Nina Baker OBE, DL, PhD, FIES, HonMWES @ninabake2 Twitter profile

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Nina Baker OBE, DL, PhD, FIES, HonMWES

2 months

My current Big Project is writing a book about the many societies for women motorists, both historical and contemporary, all round the world. Let me know of any from Latin America or Africa please! Currently 18k words in!

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Nina Baker OBE, DL, PhD, FIES, HonMWES

@ninabake2

3 months

@mindyisser Both ours loved to be taken in their buggies to do a tour of any construction work in the area when they were toddlers. Do you know this book? It is a wonderful rhythmic and true family story. It was a huge favourite with ours.

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Which is why the UK has the BEST & SAFEST plug/socket system in the world. All thanks to Dame Caroline Haslett's insistence on the shuttered socket and earth pin, backet up by the support of thousands of women in the Electrical Association for Women (founded 1924). @WESCentenary

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It'll be fine

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@AndyGJBurge I am 70 & when I got my 1st mortgage, mid-1970s, it was the 1st mortgage the building society branch had given to a woman without needing a male guarantor!

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@PaoliMrs @mortenmorland @AndrewMarr9 @thetimes I read a piece recently that suggested that the national mourning for HMQE2 has 'enabled' many to openly grieve for those, sometimes long-gone, for whom they didnt grieve at the time of their deaths.

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@ninabake2

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@greg_jenner More sympathy might be relevant for their (badly paid) staff, who are summarily sacked when the parliament closes, and may or may not get a job if 'their mp' retains their seat.

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@joncstone When a power company dug up newly laid granite setts in Glasgow and didnt replace them, the local community council threatened to report the theft of the setts to the police.

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@ninabake2

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@jhallwood Thank Dame Caroline Haslett and her Electrical Association for Women for insisting on the earth safety and shuttered socket, to protect kids etc.

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Best AI description ever.

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@ninabake2

4 years

@danwaterfield Even a small child can aspire to Yorkshireness, surely?

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@ninabake2

4 years

Would anyone be interested that there were more women advertising as housepainters/decorators or plumbers/gasfitters in Victorian Glasgow than there are now?

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@dnoell

4 years

What is a topic in history that you love but not many people know or care about? #history

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@BestForBritain @skysarahjane It's her casual, matter of fact tone that makes is so great.

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@ninabake2

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@mindyisser Unlike lots of small kids books that have to be read on repeat loop, this one never drove me nuts.

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@ninabake2

3 years

@Rabyna46 Rabyna, absolutely right. RAF Luton is never wrong. The photo shows the tanks exiting from their base in the Marble Arch Mountain, which I am sure you will have seen lots in the media about recently.

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@ninabake2

4 years

@RAF_Luton The Mk1 of this excellent series of tanks had the correct fuel tanks but had not yet acquired the special camo for when parading in Glasgow.

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@ninabake2

1 year

Hi Twitter pals. Sorry about long absence on here. I was taking suddenly very ill with pancreatitis & been in hospital for the past 5 weeks. Only now emerging from brainfog enough to get back online. Long convalescence & an op to follow. Visitors wil be v welcome when i get home.

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5 months

@SoVeryBritish At one time I had a role which involved welcoming groups of visiting academics from a variety of fields. My standard opener: "so tell me about your research specialism". That could last at least 10-15 mins. Follow up: "what do you think is just over the horizon in your field?"

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@ninabake2

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@greg_jenner The other side is also extraordinary to experience: when I was (very unexpectedly) elected as a councillor, from the moment the Returning Officer announces you have a seat, you are a Councillor and get whisked away to be photographed for your security pass etc.

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@HieronymusScott @DrJewelKling @JuliaFiles @DrNatStrand @LisaLemond @AmyOxentenkoMD @British_Airways A significant benefit (over & above any professional benefits) for a woman gaining a PhD is never having to have that Miss/Ms/Mrs nonsense conversation ever again. Feminist men understand that.

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@ninabake2

4 years

I would like to point out that it is actually possible to have an entirely positive experience on Twitter & FB, just by following the right folks + blocking the wrong 'uns. 2020, awful in any other respect you care to think of, was lovely on social media - for me. Just saying.

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@ninabake2

3 months

@oldenoughtosay Did you see this creepy example?

