STEMfem | History of Women + Girls in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics | Sister archives @Wikipatia + @Feministory
Cleveland, Ohio USA
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The blue plaque which commemorates the celebration of the discovery of the structure of DNA has finally been updated to acknowledge Rosalind Franklin.
🔗 newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-news/…
#HERstory
#WomenInSTEM
#WomensHistory
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@Wikipatia is on not on #Bluesky yet due to another party securing the handle | We have requested they kindly turn it over | Good news is #Wikipatia's sister projects @Feministory & @STEMfem have been set up on Bsky at their exact handles! #womenshistory #herstory
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List of Republicans who oppose the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o… #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala #womensrights
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#ShortFilm
London 1851. Dying of cancer & facing down early Victorian sexism, a brilliant mathematician risks a high stakes gamble to raise the money needed to complete her life's object, the worlds first computer.
#Ada #Drama #WomensHistory
Written by & Starring #JulieBruns.
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During #WWII, paleontologist Julia Anna Gardner became the leader of a group known as “The Dungeon Gang” that provided strategic information through analyses of maps, & aerial photographs to the Armed Forces.
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Today would have been the 110th birthday of mathematician Marjorie Lee Browne. She was one of the first Black women to earn a PhD in mathematics (1949) and was a foundational figure in computerizing and running the math dept at @NCCU. #womeninSTEM
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This summer, the Milky Way will be visible without a telescope during moonless nights.
Key viewing dates are:
July 8
July 28
August 7
August 26
September 6
September 24
October 5
Viewers should find dark-sky locations and avoid bright moonlight for optimal visibility. The Milky Way can be seen from March to September in the Northern Hemisphere and for a longer period in the Southern Hemisphere.
👉 capturetheatlas.com/best-tim…
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One of my favorite #July4th memories with @Astro2fish!
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Happy Freedom Day!Juneteenth is celebrated on June 19, 1865, when enslaved Black people in Galveston, finally learned of their freedom from slavery in the United States. While we celebrate, let’s continue to commit to the liberation of Black Americans. C/o @christine_e_bee
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Only 7% of 2022’s energy #StartUp founders were women. To grow the #GreenEconomy, we must rethink cultural, educational, and financial barriers to #WomenInSTEM, as I discussed with Romain Boitard and @MariaLvova for the @etfeuropa podcast: shorturl.at/x9hDN
🔋New #podcast alert: Are women left behind in the green transition? How can #greenskills bring opportunities for them?
✨Featuring @Gwenaelle_huet, @SchneiderElec and R. Boitard, ETF, we delve into the critical need for inclusivity in renewable energy
👂shorturl.at/x9hDN
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Releasing into circulation today! The Dr. Mary Edwards Walker Quarter is the 13th coin in the American Women Quarters™ Program. Learn more about the coin and the honoree at bit.ly/3Q5ObsY. #HerQuarter @SIAmericanWomen @womenshistory @WCPInst
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#OTD in 2022, a sign was unveiled designating part of 101 Freeway in Encino as Dr. Sally Ride Memorial Highway. Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel (D–Woodland Hills, 2nd from right), introduced the measure to honor the pioneering astronaut, who grew up in Encino. cbsn.ws/38QfjJ4
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Today we celebrate the life of aerospace engineer and first female astronaut of Indian descent, Kalpana Chawla. Dr. Chawla flew to space on STS-87 in 1997 and spent 15 days in space in 2003 before her tragic death when space shuttle Columbia broke up on reentry. #AANHPI
ALT Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist for the STS-107 mission, scans a booklet with paperwork for equipment at SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral, Florida., during crew training in 2002.
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Eva Ekeblad | Swedish agronomist & scientist
She discovered a method to make alcohol & flour from potatoes, which led to significantly reducing Sweden's incidence of famine.
First female member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1748. She died #OTD in 1786.
#WomenInSTEM 🇸🇪
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It's #InternationalNursesDay2024. Nurses have been & remain critical in times of both war & peace and women have particularly occupied these roles, serving around the world.
To all who have served we say THANK YOU. #nurse #womenatwar #womenshistory
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4/2/1647 — b. Maria Sibylla Merian, German artist, entomologist, naturalist. Scientific illustrator/painter who studied plants and insects. Created highly detailed paintings of her research; influenced the course of natural history illustration #womenshistory #womenartists #OTD
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NASA's newly graduated astronaut class includes @astro_deniz Burnham, who got a BS in chemical engineering at @UCSanDiego, home of Sally Ride Science. The campus, where Sally Ride taught physics after leaving NASA, has produced several female astronauts: go.ucsd.edu/497mUfi
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Saturday would have been the 182nd birthday of Susan Jane Cunningham, who founded the astronomy department at @swarthmore College in 1869, and chaired both the astronomy and math departments from 1888 to 1906. You can also read about her in my History of Women in Astronomy!
