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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Wishing a happy 80th birthday to Ukrainian astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravleva, who between 1972 and 1992 discovered some 213 minor planets and served as president of the Crimean branch of the Prince Menshikov Foundation. #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #BookSky

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YNotWomen @ynotwomen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Dr. Jasmine Clark PhD #education #nurses #medicine #publichealth #science #WomenInSTEM #STEM 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 congratulations on her win #CelebratingWomen #woman #politics

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Fun tidbit: During #WWII, the Navy thought "phantom" subs were stalking their ships. They were baffled. 😉 Marie Fish identified it wasn't the enemy—just very "loud" fish (croakers, snapping shrimp). She saved the Navy from wasting torpedoes on marine life & saved the fish from the Navy! #WomenInSTEM

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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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Women in Neuroscience UK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

How did Alzheimer’s research shift from viewing the disease as “just ageing” to understanding its genetic basis? This blog explores Dr Alison Goate’s groundbreaking discovery of an APP gene mutation linked to familial Alzheimer’s disease, and how it reshaped modern neuro research

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Scottish pediatrics trailblazer Helen Marion Mackay was born 135 years ago today. In the 1920s her studies uncovered the link between iron deficiency and pediatric anemia, in recognition of which she was the first woman to be made a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, in 1934. #WomenInSTEM

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Lady Charlotte Guest was born 214 years ago today. She published her translation of an important paper on Hot Blast techniques in 1836, and assumed control of the Dowlais Ironworks after the death of her husband in 1852. Here is her story. tinyurl.com/y5fnujbe #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory 🏭

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Lady of Iron: The Life of Victorian Industrialist Lady Charlotte Guest.

There was a time, during the Golden Age of Railroads, when the name of the small Welsh town of Dowlais was stamped on iron rails that ran the length of the developed world. Dowlais Ironworks was a ti...

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Dorothy McFadden Hoover (1918–2000): aeronautical research scientist & mathematician whose work was critical to the development of modern jet flight & foundational to the F-86 Sabre, America’s first successful swept-wing fighter jet. (1/2) It's National Women in Aerospace Day! #WomenInSTEM #avgeek

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Happy birthday to #paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 – 1847)! 🧪🐡⚒️ #histsci She was the wrong class, sex & religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work & communicate her results or garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime most people thought

Linocut print of Mary Anning in green in large coat and bonnet with geological hammer and basket in front of blue lias cliff in silver with fossils she found

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Fossil collector & self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning's discoveries revolutionized our understanding of prehistoric life. "The greatest fossilist the world ever knew," she made her finds in the Jurassic marine fossil beds along the cliffs of Lyme Regis (UK). Born #OTD in 1799. #WomenInSTEM

A historical oil painting portrait of Mary Anning (1799–1847), the pioneering British fossil hunter, paleontologist, and self-taught scientist from Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Painted by B. J. Donne in the 19th century (posthumous or based on contemporary sketches), it depicts her standing outdoors on a rocky coastal shore under a dramatic, stormy sky with dark clouds and a glimpse of the sea and distant cliffs in the background. She wears a long, dark green cloak with a hood, a red neck scarf, and a wide-brimmed bonnet tied under her chin. In her gloved right hand she holds a geological hammer (her iconic tool), and a small wicker basket hangs from her left arm, likely for carrying fossils. A loyal black-and-white dog (possibly her famous companion Tray) lies curled at her feet on the rocks. Mary Anning stands with a calm, resolute expression, gazing slightly upward and to the side, conveying quiet determination and intelligence. The painting's muted tones and romantic style emphasize her as a lone figure in a rugged, fossil-rich landscape, symbolizing her groundbreaking contributions to early paleontology despite societal barriers as a working-class woman.

