#queers in STEM

[lichenaday]

I thought it might be nice to share a bit about what PhD student life is like since before I started it, I really had no idea what to expect.

I have an office that I share with 3 other PhD students at my institute. It is in an old, historical building at the Munich Botanical Garden.

Let's take a tour around my desk:

First, my homemade Darwin crossstitch (pattern compliments of @shitpostsampler) to remind me that all scientists have bad days.

It sits behind my wonky dragon tree (Dracaena marginata) who I rescued from the trash outside my apartment. Who throws away a whole ass tree?

He's recovering beautifully, considering how fucky and sad he was when I pulled him from the bin.

Above my unnecessarily giant computer monitor I keep part of my expansive plant collection. Pink princess philodendron (Philodendron erubescens) w/handmade moss stick, my beloved jewel orchid (Macodes petola), zebra plant (Tradescantia zebrina) in owl pot (courtesy of my labmate, since I am the bird person) and poorly mounted staghorn fern (Platycerium bifurcatum).

Little baby jewel orchid! He flowered recently and I am so proud of him.

Then there's my Cladonia collection, and my bottle of Icelandic lichen (Cetraria islandica) booze.

On the top shelf is my Calathea musaica 'Network', and jar of discarded lab lichens. I will figure out a use for them eventually. For now they are just aesthetic.

Then there's my monstera Peru (Monstera karstenianum) in a pot I "salvaged" from a cemetery. Pretty sure it's cursed, but nothing I can do about that now. Also the baby succulents off my mystery flea market sedum. Behind my desk you can see my German sailing cookbook, Florentine bat notebook, Pikachu of encouragement, and turtle postcard. The turtle is one of many who live in the greenhouse that I visit when work gets stressful. Also a magnet of my favorite Minoan goddess--tits out, snakes in hands, cat on head.

This is desk ant. She appears to have no colony and just hangs out with me all day. I have tried to track her and find where she comes from but she just runs around in circles on my desk for hours so I have given up. Sometimes I give her a little bit of my tea to drink. She is the backbone of this working group.

Anyway, if you ever see a scientist's office that isn't cluttered and chaotic, they are doing it wrong.

#scientist #science #PhD student #STEM #women in STEM #queers in STEM #lichenology #lichenologist

[r-vxan]

"queers in STEM, now that's what i call queer-coding"

- by @cotton-candycurls

#queers in stem #life of a computer science student #queer #lgbtqia+ #trans #nonbinary #queer coding #minorities in stem #gays in stem

[itsagrimm]

enby in alchemy

#yes i am making my own wine this year #grimmwriting #queers in stem #met wine #honey wine #met

[but-sometimes-im-not]

tumblr I gotta tell you about a thing. Ok so when I was doing my PhD I regularly used and had to write about an algorithm called Particle Image Velocimetry, which had the very unfortunate acronym of PIV. A huge part of my research relied on this algorithm so "PIV" was all over my posters and papers.

That's not the story. The story is that every single time I mentioned offhandedly to someone that this acronym was unfortunate, all I got from them was a confused look and a "...why?"

This didn't make sense to me because I was like y'all are straight, how do you not know what PIV is. And then it dawned on me. Your average straight person does not know what PIV means because TO THEM PIV IS JUST SEX. THAT'S THEIR DEFINITION OF SEX. THEY DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S JUST ONE SLIVER OF THE INFINITE VARIETY THAT IS THE HUMAN SEXUAL EXPERIENCE. IT'S JUST PIV AND THAT'S IT. HOW SAD IS THAT.

#i'm six months out of grad school and I still think about this a lot #gay shit #in which queer people have nice things that everybody else simply cannot fathom #queers in STEM

[vixen-academia]

I’m… I’m studying PHYSICS for Geosciences…

If the Ariel of 16 yo saw it they would think we just got FUCKING INSANE during college (which is partially true)

#dark academia #chaotic academia #light academia #romantic academia #adhd academia #dark academia aesthetic #bookblr #books #studyblr brazil #geogblr #stemblr #black in stem #queers in stem

[sacrificialroses]

me when men infantilize me at work like I’m not a whole engineer: GRRRR BARK BARK

#mine #no rlly what is this #ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #hashtag women in stem #sike #queers in stem #but we’re incognito 🥸🫥 #yesterday my #mom used my pronouns and I was like wow thank you I was starting to lose all sense of self pretending to be cis at work then coming home n #not having my pronouns used 😃 and she was like 😰😰😰😰 bro nooooo it’s not like that— it’s ok you’re still u #but I was like *a shell of a man*

[greenlikethesea]

today I helped a friend fix his computer

#queers in stem #that tag is a joke I just have small hands so it’s easier for me to tighten screws #greenie core

[shes-gay-allday]

Happy lesbian visibility week everyone!!

