Women in Science: Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes 1890-1980
Few African-American women were involved in STEM subjects over the Twentieth Century, and there are still not as many as there should be. However one successful mathematician in that period was both...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Mary Leakey 1913-1996
Louis Leakey is justly famous as the discoverer of a number of fossils of early man at Olduvai Gorge. However the effort became a family affair very early, with his wife Mary Leakey, as well as his...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Margaret Mead 1901-1978
Margaret Mead was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 16, 1901. She was the first born of a professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania and a sociologist who studied Italian...
View ArticleFurther Thoughts on Women in Science
I have now published 45 diaries on woman in science, dating from the time of Hypatia to the end of the Twentieth Century. An index of these, arranged by the date on which I posted them follows below...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Ynes Mexia 1870-1938
As I have noted in earlier diaries, women were much more involved in scientific exploration than is commonly thought. This was especially so in the botanical sciences and one such woman was Ynes Mexia....
View ArticleWomen in Science: Alice Hamilton 1869-1970
Occupational health and safety has been in the news a lot recently as discussions of safety in the work place burgeon on the Internet. This was one of the reasons for the Labor Movement during the...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718-1799
The usual common belief that women are bad at mathematics meets its match in Hypatia and several other lesser known female mathematicians. One of these was recognized in her lifetime as the second...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Dorothy Hodgkin 1910-1994
There was another woman, besides Rosalind Franklin, who engaged in X-ray chrystallography who actually won a Nobel Prize. Her name was Dorothy Hodgkin. Her work was with proteins, not DNA, and she was...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Nettie Stevens 1861-1912
Determination of sex in humans was a puzzle until a woman who was a cytological researcher uncovered the reason. Nettie Stevens was born in Vermont on July 7, 1861, just as the Civil War started to get...
View ArticleEugenie Clark - 1922-2015
I am taking the liberty of writing a diary on a female scientist whom I never met and who died in the 21st Century (in fact this very year.) This is in large part because of her 1951 book "Lady With a...
View ArticleWitch Hunt, Or Why I Dislike #DistractinglySexy
Yesterday I saw a number of Facebook posts displaying the responses of women scientists to some remarks a Nobel laureate made. According to the Time:Hunt, who told a room full of high-ranking...
View ArticleThe power of STEM engagement can bring a smile to your face
As a rare diversion from 'energy' focus, here is a story that should bring a smile to anyone concerned about science, science education (STEM), empowering women in science, entomology, how...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: The Helms Amendment
The part of this diary about the Helms Amendment was originally published at the Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona blog.This Sunday, December 17, is the 44th anniversary of the Helms...
View ArticleSnake Filled Head She Devil Goddesses Won't Make Your Dinner
We hell-bent she-devils are too busy saving the world to cook your dinner. Women instigated the two largest days of protest in the U.S. and every single person who marched came here via a woman. Women...
View ArticleThe 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics - First Woman Nobel Laureate in 55 years
The Nobel Prize in Physics was announced this morning. The prize is shared by three physicists for their “groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” -Arthur Ashkin, Bell Laboratories,...
View ArticleDr Helen Cox on Bacterial DNA Sequencing for Susceptibility to First-Line TB...
by Marilynn Larkin for Reuters via https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/902832NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sequencing bacterial DNA can predict drug resistance and susceptibility to first-line TB drugs,...
View ArticleThe 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Frances Arnold is the Fifth Woman to Win...
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year is shared by three scientists for their pioneering work in the fields of directed evolution and phage display, which apply the power of evolution at the molecular...
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Minnesotan Girl Pulls 1500 Year Old Sword From Swedish Lake (Really!)
A Minnesotan 8 year old girl found an antique, Pre-Viking sword while swimming in a Swedish lake. The girl, named Saga Vanececk, had relocated from Minnesota to Sweden with her family.However: Strange...
View ArticleThe Nobel Peace Prize 2018 - Awarded to Two Tireless Campaigners against...
The Nobel Peace Prize 2018 was awarded jointly to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."The Nobel committee, in its...
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Resistance 2020 - Live Blog Evening Edition 02|11|19 -
xFreshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing backlash after suggesting Republican support of Israel is fueled by donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a prominent...
View ArticleA Celebration of Women in Science on International Women's Day
Friday March 8 was International Women’s Day. Here is a (belated) diary celebrating women in science.Let’s celebrate the legacy of women and their contributions to science over the years. Let’s...
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Moroccan Rihab Sadik Contributes Her Biomed Skills to NASA’s ISS GroundCrew
As NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Nick Haguespacewalked seven hours March 29 to upgrade the ISS solar power grid, they were monitored by an ISS Biomedical Flight Controller and Medical...
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Gaza Woman Engineer Majd Mashharawi - Three Inventions the world needs,...
“...politics failed us, so we decided to bring the solutions ourselves...” On April 22, kosak mosesfreeman brought a terrific new TEDTalk video by Majd Mashharawi to Morning Open Thread. I haven’t...
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Swedish-NativeAmerican Iraqi-Israeli CoPilot gal+ Russian & Arab...
“You know what they say: teamwork makes the dream work!”Group 21 portrait at the Johnson Space Center Space - the 8-member 2013 class of NASA astronaut candidates, in front of an Orion mock-up on...
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This Week in the War for Women: Fighting-for- Independence-Well-Armed Edition
Readers may want to quick-scroll down for a fast notion of what’s here. Feel free to pick’n’choose, since it’s pretty long — my feelings won’t be hurt, and anyway you can always come back again later...