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WilliaminaFlemingAstronomer @imaginedmemoir.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

#OTD, 21 May 1911, Williamina Fleming died of pneumonia at age 54. Of her life's work, H H Turner wrote "As an astronomer Mrs. Fleming was somewhat exceptional in being a woman; and in putting her work alongside that of others, it would be unjust not to remember that . . .

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WilliaminaFlemingAstronomer @imaginedmemoir.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Yes! And you can read my carefully researched imagined memoir of her life:

Cover of the book Williamina Fleming, Astronomer by Susan Vizurraga with vintage photo of Fleming at work

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Female Scientist of the Day @fsotd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Rita Levi-Montalcini Nobel prize winning biologist known for her work isolating Nerve Growth Factor. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Levi-Mon… #womenInSTEM

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Neuroscientist Patricia Goldman-Rakic would have been 89 years old today. Her work in the 1970s showed us on a molecular level how working memory functions through loop firing and local suppression. Sadly, she passed away in 2003 at just 66 years old. tinyurl.com/5n7evkh6 #WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧠

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Making Working Memory Work: The Multidisciplinary Neuroscience of Patricia Goldman-Rakic

You’re a monkey, and somebody in a white lab coat has shown you a location where a delicious, ever-so-nummy, bit of banana has been placed, and then obscured your visual field. It is up to you, my goo...

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STEMfem @stemfem.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

4/22/1917 — b. Ruth A. M. Schmidt, American geologist, paleontologist, environmentalist, educator. Part of the Military Geology Unit (WWII)+US Geological Survey, Washington, DC during McCarthyism(1946-55). Founder, USGS field office, U of Alaska #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #GeoSky #PaleoSky #HIstSci

Ruth A. M. Schmidt standing next to a "Danger" barrier with Alaskan mountains and glaciers in the background

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is shifting the focus from climate despair to policy implementation & scaling science-based solutions for coastal cities. #EarthDay +Co-founder, The All We Can Save Project to foster a feminist climate renaissance +Co-author, Blue New Deal #WomenInSTEM

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Girls Leadership Academy Meetup (GLAM) @glamreadytolead.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy #EarthDay. 🌍💚 The environmental challenges of our generation will be solved by the generation we're raising right now. Every girl who cares is the beginning of a scientist. Let's make sure she knows she belongs in that room. 💗🌱 #GLAMReadyToLead #EarthDay2026 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

#NASA computer scientist, mathematician & rocket scientist Annie Easley developed code for the Centaur rocket stage, used to launch the Cassini probe. Her energy research laid foundations for hybrid vehicle batteries and solar/wind power. She was born #OTD in 1933. #WomenInSTEM #computerscience

This historical photograph features Annie Jean Easley (1933–2011), a trailblazing NASA computer scientist and mathematician whose work on the Centaur rocket stage was pivotal to space exploration. Easley is shown in a medium shot, standing confidently in a NASA control room. She is dressed in a professional, pale peach-colored suit with a high-neck blouse and a matching scarf detail, accessorized with classic gold hoop earrings. Her expression is focused and resolute as she looks slightly past the camera, holding a wooden clipboard and pen as if in the middle of a technical evaluation.

The background is dominated by a massive, complex schematic control board filled with red lines, indicator lights, and technical labels. A small, yellowish-bordered inset photo on the wall depicts a laboratory setting. The composition places Easley as the central figure of authority within a highly technical environment. The mood is one of serious intellectual pursuit, capturing the dignity of a woman who broke racial and gender barriers to power the future of flight and renewable energy.