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@ninabake2

1 year

Very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the wealthy. So let's talk about some of the reasons why it's great. 🧵

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@ninabake2

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Family watching Das Boot, none of us ever having seen it before. Considering I can practically recite Cruel Sea by heart and watched all sorts of naval war movies and histories back in the day I am astonished at myself not having seen this before. Everyone is really liking it.

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@ninabake2

2 years

I know we are meant to remember her for her computer skills but I love her best for forcing the US Navy to not only let her carry on well past retirement age but also to be allowed to wear her uniform!

Computing History

@computermuseum

2 years

#OnThisDay in 1906, Grace Hopper was born. In 1947, she discovered a moth in the Harvard Mark II - and popularised the computing term 'bug'. She then went on to develop the first compiler, A-0, and the programming language COBOL.

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@ninabake2

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@Number10cat @KyleBarr5 In what sense is this 'fake'? 'Unverified' is NOT the same as fake. Larry the No10 Cat and his Twitter account are both utterly, genuine.

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@ninabake2

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@RAF_Luton Surely it is not beyond the wit of the Green Engineery types to get the spinny things to go backwards and actually recharge the batteries?

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@ninabake2

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@WES1919 NY honours 2023 DBE Dawn Elizabeth CHILDS, FREng, President, Women’s Engineering Society. For services to Engineering. OBE Dr. Nina C BAKER, D.L. For services to the History of Women in Engineering. 🧵1/2

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@ninabake2

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@garius These are the women who did the tracking at Woomera when UK rockets (mostly made from old missiles) were launched.

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@ninabake2

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@SouthLanCouncil That is totally appalling. Instead of providing a pleasant arbor for the memorial and disguising the horrid building behind, you have scalped the whole plot and left it looking almost dead. To say nothing of the hedges etc for wildlife.

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@ninabake2

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#Glasgow 's only public #Coronation event today and this was the best the Cathedral could manage at the time of the actual crowning. They would have done better to put an ordinary terrestrial telly in the aisle.

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@ninabake2

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@woofknight Speaking as a boomer who still has 78rpms, cassette tapes, LPs/singles/EPs and CDs and all the tech to play each kind, I do not understand why the Gen X lot got rid of each type in turn.

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@ninabake2

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@LizzieSeesRed @RAF_Luton Dear Lizzie, Welcome to RAF Luton. Some on here may be snarky at your presumably newbie comment but RAF Luton themselves are never snarky as their bio text will make clear. "Super Army Soldiers" are like Super Boat Soldiers but without the boats. Regards All the rest of us here.

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@ninabake2

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My latest indulgence with absolutely no justification relating to my research or anything remotely useful other than pleasure of ownership. Received yesterday in beautiful box. @Artemisapphire #StarTrekDay

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@ninabake2

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The Cement & Concrete Association's archives are having to be disposed of. Can anyone offer homes to any of it? Contact the @concretelibrary to express interest.

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@ninabake2

3 years

@such_hockey_wow @AITA_online Actually, no, dont leave the house. Invite your parents and everyone who actually loves you over to the house. "Possession is nine tenths of the law" for when you divorce him.

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@ninabake2

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@TourGuideLiverp @northernassist To avoid cruelty to animals (I guess sea monkeys are animals of a sort), why not put tiny flat cutouts of ships in between the 2 panes of glass during manufacture and call it an added entertainment feature when the sealing fails?

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@ninabake2

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@alisonkatebr I absolutely agree. The reason some survive and others don't is largely down to a combination of luck and science. Personal effort on the part of the patient is not a choice.

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@ninabake2

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It seems more people have started to follow me due to a thread about 3-pin plugs than anything else I can recall on here. Who knew so many folks really love to chat about which nation has the best plug and socket system?

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@ninabake2

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@ElaineWITV @GranadaReports This and the other video on here of guys mending the wall. I would like to think these are not 'incredible' acts of kindness but actually normal niceness by the decent majority.

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@ninabake2

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My hero. Everyone who has ever been to sea in any commercial vessel or who has ever bought anything that has been imported in one should be praising the work of this wonderful man. @nautilusint @RMTunion

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11 months

In the 19th c. a British MP campaigned for more to be done to tackle overloading in ships. Visible lines painted on the hull were created to indicate a safe draft. Now a worldwide standard denoted by a circle and line commonly called the Plimsoll Line after the MP Samuel Plimsoll

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@ninabake2

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@1NickMiller @NavalInstitute @KaseyIngramJD They are not true submarines. That big pipe on the top is the exhaust pipe from their engines. They are not able to fully submerge.

