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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 Over two decades at MIT, Hamilton forged new paths in computer science and engineering. Her groundbreaking work included leading the team that programmed the first computers that took humans to the moon. https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007 #womeninstem

Exclusive: How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51 ByTim Appenzeller https://www.science.org/content/article/how-did-rosalind-franklin-miss-helix-her-iconic-dna-image-she-didn-t #womeninstem

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

Day 23 #SciArtSeptember prompt is copper so I am sharing my #linocut of the first woman to earn a doctorate in science, physicist and professor Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (née, & known throughout her life as Bassi, 1711-1778). I’ve shown her surrounded by the sort of state-of-the-art instrumentation she would have used in her lab to investigate electricity: an electrical machine, conductors, an aurora flask, a 🧵 https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4436745646 #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #physics

Renae recalls the phrase "systematic wonder", the best framework humans have developed to make sense of reality. You're convening with reality, working with the best version of it you have, knowing you can update that understanding as you go. The rigour, the peer review, the process is all in service of that. Frame it as wonder and the process is one you can explore, revel, and delight in, too. https://podbite.link/bites/QgM6mpfL Watch or listen to the full episode: https://steampoweredshow.com/shows/renae-sayers Transcript available. #WomenInSTEAM #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #Science The quote "systematic wonder" comes from A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini & Richard Lannon.

In 1925, 24-year-old graduate student Cecilia Payne calculated that the Sun and other stars were composed overwhelmingly of hydrogen and helium—a result so contrary to accepted astronomy that senior astronomer Henry Norris Russell called it “clearly impossible,”.... By Deep Field · Edited by Lachlan Brown https://spacedaily.com/t-cecilia-payne-russell-hydrogen-helium-companion/ Stellar atmospheres at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73996 #books #astrophysics #Womeninstem

Happy birthday to #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist and Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ ⁠ Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the Trail of Tears, Ross attributed her success in math to the Cherokee tradition of encouraging equal education for boys and girls. 🧵1/ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/634592877 #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #Indigineer #SpaceRace #planetaryScience #linocut #mastoArt

Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize. 🧵1/ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1086564033 #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSTM #computing #mathematician #sciart #compsci

Ever wondered how to get more women into STEM? The small stuff matters more than you think.

• 100 points to the @UniversityofAmsterdam@mastodon.online 's STEM faculty at Amsterdam Science Park for offering free feminine hygiene products in their bathrooms. 🔥

#UvA #sciencepark #WomenInSTEM #Amsterdam

Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.⁠ ⁠ After studying #geology & math, Maurice ‘Doc’ Ewing at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia hired her to draft 1000s of echo sounder profiles. 🧵1/5 https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/217247292 #sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #linocut

What Barriers Do Women in Science Face When Trying to Publish? Jennifer Rubin Grandis on Confronting Systemic Bias in Academic Publishing https://lithub.com/what-barriers-do-women-in-science-face-when-trying-to-publish/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KYHP2V3AGZV51X2JZCJ12Z8A&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER Books in Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/706 #books #WomenInStem

Congratulations to Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Computer Science at the U.K.’s University of Southampton, on winning the prestigious Sir Frank Whittle Medal! 🏆 Former ACM President & current ACM Publications Board Co-Chair, she continues to advocate for safety, diversity, and societal impact in tech. 💡 Look out for her new book, AI Explained, coming out this September! 📚 https://cacm.acm.org/news/dame-wendy-hall-receives-sir-frank-whittle-medal/#WomenInSTEM #AI #ComputerScience #TechNews

Good Morning! It is Wednesday July 22. In 1915, Begum Shaista Ikramullah was born. She was a Bengali Pakistani politician from Bengal, diplomat and author. She was the first Muslim woman to earn a PhD from the University of London. She was Pakistan's ambassador to Morocco. #Herstory #WomeninSTEM

Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to #carbon & #virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠ ⁠ Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” While it’s important 🧵1/ #linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt #sciart⁠

Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.⁠ ⁠ Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. 🧵 https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/578429732 #printmaking #sciart #BlackInSTEM #womenInSTEM #histsci

In a first, Chinese woman wins the prestigious Fields Medal https://www.npr.org/2026/07/23/g-s1-135032/in-a-first-chinese-woman-wins-the-prestigious-fields-medal #Science #Math #WomenInSTEM

Happy birthday to Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011) medical physicist & Nobel laureate for radioimmunoassay for measuring concentrations of molecules in blood. Born to an immigrant Jewish family in the Bronx she went to Hunter College, tuition-free, their 1st physics major & graduated with honours by 19. WWII meant the chance for grad school for woman. At U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, she was only woman amongst 400 in engineering. 🧵 https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4463578733 #womenInSTEM #histsci #physics

Happy birthday to amateur pioneering American scientist, inventor & women’s rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888) who did the earliest experiments to show the insulating effect of certain gases & correctly concluded that increasing carbon dioxide levels would affect atmospheric temperature and climate, which we now call the Greenhouse Effect. This discovery was often attributed to later studies by male scientists. 🧵 #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #HistSci #climateScience

Marie Curie Died From Her Radioactivity Research, So How Did They Decontaminate Her Lab And Turn It Into A Museum? When her notebooks are so radioactive they can’t be touched, how is it safe to walk into the lab Curie worked in for decades? by Stephen Luntz https://www.iflscience.com/marie-curie-died-from-her-radioactivity-research-so-how-did-they-decontaminate-her-lab-and-turn-it-into-a-museum-84079 Books by Mme Curie at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39174 Musée Curie in Paris: https://musee.curie.fr/ #books #womenInStem

Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), mathematician, physicist & translator By Marie Lebert https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/translators-marie-lebert-contributor/emilie-du-chatelet-mathematician-physicist-translator/ Books by Émilie du Châtelet at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/56975 #books #literature #translators #WomeninStem