#lesbians #lesbian visibility week #lesbehonest #love #queer women #wlw community #lesbian blog #wlw post #femme lesbian #butch lesbian #trans lesbian #stud lesbian #stem lesbian #youre safe #love is love #happy #relationships #lesbian #wlw mood

[nb-goblin]

study participants needed!

UPDATE: thank you everyone that's taken part :) the study has now closed, we got over 200 participants!! thank you so much

Hi, I'm a second year psychology student doing research on how queer people view others within the LGBTQ+ community.

Its just a short task and survey that should take 5-10minutes to complete, any participation is appreciated! Thank you!

Link (including info about our ethical aproval): https://run.pavlovia.org/Wake/public-iat/

Extra clarrification on some things under the cut :)

In this study we use the words "(gender) conforming" to mean anyone thats not part of the LGBTQ+ community and "(gender)non-conforming" for anyone that is. This was suggested to help us code the results better, but we now know that this may have overcomplicated things.

The first part of the study involves an IAT, for some people they will be put into the "positive, conforming" conditioin first and others will be the "positive, nonconforming" first. It may seem scewed, and some people have bought up that it can seem bias, but that is just how this type of test works- it has been used and tested in many other studies and has not shown internal bias.

These are the main two points people have bought up, feel free to ask any other questions about this research though I will be happy to try and answer as much as I can :)

#queer research #lgbt research #participants needed #lgbt pride #queer #transgender #gay #lesbian #sapphic #nonbinary #genderqueer #mogai #radical inclusivity #academia #research #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #queer community #voidpunk #endy #trans #asexual #transmasc #transfem #queer researcher #stemblr #stem #queer studies #genderfluid #genderfuck

[whatwouldmariecurieactuallydo]

For my lovely followers - and all people in STEM

You can do it!!

#stem #science #stemblr #girls in stem #womeninengineering #aesthetic #studyblr #women #the love hypothesis #chemistry #physics #computer science #mine #graphic design #quotestoliveby #quotes #women in stem #female #people of color #queer

[musicalsiphonophore]

There’s a stereotype and joke that “gay people can’t do math”, or inversely, that queer people are amazing at English and other humanities. Mostly this seems to be said by queer people, not straight and cis people. But that doesn’t mean it’s not kind of icky.

I think this stems from the idea that maths (and other related subjects) is cold and logical, and inversely, that humanities subjects like English are sensitive and subtle.

Queerness is thought of as something sensitive and subtle, and not something cold and logical. And people seem to think that accepting queer people (or being queer) means you’re sensitive and good at understanding others’ feelings, and so on, and not necessarily logical.

In reality, queerness is entirely logical and objectively true. Homophobia and transphobia aren’t just a case of being overly logical or insensitive - they’re a case of being biased, they’re a case of being cruel.

But because some queer people seem to believe on some level that accepting their identity requires amazing emotional skills and minimal logic, they sort of separate themselves from things that they see as so objective and cold - maths and STEM subjects.

It’s not great, is it?

That is why I do not like “gays can’t do math” jokes.

#lgbtq #queer #nonbinary #pansexual #transgender #stem #mathblr

[gayvampyr]

“queer spaces should be inclusive of people who don’t enjoy sex and who have “strange”, negative or repulsed relationships with sex” and “sex is an important aspect of lgbt community, history, and activism and queer people should be allowed and able to talk freely about sex without stigma or shame” are ideas that can and should coexist.

