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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 2d ago
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Happy birthday to #physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) who explained #nuclear #fission. She worked with chemists Hahn & Straßmann in 30s Berlin, investigating whether there were any stable elements beyond uranium. They discovered bombarding nucleus of U-235 with neutrons actually triggered it to fission, or break, into 2 nuclei of roughly half the size & some free neutrons! 🧵1/ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/112254970 #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM ⁠
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 1w ago
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Happy birthday to 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 luminous discharge tube, a Lane electrometer, 🧵1/ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4436745646 #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #physics #linocut
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 2w ago
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For day 23 #spacetober_challenge nebula: Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life & career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, & 🧵1/ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/187140629 #linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 3w ago
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Happy birthday to trailblazing programmer & computer scientist, Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley (1921-1972). My #linocut shows Worsley seated at the first computer in Canada, the FERUT (which she named) & a flow diagram of one of her programs.⁠ ⁠ Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in computer science anywhere, & was supervised by Douglas Hartree and Alan Turing at Cambridge. Amongst the first computer scientists in 🧵 https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/595780026 #WomenInSTEM #printmaking #sciart #histsci
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 3w ago
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Happy birthday to Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992! She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer and choreographer, formed and runs her own company researching the application of technology 🧵 ⁠ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/190530111 #linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 4w ago
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Day 12 #spacetober_challenge is Roman Space Telescope so I made a portrait of its namesake #astronomer Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018), NASA's 1st chief of astronomy throughout the 60s & 70s, who helped shape the space astronomy program. Nicknamed "mother of Hubble" for her role in planning the revolutionary Hubble Space Telescope, she was active in science communication & an advocate for #womenInSTEM throughout her career. 🧵1/ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4586474964 #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 1mo ago
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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
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossb_oxford@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
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I never thought I'd see the day. Charles Darwin is currently trending above two porn-related articles, Luke Evans, and Kit Connor in Attitude Magazine! 🙃 The power of #histsci . . . Thank you, one and all — please keep sharing. Here's the article: https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/literature/darwins-queer-creatures-532721/ #reading #writing #science #nature #animals #Darwin #evolution #history #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
The hidden queer history of Charles Darwin's biological research, from Swallowtail butterflies to emus
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The hidden queer history of Charles Darwin's biological research, from Swallowtail butterflies to emus

In his new book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, historian Dr Ross Brooks finds that Victorian naturalists can teach us a thing or two about the nature of sex

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossb_oxford@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago
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I'm hyperexcited that QUEER ORIGINS will be published in the UK on Tuesday! Just a reminder that discount code HSS26 (from the recent history of science conference in Edinburgh) gets you a cracking 30% off the book from my publisher's website until the end of August: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ As it stands, I think it remains the cheapest way to buy it (£17 with free UK postage). 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🦋 #book #books #history #science #nature #Darwin #histsci #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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Fabienne Gallaire @Lignedescience@social.sciences.re
· 3mo ago
Un fil fascinant sur l'histoire à la fois surprenante et prévisible du ginseng canadien : https://bsky.app/profile/maitre-poulard.bsky.social/post/3mrtrze74v726 #histsci #histnat #globalhistory
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Suave Morbida (@maitre-poulard.bsky.social)

En 1709 en Mandchourie, le jésuite Jartoux découvre lors d'une expédition géographique pour le compte de l'empereur de Chine un spécimen de ginseng. Il en réalise un dessin et une description détaillée, publiés en 1713 dans les Lettres édifiantes et curieuses des jésuites 🧵1/8

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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 3mo ago
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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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossb_oxford@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago
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Just a reminder that discount code HSS26 (from the recent history of science conference in Edinburgh) gets you a cracking 30% off my book, and free UK postage, from my publisher's website until the end of August. 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🦋 https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ #book #books #history #science #nature #Darwin #histsci #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossb_oxford@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago
I've written about Charles Darwin's surprisingly queer science of sex in the latest issue of History Today! 🏳️‍🌈🦚 :transgender: 🦋 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/charles-darwins-sexual-revolution#Darwin #science #nature #history #Victorian #histsci #sex #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
Charles Darwin’s Sexual Revolution
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Charles Darwin’s Sexual Revolution

The potential implications of Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection did not sit well with Victorian gender mores – or with Darwin himself.

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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 3mo ago
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
· 3mo ago
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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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 3mo ago
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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