i should probably tell youtube not to recommend me this thing but i'm kinda happy to just have it sit there in my side bar so i can look at it and think, "sucks to suck, lmao"
@Hypolite Petovan @Alex P. 👹 She's a physicist who became a youtuber and posts anti-climate-change and LLMs-are-intelligent posts, I basically see her as I'd see a Thunderf00t or whatever, but because she has a PhD people act like she's a science communicator.
@hypolite @silverwizard she makes a bunch of ok science videos but also tried to both-sides transphobia with a bunch of dumbass handwringing about trans women's advantages in sports or whatever
@Alex P. 👹 @Hypolite Petovan I watched the video and it was a lot of "I'm smart so put up with me" stuff mixed in with the standard criticisms of academia
@Wildheart_Baby i'm not watching it but i'm guessing she got squeezed out of some field where only X% of the academics actually get to do the big-ticket significant research (particle physics e.g.)
my desperate plea for scientists to give a shit about imperialismSupport my work and participate in our upcoming virtual bookclub at https://www.patreon.com/...
that section about Palestine was interesting, and the bit about sending Jewish ppl back to Germany in 1943 was sickening, it feels like the same ppl were probably later using the holocaust as justification for atrocities against Palestinians.
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@Alex P. 👹 I keep seeing this go round and I'm constantly "yes, maybe you should have been good at stuff"
Academia sucks, but her failing is the greatest endorsement of it
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lol, i didn't know she went full crank after the transphobe thing
"once you terf-post you can never post normal again" theory wins again :o
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•she makes a bunch of ok science videos but also tried to both-sides transphobia with a bunch of dumbass handwringing about trans women's advantages in sports or whatever
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it wasn't even terfery per se, it was just… really fucking stupid?
and clearly out-of-left-field / out-of-your-depth type shit, like why would you make yourself the arbiter of this shit you clearly don't understand
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•i'm not watching it but i'm guessing she got squeezed out of some field where only X% of the academics actually get to do the big-ticket significant research (particle physics e.g.)
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•if you want to watch videos of former academics i suggest this one instead
(her 30-minute summary of how palestine was colonized is very good even if you don't want to learn anything about the politics of astronomy, imo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7hK5_Rj--8
astronomy has a colonialism problem
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