’s first woman to fly in space onboard the spacecraft Vostok 6. The cosmonaut made 48 orbits in 71 hours.
- During a student holiday, working a late bar shift, I was cleaning ash trays & trying to get a group of men to leave the pub. They were trying to remember the Heisenberg uncertainty equation & promised to leave if the ‘barmaid’ knew it. Everyone laughed. They left a minute later.Is this one of the most famous equations in physics? The Schrödinger equation is a cornerstone of quantum physics - the analogue of Newton's law for quantum mechanics. Its derivation led to Schrödinger, born on this day, receiving the 1933 #NobelPrize in Physics.
- 🧵After a day wearing headphones audio editing yesterday, I’ve only just seen The Lancet’s tweet proudly showing its cover consisting of a quote referring to women as ‘bodies with vaginas’…
- Well that is shocking. Operation Cygnus was an exercise just a few years ago that involved the NHS and government to test out a response to a pandemic. It highlighted what failed and offered lessons learned. No wonder we are in a such a mess.On #ExerciseCygnus Dominic Raab was asked tonight “have you personally read it & has it been made available to all your key scientific advisers?” Raab replied “it’s not something that immediately springs to mind” In view of the importance of this report a shocking reply
00:00 - ‘Girls like space too’ Little girl writes letter begging shop to make Nasa clothing for girls -