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Chemist Sinah Estelle Kelley was born 110 years ago today. After World War II, she joined the US Dep of Agriculture research team that was working on the mass production of penicillin, and in 1958 she began her career with the Atomic Energy Commission. #WomenInSTEM #BlackSky #BlackWomenInSTEM ⚛️

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

On this eve of International Day of Human Space Flight🚀 meet Poppy Northcutt. As the first woman engineer in Mission Control, she didn't just break a glass ceiling—she calculated the Trans-Earth Injection that brought Apollo 11 & Apollo 13 home. #WomenInSTEM #Apollo11 #NASA (1/2) 👇

A black-and-white historical photograph of Poppy Northcutt, the first female engineer in NASA’s Mission Control, seated at a console during the Apollo era. She is a young woman with long, blonde hair, wearing a dark top and a large communication headset. She is looking toward a male colleague seated next to her, her hands resting on open manuals and documents. The workstation is filled with period-appropriate technology, including a large console with numerous buttons, dials, and small monitors. In the background, other male staff members are visible at their own stations, creating a busy, professional atmosphere.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

What does a black hole sound like? 🎤🎶🧪 Astrophysicist @erikahamden.bsky.social breaks down how the supermassive black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster releases energy into the surrounding hot gas, generating enormous pressure waves that ripple through the cluster.

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Mathematician Ada Isabel Maddison was born 157 years ago today. In 1892 she took the Tripos and would have been 27th Wrangler, but on account of her gender she was not given the degree she had earned. She spent 3 decades at Bryn Mawr as a teacher and admin, retiring in 1926. #WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

🚀 Astronaut, neurologist & photographer Dr. Roberta Bondar was #Canada's first female astronaut (1992). The world's first neurologist in space, she is globally recognized for her contributions to space medicine. #WomenInSTEM robertabondar.com It's International Day of #HumanSpaceFlight!🚀

Official NASA portrait of Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut. She smiles confidently in an orange NASA space suit, holding her helmet, with the US and Canadian flags behind her (left and right, respectively). A mission patch on her suit reads “STS-42 Discovery – International Microgravity Laboratory.

Dr. Roberta Bondar in the field (at the edge of Lake Elementaita, Kenya, watching for lesser flamingoes.) as a wildlife and nature photographer. Seated inside an open safari vehicle, she peers intently through a large telephoto camera pointed toward a sunlit African savanna landscape with water and distant trees under a clear blue sky. She wears a light hoodie and glasses on a cord.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🔭 American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon died #OTD in 1941. Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today. #WomenInSTEM #astronomy #AstroSky

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STEMfem @stemfem.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

4/13/1891 — b. Vesta Stoudt, American inventor. Inventor of duct tape. Sent FDR a ltr (1943), identified a problem + offered her tested idea as a solution to seal boxes w/ a tearable waterproof cloth tape. The #War Production Board approved her idea #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #InventorSky #gov #IP

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Kristen Oh Yeah @thekristeno.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Can't not re-share this article I wrote for @teenvogue.com back in 2017, when Christina Koch had only been an astronaut for about two years. Spoiler: she's always been incredibly cool and inspiring, what a joy of a human! #ArtemisII #ChristinaKoch #womeninSTEM #spacestuff

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Here's EXACTLY What It's Like to Train for Space Travel

Including must-know info about getting your period while among the stars.

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WilliaminaFlemingAstronomer @imaginedmemoir.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

www.nasa.gov/image-detail... Welcome to the newly-identified craters to be named Integrity and Carroll, somewhere to the left or possibly over that horizon. A good view of large crater Orientale, usually only partially visible to us. Image from NASA, April 6 2026.

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Orientale on Display - NASA

art002e009212 (April 6, 2026) In this fully illuminated view of the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth), is visible on the right. It is identifiable by the dark splotches that cover...

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WilliaminaFlemingAstronomer @imaginedmemoir.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

A brief article on Williamina Fleming, co-written by one of the former Harvard research professionals who helped me with my novel about the Scottish-American maid who became an astronomer www.aip.org/history/will... #WomenInSTEM #Astronomy #astrohistory

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Williamina Fleming: Early life and introduction to Edward Pickering

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Rose Dieng-Kuntz would have been 70 years old today. The first African woman admitted to the Ecole Polytechnique, she soon rose to the top rank of computer scientists through her work on the semantic web and research on parallelism and ontology in early AI systems. #WomenInSTEM #WHM #CompSci 💻

