Physgal ⚛️
@physgal.bsky.social
University physics lecturer and Associate Dean, Learning. Physics demystifier. Supporter of girls and women in physics. CAP Teaching Medal 2018, 3MNTF 2023. She/her Ph.D.
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
It's so hard. I could also have chosen one of these:
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
It's so hard. I could also have chosen one of these:
This applies to university professors as well. 👀
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This applies to university professors as well. 👀
Oh ok. That makes sense, but ick.
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Oh ok. That makes sense, but ick.
I luckily never had to experience this. I think it may be less common in academic science. Almost all of my interviews involved job talks. Did they expect you to give a talk in a hotel room??
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I luckily never had to experience this. I think it may be less common in academic science. Almost all of my interviews involved job talks. Did they expect you to give a talk in a hotel room??
AI (not LLMs) can be quite useful for physics data analysis such as picking out subatomic particle signatures amongst the huge amount of background noise you get in collider experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
November 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
AI (not LLMs) can be quite useful for physics data analysis such as picking out subatomic particle signatures amongst the huge amount of background noise you get in collider experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
It's like one guy is looking in a mirror
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It's like one guy is looking in a mirror
Shouldn't it all just be called Canada? 🇨🇦
November 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Shouldn't it all just be called Canada? 🇨🇦
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“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?”
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
In the meantime, he got the professional networking opportunity, and I didn’t. And Lawrence Krauss gets to write nasty things about me in the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times gets to write about me like I’m a crazy queer bitch who hates men.
That’s the other side of these emails
That’s the other side of these emails
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?”
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