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@ninabake2

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#OTD 31 May1896 aeronautical #engineer Hilda M. Lyon was born in Market Weighton, #Yorkshire , where you can see a plaque on the shop her family used to run. Her work was on stresses in planes & airships, in UK, USA and pre-WW2 Germany. @GWOMaths @WESCentenary Thread 1/8

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@ninabake2

2 years

Some aeroplane pilot is going to wonder what was in that last coffee they had.

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@mondomascots

2 years

Taiwan 7-Eleven mascot Open-chan flies away.

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@ninabake2

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@ashleyfeinberg @Hello_Tailor I would like to think that that is how Prince Andrew is going to spend the rest of his life.

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@ninabake2

4 years

@JoanaFFPViana Plus that workload implies there should actually be 2 people employed. Unionise.

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@ninabake2

4 years

@RAF_Luton This is utterly tragic. So many of us have been - well, I won't say relying upon you - but certainly keen to see the latest piece of amusing material you have dreamed up. Is there anything we can do to support you and get Twitter to change their minds?

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@ninabake2

5 years

@wmarybeard This is such an important conversation that you are instigating. I am sure you are strong enough to see these trolls for the sad folk that they are, but there are enough of your supporters online that you might well be heading for world record holder for virtual hugs.

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@ninabake2

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@tangit_meam @RAF_Luton The Rule in England is that you can do anything as long as you don't frighten the horses. As all English horses are bred for war (Special Equestrian Soldiers, like SBS but with horses instead of boats) this gunfire will not have been a problem. Sorry to hear you found it extreme.

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@ninabake2

1 year

Drop a cool photo that someone took of you doing your job.

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@JDKightly

1 year

Drop a cool photo that someone took of you doing your job. (I was the 'red shirt' here.)

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@ninabake2

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This is what playing with @LEGO_Group looked like when my ( #architect ) Dad & I did things together in the 1960s. Does anyone recognise if this might have been a real (New) town? @BarnabasCalder

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@ninabake2

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@joanhaigbooks Presenting my poster at my 1st conference, when I was a 1st yr PhD student, the 'grand old man' of my subject felt it necessary to announce to all around that there was nothing left to find out about it so my work would be a waste of time.

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@ninabake2

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@FilmmakerJulie No matter what the demands on your time from family, work etc, gouge out a few hours each week for yourself exclusively. This does NOT include time when you might do voluntary work for a charity. It has to be an activity that no one but you benefits from.

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@ninabake2

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@ThePOTSPostman Until I was ill recently the concept of being too tired to even listen to a conversation, let alone contribute, would have been baffling to me. Another shocker was how quickly muscles vanish. This of course contributes to fatigue as the slightest activity is much more demanding.

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@ninabake2

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@Anna_Dillon It is overtly and presumably deliberately sinister, hostile, swastikoid.

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@ninabake2

1 year

My favourite fact about #KylieMinogue is that her role in #Neighbours was as a car mechanic (Charlene). How many other fictional women engineers can you think of on the TV who were NOT in #StarTrek ? @WES1919

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An exceptional postbox topper for Remembrance, just round the corner from me.

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#Dunbar day trip today. I would have looked at these nice cottages for a very long time before guessing that they were designed by (Sir) Basil Spence. #brutalist #architecture

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@ninabake2

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@GrimArtGroup Smithfield, London, last week.

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@ninabake2

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@antoniabance A distressing number of my super-professional academic girlfriends discovered they didnt have the collaborative partnership marriage they thought they had. Covid work from home exposed a lot of latent patriarchy.

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@ninabake2

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Nicked from FB in case anyone who follows me was in any doubt about my book 'problems'. #BookBudgetAlert

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@ninabake2

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I have had zero 'training' in anything to do with history since I was about 14yo. And yet I think of myself now as an #historian having been doing the work for about 15 yrs part time and 7 yrs full time unpaid, untutored etc etc. Is this reasonable?

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@ninabake2

3 years

The amazing memorial to the disastrous attempt to rescue the crew of #airship Italia. Photo just found as I am working through my late dad's negatives.

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@ninabake2

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@drrachelhewitt Many of my pals with good professional jobs thought they had equal marriages. Until Covid hit and suddenly the guy's job was more important in some mysterious way so she had to do her important job (WFH) whilst overseeing the kids' school-from-homing, housework and all the rest.

