perceived womanhood achievement unlocked: i got called bossy at work today
#WomenInSTEM
perceived womanhood achievement unlocked: i got called bossy at work today
#WomenInSTEM
impressive and elegant. The diagram was included in books on data visualization and was used in the iconic design of Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ album.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell has gone on to a very distinguished career in astrophysics. She became the first female president of the Institute of #Physics and of the Royal Society of Edinburg. She helped set up the UK Athena Swan #womenInSTEM programme. 4/5
Happy birthday to brilliant trailblazing US #geologist & prof Florence Bascom (1862-1945) who championed women’s education, & used polarizing microscopes for detailed petrographic analysis to show that rocks previously identified as sedimentary were in fact metamorphosed volcanic rocks she called aporhyolite (implying a change in rhyolite, a silica rich igneous rock, as in her thin sections like the ones in my print).
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #sciart #linocut #mastoArt
#OnThisDay, 14 July 1885, Sarah E Goode receives the US patent for her cabinet bed. She is among the first African-American women to gain a patent in her own name.
From ATP to MRI: Mildred Cohn's Pioneering Work in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
By Dale DeBakcsy
Marie Skłodowska-Curie and soon-to-be fireflies drying on my table. Mixed and printed all the glow-in-the-dark ink I needed at once for #radioactivity and #bioluminescence prints.
Greta Woxén nee Westberg #Sweden's 1st female civil engineer, graduated Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology) 1928, nicknamed "Electric Girl". Worked for Elektricitetverksföreningen electricity company, then became teacher after career break to raise her family. b. #OTD 12 Jul 1902 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Wox%C3%A9n @histodons @CarveHerName #Wikipedia #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM
#OnThisDay, 11 July 1871, Margaret E Knight wins a patent lawsuit and is awarded the patent for flat-bottomed paper bag making machines.
No reliable image, so here's a bag in use.
Successful PhD defence by Veronika-Hierlmeier-Hackl @uniinnsbruck on “protectAlps - #Alps, #PersistentPollutants, and #insects”
Congrats to you, Dr. Veronika, & thanks to Julia Seeber, Georg Leitinger, and examiners Gerhard Lammel!
#biodiversity #InsectDecline
#Womeninscience #WomeninSTEM #ecotoxicology
Rebeca Uribe Bone 1st woman to graduate in engineering in #Colombia. Chemical engineer & 1st woman to graduate in Chemical Engineering from Pontifical-Bolivarian University of Medellin, she worked in the Bavaria brewing company. d. #OTD 7 Jul 1917 #WomenInSTEM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebeca_Uribe_Bone
@CarveHerName @histodons #Wikipedia #brewing #beer
#TalDíaComoHoy en 1945, nace Adele Goldberg. Esta ingeniera informática es una figura influyente en el campo de la programación orientada a objetos. Participó en el desarrollo del lenguaje Smalltalk, que fue uno de los primeros en utilizar este tipo de programación. #WomenInSTEM
1934 Jeanie Dicks undertook 1st permanent electrification of Winchester Cathedral. Electrifying nave meant removing & reburying coffins except Jane Austen’s (moved gently to side). Press called her the "girl engineer" - she was 40! d. #OTD 6 Jul 1980 #JaneAusten #WomenInSTEM #WinchesterCathedral #Winchester #Hampshire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanie_Dicks
@CarveHerName @histodons
@msbellows collections have their origins in this accessibility of media and #knowledge outside the realms of the rich and the aristocracy. It was a time of curiosity and the emergence of #naturalists. And thanks to the widespread availability of media, these topics were now accessible to #women.
One of these famous female naturalists was Anna Atkins with her groundbreaking #Cyanotypes in 1843 https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/anna-atkins-cyanotypes/ - still important for #biodiversity research.
#FossilFriday ‘I’m interested in pushing the frontiers of science, not sailing my boat on calm seas. If you’re worried about storms, you shouldn’t be on the ship. Frankly, I find storms exciting.’
Elizabeth Vrba (1942–2025). Image: University of Michigan #womeninSTEM #evolution
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/the-legacy-of-elizabeth-vrba/
Happy birthday to #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. My portrait of Leavitt is printed in silvery lavender ink on Japanese kozo (or mulberry paper). Behind her is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of time (t). She is printed over constellations in gold (Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Draco,
Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements. #nuclear #physics
She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results in 1899 she completed her MSc in 1901 on “Damping of Electrical Oscillations,” before embarking on #radioactivity research.
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci
Liebe Schülerinnen, Eltern und (Physik-)Lehrer*innen: Bei uns am Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik in #Garching bei #München wird am 25.7. ein tolles Event "Girls for Science" stattfinden! Schülerinnen ab 15 Jahren können einen Einblick in die Wissenschaft (mit Fokus auf Quantenwissenschaft) bekommen und inspirierende Forscherinnen treffen sowie ihre Geschichten hören!
Meldet euch gerne an, und teilt das mit allen, die ihr kennt :)
#FediLZ #WomenInSTEM #GirlsInSTEM
https://www.mcqst.de/news-and-events/events/girls-for-science.html
Just backed "We Reach For The Sky" on #Kickstarter: 77 inspiring stories of #WomenInSTEM in a beautiful photo book. It's being produced by a friend of mine - check it out!
Our #astrodon server is nearing its end of life, so I decided to move closer to my roots, and found my new home in swiss.social
A little #introduction:
I'm a #Swiss mountain girl who ended up studying #physics, pursued a #PhD in #astronomy, which I just recently defended!
I'll also be moving physically closer to home soon: In October, I’ll be starting a #fellowship at @esoastronomy in #Germany
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