This makes my palms sweaty — I think it’s from excitement. We in the astrophysics community have been striving towards this image for a long time, and this is decades ahead of schedule! The fact that it took an international collaboration using many smaller telescopes across the globe to make a telescope almost the…

I am a female astrophysicist and this happens to me at conferences. Instead of being asked “what do you research?” I am asked “who are you married to?”.

The machine shop where I work (we cut metal using drill presses, mills, lathes, etc.) uses coconut oil exclusively for lubing up the machines. Keeps my hands so soft and the machines shiny and fire-free. 

The February 21, 2017 post from the 314 action blog (http://www.314action.org/news/) talks about how scholars “have routinely found that immigrants are less prone to crime than are native-born Americans and that immigrant communities have lower crime rates than communities with fewer immigrants” — so, actually,…

I’ve been finding similar delight in the capitalization choices of people in comments sections (and, sometimes, replacing capitalized words with ‘PENIS’). Like this gem:

another thing: donate to planned parenthood and other organizations that support women and minorities — organizations that will likely be in jeopardy soon.