davidjamesweir’s Twitter Archive

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1. The blue calculator has the additional feature that it can patronisingly explain how it arrived at an answer. precinctomega/1173142944829923328
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 81 Retweets ❤️ 598 Favorites 2019 Sep 15 Mood 0
2. Solidarity with ucu members striking today over heavy workloads (if the 100h working week Twitter drama last week concerned you, join), women and men in the same roles receiving different pay, casualisation of employment in higher education and pensions: theguardian.com/education/2019/nov/07/university-staff-dont-want-to-strike-for-fair-pensions-and-pay-but-were-being-forced-to
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3. Please normalise saying 'early career' not 'young'. Not all people at an early career stage are young and it's not fair on those people. For example, I mentor and support people who happen to be few years older than me but at an earlier career stage.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 38 Retweets ❤️ 332 Favorites 2021 Feb 16 Mood +1 🙂
4. Next Wed 28.3 from 16-18 KumpulaPhysics KumpulaScience hosts a special symposium in memory of Stephen Hawking, featuring physicists Katri Huitu, Kari Enqvist, Esko Keski-Vakkuri, philosopher PaavoPylkkanen, neuroscientist Pentti Tienari. All welcome! blogs.helsinki.fi/physics-colloquium/hawking/
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 17 Retweets ❤️ 11 Favorites 2018 Mar 21 Mood +2 🙂
5. I’m David, I study what happened 10 picoseconds after the Big Bang with #HPC including the generation of gravitational waves. I like to challenge the status quo, help organise events and initiatives that improve diversity & most of all I’m an #UnapologeticallyFeministScientist

   
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 14 Retweets ❤️ 177 Favorites 2019 Apr 5 Mood +6 🙂
6. I'm briefly emerging from teaching-related Twitter semi-hibernation to tell you about the exciting postdoc jobs we're hiring for HIPhysics and KumpulaScience in computational field theory. We're a friendly and supportive team, come and join us! 🤗 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/17551
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 11 Retweets ❤️ 17 Favorites 2020 Nov 19 Mood +8 🙂
7. I only found out just now that Yliopiston Apteekki, a major pharmacy chain in Finland, is owned by helsinkiuni and their profits are used to support teaching and research. (My nearest branch is also open 24h, which is nice...) tommilaitio/1194689679813201921
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 10 Retweets ❤️ 54 Favorites 2019 Nov 13 Mood +7 🙂
8. Before this week’s fire 😢 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-57579980 74frankfurt/1407950983339073538
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 9 Retweets ❤️ 22 Favorites 2021 Jun 24 Mood -2 🙁
9. In-person (not hybrid) international workshops: • Require people to fly a long way to attend a short event 👎 • Disadvantage those who can't travel for personal reasons 👎 • Are unfair to those who can't afford it 👎 Can we please learn from the pandemic and climate crisis?
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 8 Retweets ❤️ 52 Favorites 2022 Feb 1 Mood -9 🙁
10. Applications open until 15th January for helsinkiuni's international Master's programmes, including Theoretical and Computational Methods: you build your own cogent choice out of courses from across KumpulaScience. I'm happy to answer any questions! helsinki.fi/en/admissions/degree-programmes/theoretical-and-computational-methods-masters-programme
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 8 Retweets ❤️ 10 Favorites 2020 Dec 20 Mood +3 🙂
11. …in reply to @davidjamesweir
    On beginning her career in Cambridge in 1984: “I arrived in Cambridge and 10 minutes later it was like I had WOMAN on my head; they treated me differently in every way” “What kind of physics do you do? Woman physics?”
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12. 🏳️‍🌈 Yesterday we held the frst KumpulaScience LGBTI+ Diversity & Inclusivity evemt. Thanks to my co-organisers Juulia, LucileTurc, dave_whipp + to SamuliSiltanen for his support. - Watch online helsinki.fi/fi/unitube/video/cfbcaa46-afa0-4e20-879d-9f0792cb5f43 - Pick up a fabulous Jobium-inspired sticker from Juulia!

    
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 7 Retweets ❤️ 22 Favorites 2019 Mar 15 Mood +8 🙂
13. It's time, as people like BMatB have been saying, to take the word "young" out of the list of words that it is ok to apply to researchers. Career stage and competence have absolutely nothing to do with how you look or how old you are. JennyLeeHowell/1098763235728056320
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 7 Retweets ❤️ 30 Favorites 2019 Feb 22 Mood +2 🙂
14. The late Ritva Serimaa was the first female professor KumpulaPhysics, first female chair of Fyysikkoseura and a pioneer of multidisciplinary research including conservation work on thevasamuseum. I've translated her Wikipedia page into English: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritva_Serimaa
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15. All of science is either physics or shark collecting. Jobium/1278810400541163521
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16. Come on, royalsociety, it's 2022 – give us more options than this 🙄 I definitely would 'prefer' to say...

    
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17. When I started my undergrad, I drank tea When I started my PhD, I began drinking espresso-style coffee When I started as a postdoc, I was drinking filter coffee It has taken me less than a year on the tenure-track to graduate to instant coffee
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18. …in reply to @RailDeliveryGrp
    RailDeliveryGrp You handled this clumsily. It has been reported internationally and will have adversely affected British tourism. hsfi/1159486994709434370
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 3 Retweets ❤️ 45 Favorites 2019 Aug 8 Mood -1 🙁
19. It's only taken three years, several hundred pages of documents and a court case, but today I was granted Finnish citizenship. Can I go back to bed now? 😅
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20. …in reply to @owenhatherley
    owenhatherley DrAshleyNova I grew up in a time when it was illegal to learn about homosexuality in school and where I was called homophobic slurs a few times a day. Seeing how much things have changed for the better in the generations since gives me hope and strength to continue.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 1 Retweets ❤️ 57 Favorites 2022 Jul 6 Mood +3 🙂
21. This might seem silly, but I like that HIPhysics titles and positions aren’t on the door, just peoples’ full names. Everyone – from PhD students to the director – just their name. I think it helps make the place feel more equal. #WeAreHelsinkiUni

    
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 1 Retweets ❤️ 38 Favorites 2019 Sep 3 Mood +3 🙂
22. …in reply to @LenaEarth
    LenaEarth
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23. With the help of these grumpy owls I’m going to spend some time hiking up north. See y’all soon. 💚

    
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