@donnainfiorino
Assistant Prof. at @api.uva.nl in Amsterdam | Astrochemistry | Carbon Molecules & Dust | Titan | Interdisciplinary Education | #EDI | WiF board @wif.bsky.nl | #OpenScience | Working Mum | Lazy Runner | opinions my own
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
I was interviewed by @foliacivitatis.bsky.social about the low percentage of women professors at the Faculty of Science at @uva.nl. #February11.
Cover of the book showing a Naked person doing a yoga upside position on a green grass field. A big yellow for covers the person’s butt. The title is written on top and the author’s name on the bottom.
“How the Hippies saved physics” by David Kaiser. I have learned a lot from the book but I found it a bit ripetitive. 2/n
Books on store bookshelf including The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer and When Trees Testify by Beronda Montgomery, next to other books
Today is book release day for When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy.
Available wherever books are sold.
Spotted on local shelf, and in good company of Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry. What a welcome to the world.
Yes, we're outside!!!
Run, don't walk to buy and read and share this book by @berondam.bsky.social
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Do your laundry for science from your own home! Sign up here for our Citizen Science project and collect the microplastics from your clothes.
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Doe thuis jou was voor de wetenschap! Meld je hier aan voor ons Citizen Science project en verzamel de microplastics van jouw kleding.
i was once on a train that took the wrong train track by mistake. Fortunately they realised it after one additional stop. We got off the train and waited for another one bring us back one stop so we could take the train to the right direction.
Noorderlicht boven een dijkje in Purmerend. Linksboven verticale rode strepen en onderin groen
Noorderlicht boven een woonwijk in Purmerend. Felgroene diagonale strepen.
Noorderlicht boven een dijkje in Purmerend, groen onderin en rood en oranjerood bovenin
Noorderlicht boven een dijkje en een woonwijk in Purmerend. Felgroene diagonale strepen.
Hier nog wat kiekjes van het #noorderlicht van gisteren, op de Purmerringdijk in Purmerend.
Vanavond weer? Ik verwacht van niet, maar ik ben wel mijn sd-kaarten aan het leegtrekken en de batterijen aan het opladen ;)
A Ceva branded badge with a sliding scale of a social battery. It is also colour coded (red for low, green for high)
Coolest bit of conference swag at #ukgc26 🤩
@ukgovcamp.com
Hills and mountains on Titan take their names from Tolkien's Middle Earth.
We find Arwen Colles, Gandalf Colles, Misty Mons, and yes, Mount Doom.
science.nasa.gov/resource/mou...
Black-and-white photograph at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, on January 31, 1978, showing NASA's first six female astronaut candidates posing together behind a model of the Space Shuttle complete with engines, vertical stabilizer, and "NASA," "United States," and American flag markings. The six women stand in a line with hands resting on the model, looking at the camera against a curtained indoor backdrop. From left to right: Margaret Rhea Seddon, Anna Fisher, Judith Resnik, Shannon Lucid Sally Ride and Kathryn Sullivan.
#OTD in 1978, NASA announced its first class of astronauts to include women. These 6 mission specialists:
Sally K. Ride (who later became the first American woman in space)
Judith Resnik
Kathryn Sullivan
Anna Fisher
Margaret Rhea Seddon
Shannon Lucid
#WomenInSTEM #AstronautEnvy 🚀
Who did this> 🤣
Excited to be heading to London on January 25th for a concert of sorts at King's Place Theatre near Kings Cross for "Bach the Universe and Everything" Where I will be talking about exoplanets and their exotic clouds 🪐🌦️ interspersed with music from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment!
A crescent Neptune is seen in this 1989 Voyager 2 photograph. Sunlight is coming from the top. The ice giant planet is blue with one lone streak of white clouds at the 1:00 position.
#PPOD: Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune in 1989, flying by 4,950 km above its cloud tops. The mission revealed 6 new moons, rings, and geysers erupting from the moon Triton. Taken on Aug. 31, 1989. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech / @kevinmgill.bsky.social 🧪 🔭
A graphic summarising Broadening Horizons in the Chemical Sciences run by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The graphic highlights the main pillars of the programme – the Taster Event, site visits, mentorship and placements alongside the overall alumni impact of the programme. Each aspect is surrounded by information and illustrated with quotes from past Broadening Horizons scholars. The graphic ends with an inspirational message: “…do make the most of this opportunity, you get out of it what you put into it“.
Are you a UK or Ireland based chemistry undergraduate, postgraduate or recent graduate from a Black or minority ethnic background? Apply by 5 February 2026 to our 2026–2027 Broadening Horizons cohort to explore career opportunities in the chemical sciences. rsc.li/broadening-horizons
Likely never. But they can prepare coffee and bring it to you while you are working :)
'The Royal Society' appoints Paul Nurse as President - the 64th (out of 64) to be an old white man.
In his first interview, he says 'I'm old, I'm white, I'm a man, so everything's against me', so I don't expect anything in the old boys club will modernise yet.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Oven plate with small gold balls of doe in orderly fashion
A bunch of Cookies made of two semi-spheres linked by dark chocolate filling.
Sunday activity: baking Baci Di Dama (lady’s kisses) with my kid! #ChemistWhoCooks #ChemistWhoBakes
A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣
Zoals Margaret Atwood al schreef/zei: "men are afraid women will laugh at them, women that men will kill them."
I* sigh!
The wrote gymnastic particle instead of gymnastic practice in my e-mail. I guess it is time to call it a weekend.
A cute seal was found resting in a terrain in Amsterdam’s harbour 🦭🦭🦭🦭https://nos.nl/l/2597291
We're hiring! The GRAPPA center (a collaboration between the UvA's IoP and API) is looking for an assistant/associate professor in the area of gravitational-wave and multi-messenger astrophysics. Please see below for full vacancy.
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
something similar worked for me! my employer @uva.nl offers free flu jab to its employees. I receive a message in the newsletter and I can book the appointment right away. Also the jab is administrated at my workplace.
Children are dying because folks won't get flu vaccinations and RFK Jr is discouraging them and has defunded research into viruses
www.boston25news.com/news/local/4...
starting again biking on snow, a truly Dutch experience!
same! Good luck 🍀
