#MomSky / #DadSky / #ParentSky / #Momademia / #AcademicMom

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How many eye drops would make me feel less exhausted?
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2026 kicks off with a major project finished👀👇Safe to say, it was a huge success and we’re absolutely smitten!🥰

Might get a little quieter around here, but aiming to keep you updated about anything from my wonderful students #KrbekGroup

#ChemSky
#SupramolecularChemistry
#Momademia
#WomenInSTEM

Academic publishing can be a #slow business: (finally) got a paper accepted today! In between the initial journal submission (rejects, and an R&R), I basically got #two kids...😄 #academichatter #momademia

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What a week! I had (and still have) many deadlines, many meetings and much writing to do. All while my three boys have been intermittently sick. #momademia

Also, just like how having a child is NOT intrinsically better than being childfree, having two children is NOT intrinsically better than having one child. #AcademicMom #Momademia #MomSky #ParentSky

Quick reminder to not-yet-parents and parents of young kids: the idealized two year age gap is a lie propagated by people whose children sleep through the night and/or bananapants people without a self preservation instinct! #AcademicMom #Momademia

Just a normal week eh
#academia #momademia

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Running on no sleep for months (ok, years considering pregnancy + small kids). My brain’s mush, I feel like a zombie, and I’m supposed to write papers, do fieldwork and plan my next project. How?

#momademia

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Three days straight with migraines and a mountain of work due next week… not exactly ideal. Meanwhile, my kids clearly didn’t get the ‘migraine memo’. They just want me to play and do all the things with them.

Send help.. #momademia

Kind 2 ist ungefähr gleich alt und ebenfalls viel in der Babytrage an der #Universität dabei. Morgen und am Freitag gebe ich eine Lehrveranstaltung (mit Baby und inklusive Stillpausen) und bin jetzt richtig motiviert 😊

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SMBE2023 vs #ESEB2025
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Question to #momademia: Does the brain power ever get better?

It's been 7 years since the first pregnancy and I still don't manage to be in my full capacity.

#academicmom

#Momademia I need your 2T sleep sack recommendations, please! What do you like, and why? Elliott has been in the Zipadee zip, and it's time to move on.

Please, if you're a mom and you see this, repost.

Just managed to catch a whole stomach load of toddler vomit in a frisbee! It was honestly so impressive #Momademia

A toddler sized cardigan made of granny squares. Colors are white orange jaune green and fuschia for a 70s vibe

Holidays in #momademia is crocheting toddler sweaters between museum visits

#momademia #PedsICU #Medsky

I love the idea of doing this campaign! We need to normalize the roles of father who are also actively parenting while having academic roles. Better representations of moms will not come if partners are not stepping up. Let's have this conversation! #momademia

Science while parenting - Nature Methods It takes juggling expertise to be an academic and a parent.

Just revisited this 2023 piece on parenting in academia, featuring a kind interview with Vivien Marx. Sadly, much still resonates. Fieldwork, publishing, writing grants—doing it all while parenting often feels impossible. I am constantly exhausted. #momademia
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hyperfocus #Sunday 👩🏼‍💻
Up early, powering through work 💪🏻
To get stuff finished ✅
Before I go on holiday tomorrow ✈️

#AcademicSky #PhD Life
Vs #SchoolHolidays #Momademia

hey #momademia, I was wondering if anyone has written about how becoming a parent changes one's engagement with the childhood research literature?

I find myself seeing methodology and claims very differently now, and I'm probably not the only one...?

Writing #NHMRC #investigatorgrant during school holidays #momademia #womeninSTEM

People ask me how I fit so much in…..

Well I was already helping my child pretend to be an archeologist,
digging through plaster for gem stones
AT 7AM ON A SUNDAY💥🔨💎⏰

So had time to multitask
laundry 🧺
And searching for #Qualitative methodology courses
……All before 10am
#Momademia ☕️☕️☕️

#Momademia is working on rejoinders on the weekend (thanks coparent!) because you don’t have a full contingent of weekdays to do so, while listening to your toddler play in the next room and occasionally seeing a small face and hands peer around the door.

As part of my commitment to post Just Some Stuff Amidst All This, here's yesterday's antics.

I'd never done a sensory bin at home for my toddler, so I thought doing one during this Midwest heatwave is the perfect time.
#Momademia #AcademicMom

My #careerdisruptions are officially over, I've been F/T since 2021. Calculated total career disruptions one last time, only 1054 days = 2.9 years (2 x mat leave and 0.6-0.8 for a number of years). Can't believe that is all it was. I should have given us more time #NHMRC #grantwriting #momademia

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Forgot to turn off the mic and online students heard my rendition if "go take a shower or so help me god!"
So, yeah.
#momademia
#doingmybest
#failing

Got a talk to practice for an international conference in a few days but its also #SchoolHolidays week 🤪

Today, 6 hours of explaining physics & anatomy at the Science Museum 🧠🧬 - I am now knackered 😴

Cool model of Grey’s monument being hit by lightning (it did in 1941! 🌩️)
#Momademia #WomenInSTEM

Fitting in a quick call before their bedtime #momademia #womeninSTEM #ESHG2025

Hurray a day of peace and quiet to write that paper. Finally!!!

Computer: I have other plans.

#Momademia