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Rocket & jet propulsion engineer Yvonne Brill invented the Electrothermal Hydrazine Thruster & holds the patent. It keeps satellites in orbit. Recipient, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, 2010. She died #OTD in 2013. #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth #engineering

Black-and-white portrait photograph of Yvonne Brill, shown from the shoulders up against a plain studio background. She has short dark hair with straight bangs, wears a dark blazer over a lighter top, and a white beaded necklace, and looks directly at the camera with a slight closed-mouth smile.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Elsie MacGill was the first woman in the world to earn a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering (1929). The "Queen of the Hurricanes" was a pioneering Canadian aircraft designer who led production of the Hawker Hurricane fighter planes during #WWII. She was born #OTD in 1905. #WomenInSTEM

Black-and-white close-up portrait photograph of Elsie MacGill, the pioneering Canadian aeronautical engineer known as the “Queen of the Hurricanes.” Shown from the shoulders up, she has short, wavy light hair, wears thin round wire-rimmed glasses, and a light collared blouse under a darker jacket, looking slightly toward the camera with a calm, neutral expression against a plain studio background.

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STEMfem @stemfem.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

3/27/1724 — b. Jane Colden, American botanist, illustrator. The first female botanist in the US; first wmn to master the Linnaean system of botany. Researcher, cataloger of 300+ native North America & NY plant species(1753-58) #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #womenartists #PlantSky #SciSky #HistSci

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Neurologist Nathalie Zylberlast-Zand was born 143 years ago today. She was one of the key early figures in Polish neurology, working alongside Edward Flatau, publishing some 100 works on meningitis and myeloid leukemia before dying in a Nazi concentration camp in 1942. #WomenInSTEM #WHM #BookSky

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

#OTD in 1964, Yvonne Barr co-discovered the Epstein-Barr virus, the first known 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 tumor virus. She cultured the cell lines that allowed the virus be seen. Proving viruses cause human cancer is "one of the 20th century's most significant scientific discoveries." #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth

Black-and-white close-up portrait photograph of Yvonne Barr, the Australian-born virologist who co-discovered the Epstein-Barr virus in 1964. She is shown from the shoulders up against a brick wall background, wearing a short-sleeved polka-dot dress and dangling earrings, with short dark hair. She is turned slightly to her right, gazing off-camera with her mouth parted as if in mid-conversation.

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Association for Women in Science @awisnational.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

March is Women’s History Month. All month we are celebrating women who contributed to the advancement of science and the next generation of women in STEM. Visit awis.org/historical-women-scientists to read about pioneering women in science and tell us who to add to our list. #WomenInSTEM

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Mathematician Helen Abbott Merrill was born 162 years ago tomorrow. For nearly four decades, she was a tentpole presence at Wellesley college, where she served as dean of the math dep and wrote two college textbooks that were in use throughout the 1910s and 1920s. #WomenInSTEM #MathSky #BookSky 🧮

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Day 29 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: Puerto Rican suffragist and scientist Ana Roqué de Duprey! Roqué rethought civil rights for Puerto Rican women, fighting for equality beyond the vote. She wrote a study of Caribbean botany and an astronomical text called “The Sky of Puerto Rico.” #herstory

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Association for Women in Science @awisnational.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Marie Tharp was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer, recognized in 1997 by the Library of Congress as one of the four greatest cartographers of the 20th century. awis.org/historical-women/marie-tha… #WomenInSTEM Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Tharp worked with Bruce Heezen on mapping the ocean floor, drawing maps from data that Heezen collected, as women were barred from working on ships at that time.

In 1977, they published the first complete world map of the ocean floors. That work helped to prove the theory of plate tectonics, a controversial idea at that time.

