The Honorable Mrs Mary Ward (1827-1869) Artist, Naturalist, Astronomer and Ireland's First Lady of the Microscope:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ward_(scientist)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25538785?seq=1
#histsci #scicom #womeninSTEM

The Honorable Mrs Mary Ward (1827-1869) Artist, Naturalist, Astronomer and Ireland's First Lady of the Microscope:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ward_(scientist)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25538785?seq=1
#histsci #scicom #womeninSTEM
#TalDíaComoHoy en 1961, nace Carol Greider. Bioquímica descubridora de la telomerasa junto con Elizabeth Blackburn. Por ello recibieron en 2009 el Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina. Una gran historia de mujeres en la ciencia que se apoyan y trabajan juntas para lograr grandes hazañas. #WomenInSTEM
@hildabast fascinating thread. Thank you.
#scientist #Womenslives #research #womeninSTEM
This is Sechi Katō (1893-1989) in 1918. It's her graduation photo from a women's college in Tokyo.
Eventually she would become the first woman principal investigator at RIKEN, Japan's national chemistry & physics institute. She faced incredibly daunting hurdles before then...
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Ach ja, der #Matildaeffekt . #MaithinkX hat hier ein paar krasse Beispiele aufgeführt: https://www.zdf.de/play/shows/mai-think-x-die-show-102/maithink-x-matilda-100
Marie Tharp’s Adventures in Mapping the Seafloor, In Her Own Words
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/07/24/marie-tharp-connecting-dots/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tharp
#histsci #womeninSTEM
Some numbers. $2,500 is left on our fundraiser. We're halfway. I'd freaking love to hit that.
But if we can't, bare-bones I need $300 for a generator rental (we are off-grid and fully self-powered. More funds and I'll do bigger solar this gear), $100 for educational decor, and I pulled $700 from my (meager) savings for poorer campers already.
$1,100 would do a LOT.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-glow-radical-educational-electronics-camp-fundraiser
Can anyone point me to good secondary literature on the history of representations of "Nature" as female?
I'm particularly interested in 19th century British thinking, but I'd welcome any more general surveys as well.
#HistSTM #WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky
Available to speak on engineering education, STEAM, women in robotics/engineering, black in robotics/engineering, multidisciplinary robotics, open-source robotics, bias in AI, diversifying STEM, and more! #BlackSky #BlackWomenSTEM #BlackSTEM #BlackAdemic #WomeninSTEM #Speaking
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Happy birthday to Canadian geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (1917-2013)! In my #linocut Uchida is shown surrounded by chromosones, with anomalies (shown with pink arrows) due to radiation exposure, based on one of her research papers. A strand of DNA is hidden in the image (as her watchband).
Uchida didn’t set out to be a scientist. She was studying English literature at UBC, before she was interned 1/n
#printmaking #sciart #genetics #cytology #DNA #histstm #WomenInSTEM #chromosomes
Don’t forget to read Olivia’s recent article https://doi.org/pft5 at @AnnBot and our related thread
https://botany.fyi/6iomad (10/10)
#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.
#TalDíaComoHoy en 1993, a las 1:29 am, el transbordador espacial Discovery despegó del Kennedy Space Center .
El primer vuelo de Ellen Ochoa en el espacio, primera vez en la historia que una mujer hispana viajaba al espacio
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#WomenInSTEM
Elissa Khamisse de l' #ANSES : Élaboration d'une liste de combinaisons bactéries/famille d'#antibiotiques d'intérêt prioritaire, dans le contrôle de la diffusion de l'antibiorésistance de l'animal à l'être humain
https://youtu.be/JBg8qQOAbMQ #WomenInSTEM #Medicine #Veterinary
The Exquisite Illustrations of a Pioneering Woman Herbalist
A Curious Herbal, the first modern edition of Elizabeth Blackwell’s 18th-century botanical guide, grants her the recognition that she has long deserved.
By Lauren Moya Ford (from the archives)
Books by Elizabeth Blackwell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53378
Caroline #Herschel was an absolutely fascinating woman: stunted by a childhood encounter with typhus, she was actively stopped from learning more by her mother. Yet, she prevailed, becoming the first woman to get a salary as a scientist and the first woman to be employed by the government in England:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Herschel
The Royal Astronomical Society and the German Astronomical Society are jointly awarding the Caroline Herschel medal
A good news item about #HyperemesisGravidarum, and a perfect demonstration of why diversity and #WomenInSTEM are important
#TalDíaComoHoy nacía Judith Resnik. Doctora en ingeniería eléctrica, ingeniera de software, ingeniera biomédica, piloto y astronauta. Fue la 2ª mujer estadounidense en el espacio y la 4ª a nivel mundial alcanzando las 145 horas en órbita. Falleció en el desastre del Challenger en 1986. #WomenInSTEM