Bea Furniss

@anlomedad_real@norden.social @aristofontes@mastodon.social @mtsw@mastodon.social ooh, thank you for the link. I shall find somewhere to download it on to, so I can read it. My mindset doesn’t gel well with that of the ‘do nothing’ crowd, so I’m always likely to become impatient with their inertia. But you are right: if we widen the lens and look at how we as a species deal with other problems, such as global warming…gun control…poverty…we can see inertia.

@gzuckier@universeodon.com @aristofontes@mastodon.social The English flirted with fascism in the 30s, and some would say have succumbed to its temptation in the last few years. I read the premise to the book. I’m not sure Surrey counts as a hinterland.

@aristofontes@mastodon.social I guess that we can fall into the trap of judging the German people through the lens of hindsight, and expecting them to be more vigilant and aware of their plight than one would be, in the moment.

@aristofontes@mastodon.social @mtsw@mastodon.social I assume they always thought the regime would be deposed …by someone else? It’s that classic tale of Somebody, Everybody, Anybody and Nobody.

@mtsw@mastodon.social If you don’t move, your immobility can be taken by the regime as tacit approval for what’s going on. Moreover, in an environment where engagement stats drive advertising spend on the platform…tweeting bluster about Elon on his platform is putting money in his pocket. It would appear that laziness is a more powerful motivator than social conscience for some on Twitter.

@pjhenry1216 @Sheril if you reframed this to ‘Scientist has research stolen by rival scientist’, would you be paying as much attention to this?

@pjhenry1216 @Sheril I don’t think the article is trying to argue there was a lack of sexism, when Watson was clearly sexist. What the article argues that there is more nuance to this than, ‘poor little woman has research stolen’.

@gferraz @Sheril I guess…a woman had to be pretty exceptional in the 50s in science, to be taken seriously. To be doing the research…not get stuck with making the model. We would do well to recognise Rosalind for her tenacity and drive, rather than simply portray her as a victim of the patriarchy.

@gferraz @Sheril You’re welcome. Interesting article - made me re-evaluate my own opinions on Franklin, as I’d previously assumed she was uncooperative, which is why they went round her to the photograph: I can see how wrong I was. It also reminded me of my school chemistry teacher, who was an undergrad at Cambridge while Crick & Watson were working on this - one of her proudest moments was building a ball + stick double helix for them to pose with. This one…

@Sheril And just to clarify. The Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously. She couldn’t be nominated for the Prize awarded in 1962, which went to Crick and Watson, because she had died 4 years earlier.

@Sheril A different perspective, here. https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/23/sexism-in-science-did-watson-and-crick-really-steal-rosalind-franklins-data If Franklin felt wronged by Crick and Watson, I very much doubt she would have become close friends with the Cricks. If I remember rightly, Francis and Odile looked after Rosalind during her final months, as she was dying of cancer.