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Achintya “Thea” Rao

@RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

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Dr Rao / Bass Lass

#OpenScience aficionada • #SciComm wizardess • #RStats enjoyer • #cricket tragic

Formerly #CERN and #CMSExperiment, currently UWE Bristol

Immigrant • 🇮🇳→🇱🇷→🇮🇳→🇬🇧→🇫🇷→🇨🇭→🇬🇧

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656 Followers

571 Following

21 Posts

Joined February 20, 2018

Online home 🌐:

https://a-ch.in/ty-a

Location 📍:

Loughborough, UK

PhD 🎓:

#SciComm, from UWE Bristol

Vocation ✍️:

Science Communication

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 3mo ago

I remember as a science-journalism student in London following the live stream from #CERN when the #LHC had its first collisions in March 2010. I remember the glee during my first visit to the lab in June that year. I remember my first day working at CERN that September and my several visits to the LHC’s cavernous underground spaces to see the #CMSExperiment, many as a tour guide. I remember being surrounded by joy when we announced the discovery of the #HiggsBoson. https://home.cern/cern-bids-farewell-to-the-lhc-and-enters-long-shutdown-3/

home.cern

CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3 – Home | CERN

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 5mo ago

The whole “gender not sex” argument being weaponised by transphobes is yet another reason monolingual English-speakers should not be allowed to influence global queer discourse.

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 3mo ago

If #Pride is a protest,

and protests are getting increasingly criminalised in the UK,

and the smallest criminal conviction can rule out immigrants from attaining indefinite leave to remain in the UK,

why would any immigrants be at Pride?

https://youtu.be/S3InGcUC8ys

#BristolPride #Bristol #TransgenderUK #TransRights

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 5mo ago

I think one of the worst aspects of banning #transgender women from sports is how insulting it is to cisgender women by portraying them as weak and incapable.

Yesterday at #cricket, I opened the batting for our 5th XI (a mixed-gender team) and the young woman opening the bowling for the opposition (also a mixed side) was so frustratingly talented that it was incredibly hard to score off her. Fast, accurate and with gorgeous outswing.

It was a treat to play against her bowling.

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Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 6mo ago

I know the fuckers at the Guardian won’t care to cover it, because it doesn't involve a US state, but #India has tossed #TransRights in the bin.

Something that will affect some 150 million people will continue to be ignored by western media.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/transgender-amendment-bill-gets-president-murmus-assent/article70804606.ece

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Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 4mo ago

My mum informed me of this #Marathi movie (with English subtitles) about a #transgender man in rural #India. She heard about it from another mother in a group for parents of #queer children in India (Rainbow Parents).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TfhiCFJO4C4

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

Been a while since I left home before 06:30 on a Sunday to go do something fun. If I recall correctly, the last time was years ago when we restarted the #LHC after a long shutdown, on Easter Sunday, and I managed to get the hashtag #ResurrectLHC onto the #CERN website for the event.

Today, I am travelling from #Loughborough to #Manchester to watch the Lancashire women’s and men’s #T20 double header as part of the ECB Female Umpire Development Programme.

Should be a fun day of #cricket!

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Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 4mo ago

RE: @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

Yesterday, in mixed #cricket, I got dismissed by a girl for a duck. Obviously, if this has been women’s cricket, I would have activated my “biological advantages” to dispatch her for six sixes in an over instead of her bowling a maiden to me.

#TransRights

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Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 4mo ago

Current interest: Expanding “vibe” to “vibration” in my head whenever I see it written down.

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@robinince And I looked even more different the first time we spoke: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rkqjhIVc-oQ 😅

Linda Cremonesi, Achintya Rao, Helen Czerski and Robin Ince - Science Shambles

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 4mo ago

WTF #Malta?

https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/

#AI #GenAI

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Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Rhube You’ve got this!

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Rhube Just reporting back from my assessment. It went well; I have been diagnosed with ADHD (for a second time, but this time in the UK, so I can get meds here). It was just over an hour. A fairly relaxed conversation.

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@robinince Thankfully, I am surrounded by wonderful people who lift me up even as governments try to grind me down. :)

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@christianp Except me, right? May I have one‽

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Rhube I have asked for an appointment with Harrow Heath and the process has been speedy so far. Appointment is next week, around three weeks after the GP contacted them. At least one person in a group chat I am in said the assessment was good.

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@robinince Thank you, Robin.

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@jaranta Gotcha. Kiitos.

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@jaranta Would you tell them why they were rejected?

Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@christianp 🤐