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10 months

IT’S FINALLY HERE. This is #Stardust , a series where we do a deep dive into the elements of the periodic table, where in the universe these elements are made, and how they are a part of our lives on earth. Episode 1: Strontium ⭐️💫

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sanjana curtis! 🦦

@sanjanacurtis

8 months

my husband and i wake up every morning and bring our coffee out to our garden and sit and talk for hours. every morning. it never gets old & we never run out of things to talk to. love him so much.

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2 years

indian incel twitter having a very normal reaction to seeing a happy relationship, guess we will never know why women block them 🤔

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2 years

i'm honestly sick of dating. people always asking why I’m obsessed with the ocean, what kind of future I see, how did my singing get so good and why are they surrounded by shipwrecks oops

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11 months

she’s right and she should say it. Echoes my own experience. Being able to go outside and do simple things like run and hike, without men constantly harassing and ogling you is life-changing. Yes the fear is still there but 10x less than what it was like in India.

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11 months

The Avg IQ of the country went up after her departure

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2 years

this, this is why I’m on twitter 😌

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4 years

imagine writing a whole article because you’re mad a woman has a doctorate

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2 years

when I say would you still love me if I was a worm this is what I mean

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2 years

interviewer: can u explain the gap in your resume me: i use LaTeX

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2 years

i, a queer immigrant indian woman who broke away from several oppressive pseudoscientific traditions to become an astrophysicist and build a new life for myself, am getting hate msgs over not supporting astrology from people who want to “empower the marginalized” lol. lmao. 🥴

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@sanjanacurtis

1 year

for people who call me “dark-skinned” as though it’s an insult, big L+delete your account 😘 I love my skin! It protects me from the sun, makes colors pop, and it is beautiful! ♥️ to all the dark-skinned people of the world

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2 years

boyfriend said I’m the most beautiful woman in the galaxy knowing full well there are countless other galaxies in the universe ?? crying and throwing up

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@sanjanacurtis

11 months

have scientists considered that dark matter is just these lil guys

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2 years

usually I remove the @ from stuff like this but y’all can go straight to hell 😘

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@sanjanacurtis

2 years

calling me every filthy name under the sun will not fix your pain, hope you all find peace some day

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3 years

Please apply to our 4 month (no extensions) professor position. Must have a PhD, 170 first author publications, h-index of 1000, 15 grants! Must be willing to move to new city and teach 12 classes this semester. The pay is 3 cheetos and a cool shirt, diverse candidates welcome ☺️

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11 months

and you know what I’m sick of y’all posting videos of women to insult them. What did she do except answer the questions she was asked? If you can’t understand what it’s like to be a woman then that’s not on her

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8 months

how it started // how it’s going #wemetontwitter

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2 years

i blocked these fools obvi but i wanted y’all to see the level of resistance living a normal life as an Indian woman generates, these men are extreme examples but the particular combination of misogyny, entitlement and colorism is very much a real phenomenon in Indian culture

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3 years

the academic urge to say “put simply” followed by the most convoluted jargon you’ve ever heard

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3 years

my apologies to y’all but,

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3 years

yes I’m a woman in STEM So Tired of El*n M*sk

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1 year

as a former Barbie owner who is now a nuclear astrophysicist and actually worked at Los Alamos lab, no

Steve Sailer

@Steve_Sailer

1 year

I don't think the target audiences for Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" and Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" overlap all that much, so I don't see what the problem is with them both premiering on July 21, 2023. Barbie fans aren't really into "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."

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@sanjanacurtis

2 years

south asian women: astrology has and continues to cause immense harm to women in many cultures including our own Amanda from Ohio: umm I don’t think so it seems fun

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@sanjanacurtis

7 months

glad desi men are poasting their thoughts for everyone to see, saves us the trouble of explaining the level of sexism women have to deal with

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@Wellutwt

7 months

Now this so-called feminism is ruining the most purest relationship in the world.

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@sanjanacurtis

1 year

it’s time to share the news :) this fall i will join @UCBerkeley as an @NSF astronomy and astrophysics postdoctoral fellow and continue my mission of doing fun supernova+kilonova science AND hugging all the redwoods in the state of California!

