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Emil Beemer

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PhD researcher mobility commons & just transitions at DRIFT and NEON. He/him

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Adriana Guatame-García

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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 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM

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DRIFT

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Hoe ziet duurzame en rechtvaardige #windenergie er volgens jou uit? Kom praten! Voor project JustWind4All zoeken we experts in beleid of natuurconservatie voor een interview 🪁

Iets voor jou of kennis/collega? Neem contact op met Farah >>> drift.eur.nl/nl/mensen/fa...

🎨 door Maria Fraaije

February 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM

Emil Beemer

@emilbeemer.bsky.social

This list is so insanely broad it looks like the American oligarchy is trying to destroy all scientific funding

Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

February 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM

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Ripperoni

@ripperoni.com

This was written ten days before Germany invade Poland

NYTimes headline “HERR HITLER AT HOME IN THE CLOUDS; High up on his favorite mountain he finds time for politics, solitude and frequent official parties. HERR HITLER IN THE CLOUDS”

Written August 20, 1939

MUNICH. BERCHTESGADEN, where Hitler has spent most of his Summer, is the home of his own choice. When he was still editor of the Voelkische Beobachter and little more than an adventurous figure among the scores of German party leaders he bought a little country house on a foothill of one of the three Alpine peaks which dominate the Berchtesgaden valley.

February 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM

Emil Beemer

@emilbeemer.bsky.social

True for all good dystopian fiction but an especially painful error to make for Butler's great insights

Kalynn Bayron @kalynnbayron.bsky.social · Jan 9

Octavia Butler couldn’t see the future. She saw what was happening in front of her and, in addition to studying the past, was able to imagine where it would lead. It’s important to tell the truth about her because mythologizing her is a disservice to her legacy.

January 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM

Emil Beemer

@emilbeemer.bsky.social

Onthoud goed lieve kinderen: met fascisten moet je gezellig rond de tafel om samen het onderwijs te slopen. Maar vergeet daarbij niet te zeggen: "wij zouden dit niet hebben gekozen"!

Henri Bontenbal @henri.cda.nl · Dec 11

Vooropgesteld: de plannen van dit kabinet voor onderwijs zijn niet de plannen waar het CDA voor zou hebben gekozen, dat zullen het ook nooit worden. De bezuinigingen die overeind blijven zijn niet de onze. 3/8

December 11, 2024 at 10:32 PM