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Inja Thijssen

@injathijssen.bsky.social

Geologist in the Nordics. Passionate about magmatic systems, ore deposits, geochemistry, geochronology and Archean geology. Former lab-rat and aspiring catlady. My posts are my own views and do not represent my current or former employers.

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British Geological Survey

@bgs.ac.uk

BGS' Jane Evans was invited onto the podcast of Black Adder & Time Team legend, Tony Robinson to talk about her fascinating research into a cow tooth found at Stonehenge, which provided evidence of the cow's Welsh origins.

Catch Cunningcast here:
open.spotify.com/episode/77jd...

An image of Stonehenge taken during the day. The sky is grey, but the stones are well-lit. Grass is in front of the stones.

September 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM

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Petra Boynton

@petraboynton.bsky.social

Spending the weekend finishing my new support programme for next academic year 'Rejection sensitivity and the PhD'.

For PGRs struggling with perceived or actual rejection and who may be ND or disabled in other ways, are sick, or have current or past trauma.

What would you like to be included?

A shape sorting game has a red star, green cross, red oblong and a green disk all slotted into their respective holes. A large blue block is shoved into a round, small hole that it does not fit. Beside the image the text reads 'Rejection sensitivity and the PhD'.

May 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM

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Hakeem Jefferson

@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.

Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

stanforddaily.com

April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM

Inja Thijssen

@injathijssen.bsky.social

A big shout-out to Rachel for including an anti-acknowledgement section in her thesis. Too many women (and other minorities) still have to deal with this stuff in 2025.

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
🧪👩‍🔬

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 7:54 PM

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EAG

@eageo.bsky.social

📣 Young #geochemists don't miss the next EAG Early Career Ambassador funding deadline: 1 March. Funding for young scientists based in Europe to attend a conference outside Europe, up to 50% of expenses covered max €1500. More info & to apply: www.eag.org/early-career...

February 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti

@drcarpineti.bsky.social

UK folks, sign this petition: Tighten the rules on political donations petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations

We want the government to: Remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies). Cap all donations ...

petition.parliament.uk

February 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD

@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

A website has been started in response to the orders to take down references to women’s accomplishments in government offices. We are not going to let them erase us this time. womenrefusingtobeerased.org

Women Refusing to Be Erased

Join us to inspire, educate, and uplift women/womxn.

womenrefusingtobeerased.org

February 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM

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Carbon Brief

@carbonbrief.org

Recommended read: Issues around mining for cobalt – a mineral “essential to decarbonisation” – in the Democratic Republic of the Congo employ “new forms of old colonial practices”, researchers wrote in @us.theconversation.com

DRC: history is repeating itself in Lubumbashi as the world scrambles for minerals to go green

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the defining geopolitical issue of our time.

buff.ly

February 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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Ketan Joshi

@ketanjoshi.co

I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:

- Things are going to get worse, no matter what

- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today

theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org

a colourful blue, orange, red and purple chart showing a light and dar kblue history for temperatures, recent shifts upwards through orange and light red, and two futures: one of light and dark red (1.5c), and one of deep purple (3c and more)

January 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM

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The Geochemistry Group

@geochemgroup.bsky.social

10 x Geochemistry Related PhD positions available at the University of Helsinki and in other European universities in a project called 'Fluxes at Divergent Plate Boundary Environments Analyzed in Time and Space' (FluxBEATS) www.fluxbeats.eu

FLUXBEATS

A Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network - started in Fall 2024

www.fluxbeats.eu

January 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM

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Holden Thorp

@holdenthorp.bsky.social

Good talking to @cenmag.bsky.social and @kvasquez.bsky.social about neurodivergence in STEM. Great article. My callout is to neurotypical folks to learn more so they can provide supports to students. #ActuallyAutistic
cen.acs.org/careers/dive...