Bianca (Dr. Flavia-Bianca Cristian)
@curlyneuron.bsky.social
Science communicator & feminist book club host
📍 Heidelberg, Germany
(soon moving to Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿)
🦇 originally from Transylvania, Romania 🇷🇴
#SciComm #PublicEngagement #WissKomm #BookSky #Autism #Neurodiversity #Feminism
📍 Heidelberg, Germany
(soon moving to Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿)
🦇 originally from Transylvania, Romania 🇷🇴
#SciComm #PublicEngagement #WissKomm #BookSky #Autism #Neurodiversity #Feminism
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
(📸 Getty Images)
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
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Anyone want some world peace from the shop?
October 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Anyone want some world peace from the shop?
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Oh my goodness, it gets earlier every year.
The Word of the Year thread starts here with the
2025 German Youth WotY: das crazy
uk.news.yahoo.com/das-crazy-vo...
The Word of the Year thread starts here with the
2025 German Youth WotY: das crazy
uk.news.yahoo.com/das-crazy-vo...
'Das crazy' has been voted German Youth Word of the Year 2025
Every year, Germany’s youth select their annual "Youth Word of the Year", which is voted for by youngsters around the country.View on euronews
uk.news.yahoo.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Oh my goodness, it gets earlier every year.
The Word of the Year thread starts here with the
2025 German Youth WotY: das crazy
uk.news.yahoo.com/das-crazy-vo...
The Word of the Year thread starts here with the
2025 German Youth WotY: das crazy
uk.news.yahoo.com/das-crazy-vo...
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Non-academic job search kicking your butt? Oof. You’re navigating a big transition and that is no joke! In the PhD Career Clarity Program, you get support through small group coaching (3x/month) so you can reflect, clarity, plan, and then actually move forward. #AcademicSky
PhD Career Clarity Program from Dr. Jennifer Polk
Join the PhD Career Clarity Program course and community for your post-academic job search. Ready to leave academia? Dr. Jen Polk's program is for professors, postdocs, and other PhDs like you.
fromphdtolife.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Non-academic job search kicking your butt? Oof. You’re navigating a big transition and that is no joke! In the PhD Career Clarity Program, you get support through small group coaching (3x/month) so you can reflect, clarity, plan, and then actually move forward. #AcademicSky
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MIDTERM. GRADES. ARE. DONE.
a cartoon dog is laying on a green bean bag chair
ALT: a cartoon dog is laying on a green bean bag chair
media.tenor.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
MIDTERM. GRADES. ARE. DONE.
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There’s more than one way to build a meaningful career with your PhD. Let me show you how. #PhDSky
Free Training for PhDs - From PhD to Life
Leaving academia? You want a new career as a PhD without wasting time applying for the wrong jobs, but don’t know where to start. Get clarity with Dr. Jen Polk in this free training.
fromphdtolife.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
There’s more than one way to build a meaningful career with your PhD. Let me show you how. #PhDSky
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Same in DC. It’s been two months.
Still constant helicopters overhead. Abandoned work trucks where neighbors have been kidnapped by ICE. Armed national guard walking the streets. Feds posting up in former unhoused spaces to keep people away.
Still constant helicopters overhead. Abandoned work trucks where neighbors have been kidnapped by ICE. Armed national guard walking the streets. Feds posting up in former unhoused spaces to keep people away.
Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now
October 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Same in DC. It’s been two months.
Still constant helicopters overhead. Abandoned work trucks where neighbors have been kidnapped by ICE. Armed national guard walking the streets. Feds posting up in former unhoused spaces to keep people away.
Still constant helicopters overhead. Abandoned work trucks where neighbors have been kidnapped by ICE. Armed national guard walking the streets. Feds posting up in former unhoused spaces to keep people away.
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Really appreciated this breakdown from @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social
As a consumer you can choose which parts of publishing you want to support and sustain.
"It's important to know that all book buying options are not the same"
More here:
aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
As a consumer you can choose which parts of publishing you want to support and sustain.
"It's important to know that all book buying options are not the same"
More here:
aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Really appreciated this breakdown from @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social
As a consumer you can choose which parts of publishing you want to support and sustain.
"It's important to know that all book buying options are not the same"
More here:
aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
As a consumer you can choose which parts of publishing you want to support and sustain.
"It's important to know that all book buying options are not the same"
More here:
aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.
September 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.
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Monday's @thinkingautism.com newsletter is a roundup we shouldn't have needed of the 3-ring circus that was this week in autism news, incl how obvious aspects of the Big Boondoggling Autism Announcement went largely unaddressed while weak debate-think framing dominated
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive/
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive/
Thinking Person's Guide to Autism Newsletter
Weekly email with autism news and resources: from autistic people, professionals, and parents, written and curated by scientist and journalist Dr. Emily Willingham. Emily, a 2022 MIT Knight Science Pr...
buttondown.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Monday's @thinkingautism.com newsletter is a roundup we shouldn't have needed of the 3-ring circus that was this week in autism news, incl how obvious aspects of the Big Boondoggling Autism Announcement went largely unaddressed while weak debate-think framing dominated
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive/
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive/
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Moldova’s election is a choice between two paths: pro-Europe or pro-Russia
Moldova’s election is a choice between two paths: pro-Europe or pro-Russia
Western-friendly ruling party faces fierce challenge from opposition amid reports of Kremlin interference
Moldovans are due to vote on Sunday in a pivotal parliamentary election that will determine whether the country of 2.4 million people continues on its path towards joining the EU or drifts back into Moscow’s orbit, with widespread reports of Russian meddling.
