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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · 9d

Time to update that affiliation I guess! I‘m starting my fellowship @eso.org in Garching 🇩🇪 today! Wish me luck ❤️🤭

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Planets @ Oxford @oxoplanets.bsky.social · Jul 9

Congratulations to Dr Tobias Meier (@tgmeier.bsky.social) on his #ExoclimesVII poster presentation about the lava world K2-141b!

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Planets @ Oxford @oxoplanets.bsky.social · Jul 9

Congratulations to Dr Jake Taylor (@astrojake.bsky.social) on his poster at #ExoclimesVII concerning the JWST NIRISS/SOSS transmission spectrum of the super-Earth GJ 357b. The paper is published and can be read here: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jul 10

In case you’re interested in the paper(s) about WASP-121 b using the 4UT mode of ESPRESSO — or as I like to call it: ESPRESSO’s superpower — check out:

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025A%26...

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025Natu...

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jul 7

I’ve had 6 years of French in school + my mom is from the French part of Switzerland and I can report: Québécois is a whole different beast 🤣

Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jun 12

Shoot me a message so I can share them with you!

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jun 12

I can send you the full articles if you‘re interested ☺️

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jun 12

This makes me so sad. Congrats to your daughter for finishing her MA!

I chose a language class during high-school (past-me thought Latin was a good fit, spoiler: it wasn't), and I got bullied pretty bad among other things for "being a science nerd". Now I have a PhD in Astrophysics...

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jun 12

Exactly this! I grew up sharing all the toys with my little brother, and we just played with all of them in one large "landscape". Who says barbie cannot be part of a race car carpet landscape, right?

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · Jun 12

Nature study: when do girls fall behind in #maths? During their 1st year at primary school.

4 yr study, 2.6M French children. By comparing kids born a month apart but in diff school years they show it's education, not age, that triggers the gap☹️ 🧪👩‍🔬

ℹ️: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👇Excellent 🧵

A set of graphs

Title: WATCH THE MATHEMATICS GENDER GAP EMERGE The school environment triggers a gender gap in mathematics. Test results
from all children in France who started school in 2018 reveal the trend.

Graph 1: Start of first year of school. Boys and girls show similar performance in maths test results.

Graph 2: Four months into first year
We see more boys are now starting to achieve the higher grades with girls getting more poorer grades

Graph 3: Start of second year at school
Gender gap is now exaggerated with boys twice as likely to get the top marks than their female counterparts.

From https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01831-4

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jun 12

Totally agree with everything you just said. I would love to go to first-graders more often. I try speaking to lower grades whenever I can through skypeascientist.com, but it's hard...

SKYPE A SCIENTIST

Skype a Scientist matches your classroom, scout troop, or library with scientists for Q&A sessions for free!

skypeascientist.com

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jun 12

*life. Of course, you got that ;)

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jun 12

So in summary, this article really spoke to me. This all starts early, and needs to be "fixed" in the mindset, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't (in fact we absolutely must) fight the gender gap at higher ages too!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What are your thoughts? 7/7

When do girls fall behind in maths? Gigantic study pinpoints the moment

Analysis of almost three million children captures when ‘mathematical gender gap’ first emerges and could help focus efforts to stop girls from falling behind.

www.nature.com

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jun 12

And let's be frank here. There is a REALLY minuscule part of the population that is born a genius. For the rest of us, it's all hard work. Some things are easier. Some are harder. That's just live. And that's the beauty of it, because we complement each other. 6/x

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jun 12

... the first part: stereotypes. Barbies, legos. The thing from above. If you hear it often enough you will believe that you are not good at something. If someone says you are talented at something, it sounds much more appealing than "if you work hard, you will get there". 5/x

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jun 12

"One possible cause is teachers and parents transmitting the stereotype that boys are better than girls at maths — or that boys’ success is due to talent and girls to hard work, undermining girls’ confidence, the authors write in the paper."

This one stuck with me... 4/x

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jun 12

“But this paper suggests that their experiences with the world are mattering more than anything else.”

It's society. It's what we say to kids. Barbies are for girls? Legos for boys? Girls are not good at maths? It all has an impact on the development of the gender gap. EARLY ON. 3/x

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jun 12

“If we want to stop girls from falling behind, we need to focus on their early experiences at school.”

So yes, while we absolutely HAVE TO address the gender gap in higher levels, e.g. in the academic career from my perspective, this already starts A LOT EARLIER. A positive experience is key! 2/x

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · Jun 12

I don't post super often here, but I just came by to share this news article with you (published alongside the paper in Nature yesterday).

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There are a couple of sentences in the news article that stuck with me more than anything:

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When do girls fall behind in maths? Gigantic study pinpoints the moment

Analysis of almost three million children captures when ‘mathematical gender gap’ first emerges and could help focus efforts to stop girls from falling behind.

www.nature.com