#womenscientists — Public Fediverse posts

TIL about palaeontologist Mary Anning whose "findings contributed to changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth", but her work, as a woman scientist in the early 19th century, was never properly recognised.

"I'm not as big a fossil fan; the main reason I wanted to do it was to make sure she got the recognition she deserved."

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-61520324

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anning

Via https://stefanbohacek.online/@statues/116941874126393525

#WomenInSTEM #WomenScientists #science #palaeontology #dinosaurs

#52booksin52weeks 46. Non-Fiction about the person from prompt 45. Hedy's Folly by Richard Rhodes #HedyLamarr #history #science #ScienceHistory #history #Nonfiction #womenscientists #womeninscience #physics #hollywood #biography #genderbias #genius #booksbooksbooks #booksky #bookstagram #booktok #gamemastersbookclub #ttrpgpodcast https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

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started #wikipedia articles on two chemists who were on the home economics faculty @syracuseu , Annie Louise Macleod (1883-1971) and her partner* Edith H. Nason (1895-1970): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Louise_Macleod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_H._Nason @wikiwomeninred #WomeninSTEM #WomenScientists #SyracuseU @vassar #homeeconomics #foodscience #WikiLovesPride @mcgillu
*"partner" is the word used for Edith's relationship to Annie in the 1940 US census.

Sisters in Science by Olivia Campbell, 2024

The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring escape out of Nazi Germany.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#biography
#WomenScientists
#physics
#NaziGermany

Scientist Eunice Newton Foote was the first to posit a connection between atmospheric gases & rising temperatures. Yet she got no credit for this & was assigned to a mere footnote in history.
G.V. Pavan Kumar's piece on the forgotten pioneer in climate change research

#ClimateDiary #ClimateChange #WomenScientists

https://www.theindiaforum.in/history/forgotten-pioneer-climate-change-research

"Rose with Metamorphosis of Leaf Roller and a Glued Beetle Larva," Maria Sibylla Merion, after 1679.

Merian (1647-1717) was a German entomologist, naturalist, and scientific illustrator. She was one of the first European naturalists to document insect life from direct observation. The daughter of a Swiss engraver and publisher, she collected insects as a child and published her first collection of illustrations in 1675. She published a two-volume work on caterpillars, from which this image is taken. And that's an actual dried beetle larva glued to the main flower; she did that with a number of her illustrations but most have fallen off long ago.

She traveled to South American and observed insect life there, also publishing her findings to great acclaim.

Her direct observations of the metamorphic process were an enormous influence on the scientific world; David Attenborough calls her one of the most significant contributors to the field of entomology.

From the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.

#Art #WomenArtists #WomenScientists #Entomology #ScientificIllustration #MariaSybillaMerian

Trigger warning: Contains #Science, specifically #Physics - and work by #WomenScientists, not just white males. Read at your own risk!

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-best-qubits-for-quantum-computing-might-just-be-atoms-20240325/

@gutenberg_org

I've just read this Wikipedia article; what a remarkable woman!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Menten

#WomenScientists #Canada #Biochemistry

We mark #InternationalWomensDay by saluting all IHC female researchers and highlighting the thirteen women who have joined our team over the past year!

@histodons
@digitalhumanities
@anthropology
@litstudies
@phdlife
@museum

#Histodons #Anthropodons #Archaeodons #WomenHistorians #WomenScientists

If you're interested in #Science and #WomenScientists you might check out my #review of the #Documentry #movies #TheHuntForPlanetB about the James Webb Space Telescope.

https://oldaintdead.com/the-hunt-for-planet-b-using-the-james-webb-space-telescope/

"Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-woman-who-demonstrated-the-greenhouse-effect/

#greenHouse #Newton #science #historyOfScience #patriarchy #heating #climateChange #womenScientists

Nice article on Lise Meitner, one of my favorite atomic physicists #science #physics #nucleus #Atom #WomenScientists #LiseMeitner #OttoHahn

She Cracked the Mystery of How to Split the Atom, but Someone Else Got the Nobel Prize for the Discovery - Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/she-cracked-the-mystery-of-how-to-split-the-atom-but-someone-else-got-the-nobel-prize-for-the-discovery/

