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제시카 @imperialcollege research fellow. @500womensci + @wikipedia + chiral materials + Raman spectroscopy enthusiast. She/her. Least useful doctor in my family.
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    Aug 12, 2018
    Why do I care so much about getting a copy of #Inferior into all schools? Because I don’t want to just tell girls they can do anything. I want them to read it, be empowered, and join our fight for equality. #thisgirlcan justgiving.com/crowdfunding/i…
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    Mar 8, 2019
    😔 Can we stop spending so much money on campaigns (based on v. little evidence) to ‘inspire’ girls to study science and instead; -invest properly in science education -tackle institutional + systematic bias against women + minorities -improve access to shared parental leave TY💫
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    Mar 7, 2019
    This new $25 million iniative aims to attract more women to STEM by highlighting contemporary role models: on.forbes.com/6010Enod8 By @DrAnnaPowers1
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    Dec 31, 2018
    Everyday in 2018 I started the @Wikipedia biography of a woman, person of colour or LGBTQ+ scientist or engineer. I’m up to 450 pages so far 😁 #womeninSTEM x #HappyNewYear
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    Nov 30, 2019
    thanks to the @Wikipedia editor who spent their wednesday night tagging the recent biographies i’ve started for #WomenInSTEM as not notable enough to be included in the encyclopaedia. it’s really constructive and helpful work. 🤬😭
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    Dec 22, 2020
    every night for the past three years i’ve researched and written the biographies of scientists from historically marginalised groups for @Wikipedia. i know a lot of academics think it’s a waste of time, and sometimes that makes me sad. then you get emails like this. 🥺
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    Apr 27, 2022
    “Physics isn’t something that girls tend to fancy. They don’t want to do it. They don’t like it… There’s a lot of hard maths in there that they don’t want to do.” 🤦🏻‍♀️ @Miss_Snuffy, UK Government Social Mobility Commission Chair #WomenInSTEM parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/f1…
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    Aug 13, 2020
    a lot of young people in the UK have had their dreams crushed by an incompetent government and an (150 page) unpublished algorithm. we have got to stop unfair tech deciding people’s futures. 🤬 #AlevelResults
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    A-level results: almost 40% of teacher assessments in England downgraded
    Ofqual figures show 39.1% of 700,000 teacher assessments were lowered by at least one grade
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    Feb 12, 2021
    okay, this is really happening! i wrote a children’s book about materials and nanoscience. the illustrations are by the wonderful @mv_castrillon. 🔬📚💎 you can find out more @WalkerBooksUK: walker.co.uk/Nano-The-Spect… and pre-order here: waterstones.com/book/nano-the-… 😃
    a picture of the front cover of nano, my new book! details in the tweet
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    Jan 3, 2022
    sure, see below.
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    Jun 19, 2020
    “low achieving men are both retained in and attracted to these fields (physics, engineering and computer science) during college.” fascinating read from @JoeCimpian et al in @ScienceMagazine: science.sciencemag.org/content/368/64… #WomenInSTEM
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    Jan 1, 2022
    My most proud accomplishment of '21 is seeing the #WomenInSTEM whose @Wikipedia biographies I've written be recognised in public life: providing expert analysis to BBC News, receiving shiny awards and becoming household names. I've written 1,550 since the start of 2018 😃🥳
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    Nov 30, 2019
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    editing @Wikipedia from an IP address (without signing in) is sneaky and makes me distrustful of your intentions. if you want to keep fooling yourself that the world was created and is led by white men... have fun with that. ✊🌐 these stories won’t go untold.
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    Apr 23, 2020
    great chiral fact: 🇯🇵 Japanese Wisteria (Figure One) twist clockwise whereas 🇨🇳 Chinese Wisteria (Figure Two) twist anti-clockwise. 🤯🌀
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    Feb 21, 2020
    after 2 years writing daily biographies of women, people of colour + LGBTQ+ scientists/engineers for @Wikipedia, every time someone tells me that they’re planning an event i have an encyclopaedic knowledge of awesome speakers. i can recommend outstanding people for hours. 😄🌈🎤
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    Jul 10, 2021
    just had an uber driver who was anti-mask (my free will!) and anti-vaccine (too fast!) and after our twenty minutes together he said i had made him think differently and he’d do more reading and have his 💉. when i got home i nipped in to get his children a copy of Nano. perfect