Shirin Zaidi ✨ شيرين زيدي
@shirinzaidi.bsky.social
(she/her) 🇵🇰🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Astrophysics @ CUNY Grad Center
Astrophysics @ CUNY Grad Center
looking for shipping companies to move our personal goods from the US to denmark and the one i trust the most uses a jpeg in place of a hyperlinked phone number. amazing
September 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
looking for shipping companies to move our personal goods from the US to denmark and the one i trust the most uses a jpeg in place of a hyperlinked phone number. amazing
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"pre-existing conditions" is eugenicist logic, BTW
July 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"pre-existing conditions" is eugenicist logic, BTW
wanting to show my advisors something in my terminal window and having to modify my cutesy kirby-themed background and font color so he doesn't hate it (for accessibility purposes he is not a hater it is not unwarranted)
July 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
wanting to show my advisors something in my terminal window and having to modify my cutesy kirby-themed background and font color so he doesn't hate it (for accessibility purposes he is not a hater it is not unwarranted)
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I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
journals.plos.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
look im just as happy to celebrate zohran’s victory as the next guy but as a south asian shia woman whose family has begged her to go into local politics for a decade now his win is going to be the talking point for my family for years to come
June 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
look im just as happy to celebrate zohran’s victory as the next guy but as a south asian shia woman whose family has begged her to go into local politics for a decade now his win is going to be the talking point for my family for years to come
this is actually a horrible race science-y way to wipe your hands clean of the climate injustices happening in the global south bc some people are “built to withstand that kind of heat”. No. That’s climate change. None of us are built for it. It will kill you.
June 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
this is actually a horrible race science-y way to wipe your hands clean of the climate injustices happening in the global south bc some people are “built to withstand that kind of heat”. No. That’s climate change. None of us are built for it. It will kill you.
got my ms degree in astrophysics. this is a dream come true — for Shirin in 2015, who started in physics, for Shirin in 2017, who switched to planetary science due to harassment, for Shirin in 2019, who realized she wanted to do nothing but research forever.
June 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
got my ms degree in astrophysics. this is a dream come true — for Shirin in 2015, who started in physics, for Shirin in 2017, who switched to planetary science due to harassment, for Shirin in 2019, who realized she wanted to do nothing but research forever.
my brother, my parents, and my bestie are all flying in for graduation and this is the most excited I’ve been in a minute!! I didn’t get to celebrate my undergrad graduation (2020… oops!) so getting to celebrate my masters in nyc is bringing me so much joy
June 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
my brother, my parents, and my bestie are all flying in for graduation and this is the most excited I’ve been in a minute!! I didn’t get to celebrate my undergrad graduation (2020… oops!) so getting to celebrate my masters in nyc is bringing me so much joy
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Because I posted this elsewhere here’s me and a bestie @jakepost.tech during @saavikford.bsky.social class this semester — one of the best classes during my masters!!
June 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Because I posted this elsewhere here’s me and a bestie @jakepost.tech during @saavikford.bsky.social class this semester — one of the best classes during my masters!!
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Welp, apparently the NASA Postdoctoral Program has eliminated their July application cycle (with the deadline being rolled over into their November cycle). That certainly doesn't bode well.
June 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Welp, apparently the NASA Postdoctoral Program has eliminated their July application cycle (with the deadline being rolled over into their November cycle). That certainly doesn't bode well.
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Eyyy my research made Universe Today!
Finding a Better Way to Distinguish Life from Non-Life
The search for life on other worlds needs a way to sift through the chemistry of their atmospheres. If another species observed Earth to search for life, they'd look for
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June 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Eyyy my research made Universe Today!
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Trying to reconcile how all positive change had to be incremental, studied in perpetuity & ultimately stalled with ‘how are we gonna pay for that?’ but dismantling everything was done quickly, ham-fistedly & with total disregard for cost of money and lives & no institutional guardrails mattered.
May 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Trying to reconcile how all positive change had to be incremental, studied in perpetuity & ultimately stalled with ‘how are we gonna pay for that?’ but dismantling everything was done quickly, ham-fistedly & with total disregard for cost of money and lives & no institutional guardrails mattered.
this is a nightmare. Telescopes aside, funding woes are so bad that people like me trying to get into phds are facing great difficulty even breaching the acceptance threshold — it’s been exhausting as someone who first applied in 2020!
Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭
May 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
this is a nightmare. Telescopes aside, funding woes are so bad that people like me trying to get into phds are facing great difficulty even breaching the acceptance threshold — it’s been exhausting as someone who first applied in 2020!
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Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭
May 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭
she spin on my jet til I kick
May 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
she spin on my jet til I kick
I’ve started doing hot yoga/pilates and one thing I need everyone to know is that the women in these workout sessions will be the only survivors of the climate change apocalypse
May 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I’ve started doing hot yoga/pilates and one thing I need everyone to know is that the women in these workout sessions will be the only survivors of the climate change apocalypse
thesis: submitted!!!
May 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
thesis: submitted!!!
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Keith E. Sonderling is the new acting head of The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the main source of federal funding for libraries and museums across the country. President Trump issued an executive order last week saying he aims to close the agency.
Federal agency responsible for library and museum funding gets a visit from DOGE
Keith E. Sonderling is the new acting head of The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the main source of federal funding for libraries and museums across the country. President Trump issued an e...
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March 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Keith E. Sonderling is the new acting head of The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the main source of federal funding for libraries and museums across the country. President Trump issued an executive order last week saying he aims to close the agency.
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Had dinner with our friend / neighbour Richard who’s the senior space weather scientist here in Aust (at the BoM) and we were talking about the impacts that the recent cuts at NOAA are having / going to have on global collaboration efforts like space weather monitoring.
It’s not at all good.
It’s not at all good.
March 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Had dinner with our friend / neighbour Richard who’s the senior space weather scientist here in Aust (at the BoM) and we were talking about the impacts that the recent cuts at NOAA are having / going to have on global collaboration efforts like space weather monitoring.
It’s not at all good.
It’s not at all good.
Scientists, the provost of Columbia is one of us. Angela Olinto is a physicist, who chose to avoid mentioning Mahmoud Khalil, who chose not to stand up for him, when telling Columbia faculty that it would be "business as usual" when he was illegal arrested and detained. Our institutions have always
March 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Scientists, the provost of Columbia is one of us. Angela Olinto is a physicist, who chose to avoid mentioning Mahmoud Khalil, who chose not to stand up for him, when telling Columbia faculty that it would be "business as usual" when he was illegal arrested and detained. Our institutions have always
My roommate has been concerned for a while about the stability of her job, and here are her worst fears being realized thanks to DOGE. The work that she and others do to help fund and start incredible projects remembering queer and BIPOC history and archives have been under threat for so long, and
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
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March 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My roommate has been concerned for a while about the stability of her job, and here are her worst fears being realized thanks to DOGE. The work that she and others do to help fund and start incredible projects remembering queer and BIPOC history and archives have been under threat for so long, and
Don’t believe a word out of his mouth. I remember that he ran as a progressive. I remember supporting him, canvassing for him, donating to him, back when I thought he was a genuine progressive. He lied about being on the left to us then, and he’ll keep lying to us about it now.
My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
March 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Don’t believe a word out of his mouth. I remember that he ran as a progressive. I remember supporting him, canvassing for him, donating to him, back when I thought he was a genuine progressive. He lied about being on the left to us then, and he’ll keep lying to us about it now.
Don’t believe a word out of his mouth. I remember that he ran as a progressive. I remember supporting him, canvassing for him, donating to him, back when I thought he was a genuine progressive. He lied about being on the left to us then, and he’ll keep lying to us about it now.
My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
March 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Don’t believe a word out of his mouth. I remember that he ran as a progressive. I remember supporting him, canvassing for him, donating to him, back when I thought he was a genuine progressive. He lied about being on the left to us then, and he’ll keep lying to us about it now.
Don’t believe a word out of his mouth. I remember that he ran as a progressive. I remember supporting him, canvassing for him, donating to him, back when I thought he was a genuine progressive. He lied about being on the left to us then, and he’ll keep lying to us about it now.
My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
March 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Don’t believe a word out of his mouth. I remember that he ran as a progressive. I remember supporting him, canvassing for him, donating to him, back when I thought he was a genuine progressive. He lied about being on the left to us then, and he’ll keep lying to us about it now.