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Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg, founded in 1971, is the oldest producer and distributor of free ebooks. For more information, visit our website at: www.gutenberg.org
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June 1980: Vera Rubin Publishes Paper Hinting at Dark Matter
Work by Rubin, a champion of women in science, suggested that galaxies contain hidden mass.
By Tess Joosse (from the archives)
https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2023/05/vera-rubin-paper-dark-matter?fbclid=IwdGRleASUAXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeYSbuALAcaZwSI4UwuQI6x64UXZ03eQgILkOr8PUSR64Tmh6BLEDT_goHXIg_aem_FRZJfLYwV0aYrvV256iXtA
Her autobiographical article is available online:
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-astro-081710-102545
#Books #Astronomy #WomenInStem
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@minouette@spore.social
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Jun 08, 2026
Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social
Artist, printmaker and marine geophysicist. Settler in Tkaronto (she/her)
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Happy birthday to autodidact #mathematician Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940), shown here with diagrams of cross-sections of 4D polytopes from her publications.
Alicia came to math honestly. Her father Prof George Boole developed Boolean logic, but died when she was 4. Her mother Mary Everest Boole was an autodidact mathematician & innovative math educator, who taught kids math through manipulation of objects.
🧵1/5
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4459151187
#womenInSTEM #histsci #mathematics #geometry #mastoArt
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May 01, 2026
Brains Matter
@brainsmatter@mastodonapp.uk
Host of the Brains Matter podcast - the show on science, curiosities, and general knowledge. Runner-up Best Oz Sci Microblogger 2010, Did a TEDx once. Please subscribe to me at https://youtube.com/@brainsmatterpodcast?sub_confirmation=1 or follow the audio podcast at http://www.brainsmatter.com
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How unhealthy ultra-processed foods are designed and marketed to make us crave them https://theconversation.com/how-unhealthy-ultra-processed-foods-are-designed-and-marketed-to-make-us-crave-them-281217 #health #science #WomeninSTEM
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Apr 20, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons
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Apr 18, 2026
Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg, founded in 1971, is the oldest producer and distributor of free ebooks. For more information, visit our website at: www.gutenberg.org
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Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science
From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early 1900s, computing joined teaching and nursing as one of the few careers open to college-educated women, and it opened doors that few other professions could
by Diana Turnbow
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/04/06/before-computers-were-machines-they-were-womenhere-are-six-places-where-human-computers-built-modern-science/
#womeninstem #computerscience
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Apr 16, 2026
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Project Gutenberg, founded in 1971, is the oldest producer and distributor of free ebooks. For more information, visit our website at: www.gutenberg.org
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Eiffel Tower to gain symmetry with addition of women’s names
Women will join men in being honored on the Paris icon. The inspiration for the gender parity came from student and Eiffel Tower tour guide Benjamin Rigaud.
by Toni Feder
https://physicstoday.aip.org/news/eiffel-tower-to-gain-symmetry-with-addition-of-womens-names
A brochure with information about each of the women scientists is available here:
https://www.femmesetsciences.fr/_files/ugd/10ca83_3838bd19a41a4e83927cfc8fe0f50404.pdf
#womeninstem
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@minouette@spore.social
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Apr 01, 2026
Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social
Artist, printmaker and marine geophysicist. Settler in Tkaronto (she/her)
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Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. Her work on elasticity theory won her the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathematician #womenInSTEM #histsci
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@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
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Feb 11, 2026
David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @davidjamesweir
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Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
It’s important to remember that actively working towards a welcoming safe environment for everyone in science isn’t just the decent thing to do (I’d argue it’s the bare minimum), it also means we do better science!
Take, for example, this study showing underrepresented groups innovate more than their peers (but their work is not taken up by the wider community):
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915378117
#AcademicChatter #WomenInSTEM
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@minouette@spore.social
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Dec 11, 2025
Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social
Artist, printmaker and marine geophysicist. Settler in Tkaronto (she/her)
spore.social
Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #mastoArt
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Nov 28, 2025
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.
Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
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