View ArticleThe woman who helped land Apollo 11's Eagle
NASA, in its drive to get humans to the lunar surface, was a rather white organization doing manly things. It wasn’t going to put women into space, by any means. John Glenn once said, “the men go off...
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NASA Live: Oleg Skripochka, Jessica Meir & Hazza Al Mansouri Launch to...
UPDATE: NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, Cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and the UAE’s first space traveler, Hazzaa Ali Almansoori, on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft,...
View ArticleAll-female crew flies 120 girls to NASA to celebrate International Girls in...
On Oct. 5, a Delta plane took off from Salt Lake City, Utah, bound for NASA in Houston, Texas. The plane was filled with 120 Utah girls enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)...
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POTUS* flipped the bird at Astronaut Jessica Meir
Donald Trump, sad man-baby, had another episode of the continuing meltdown yesterday as he flipped the bird at a woman who showed him up. This display of passive-aggressive nonverbal anger is no way to...
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Ethiopian women's rights pioneer Bogaletch Gebre, instigator of "community...
”What is good for women is good for the community,” Ethopian social entrepreneur and community activist Dr. Bogaletch [said in an interview] sixteen years ago …“What I discovered in our work … is not...
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Isabel Ellie Knaggs finally gets credit for her crucial discovery, 91 years...
We need to set the record straight about something.It’s now taken for granted that carbon compounds like methane have a tetrahedral structure:MethaneBut I wanted you to know who first determined this...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women 5/10/2020-5/16/2020: Steps Forward and Back
There continues to be a lot of Covid-related news, and it’s generally not good for women. So let’s take a few minutes to admire some fighters amongst us, and see some suggestions for how to be fighters...
View ArticleCheryl Contee, co-founder of inclusive tech initiative #YesWeCode, sums up...
Cheryl Contee, CEO and co-founder of Do Big Things, is also a co-founder of the tech inclusion initiative #YesWeCode, a national program that helps low-income youth of color gain education and...
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👩🏽🔧This Week In The War On Women: nmn* edition.
<big><big>📌</big></big>Ashton Glover Gatewood, 31, a member of the Choctaw Nation and descendent of both the Chickasaw and Cherokee Nations, has long lamented the glaring lack...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread. Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails, that's what...
Morning Open Thread is a daily, copyrighted post from a host of editors and guest writers. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, respectful dialogue in an open...
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This Week in the War on Women, 3/21-27/2021: Toxic Elite White Male Culture...
Adam Oakes with his little brother. Photos shared by bereaved family.Adam Oakes, 19, died on February 27, 2021. Stone Foltz, 20, died on March 7, 2021. Neither had Covid. Both were white males. Both...
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📌This Week In The War On Woman: The VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT - now...
h/t DigitusImpudicus<big>Christina Nance, reported missing two weeks ago,found dead inside a police van</big> parked at law enforcement offices in Huntsville,...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women, 10/31-11/6/2021
I have been writing for NaNoWriMo, so my brain is otherwise occupied and I haven’t thought of anything to write up here! I hope to write strong female protagonists and others. And not be too...
View ArticleSounding the Alarm on Climate Change
The electronic ringing was so loud and shrill I had to cover my ears. The smoke alarm in our kitchen was going off because the spicy eggplant my husband and I were cooking had been on the stove a bit...
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ThisWeekInTheWarOnWomen: Black & women judges trailblazed the crucial...
Ketanji Brown JacksonIS HEREfor us all because the path to Supreme Court nomination was paved by the tiny handful of notwhitemen on that bench before, and by Black women judges at state and...
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WOW2: August's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History - August 1...
“Feminism is the radical notionthat women are human beings.”― Cheris Kramarae, Women’s Studies ScholarWOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. This edition covers...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
I apologize for the shortness of this diary — my copy and paste function is not working, so I cannot include quotations. I hope the URLs I copied by hand are accurate. Please let me know if any of them...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
When taking away abortion rights, anti-choicers hide behind the fig leaf of rationalization that there will be exceptions when a pregnancy is life-threatening. As we’ve been warning all along, those...
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This Week In The War On Women: 2/4/2023 Edition
This Week In The War On Women: 2/4/2023 Remember MMIWDk images library Chrysalis Uploaded by: xaxnar(In some positive news):"Monarch butterflies wintering in California...
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ThisWeekInTheWarOnWomen "Invisible Warriors"- 600,000 Women of Color Break...
h/t 007pandas — 2016 This image of an unknown (?) welder is briefly onscreen at one point in the video.<big>fox9.com/videoThe Black 'Rosie the Riveters': The 600,000 women of color who broke...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women - 'Tis the Season
I admit that I’m not feeling very festive this holiday season. I volunteered for this week’s WoW diary because Jews always work on Christmas in hospitals and such places. When my son was young (he’s...
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🌍This Week in the War on Women: news good & bad + open thread.
NativeNewsOnlineMichigan Attorney General Dana Nessel creates the Missing or Murdered Indigenous People Task Force...Studies indicate that nearly 85 percent of Indigenous women experience violence in...
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Top Comments: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu
Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by...
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Top Comments: Cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock
Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by...
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Morning Open Thread: Girlfriends - Women in Science - Jerry Garcia - Chubby...
AUGUST is: National Black Business Month National Water Quality Month National Wellness MonthAugust 1st is:Day of the Convention to Prevent and Combat Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence:...
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