Tharp was recognized in 1997 by the Library of Congress as one of the four greatest cartographers of the 20th century.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

#OTD in 1936, Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann wrote a famous letter to a colleague outlining her theory that seismic waves (P-waves) recorded from distant earthquakes indicated Earth had a solid inner core. Her discovery fundamentally changed our understanding of the Earth's interior. #WomenInSTEM

A vintage sepia-toned portrait photograph of Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann taken in 1932, at around age 44. She is posed formally against a softly draped curtain backdrop, gazing directly at the camera with a calm, intelligent, and composed expression. She has short, neatly waved dark hair and wears a simple, elegant dark blouse or dress with a light-colored V-neck insert or scarf tied loosely. The image captures her poised and thoughtful demeanor during the early years of her groundbreaking career in seismology, before her landmark discovery of Earth's solid inner core in 1936. #seismology #WomensHistoryMonth

Educational diagram in exploded view showing the internal layers of the Earth. From left to right: a cutaway globe with blue surface and white continents labeled “CRUST,” followed by the thick brown mantle labeled “MANTLE,” the red outer core labeled “OUTER CORE,” and the small yellow inner core labeled “INNER CORE.” A complete blue globe with continents appears on the right for scale. All layers are separated horizontally to reveal the structure.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Biochemist Florence Seibert developed the Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) in the 1930s. Before her work, TB skin tests were inconsistent & unreliable. Her PPD formula was adopted as the internat'l standard (1952) & remains the gold standard for TB testing today. #WorldTuberculosisDay #WomenInSTEM

Vintage black-and-white studio portrait of American biochemist Florence Barbara Seibert (1897–1991), shown from the shoulders up. The young woman has short, dark, wavy 1920s-style hair parted on the side, wears round wire-rimmed eyeglasses, and offers a gentle smile toward the camera. She is dressed in a light-colored blouse with a ruffled collar. A studio imprint reading “A. F. R. S. Chicago” appears in the lower right corner.

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Dame Edith Brown was born 162 years ago today. Educated at Girton and the London School of Medicine for Women, in 1894 she established India's first medical school for women at Ludhiana, and for the next 58 years served as its principal, retiring in 1952 at the age of 88. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #WHM

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STEMfem @stemfem.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

3/24/1911 — b. Jane Beverley Drew, English architect, town planner, author. Modernist #feminist architect; one of the best modernist architects in the U.K. Founder of an all-women #architecture firm (1940); a #designer of many important structures worldwide #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #MathSky

Jane Beverley Drew looking at an architectural home model with a male co-worker

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Feminist Science @feministscience.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

In 1922, African American home agents in South Carolina reported that canned produce from their demonstrations exceeded $79,000. Unlike white female agents,they emphasized earning money, rather than saving #feministscience #womeninSTEM #womenshistorymonth

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Jeanne Guiot French engineer #WWI metallurgist 4 navy & heavy industry. Feminist, promoted women's access 2 scientific & civic opportunities. 1922 1st woman member Société des ingénieurs civils d'France. 1 of 72 #WomenInSTEM 2B added 2 Eiffel Tower b #OTD 24 Mar 1889 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_...

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 20/03/2026

Making technology more accessible is a self-perpetuating process with boundless impact, says Dr. Jasmeen Kanwal, just like the "endlessly growing tree" of Admiral Grace Hopper's early computer programmes: #WomenInSTEM royalsociety.org/blog/2026/03/grand…

A woman in a military-style uniform stands with arms crossed in front of a computer system. There are several large reels of magnetic tape and visible labels on the equipment. The person appears confident and composed.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Happy birthday to 🇨🇦Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme histochemistry, still used in imaging of

Linocut portrait of biochemist and medical researcher Maud Menten (1879-1960) with the Michalis-Menten equation in blue and a histology image in pinks and purples in the background.

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Bettye Washington Greene would have been 91 years old today. In 1965, she became the first Black woman chemist hired by Dow chemicals, where she remained until retirement in 1990, rising to the rank of senior research specialist thanks to her work on latex improvement. #WomenInSTEM #WHM #ChemSky 🧪

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