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@sanjanacurtis

11 months

happy for this queen studying biotech and enjoying sunsets

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2 years

all these “hating astrology is sexist” takes are so wild because even though men hating on things women enjoy is a real issue, i’m sliiightly more worried that some of y’all are one viral video away from measuring your heads with calipers

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@sanjanacurtis

3 years

If I’m the only woman in a room it’s not because I’m special it’s because the structures creating that room are deeply flawed

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@sanjanacurtis

2 years

hi everyone! I am an astrophysicist at UChicago studying the origin of chemical elements in astrophysical events, like exploding stars and mergers involving neutron stars and black holes! my field is called nuclear astrophysics since it involves nuclear reactions in space 💥

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@sanjanacurtis

8 months

next week I’ll be cooking my neighbors some chili 😊

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@sanjanacurtis

4 years

grad students defending their PhD during a pandemic deserve a PhD+

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@sanjanacurtis

3 years

“You’re too pretty to be in science” yes thank you that is correct yet I soldier on 😔

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@sanjanacurtis

2 months

After a decade of work and an exciting+challenging academic journey, I am going to be a professor! Next year I will join @OregonState as an assistant professor of physics!!!⭐️🦫 how it started // how it’s going

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@sanjanacurtis

2 years

Neil deGrasse Tyson spotted tearing through Disneyland screaming it’s all fake no mouse can get this big

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3 years

i'm honestly sick of dating. people always asking how I look so young and why I hate garlic, avoid the sun, have “weird” teeth and no reflection-

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11 months

@ParisGreyy @FromAerin even if you’re ugly it doesn’t justify harassing women ❤️ now go back to tweeting porn and let the adults talk

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3 years

deleting dating apps bc i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (i am a theoretical physicist and they are a linguist both recruited by the govt to study an alien craft over montana, we create a vocabulary to communicate with the aliens, prevent a war and fall in love)

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2 years

do u guys like my new pokemon

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3 years

imagine being a sea otter, thickest fur of any mammal, chilling in the ocean, snacking on urchins. Instead I have to figure out my health insurance.

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1 year

I could be suspended for posting this

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1 year

lmao at this highly accurate depiction of an “energy vampire”

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@sanjanacurtis

2 years

As a bisexual immigrant woman of color nobody showed me how to navigate the world. That’s why this month I’m partnering with Google Maps-

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@sanjanacurtis

3 years

she’s editing ur manuscript

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1 year

this single handedly fixed my winter depression

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@sanjanacurtis

2 years

somebody who was fired from his job for sexually harassing his grad student is really out here complaining about “not being able to work in his chosen field :(“ you know who else struggles to work in their chosen field? the women people like you traumatize and drive out! jfc

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2 years

boyfriend is out hunting (picking up food order) while I am domesticating wild beasts (giving cat little kisses)

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3 years

wow, ok, unfollowing now. was a big fan of the periodic table of elements, was not aware much of it was created through the death of stars

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11 months

here comes the army of men to harass me online. Wow that was fast! but I will not shut up or delete this and you’ll get blocked so don’t waste your time

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3 years

you can love physics and not have an oversized ego about it it’s really ok

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2 years

day 2 of weirdo losers who live thousands of miles away being mad at me for being in a relationship with a white guy, because if it wasn’t for my (awesome!) bf I, a PhD astrophysicist, would totally be getting coffee with some guy who cries about not finding dates on the internet

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11 months

lots of Indian men responding to Indian women talking about the harassment they face with “wow so your father/brother/family are harassers too” like it’s some sort of gotcha, like women aren’t most likely to be harmed by family. Y’all are so OBLIVIOUS oh my god

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2 years

def recommend hiring me as a prof! I’m highly qualified, not a misogynist, and will not get your dept cancelled on twitter dot com by tweeting made up stats about women in stem lol

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2 years

As a bisexual immigrant woman of color I had to take many calculated risks to build the life I wanted. That’s why this pride month I’m partnering with TI calculators-

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@sanjanacurtis

3 years

Maybe this doesn’t need to be said BUT pls never assume that to be a scientist you must be in love with some topic since you were a kid. Many of us don’t get that type of exposure or are even actively discouraged, only nurturing our interests later in life and that’s fine too!

