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#womeninstem

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Happy birthday to botanist & photography trailblazer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children!

Atkins’ mother died when she was still an infant, but she was close with her naturalist father & received a much more scientific education than was common for women in her time. Her 250 detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father’s translation of Lamarck’s ‘Genera of Shells’; 🧵1/n

My portrait of Anna Atkins combines a linocut print illustrating her (a Victorian woman in a dress with lace collar in silver ink on white) with a background of a cyanotype with two white fern leaves silhouettes on a Prussian blue.
#sciart#printmaking#linocut
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Happy birthday to 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 and 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, & purposely stood in the way of her learning French, or music,🧵

Linocut portrait of Caroline Herschel against a starry sky with comet and 5 inset diagrams of her observations
#printmaking#sciart#WomenInSTEM
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Starry Time Podcast

Having difficulties loading up my #astrophotography image of the day from #Centaurus

So, instead, how about my favorite fun fact from this week's #astronomy episode on the #constellation Centaurus?

Ptolemy's first name? Claudius.

Listen to the pod here: starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/

starrytimepodcast.podbean.comCentaurus: Cosmic Background | Starry TimeJoin Jordan & Kit as they explore the amazing astronomy of the constellation Centaurus -- the centaur!  Episode transcripts: https://www.starrytimepodcast.com/episode-transcripts  Website: https://www.starrytimepodcast.com/  Social: https://universeodon.com/@starrytimepod Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/starrytimepod     Topics Covered/Keywords: Alpha Centauri, Proxima Centauri, Ptolemy, Johann Bayer, Closest Star, Exoplanets, Super-earth, Planet B, Orbits, Habitable Zone, Parker Solar Probe, Gamma Centauri,  NGC-4650A, Polar Ring Lenticular Galaxy, Lenticular galaxy, NGC 4622, Backward Galaxy, Galaxy mergers, Omega Centauri, globular cluster, Gold Star, Astronomy Constellations, Centaurus, Space, Science
#AstroDon#Space#science
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Mercury, final prompt for #printerSolstice2425, made me think of #alchemy. It is an element the alchemists favoured & felt was fundamental in their efforts to transmute base into precious metals, both in western & Chinese alchemy (from whence western alchemy emerged).

This is my #linocut portrait of an #alchemist known as Master Geng (before ~975, 耿先生; Gěng Xiānshēng, sometimes Kêng Hsien-shêng). 🧵1/n

Inspired by Song Dynasty Chinese painting this is my linocut portrait of Geng Xiansheng outlined in black on ivory paper, seated at a table with alchemical furnace, vessels cups by a building and bamboo plants covered in snow. She has a flower in her hair and wears a green robe. The vessels are red, and blue. The bamboo is green with black. The roof of the building lintel has a red stripe below a pattern of blue and green.
#printmaking#sciart#histsci
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Gesellschaft für Informatik eV

Fakt ist: Es gibt zu wenige weibliche Fachkräfte im IT-Sektor. Fakt ist auch: Viele Frauen verlassen ihn nach einiger Zeit wieder.

Im Vorhaben #Tech2stay stellen wir uns der Frage: Wie gestalten Unternehmen die Bedingungen so, dass Frauen in der IT bleiben und ihr volles Innovationspotenzial entfalten?

#opencall Auf der #INFORMATIK25 kommen Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft zusammen: Bis 7.4. können Beiträge für den Workshop eingereicht werden 👉 informatik2025.gi.de/programmu
#WomeninSTEM

Eine Frau sitzt im Publikum und spricht in ein Mikrofon.
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MPI für Meteorologie

🤔 What's next for climate modeling? 5️⃣internationally recognized #femaleScientists, including #MPI_director Sarah Kang, argue: Instead of picking just 1 path, #climateresearch should embrace #diversity&integrate multiple approaches–e.g., artificial intelligence #AI 🧠, km-scale modeling, & parameter tuning. They show how the past provides us with ample evidence that a diverse strategy is most promising. 🙌 ➡️ mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication
#WomenInSTEM
CC BY 4.0 Bordoni et al. 2025 doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-009

