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Seona Candy

@seonacandy.bsky.social

Researcher on socio-ecological-technological transformations @Demos Helsinki. Specifically transdisciplinary approaches, citizen engagement in just+fair transitions & sufficiency solutions. Avid x-country skier, recipe explorer & occasional rocket builder.

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Seona Candy@seonacandy.bsky.social · 2y ago

SOLIDARITY with all who are fighting for democracy in Turkey right now, and the Istanbul mayor and lawyers, students, academics, journalists, media personalities, artists and all people who have been jailed and persecuted. Turkey is at a democratic crossroads right now and needs our support.

Seona Candy@seonacandy.bsky.social · 2y ago

I could add: - the PhD supervisor who asked in my interview if I was planning to have a baby during my PhD. - the (female) professor who asked in an interview if I was planning on bringing my 2 year old with me from Australia to Switzerland if they offered me the position (with a 5 year duration).

Adriana Guatame-García@adriguatame.bsky.social · 2y ago

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.