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1 year

theoretical physicists

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1 year

will i understand the speaker vote 14 if I haven’t seen the first 13

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@sanjanacurtis

2 years

if i was a professor i would simply not make a “parody” account where i tweet awful takes at grad students that are indistinguishable from the real thing

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1 year

I’m never excited about science actually, I stay in the field for the exorbitant pay, work-life balance, stability, and peace of mind

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1 year

this is why I don’t want twitter to die

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1 year

Facebook, instagram, twitter, tiktok. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when—

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1 year

An Indian woman was tweeting about how difficult it is to be herself in India because of the culture of constant criticism and a white lady responded with “I love Indian food all I do is eat when I visit” 😭 y’all pls sometimes it’s not your turn to talk

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1 year

leftists: you cannot have a government-issued wife because women are people too this guy: i will literally become a nazi

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3 years

liking physics is a trauma response to being an absolute nerd

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1 year

oh no my qualifications to practice medicine are a sham, might try my hand at astrophysics next

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1 year

actually in our highly selective PhD program we only accept people with a prior PhD so a predoc isn’t enou—

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3 years

omg i have a PhD in physics and i still have to google what dark matter really is 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 oh wait.

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8 months

@Subh_B3 I’m worried about people who are not online enough 🫣

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1 year

imagine you’re on your way to mars and this guy institutes an oxygen ration

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1 year

I’m going to need you guys to understand that where I come from girls are still taken out of school for arranged marriages. That the female literary rate was 22% the year I was born. It could have very easily been me who never got opportunities to study and succeed.

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1 year

the most interesting thing about this post is how some of the ppl following an anon physics account are immediately expressing strong feelings about every aspect of my identity, almost like the playing field isn’t level for woc 🙃 I’m sure they think they are very rational too!

the finite physicist

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1 year

To celebrate hitting 40k followers, it's finally time for me to show my face! My name is Sanjana ( @sanjanacurtis ) and I'm an astrophysicist at UChicago!

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4 years

A very important realization I had in grad school was that when some people say “I work 14 hours a day” they count all the hours they spent loitering around the office too 🙄

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2 years

how did one cute post from my bf have thousands of incels spiraling, fan behavior tbh

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2 years

some academics can imagine a universe with ten dimensions but not a better work environment or better pay lol

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4 years

In physics we don't say "I love you" we say "I think your solution makes sense” and I think that’s beautiful

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4 years

In meteorology we don't say "I love you" we say "assume the function is sinusoidally varying about a zero mean" and I think that's beautiful

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3 years

show called “Stardust” where I go through every element in the periodic table, the astrophysical events thought to create them, and the stories they tell about the nuclear history of our universe ✨

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2 years

“cats don’t care about humans they just wanna be fed” then why has my cat been delivering a self-written monologue about abandonment since I got home from my trip last night. Every time i think it’s over she’s like “FURTHERMORE”

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4 years

hahaha who did this (it was me y'all im so sorry)

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2 years

now that I’ve pissed off everyone from homophobes to misogynists to conservatives to new age type liberals to indian nationalists what should i do next, I’m thinking cat memes

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wow y’all won’t believe the conversation I just had

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laugh-crying at elon musk going around commenting “interesting” “wow” “looking into this” on racist shit like it’s his first day in the world

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3 years

ever wonder who’s doing all those computations..

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@BrandonLBradfor how dare a yoga brand not cater to white people 🤭 it’s famously a white people activity

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2 years

my brother i know empowerment doesn’t look the same for everyone but at least ask yourself what is its purpose

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i had no idea "best" reads as a hostile email sign-off! im switching exclusively to later gator. later gators, sanjana.

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7 months

when all else fails start calling women ugly. yeah this is me how awful 🙄 let’s see your face now

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7 months

glad desi women are poasting their pictures for everyone to see, saves us the trouble of explaining the level of ugliness indian men have to deal with

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indian woman in india: maybe we should improve our society somewhat people: if you don’t like it here just leave! indian woman, now living the US: maybe we should improve indian society somewhat people: how does that affect you, you westernized b*tch!

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OH MY GOD I GOT INTO PRINCETON im going to be a prince 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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1 year

jokes aside grown men harassing a teenage girl because they want to feel “manly” has got to be one of the most pathetic things in the world, and the fact they do it so publicly shows how confident they are it won’t lead to any real consequences. I want a better world for girls :/

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3 years

Am thinking of starting a new university: Science and Technology Florida University

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1 year

from grabbing a friendly coffee to falling in love with him, he makes me the happiest I’ve ever been. Happy Valentine’s Day to the best bf in the world ♥️

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2 years

women will never know peace while men like this exist EVEN ON FREAKIN MARS

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I’ve pissed off multiple(!) men on tiktok just by saying “I’m an astrophysicist” in case u were wondering how society is doing on misogyny these days lol my power!!

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Lockheed Martin’s next set of missiles will be pink to celebrate women in stem 🥰

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