Drawing of three hikers walking towards a summit. A flag with the inscription "improved projection" is waving on the summit. A signpost points in different directions for "conceptual modeling", "machine learning", and "high resolution modeling", but all paths lead to the summit.
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Project Gutenberg

Seeing dark matter in the Andromeda galaxy

By Vera Rubin, from the archives, via @physicstoday

This is a story of why and how Kent Ford and I studied the orbital velocities of stars in the Andromeda galaxy 40 years ago. Our study was influential in the later conclusion that most of the matter in the universe is dark.

pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/arti

Vera Rubin, Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institute of Washington. NASA - These pictures of posed groups from the NASA Sponsors Women in Astronomy and Space Science 2009 Conference
#astrophysics#womeninStem
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💓~eva~💓

it's funny because it's not just a cartoon making a point, but very literally the majority of every interview I've had in tech sectors. There have been some stand-outs, very few and very far between.

nearly as often I've had their type tell me that my experience surely couldn't be this way, simply because they've never considered life from another's shoes. well, surely they must be right, right?

after some time one gets used to the layers of self-censorship, of maintaining a type of professionalism and expressive-pefection and poise so consistently that it becomes not second nature but a long-forgotten absorbed rule of existing once inside the corporate doors.

since the diagnosis I've let down a lot of those walls, those perfections, just to see how life would be. it did not make life easier, that can be said politely.

A woman in white sits alone on a chair, poised and professional, in front of a panel of men in suits, most of whom are slacking in one way or another. An aptly poignent caption at the bottom of the panel says, "Describe what you can bring to the company." -- resonating with so many in STEM who exist solely as the only woman in a workforce specialization dominated not by merit or experience - but of one's sex.
#WomenInTech#WomenInSTEM#InternationalWomensDay
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CH e. V. Kinderwohnheim
..."der Verbesserung gar sehr bedürftig" ist weltweit leider noch sehr vieles. Seien es Bildungschancen, Berufschancen, Lohngefälle, politische Teilhabe, Eigentumsrechte, Zugang zu Gesundheitsversorgung, Schutz der sexuellen und reproduktiven Rechte, Schutz vor häuslicher und sexualisierter Gewalt, Menschenhandel, Zwangsheirat, Ehrenmorde, Genitalverstümmelungen, diskriminierende Rechtsprechung, soziale Normen, Zugang zu Finanzdienstleistungen, Vertretung in Medien, Zugang zu Technologie, Rechte und Schutz von Transfrauen und weitere.

Gerade in einer Zeit, in welcher weltweit Gruppierungen mit einem patriachalen Frauenbild wieder auf dem Vormarsch sind und reaktionär antifeministische Politiker und Parteien auch in Deutschland an Zulauf gewinnen.

Bezüglich des Zitates könnte die anthroposophische Bewegung und die Träger ihrer Einrichtungen sich anlässlich des #weltfrauentag fragen, woran es liegen könnte, dass der Initiator der Anthroposophie, welcher in teilweise engem Austausch zu bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten der ersten Frauenbewegung wie Rosa Meyreder, Gabriele Reuter, Bertha von Suttner und Hedwig Dohm stand, schon Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts progressivere Ansichten vertrat, als der Durchschnitt der anthroposophische Bewegung in den Jahrzehnten hiernach.
Auch hier, in den heutigen gelebten anthroposophischen Zusammenhängen und Einrichtungen, sind diesbezüglich Verbesserungen noch "gar sehr bedürftig" und die Anthroposophie bezüglich ihrer wahrnehmenbaren feministischen Position und Lautstärke nicht da, wo sie ausgehend von ihrem Begründer seien könnte.

