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Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday to botanist & photography trailblazer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children!Atkins’ mother died when she was still an infant, but she was close with her naturalist father & received a much more scientific education than was common for women in her time. Her 250 detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father’s translation of Lamarck’s ‘Genera of Shells’; 🧵1/n<a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/cyanotype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cyanotype</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womensHistoryMonth</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday to Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a>. Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, & purposely stood in the way of her learning French, or music,🧵<a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomer</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDMercury, final prompt for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printerSolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printerSolstice2425</a>, made me think of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/alchemy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alchemy</a>. It is an element the alchemists favoured & felt was fundamental in their efforts to transmute base into precious metals, both in western & Chinese alchemy (from whence western alchemy emerged).This is my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> portrait of an <a href="https://spore.social/tags/alchemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alchemist</a> known as Master Geng (before ~975, 耿先生; Gěng Xiānshēng, sometimes Kêng Hsien-shêng). 🧵1/n<a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Project GutenbergSeeing dark matter in the Andromeda galaxy By Vera Rubin, from the archives, via @physicstodayThis is a story of why and how Kent Ford and I studied the orbital velocities of stars in the Andromeda galaxy 40 years ago. Our study was influential in the later conclusion that most of the matter in the universe is dark.<a href="https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/59/12/8/387114/Seeing-dark-matter-in-the-Andromeda-galaxy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/59/12/8/387114/Seeing-dark-matter-in-the-Andromeda-galaxy</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womeninStem</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDMy ongoing series of portraits of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/iwd2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iwd2025</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDFor <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InternationalWomensDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InternationalWomensDay</a> a short thread of my ongoing series of portraits of women in science through history. If you look for them, they’re there. I’m up to 67 now! Here’s to the day when a scientist’s sex is no longer remarkable in any field!<a href="https://spore.social/tags/IWD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IWD</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/IWD2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IWD2025</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scientists</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Project GutenbergCelebrating Women’s History Month Celebrate Women’s History Month with JSTOR Daily. We hope you’ll find the stories below a valuable resource for classroom or leisure reading.By: The Editors <a href="https://daily.jstor.org/womens-history-month-editors-picks/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://daily.jstor.org/womens-history-month-editors-picks/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womensday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womensday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womeninStem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womeninart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WomensDay2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensDay2025</a>

Project GutenbergYears After the Early Death of a Math Genius, Her Ideas Gain New LifeA new proof extends the work of the late Maryam Mirzakhani, cementing her legacy as a pioneer of alien mathematical realms.By Kristina Armitage<a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/years-after-the-early-death-of-a-math-genius-her-ideas-gain-new-life-20250303/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.quantamagazine.org/years-after-the-early-death-of-a-math-genius-her-ideas-gain-new-life-20250303/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mathematics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womeninStem</a>

Project GutenbergLucy Evelyn Cheesman: the woman who walked.Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (1881-1969), OBE, was an English entomologist best known for her extensive solo expeditions in the South West Pacific. Over the course of her trips, she collected around 70,000 specimens of insects, plants and other animals for the Natural History Museum.By Kerry Lotzof<a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/lucy-evelyn-cheesman.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/lucy-evelyn-cheesman.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/explorers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#explorers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womeninStem</a>

Project GutenbergThe female explorers who braved the wilderness but were overlooked by the history booksBy Sarah Lonsdale<a href="https://theconversation.com/the-female-explorers-who-braved-the-wilderness-but-were-overlooked-by-the-history-books-249742" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/the-female-explorers-who-braved-the-wilderness-but-were-overlooked-by-the-history-books-249742</a>Books by Mina Benson Hubbard at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1422" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1422</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/explorers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#explorers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womeninStem</a>

The Conversation U.S.Tu Youyou, a Chinese medical researcher, played a vital role in discovering artemisinin, the most powerful antimalarial drug therapy available today. She found a key hint in a 4th-century BC medical text, which she combined with the insight that conventional techniques for extracting medicine from herbs might destroy the active ingredient. <a href="https://buff.ly/wTP5qXa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://buff.ly/wTP5qXa</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/WomenInStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInStem</a> 🧪 🔭

The Conversation U.S.Know her name: Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) made contributions to <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> that are still important to the field today. Among her achievements: she was the first woman credited with discovering a comet (she found 8 in all). “Herschel is just one in a long line of female astronomers who did not receive the credit they were due and whose work was used to justify prizes for male scientists instead.” <a href="https://buff.ly/7WXAzUa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://buff.ly/7WXAzUa</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/WomenInStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInStem</a> 🧪 🔭

Ele Willoughby, PhDFor the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printerSolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printerSolstice2425</a> prompt sodium, my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> of Marie Meudrac (c. 1610-1680), a woman in science right at the transition between alchemy & chemistry. Born to a land-owning family, she moved to the Château de Grosbois after marrying, where she became good friends with Countess de Guiche. She wrote ‘La Chymie Charitable et Facile, en Faveur des Dames’ [Easy Charitable Chemistry for Ladies]. She had her own lab where she tested all 🧵<a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Project GutenbergAmerican philosopher and psychologist Mary Whiton Calkins died <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> in 1930.Calkins' work informed theory and research of memory, dreams and the self. In 1903, Calkins was the twelfth in a listing of fifty psychologists with the most merit, chosen by her peers. Calkins was refused a Ph.D. by Harvard University because of her gender.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whiton_Calkins" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whiton_Calkins</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womeninStem</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDFor <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackHistoryMonth</a> pharmaceutical <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chemist</a> Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/leprosy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leprosy</a>. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for women & Black scientists.⁠ ⁠ Ball studied <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. 🧵1/n<a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Project Gutenberg"We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics."~Katherine Johnson (August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mathematics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womeninStem</a>

Project GutenbergKatherine Johnson died <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> in 2020.Her work included calculating trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for Project Mercury spaceflights, including those for astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn, and rendezvous paths for the Apollo Lunar Module and command module on flights to the Moon. Her calculations were also essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, and she worked on plans for a mission to Mars.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mathematics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womeninStem</a>

Project GutenbergAmerican physician Sara Josephine Baker died <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> in 1945.In 1917, she noted that babies born in the United States faced a higher mortality rate than soldiers fighting in World War I, drawing a great deal of attention to her cause. She also is known for (twice) tracking down Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Josephine_Baker" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Josephine_Baker</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publichealth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/preventive_medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#preventive_medicine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womeninStem</a>

Hilda BastianParis Adkins-Jackson is an epidemiologist who uses mixed methods to study structural racism – including with NIH funding. Originally from South Central LA, she's now at Columbia Uni.I've created a Wikipedia page for her: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Adkins-Jackson" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Adkins-Jackson</a>See also: <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/capture-racism-s-impact-health-one-epidemiologist-suggests-going-beyond-conventional" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/content/article/capture-racism-s-impact-health-one-epidemiologist-suggests-going-beyond-conventional</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInSTEM</a>

Project GutenbergDanish seismologist and geophysicist Inge Lehmann died <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> in 1993.She is best known for her discovery in 1936 of the solid inner core that exists within the molten outer core of the Earth. The seismic discontinuity in the speed of seismic waves at depths between 190 and 250 km is named the Lehmann discontinuity after her. Lehmann is considered to be a pioneer among women and scientists in seismology research.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Lehmann" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Lehmann</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/seismology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seismology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geophysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womeninStem</a>

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