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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · 5d ago

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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

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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Aug 04, 2026

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

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Gina @Gina@fosstodon.org · Jul 31, 2026

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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

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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Jul 30, 2026

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

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social · Jul 28, 2026

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

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Assn for Computing Machinery @ACM@mastodon.acm.org · Jul 24, 2026

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

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David Batz(DavBatz) @davbatz@mastodon.social · Jul 22, 2026

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

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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Jul 25, 2026

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

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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Jul 24, 2026

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

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NPR Topics: Science @npr_science@robot.villas · Jul 23, 2026

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

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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Jul 19, 2026

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

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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Jul 16, 2026

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

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social · Jul 16, 2026

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

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social · Jul 12, 2026

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

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NPR Topics: News @npr_news@robot.villas · Jul 05, 2026

Construction is a man's game. These women are demolishing the barriers https://www.npr.org/2026/07/05/g-s1-129643/construction-business-women-kenya #WomenInSTEM #Business #BreakingNews

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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Jul 04, 2026

Happy birthday to #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. My portrait of Leavitt is printed in silvery lavender ink on Japanese kozo paper. Behind her is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of time (t). She is printed over constellations in gold (Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Draco, Ursa Minor & Andromeda). ⁠🧵1/ ⁠ #linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #sciart #histsci #astronomy #mastoArt

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Fabienne Gallaire @Lignedescience@social.sciences.re · Jul 02, 2026

"Milk sickness is a kind of poisoning that affects individuals who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on the white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol." "Dr. Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby is credited with identifying the plant in the 1830s. Legend has it that she was taught about the plant's properties by a Shawnee woman." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_sickness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageratina_altissima#Toxicity #histsci #histnat #histmed #womeninSTEM

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