I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics.
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@nachtet @freyablekman @afewbugs someone design a nail polish that changes color when you bombard it with neutrons
@cinebox @nachtet @freyablekman I mean do we know for sure that regular nail polish doesn't change colour when you bombard it with neutrinos? Has anyone ever tried?
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@nachtet @freyablekman my most consistent period of nail polish wearing was about six months after I smacked my thumb with a mallet while putting up a tent, producing a horrible purply-green bruise under the nail. It was less effort to keep painting my nails than it was to keep answering the question "OMG what happened to your thumb?"
@afewbugs @freyablekman
Autschn, though! 
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@nachtet @freyablekman @afewbugs someone design a nail polish that changes color when you bombard it with neutrons
@cinebox @nachtet @freyablekman @afewbugs
Now there's an idea for a nasty cyberpunk assassination weapon...
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I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.
So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.
Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM
@freyablekman @jcdvore Very nice.
Any teacher who says "girls don't…" is not qualified to be a teacher.
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@freyablekman at one point I painted my nails, wrote equations across them with gel pen and then painted clear polish over that. Doubt I can find a pic now but it worked !
@RadtkeJCJ there is a senior lecturer at the university of York who is known for her nails. Pic blatantly stolen from Kate Lancaster - check out some of her other #scicomm here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd19WvC9yqUd1zkyFJZD4nrZfLOtQaqUM&si=qRgrX9LttMUeZJHu
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@ElpasYou_2 yep. That was my first response too.
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@RadtkeJCJ there is a senior lecturer at the university of York who is known for her nails. Pic blatantly stolen from Kate Lancaster - check out some of her other #scicomm here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd19WvC9yqUd1zkyFJZD4nrZfLOtQaqUM&si=qRgrX9LttMUeZJHu
@freyablekman those are great!
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@freyablekman as you can see I am working very hard today
My physics PhD involved a fair amount of acetone and isopropanol (for cleaning traces of oils off of things that needed to go in ultrahigh vacuum), so not sure about the right-hand blue/yellow boundary there.
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I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.
So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.
Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM
@freyablekman very pretty.
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My physics PhD involved a fair amount of acetone and isopropanol (for cleaning traces of oils off of things that needed to go in ultrahigh vacuum), so not sure about the right-hand blue/yellow boundary there.
@only_ohm true it depends on the sub-field, and the kind of work. At points of my career during experimental construction I have also worked with various fluids that would not be kind to nail varnish. But I would say that UV cured gel polish is much more robust
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@freyablekman @jcdvore Very nice.
Any teacher who says "girls don't…" is not qualified to be a teacher.
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I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.
So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.
Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM
@freyablekman I watch a YouTube channel called Sarah N Tuned. She has long, painted nails & rebuilds cars.
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@cinebox @nachtet @freyablekman I mean do we know for sure that regular nail polish doesn't change colour when you bombard it with neutrinos? Has anyone ever tried?
@afewbugs @cinebox @nachtet every nail gets constantly bombarded with millions of neutrinos. So I'd say we're safe. (neutrons, on the other hand, only a few. but they would get stuck on top)
But nail polish with ground up/liquid scintillator in it would totally get me interested. And should not be *that* difficult. Probably biggest issue would be making it cosmetics-safe
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@freyablekman my PhD is in chemistry, but I work in photonics (physics! lasers!) and these were my nails I got done for the last conference I attended
@psistarpsiii oooh I love those! particularly the cute little diffraction spikes
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@afewbugs @cinebox @nachtet every nail gets constantly bombarded with millions of neutrinos. So I'd say we're safe. (neutrons, on the other hand, only a few. but they would get stuck on top)
But nail polish with ground up/liquid scintillator in it would totally get me interested. And should not be *that* difficult. Probably biggest issue would be making it cosmetics-safe
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Future headline:
"Dark matter particles finally detected by researcher's nail polish" -
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Future headline:
"Dark matter particles finally detected by researcher's nail polish"@catselbow @afewbugs @cinebox @nachtet come to think of it, such a layer would make it possible to make 50-100 micron thick scintillators. There might be applications
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I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.
So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.
Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM
@freyablekman My son, who wears nail polish, is greeting the teacher and saying, if the teacher had focused more on physics and less on gender stereotypes, they might perhaps have achieved more than Lehramtsstudium.
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I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.
So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.
Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM
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I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.
So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.
Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM
@freyablekman Beautiful! I always ask my girls to tell me the name of the nail color they get applied. Usually a pretty clever pun!
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Also, my physics awesomeness is not stored in my nails. So physics is also totally doable for people without fancy nails. OBVIOUSLY.
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i would see it as a good deal, doing one's nails and being a good physicist in return.
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