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@ninabake2

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@philipcball The nervous exhaustion of learning maths was considered to be so draining for the male Oxbridge undergrads that they had to do physical exercises to counteract it. It was thought it would be potentially fatal if women attempted the maths tripos.

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@ninabake2

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@BeckmanFnd @Caltech Absurd. It might once, a long time ago when all academics were men supported by the unpaid work of their wives and paid work of domestic servants, have been possible to live like that. But not now.

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@ninabake2

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@LordWoolamaloo @Alex_T_Smith When I had glandular fever aged about 13, our doctor told my mum to take me to the seaside "for the ozone". We stayed in a v cheap b&b in Kemp Town (it was NOT fashionable then) for a month. I spent all my pocket money in secondhand bookshops.

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@AliceLadybirduk @NoContextBrits Double stacked.

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@ninabake2

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@tds153 Not just that but when one is taken unwell the tendency is to think that if you rest for a minute it will pass. So you dont call for help when you might have still been able to do so.

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@ninabake2

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Electrical Association for Women founded 1924. 1 of its roles was to teach women how to wire plugs & change fuses so they would feel confident using new electrical appliances being introduced as🇬🇧electrified. Here is 1 of their many educational teatowels.

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@70s80s90sKids

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Most of us remember having to buy a plug to go with the appliance and then fit it yourself, right?

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@ninabake2

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I failed 2 of 3 A-levels but later did an @OpenUniversity foundation unit which got me into @uniofwarwick to get a 2.1 engineering degree & @LivUni to get a PhD. I couldnt have done either w/o full grants. People come to further/higher education at different times in their lives.

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I failed 3 of 4 A’levels, graduated with a 1st & did a PhD. Things were very difficult at home & nobody in my family had stayed on at school beyond 16 before. My university helped me realise my potential & I worked very hard. Should I have been denied the opportunity?

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@drphiliplee1 Our heating is never 'off' - it comes on when needed all year round. It is often a challenge to keep our 4 bed semi-detached house cool enough for comfort. We are in Glasgow & heating is by Ground Source Heat Pump. Cheap, reliable, toasty. All sweaters packed away in vacuum bags.

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@Hush_Kit The Tarrant Tabor, which Letitia Chitty did the sums for, told them it wouldnt fly (wrong sort of wood) and it duly didnt fly.

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@ninabake2

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@Saintchris13 As a lifelong atheist, the chance to actually get a hardhat tour on the bridge when it was been refurbed a while back was the nearest I am going to get to a religious experience.

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@ninabake2

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Unpaid work by PhDs is in contravention of @UniStrathclyde 's own rules.

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@StrathclydeUCU

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What’s that? The BOLD and PEOPLE ORIENTATED @UniStrathclyde want #PhD students to deliver modules? And to break the MAB. AND NOT PAY THEM? No cool #StrathLife bosses. Not cool. #ucuRISING #EnoughIsEnough #phdlife #RateLimitedExceeded

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@EmilyLPhoto @ivamarie @adremily @csittenfeld Should I be worried that our 27yo is still saying pretty much that on most of our zoom-meets?

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Doing some family tree stuff to pass along to the young 'uns & only just noticed that my grandparents only married 5 months (in 1922) before my dad was born. I am shocked, shocked I tell you. Not least since I have been doing family tree stuff for years & only just noticed this.

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@ninabake2

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@WilliamShatner Bill, for god's sake, save us. Our country is in the grip of a set of bellends who seem incapable of organising their way out of a wet paper bag. EVERY. SINGLE. OBVIOUS. THING. Nope, they denied this sort of thing would happen when everyone could see it was inevitable.

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@ninabake2

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The word 'passion' should be reserved for one's private life. It should have no place in job descriptions or anything work related. Enthusiasm (or keenness) is quite sufficient.

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@ninabake2

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I feel this qualifies as a #ghostsign and potentially a mobile #GrimArt @GrimArtGroup

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Land Rover in Cornwall. Proper.

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@ninabake2

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#twitterstorians #cycling #motoring #suffragette historians. Does anyone know the first names of this woman, for whom I can only find her name given as "Miss N. G. Bacon" She was active in setting up cycling & motoring clubs for women as well as advocating rational dress etc.

