I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics.

[shadesofgrease@lgbtqia.space]

@freyablekman My daughter wanted to follow my footsteps, and study mech engineering at Technical University Munich.

So on a girls day, some postgrad engineer decided he needed help at pouring liqiid silver into a form, on open stage. He picked her, 17 yo, a tiny build, long blonde hair, and is a bit on the endowned size of female charms. He made her dress in a protective suit that was huge on her, stand in it next to a furnace melting aluminium, for half an hour, the visor fogging, sweat pouring, and then handle 10 kgs of liquid aluminium. I bet he had fun, joking about small hands, and heavy lifting, while she was suffering the heat and the fear. The situation was as sexist as it was when I studied, 25 years earlier.

When she came home, she had decided on doing somethig less "hands-on", she then graduated in Applied Math..

[gaydeceiver@mstdn.social]

@freyablekman Goodness gracious. Those nails are beautiful. [Trying to think of something related to particle physics like sleepy cat trying to understand cosmology]

[freyablekman@fediscience.org]

@walsonde don't worry, I got the spirit!

[freyablekman@fediscience.org]

@ysegrim magnet cat eye would do the trick. These are relatively simple, people do a lot fancier things by now. There are of course also youtube tutorials.

[benhm3@saint-paul.us]

@freyablekman @afewbugs @cinebox @nachtet

Dr, Blekman,
you need to contact #Sephora RIGHT NOW.
1) I'd imagine they'd help spread the word of nail products for physicists.
2) If anyone could make the scintilators safe, it'd be a multi-billion dollar makeup corporation.

I think we need t-shirts of your lovely manicure making clear that physicists dig shiny like the rest of us.

[freyablekman@fediscience.org]

@vampirdaddy this was a high school teacher saying this to one of his pupils, btw. But to be fair it would be just as bad if a university lecturer did it.

[su_liam@mas.to]

@freyablekman That is awesome. I wonder how much it would cost to paint my car with nail polish, and how long it will last…

[freyablekman@fediscience.org]

@poetaster lol. Nope. I am trained to work with radioactivity. So, obviously: not on my nails

[freyablekman@fediscience.org]

@danielaKay Oh I love that petrol metallic. Wonderful! My compliments

[freyablekman@fediscience.org]

@piebob yeah exactly, it's that one!

[giliell@mastodon.social]

@freyablekman I hope the young lady gave him an ear full

[freyablekman@fediscience.org]

@Lunaphied if you search for magnet cat eye nails I'm sure you'll find something similar. These are relatively simple, people do a lot fancier things by now. There are, of course, also YouTube tutorials.

[freyablekman@fediscience.org]

@LisaLobmeyer a web search for magnet cat eye would do the trick. You need special polish (that comes with a magnet) These are relatively simple, people do a lot fancier things by now. There are of course also youtube tutorials.

[freyablekman@fediscience.org]

@su_liam I think the first nail polish in the 1920s was car paint, supposedly. So we'd be full circle

[freyablekman@fediscience.org]

@Giliell not sure. But she's been made aware of this thread.

[freyablekman@fediscience.org]

@ditsch42 @afewbugs yeah classic nail polish and acetone are a good way to leave polish everywhere. The various gel nail types that require setting/curing (just like epoxy) are probably OK though

[joblakely@mastodon.social]

@freyablekman
There is physics in everything, so this guy is just a misogynist supremacist, thinks he’s a “serious man” but he’s profoundly unserious, and doesn’t even know it.

[bonkers@nerdculture.de]

@freyablekman but you obviously don't do elementary physics

[axel@hsnl.social]

@freyablekman
Gorgeous!
You had them done somewhere, I presume?

[andrew_shadura@mastodon.social]

@freyablekman where can I get this?!
Great nails.