The pro-western president, Maia Sandu, and her ruling Action and Solidarity party (PAS), which holds a parliamentary majority, face a stiff challenge from the Patriotic Electoral Bloc, an alliance of pro-Russian, Soviet-nostalgic parties led in part by the former president Igor Dodon, whom Sandu defeated in 2020. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Moldova’s election is a choice between two paths: pro-Europe or pro-Russia
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#Postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin in digital humanities & history/philosophy/sociology of science #philsci #STS. ERC project investigates digital communication within the ATLAS collaboration at CERN
Deadline: October 13, 2025
www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti...
#PhilJobs
Deadline: October 13, 2025
www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti...
#PhilJobs
Job Posting I-390/25: Research Associate - salary grade E13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen – Job Postings at Technische Universität Berlin
Faculty I - Humanities and Educational Sciences, Institute of History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Literature / History and Philosophy of Modern Science
www.jobs.tu-berlin.de
September 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
#Postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin in digital humanities & history/philosophy/sociology of science #philsci #STS. ERC project investigates digital communication within the ATLAS collaboration at CERN
Deadline: October 13, 2025
www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti...
#PhilJobs
Deadline: October 13, 2025
www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti...
#PhilJobs
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my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”
September 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”
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Not sure where to start with your job search? You’re not alone. This free webinar helps PhDs get clear and take action This is for professors, postdocs, and other PhDs ready to start leaving higher ed for good. Watch the free webinar now.
Free Training for PhDs - From PhD to Life
Leaving academia? You want a new career as a PhD without wasting time applying for the wrong jobs, but don’t know where to start. Get clarity with Dr. Jen Polk in this free training.
fromphdtolife.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Not sure where to start with your job search? You’re not alone. This free webinar helps PhDs get clear and take action This is for professors, postdocs, and other PhDs ready to start leaving higher ed for good. Watch the free webinar now.
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Tomorrow (Sept. 24) at 6:30pm EDT, join The Glass House in welcoming Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy, authors of Women Architects at Work, to discuss architect Philip Johnson's associations with women who promoted modernism. More on the free, in-person event: theglasshouse.org/whats-on/wom...
September 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Tomorrow (Sept. 24) at 6:30pm EDT, join The Glass House in welcoming Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy, authors of Women Architects at Work, to discuss architect Philip Johnson's associations with women who promoted modernism. More on the free, in-person event: theglasshouse.org/whats-on/wom...
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Quien no pudiera asistir y encima sea masoquista, aquí dejo el enlace directo a mi charla en la sesión de tarde del viernes. Diez minutos que harán que no veas con los mismos ojos a los astronautas... ni a mi. Cero glamour 🤣 (ya no sigue 4/4)
www.youtube.com/live/d8MO3O1...
www.youtube.com/live/d8MO3O1...
NAUKAS BILBAO 2025 🔴EN DIRECTO 🔴 VIERNES 19 SESIÓN DE TARDE
YouTube video by eitb
www.youtube.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Quien no pudiera asistir y encima sea masoquista, aquí dejo el enlace directo a mi charla en la sesión de tarde del viernes. Diez minutos que harán que no veas con los mismos ojos a los astronautas... ni a mi. Cero glamour 🤣 (ya no sigue 4/4)
www.youtube.com/live/d8MO3O1...
www.youtube.com/live/d8MO3O1...
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I made a little cutout of myself holding a copy of Useless Etymology, and now I'm having too much fun creating images of all the unhinged ways I could convince people to buy it.
September 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I made a little cutout of myself holding a copy of Useless Etymology, and now I'm having too much fun creating images of all the unhinged ways I could convince people to buy it.
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Gaze into the middle of this image!
via @akiyoshikitaoka.bsky.social
via @akiyoshikitaoka.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Gaze into the middle of this image!
via @akiyoshikitaoka.bsky.social
via @akiyoshikitaoka.bsky.social
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My generation agonises over how to act and what to say. We have to learn to go with the flow | Bertin Huynh
My generation agonises over how to act and what to say. We have to learn to go with the flow | Bertin Huynh
Thanks to social media, gen Z is more perceived and judged than ever before, and we worry over every word and image. An ancient Chinese text shows there’s a better way
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My generation agonises over how to act and what to say. We have to learn to go with the flow | Bertin Huynh
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You didn’t get a PhD to spend your life burned out and underpaid. Let’s change that. This free webinar is for you. #PhDSky
Free Training for PhDs - From PhD to Life
Leaving academia? You want a new career as a PhD without wasting time applying for the wrong jobs, but don’t know where to start. Get clarity with Dr. Jen Polk in this free training.
fromphdtolife.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
You didn’t get a PhD to spend your life burned out and underpaid. Let’s change that. This free webinar is for you. #PhDSky
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On this day in 1991, a couple of hikers found a mummified body in the Alps. Take our science quiz to see how much you know about the Copper Age man nicknamed Ötzi. 🏺🧪
Ötzi quiz: What do you know about the Iceman mummy who was murdered 5,300 years ago in the Alps?
Think you know a lot about Ötzi the Iceman? Don't get left in the cold — take our quiz!
www.livescience.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
On this day in 1991, a couple of hikers found a mummified body in the Alps. Take our science quiz to see how much you know about the Copper Age man nicknamed Ötzi. 🏺🧪