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@ninabake2

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Check out the talk that Eleanor Peters and I will be giving in March @natlibscot : "Electrifying Women: the work of the Electrical Association for Women" @Eventbrite

Electrifying Women: the work of the Electrical Association for Women

Gender historian Eleanor Peters and engineering historian Nina Baker discuss the Electrical Association for Women, 100 years on.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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@ninabake2

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At last my new book, about #aeronautical engineer, Hilda Lyon, is available. Any #aviation magazine/museum wanting a review copy, let me know. #airships #R101 #R100 #Cardington @WESCentenary @WES1919 @ElectrifyingWmn @AeroWomenIC @AeroWomen @GWOMaths

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Just got this excellent instructional teatowel produced by the Electrical Association for Women in 1970. EAW was founded in 1924, so yes it's the centenary this year. Have you got an old EAW teatowel? @WESCentenary @IETLibArch @Jan_Katalytik @henrietta999 @dawnbonfield

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@ninabake2

2 years

I dont much care for Musk but I DO VERY MUCH CARE for the many new friends and #twitterhistorian pals I have met on here and who are a positive supportive network of colleagues. I hope youse dont go away as I would have no other obvious way (yet) to find you and people like you.

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@ninabake2

1 year

@RMTunion @HuwMerriman Well, there's your perfect campaign right there!! If the ticket offices close where will politicos go to hide from the people?😊😊

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@ninabake2

3 years

Superior shiphandling there. Well done the CalMac captain.

MotorVehicleMovers™

@mvmoxford

3 years

#StormEunice #StormEunice Nae bother @GeorgeCochrane1

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@jruddchemist Understanding risks, percentages etc especially in relation to health outcomes. Grasp of orders of magnitude so you can call out obviously wrong stuff.

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@ninabake2

1 year

To everyone, worldwide, who has ever made a sneering joke about health and safety regulations: every single regulation is written in the blood of those who were injured or killed.

Reggie Newton 🇺🇸⚖️🎶

@reggienewton22

1 year

@alwaystheself this 2019 quote from oceangate’s ceo is 🫢 i always thought a real test of libertarian values was an unregulated bungee jumping company but here we are… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@SzMarsupial Plus that first word was was critical: you needed to be a man.

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@ninabake2

3 years

Yay! My paper has been accepted for publication without any changes.

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@ninabake2

3 years

@tancopsey @Airminded @glasgowcouncil @ChristyMearns @LordProvostGCC He Glasgow - time you got a grip on these Airbnb and other rip-off merchants. I am mortified that Glasgow is behaving so badly. We really are better than this.

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@ninabake2

3 years

@ScotRail This shames our city. Especially when a small, peaceful crowd of mask-wearing neighbours and friends prevented 2 long-time residents from being hauled away in the early morning by HO's border force.

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@ninabake2

7 months

@ItsAndyRyan I would never haggle in a charity shop. I have even been known to give them over the marked price because I thought they were doing themselves down.

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@ninabake2

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@JessicaCalarco At my London primary in the 1960s we were seated boy-girl-boy-girl explicitly to control the boys behaviour.

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@ninabake2

2 months

Oh the excitement, the glamour of the researcher's life. Going to this shed on an industrial estate in Warrington tomorrow (If Avanti can run trains on time). Long planned/delayed @ my own expense. This is the National Grid Gas Archives. Hoping to learn about Women's Gas Fedn.

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@ninabake2

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Today, on #INWED2022 , let's hear it for those women in engineering who never will be 'stars' in their fields, nor win awards, but nevertheless have interesting work to do. Like their male colleagues, these 'ordinary' engineers are essential in "Making everything not made by God".

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@ninabake2

2 years

@johncurtinEA Engineer Mary Kendrick led the project that resulted in the Thames Barrier.

Mary Kendrick - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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@ninabake2

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@JohnathanPerk I chose to have preventative chemo after bowel cancer was sorted with surgery alone. A few months of Capecitabine cos there is evidence it can raise your chances of the cancer not returing. Yes there were unpleasant side efects but not awful ones. Sorry to hear of your experience

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@ninabake2

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@Silk_Scribbler Not me. Nor, it seems, my bilingual Anglo-French mother. She was a WAAF and was apparently sent for the tests but made sure to fail as many as possible as she had a clear idea of the risks and didnt fancy them.

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@ninabake2

2 years

@womensart1 Male Female Spinner Spinster Baker Baxter Brewer Brewster Weaver Webster It was originally just an occupation, nothing to do with being married or not.

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@ninabake2

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@EmilyLPhoto @ivamarie @adremily @csittenfeld Oh , I am. Our kid is far better informed than us and we have both been politically active most of our adult lives.

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