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Celebrating international day of women and girls in STEM because in 2025 there are still men who will say to other men behind your back that you only got certain opportunities because you're a girl and/or because of your looks and/or because other men are attracted to you

Do you sometimes read a fic writer’s work, and just… thank all the gods this person managed to get obsessed with the same fictional people you did?

More women in a STEM field leads people to label it as a 'soft science,' according to new research

When women make up more than 25% of graduate students in a discipline, men—and to a lesser extent women—become less interested in pursuing that discipline, and salaries tend to go down.

One factor that influences the use of the labels “soft science” or “hard science” is gender bias, according to recent research my colleagues and I conducted.

Women’s participation varies across STEM disciplines. While women have nearly reached gender parity in biomedical sciences, they still make up only about 18% of students receiving undergraduate degrees in computer science, for instance.

In a series of experiments, we varied the information study participants read about women’s representation in fields like chemistry, sociology and biomedical sciences. We then asked them to categorize these fields as either a “soft science” or a “hard science.”

Across studies, participants were consistently more likely to describe a discipline as a “soft science” when they’d been led to believe that proportionally more women worked in the field. Moreover, the “soft science” label led people to devalue these fields—describing them as less rigorous, less trustworthy and less deserving of federal research funding.

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”match my freak” match my melancholy. be nostalgic about a past you weren’t even that happy in. find something to be haunted about throughout every second of your day

#the red sowing: a summary

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 02.04 The Red Dragon and the Gold

We're off to battle again, old girl.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.04 A Dance of Dragons

Daemon Targaryen not fooling anyone in S2E02 of House of the Dragon.

RHAENYRA TARGARYEN & JACAERYS TARGARYEN HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 2.01 (2024)

Emma D'arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen — House of the Dragon: 2.01 "A Son for a Son"

the simplicity of lactase supplements is so funny to me. it costs like $4 to circumvent evolutionary biology. want to eat dairy but your body doesn’t produce the enzyme necessary to digest lactose? the devs haven’t patched that yet but you can download a mod

“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”

— Juliette Lewis

Why can't I be a professional blorbo thinker

good riddance live

In two words, what can you tease for Season 2 [of Andor] for us?

DIEGO LUNA on the red carpet for the 75th Emmy Awards (January 15, 2024)

big fan off ships where the devotion fully consuming . unhealthy even . to them love is synonymous with devouring, tearing the other apart, because how much closer can you get to a person than when your teeth and claws are sunk into them? hurting eachother is not a possibility but an inevitability but neither will be the first to disengage

“oh I’m just glad wwdits is ending before it gets bad” I hear u. I do. but I would have gladly watched 20 seasons of those dumbass vampires w their silly little accents terrorizing Staten Island no matter the quality. I really would have

“Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.”

— Sylvia Plath