I just went on a follow-fest for women with a PhD, but realized I'm already mutuals with almost everyone who shows up in the limited search results 😋

If you're a Dr. Gal or other female science communicator type, pop into the thread, say hi!

I'd love to learn about what you do 💜
(and I'm sure lots of others would too)

#WomenInStem #FollowFriday (on Tuesday) #WomenInMedicine #Dr #PhD

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.

Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.

#WomenInSTEM #ScienceHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Esther Richards Applin was the first person to propose that geological stratigraphy could be read using the fossilized remains of protozoa called Foraminiferida. Naturally, being a woman, she was derided before her insight gave rise to a whole new field in geology, and credit was later shifted from her and her female colleagues to a group of men.

#ScienceHistory #HistoryOfGeology #WomenInSTEM #science #geology

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2021/09/10/forgotten-women-of-paleontology-esther-richards-applin/

This post blatantly stolen from the "History of Geology" account on mstdn.social, who responds with irrational anger to requests for accessibility and descriptive text.

Happy birthday to #inventor Hedy Lamarr (1914 – 2000) & Hollywood star. Born Hedwig Keisler in Vienna, she gained fame after her risqué & notorious starring role in Machatý's ‘33 film Ecstasy. Mandl, 1st of 6 husbands, objected & tried unsuccessfully to buy all copies of film. Hedy objected to him, a munitions manufacturer, dealing with fascists despite both being of Jewish heritage. She learned secret of her beauty was 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #MastoArt

What a resume!

"Without Ms. Berezin, there would be no Bill Gates, no Steve Jobs, no internet, no word processors, no spreadsheets; nothing that remotely connects business with the 21st century."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/obituaries/evelyn-berezin-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE4.oc5E.A_l1UH4EIg2X&smid=url-share

via https://mefi.social/@best_of_mltshp/113260972705254265

#TIL #WomenInTech #WomenInTechnology #WomenInSTEM

Bonus for this one:
Do you know this viral photo of three women doctors, from India, Japan, and Syria?

They were also the first women doctors (with a western degree) in their respective countries. Dr. Anandabai Joshee, Dr. Kei Okami, and Dr. Tabat M. Islambooly.

They were Dr. Susan La Flesche's classmates.

How is this girl squad not a high profile HBO show yet?!

#TVshows #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM

Happy birthday to Russian #mathematician & writer Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevski (1850-1891). Her contributions to analysis, differential equations & mechanics include Cauchy-Kovalevski theorem & the famed Kovalevski top. She was 1st woman appointed to full prof in N Europe or to serve as editor of a major sci journal. She is also remembered for her contributions to Russian literature. 🧵1/n
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#sciart #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #MastoArt #printmakersOfMastodon #mathematics

Next print in progress …

When not having visions or composing music, Hildegard was working in the infirmary, working in the garden, writing medical textbooks and natural history textbooks, corresponding with all the kings and queens of Europe or inventing her own language and alphabet. She’s credited with introducing natural history to German speaking lands so she’s next in my #womenInSTEM series.

#linocut #printmaking #naturalHistory #botany #conlang #histsci

During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" (below) could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.

#histmed #histsci #WWI #warhistory #war #medhist #science #womeninstem #womenshistory #histodon #histodons #twittermigration #twitterexodus

Topic 7: Nature conservation

Book:
The lady and the sharks, by Eugenie Clark

I love a good autobiography by a trailblazing woman scientist, and this one did not disappoint. Eugenie Clark is famous for her work with sharks, even though she also worked with many other fascinating fishes that she writes about with equal enthusiasm.

This one was a very entertaining read, including personal details such as what it's like to dive while pregnant.

#shark #sharks #nature #WomenInSTEM #biography