>>11578433>>11578446>Not a picture: but it's well known that Richard Feynman played bongos on top of a car at a Los Alamos party thrown in honor of the first successful test. That counts, I think.Fuck off. I also celebrate when I publish on a good journal, as do my peers, as do people in my family that are researchers. I might even do some kind of victory pose if I'm by myself and not acting like a clown in front of other people.
But especially if I'm working on a collaboration (which she was) I would be extremely careful not to take credit for a collaborative work entirely on my shoulders, and I would never prepare my laptop with a nicely ordered plot and windows and put my hands to my face and post a picture in social media to have people believe this is how science works.
The point is any person in her team could have done this. Any person could have taken that picture. Any person could have claimed that credit. Even other women at the time, in her team, complained publicly about this. Anyone on CERN could have individually done this over the Higgs boson. Anyone could have done this on LIGO over gravitational wave measurements.
But people don't ,because they understand this is not a fucking joke reality show, and in science things are more nuanced, and it's bad optics for anyone that doesn't have a vested interest in defending random girls at all costs.
It has nothing to do with fun or not. Her celebration, all of that can be normal. It's the fact that she decided to take this picture and take the route she did and let the media say the things they said, giving her full credit for the work, and fame, and sowing all the goods.
Would you defend people like this in your own team, even if they take credit for results you are partly responsible for? I've seen people fight for less in a scientific setting. I've seen people get angry because of author ordering in a paper. Her picture is another level of conceitedness.
