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Ruth Eberhardt
@rutheberhardt.bsky.social
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Bioinformatician at Wellcone Sanger Institute.
Never grew out of the pony mad phase
Slave to cats
Runner (of sorts)
Breast cancer survivor (always hesitate to say the survivor bit, like tempting fate)
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I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry. There is so much truth in this.
adrianaguatame.bsky.social Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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I was trying to avoid the news as I'm somewhat fragile at the moment, coming up to the second anniversary of BC diagnosis and needing to take care of my MH, but this is really worrying...... www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”
www.science.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Happy Christmas to all
December 25, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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Happiness
December 14, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Podcasts can kill
Thanks to @jacquiwak.bsky.social @bbcworldservice.bsky.social for giving @parthaskar.bsky.social and myself a platform to air our concerns

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation on Diary of CEO podcast
Disproven health claims are accepted with little challenge by host on number one podcast, BBC investigation finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 13, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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My latest obsession, today we are exporting to the grid.
November 26, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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I remember seeing a very similar plot about 15 years ago which plotted salary grade and gender, and things haven't changed since.
johannajoyce.bsky.social Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Nov 25
Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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November 26, 2024 at 8:18 AM