#‘queer people were banned from and shamed for having sex and that’s where a lot of our activism stemmed from’ and #‘not liking or having sex is considered abnormal and a mental illness and also needs to be destigmatized’ are concepts that not only can but #often do coalign #it’s esp important to consider that a lot of lgbt ppl who have a tricky and strained relationship with sex are like that because of trauma #which is very common for queer folks #it’s really not an ace-only thing #like i am sex repulsed but it’s very hard to discern if it’s because i’m asexual or if it’s the trauma. either way i deserve to have those #feelings and be included in lgbt spaces and discussions about sex and treated as just another queer person with a different experience #instead of being alienated because my feelings about sex don’t directly line up with yours #im so sick of people in this community trying to pit us against each other. as an ace lesbian that shit is so toxic and harmful #my relationship with sex is fluid. im sex-positive always‚ but i often find myself sex repulsed. im otherwise neutral about it but im sick #of people acting like it’s either you enjoy sex and have it frequently or you hate it and you shame everyone who has it like youre a puritan #and it’s often aphobes who bought into that ‘aces are puritanical celibate straights who want ppl who have gay sex to die or think they’re #‘dirty’ or some shit. and it was literally 90% crypto-aphobes pretending to be aces to get people to adopt that into their belief system #the same way crypto-t/rfs pretend to be trans women who want to prey on the ‘innocent women’ #and y’all will use those posts/screenshots as ‘evidence’ that whatever scapegoat you’ve selected is actually inherently bad/homophobic/ #misogynistic/etc and not even #acknowledge the giant hole in your logic cuz you’re too busy trying to find a scapegoat #it’s the same tactics and y’all fall for it every time #text post #like. lesbians are CONSTANTLY getting hounded and told that we’re broken or mentally i’ll for not showing interest in (having sex with) men #for the same reason asexuality is considered bad or wrong or weird #not showing interest in heterosexual relationships or sex is why this is so important #anyone that falls outside the scope of heterosexuality is part of this community whether you like it or not

[palaeoiris]

Bisexual Pride Flag + Lumpfish sketch.

Personal use with credit is welcome. ^^

#lumpfish #Cyclopterus #sketch #fish #bisexual #bisexualpride #nature #queer #stem #prideinSTEM #queerinstem #sciart #scienceart #scienceillustration #queerinscience #LGBTinSTEM #queerowned #lgbtqcommunity #LGBTowned #lgbtqiaowned #LGBTbusiness #LGBTQIAbusiness #queerbusiness #sciillustration #bioart #art #STEMPride #fishart #animalart #animal

[her-stars]

Need me a masc gf who’s willing to be an accessory to my outfits!! just follow behind hand in hand and occasionally wrap her arms around my waist when we’re out because we know how we look cute. i’m serving (they look cute too but they give me all the attention bc they can't keep their hands off me) <3

#lesbian #wlw blog #lgbtq #wlw #queer #girlswholikegirls #sapphic yearning #wlw textpost #masc lesbian #stem lesbian #wlw post #sapphic #femme4masc

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Thinking about step 9 and the whole concept of forgiveness of one’s self and others and it bringing healing and how bobby and Eddie have been paralleled a fair amount and the idea that Eddie started this process back at the end of s5 with his forgiveness and acceptance of his father but how he hasn’t yet gone anywhere near his mother and their relationship .

How his catholic guilt storyline seems more likely to play on his reltionship with his mother than his father (if his father wasn’t around that much it would’ve been Helena taking him to church etc each week) so the idea of an Eddie - Helena storyline that plays on catholic guilt and potentially his queerness in relation to that has me chewing on glass - it could be so epically good

#I’ve always viewed Helena as the biggest issue in Eddie’s relationship with his parents - Ramon has always - to me a least always seemed to #just go along with what Helena wants or dictates #it made sense with how his trauma ptsd army related arc played out that it was Ramon who was the centre of that #now though - catholic guilt - possibly playing into his queerness and suppression of that queerness #to keep some kind of reltionship with his mother - who only seems to view him through a lens of failure #leading him down a road where he wasn’t able to be his true self - it would be so powerful #there is so much potential there #eddie saying his mother wasn’t an issue in s6 - was such a choice and so pointed that they have to be wanting to explore that #so many aspects of who Eddie is and why he is the way he is - his want to nest but not being able to with women - stems from his mommy #issues and the fact he’s been denying they exist #I will eat it up - it would be the right kind of angst for the show and Ryan would deliver #plus the way it parallels with Bobby and his relationship with Catholicism would be fascinating #not to mention the whole Eddie not having a relationship with the faith he was brought up in only to start dating someone who is a literal #embodiment of that faith - and female - as a symbol of his needing to explore and reconcile the actual reasons for his faith lapsing- become #could not be queer and Latino and catholic when Eddie was growing up - it wasn’t an option - so if you step away from the faith that’s #denying a fundamental aspect of who you are #even if you still can’t act upon it - ​it is easier to keep that part of you concealed #911 spoilers #911 Thinky thoughts #eddie diaz #I need this arc to be a thing so badly #911 abc

[floral-ashes]

Math is the tax law of STEM. I will not elaborate.

#transgender #lgbtq #trans #lgbtqia #queer #gay #lesbian #lgbt #genderqueer #non binary #nonbinary #law #law school #tax law #math #mathematics #stem #mathblr #stemblr #lawblr