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  3. 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.

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.

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  • freyablekman@fediscience.orgF freyablekman@fediscience.org

    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. Sigh.

    So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

    Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

    irina@wandering.shopI This user is from outside of this forum
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    @freyablekman Those are very pretty nails.

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    • freyablekman@fediscience.orgF freyablekman@fediscience.org

      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. Sigh.

      So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

      Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

      ponderstibbons@mas.toP This user is from outside of this forum
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      ponderstibbons@mas.to
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      @freyablekman

      That teacher's comment irks me so much.

      On of the women in my high school Chemistry class went on to be a Chemistry professor. There were only two women in a class of 25.

      Edit: She's retired now.

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      • freyablekman@fediscience.orgF freyablekman@fediscience.org

        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. Sigh.

        So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

        Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

        psistarpsiii@tacobelllabs.netP This user is from outside of this forum
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        @freyablekman my PhD is in chemistry, but I work in photonics (physics! lasers!) and these were my nails I got done for the last conference I attended

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        • afewbugs@social.coopA afewbugs@social.coop

          @freyablekman as you can see I am working very hard today

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          @freyablekman @afewbugs This is so accurate! I stopped wearing nail polish for a few years working in organic chemistry labs. There was no point. The solvents always won 😔

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          • freyablekman@fediscience.orgF freyablekman@fediscience.org

            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. Sigh.

            So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

            Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

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            @freyablekman ❤️

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            • psistarpsiii@tacobelllabs.netP psistarpsiii@tacobelllabs.net

              @freyablekman @afewbugs This is so accurate! I stopped wearing nail polish for a few years working in organic chemistry labs. There was no point. The solvents always won 😔

              afewbugs@social.coopA This user is from outside of this forum
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              @psistarpsiii @freyablekman you would think you could be very very careful and make sure that the solvents never went on your hands which after all isn't supposed to happen anyway, but no. The solvents always win.

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              • freyablekman@fediscience.orgF freyablekman@fediscience.org

                @afewbugs hehe so true. No nasty solvents for me. But I do have a fancy particle collider 🙂

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                @freyablekman @afewbugs 😲
                And that doesn't mess with nails?

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                • afewbugs@social.coopA afewbugs@social.coop

                  @freyablekman as you can see I am working very hard today

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                  @afewbugs @freyablekman
                  I'm a hobby gardener and do my nails during season to hide the pathogenic material. 😁

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                  • nachtet@norden.socialN nachtet@norden.social

                    @freyablekman @afewbugs 😲
                    And that doesn't mess with nails?

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                    @nachtet @freyablekman @afewbugs someone design a nail polish that changes color when you bombard it with neutrons

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                    • nachtet@norden.socialN nachtet@norden.social

                      @afewbugs @freyablekman
                      I'm a hobby gardener and do my nails during season to hide the pathogenic material. 😁

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                      @nachtet @freyablekman my most consistent period of nail polish wearing was about six months after I smacked my thumb with a mallet while putting up a tent, producing a horrible purply-green bruise under the nail. It was less effort to keep painting my nails than it was to keep answering the question "OMG what happened to your thumb?"

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                      • cinebox@masto.hackers.townC cinebox@masto.hackers.town

                        @nachtet @freyablekman @afewbugs someone design a nail polish that changes color when you bombard it with neutrons

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                        @cinebox @nachtet @freyablekman I mean do we know for sure that regular nail polish doesn't change colour when you bombard it with neutrinos? Has anyone ever tried?

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                        • afewbugs@social.coopA afewbugs@social.coop

                          @nachtet @freyablekman my most consistent period of nail polish wearing was about six months after I smacked my thumb with a mallet while putting up a tent, producing a horrible purply-green bruise under the nail. It was less effort to keep painting my nails than it was to keep answering the question "OMG what happened to your thumb?"

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                          @afewbugs @freyablekman 😁 Autschn, though! 😵‍💫

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                          • freyablekman@fediscience.orgF freyablekman@fediscience.org

                            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. Sigh.

                            So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

                            Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

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                            @freyablekman @jcdvore Very nice.

                            Any teacher who says "girls don't…" is not qualified to be a teacher.

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                              @RadtkeJCJ there is a senior lecturer at the university of York who is known for her nails. Pic blatantly stolen from Kate Lancaster - check out some of her other #scicomm here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd19WvC9yqUd1zkyFJZD4nrZfLOtQaqUM&si=qRgrX9LttMUeZJHu

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                              • freyablekman@fediscience.orgF This user is from outside of this forum
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                                @ElpasYou_2 yep. That was my first response too.

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                                • afewbugs@social.coopA afewbugs@social.coop

                                  @freyablekman as you can see I am working very hard today

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                                  @afewbugs @freyablekman

                                  My physics PhD involved a fair amount of acetone and isopropanol (for cleaning traces of oils off of things that needed to go in ultrahigh vacuum), so not sure about the right-hand blue/yellow boundary there.

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                                  • freyablekman@fediscience.orgF freyablekman@fediscience.org

                                    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. Sigh.

                                    So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

                                    Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

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                                    @freyablekman very pretty.

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                                    • only_ohm@mas.toO only_ohm@mas.to

                                      @afewbugs @freyablekman

                                      My physics PhD involved a fair amount of acetone and isopropanol (for cleaning traces of oils off of things that needed to go in ultrahigh vacuum), so not sure about the right-hand blue/yellow boundary there.

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                                      @only_ohm true it depends on the sub-field, and the kind of work. At points of my career during experimental construction I have also worked with various fluids that would not be kind to nail varnish. But I would say that UV cured gel polish is much more robust 🙂

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                                      • mlanger@mastodon.worldM mlanger@mastodon.world

                                        @freyablekman @jcdvore Very nice.

                                        Any teacher who says "girls don't…" is not qualified to be a teacher.

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                                        @mlanger @jcdvore Yeah I was also baffled when I heard. Can't believe that still happens in 2026

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                                        • freyablekman@fediscience.orgF freyablekman@fediscience.org

                                          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. Sigh.

                                          So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

                                          Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

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                                          @freyablekman I watch a YouTube channel called Sarah N Tuned. She has long, painted nails & rebuilds cars.
                                          It doesn’t stop someone doing anything.

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