Nettie Stevens discovered XY sex chromosomes. She didn't get credit because she had two X’s. https://www.vox.com/2016/7/7/12105830/nettie-stevens-genetics-gender-sex-chromosomes #Womenscientists

Astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance: ‘I’ll probably always live with impostor syndrome’
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/12/astrophysicist-sarafina-el-badry-nance-starstruck-memoir-astrophysics-light-dark?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#SarafinaElBadryNance
#WomenScientists
#WomenInSTEM
@LK_Sass

Overall, 11% of all principal investigators (PIs) with National Institutes of Health funding in 2020 held three or more grants. However, the numbers of these “super-PIs” vary by gender and race and ethnicity. White and Asian men were disproportionately more likely to belong to this elite group, and Black women were least likely.

#wealthgap #womenscientists #blackscientists #multiplegrants

https://www.science.org/content/article/women-black-researchers-less-likely-hold-multiple-nih-grants

#Womenscientists #MIT #discrimination #fightingback

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf4923

More on Rosalind Franklin
#sciencejournalists #WomenScientists

Catch the Nature podcast here:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01443-w?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=82a1380b74-briefing-dy-20230428&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-82a1380b74-48022640

Raising awareness of breast cancer in your community
#breastcancer #womenscientists #awareness

The research and support charity Breast Cancer Now have a team of trained volunteers who can come and deliver public health talks to you. They can do this online or in person, anywhere in the UK, to your workplace, community or religious group, or university or professional network .

To book a talk, go to:
https://breastcancernow.org/book-breast-cancer-now-public-health-talk

MORE ON THE ROSALIND FRANKLIN DNA STORY
#medicalwriters #sciencejournalists #womenscientists #stem

Just published
@Nature

New evidence from 70 years ago: Rosalind Franklin was a co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure
by
@matthewcobb
@nccomfort

https://nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5

The JOHN MADDOX PRIZE for courageously advancing public discourse with sound science

#womenscientists #medicalwriters #sciencejournalists #prizes #awards

https://senseaboutscience.org/john-maddox-prize/

Nominate your candidate for the prize at the link above. Be quick, nominations close on 1 May!

The John Maddox prize is a joint initiative of the charity Sense about Science and the leading international scientific journal Nature. The prize has been awarded annually since 2012 to individuals who have shown courage and integrity in standing up for sound science and evidence. In addition to the main award, there is an additional prize for an individual considered to be at an early career stage.

The prize brings into the spotlight the underappreciated efforts of people the world over who try to bring research and evidence to public debate even when it is challenging, and inspires and encourages others to do the same. The prize has a global focus and received hundreds of nominations from dozens of countries.

CALLING WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SCIENCE!
#womenscientists #medicalwriters #sciencejournalists

The world needs Science,
and Science needs Women

https://www.forwomeninscience.com/

Visit the website to learn more about the L'Oréal-UNESCO International Awards and programmes for women and girls.

This is a very nice article reporting on the discovery of a contemporary account of Mary Anning, the great 19th amateur paleontologist and pioneering woman geologist. Great read. https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/jgs2022-053 #paleontology #WomenGeologists #WomenScientists

Today's Google doodle features the Mária Telkes, who was one of the pioneers of solar energy research, and who was a Hungarian immigrant to the US!

https://www.google.com/

Most English-language websites don't mention that she was from a Jewish family - which her father might have liked, as he was a noted Hungarian assimilationist, and started an organization advocating for Hungarizing Jewish names.

#Mazeldon #Jewish #WomenScientists #Google #JewishImmigration

@Spokeswoman @Sheril Its going to be a long but very necessary list. Already I see several amazing scientist mentioned in replies. You've probably got lots of links already but I saw this recently... #science #WomenScientists https://womenyoushouldknow.net/category/trailblazers/women-in-science/

I just listened to a podcast about this magazine that's for girls (esp. of color) to see scientists as cool celebrities like actors or fashionistas :>

https://www.smorescience.com/

(the podcast which has a long interview with its creator, a woman from India :3 )

https://www.twis.org/25-april-2018-episode-668-this-week-in-science-twis-podcast/

#STEM #GirlsInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #WomenScientists #WomenInScience #Diversity