#weltfrauentag #internationalwomensday #anthroposophie #rudolfsteiner #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2024 #Gleichberechtigung #Frauenrechte #EmpowerWomen #EqualityForAll #EachForEqual #BreakTheBias #EndGenderGap #TransWomenAreWomen #ProtectTransWomen #TransRightsAreHumanRights #GirlsJustWannaHaveFundamentalRights #StopViolenceAgainstWomen #EndFemicide #NoMeansNo #WomenInSTEM #WomenInPolitics #RepresentationMatters
#representationmatters
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Nina Davtian

On this #InternationalWomensDay, let me highlight two #WomenInSTEM.
First, Amy Cromartie, who leads the following @EuroGeosciences #preprint:
egusphere.copernicus.org/prepr
Second, Devika Varma, who recently defended her #PhD #thesis. Her PhD work at @NIOZnieuws aimed to investigate #paleotemperature indicators based on #archaeal hydroxylated #tetraether #lipids (OH-isoGDGTs):
nioz.nl/en/news/investigating-
#IWD #IWD25 #IWD2025
#Science #ScienceMastodon #AcademicMastodon
#GDGTs #brGDGTs #isoGDGTs
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egusphere.copernicus.orgUtilizing Probability Estimates from Machine Learning and Pollen to Understand the Depositional Influences on Branched GDGT in Wetlands, Peatlands, and LakesAbstract. Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) serve as critical molecular biomarkers for the quantitative reconstruction of past environments, ambient temperature and pH across various archives. Despite their success, numerous issues persist that limit their application. The distribution of brGDGTs varies significantly based on provenance, resulting in biases in environmental reconstructions that rely on fractional abundances and derived indices, such as the MBT’5ME. This issue is especially significant in shallow lakes, wetlands, and peatlands within semi-arid and arid regions, where ecosystems are sensitive to diverse environmental and climatic factors. Recent advancements, such as machine learning techniques, have been developed to identify changes in sources; however, these techniques are insufficient for detecting mixed source environments. The probability estimates derived from five machine learning algorithms are employed here to detect provenance changes in brGDGT downcore records and to identify periods of mixed provenance. A new global modern database (n=2301) was compiled to train, validate, test, and apply these algorithms to two sedimentary records. Our findings are corroborated by pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs obtained from the identical records. These microfossil proxies are utilized to discuss changes in provenance, hydrology, and ecology that influence the distribution of brGDGTs. Probability estimates derived from Random Forest with a sigmoid calibration are most effective in detecting changes in brGDGT distribution. Minor changes in the relative contributions of brGDGTs provenance can significantly influence the distribution of brGDGTs, especially regarding the MBT'5ME index. This study introduces a novel brGDGT wetland index aimed at monitoring potential biases arising from wetland development.
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Starry Time Podcast

On #InternationalWomensDay (and all other days) -- let's celebrate the amazing #women #astronomers who often get left out of history books & pushed to the margins

Learn more (and feel free to comment with others!):

🔗 : starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/

🔗 : daily.jstor.org/eight-women-as
🔗 : space.com/trailblazing-women-i
🔗 : astrosociety.org/education-out
🔗 : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_
🔗 : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_

starrytimepodcast.podbean.comAsterism: Annie Jump Cannon & Spectral Types | Starry TimeJordan and Kit discuss spectral types and the vital contributions of Annie Jump Cannon to this area of research.  Episode transcripts: https://www.starrytimepodcast.com/episode-transcripts Website: https://www.starrytimepodcast.com/ Social: https://universeodon.com/@starrytimepodTimestamps00:00 Intro00:52 Spectral Types04:55 Annie Jump Cannon08:17 Extended Spectral Types11:01 Outro Keywords/Topics Covered: Spectral Types, Annie Jump Cannon, Harvard Classification Scheme, Star Luminosity, Apparent Magnitude, Star Cataloging, OBAFGKM Classification, Red And Brown Dwarfs, Carbon Stars, Wolf-Rayet Stars, White Dwarfs, Astronomy History, Stellar Temperature, Wellesley College, Edward C. Pickering, Henry Draper, Women In Astronomy, Star Color, Stellar Classification
#Astronomy#Science#WomenInSTEM
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Starry Time Podcast

Looking for some #astronomy or #mythology or #zoology or #comedy / #chaos content created by women on #InternationalWomensDay??

Check out our pod here or wherever you listen to podcasts 🤗: starrytimepodcast.com/episodes

If you're looking for:
🔭 astronomy --> Cosmic Background
📜 myths --> Myths & Retcons(tellations)
🐮 🦢 🐐 🐻 🐈 animal fun facts --> Creature Corner
🙃 Chaos/comedy/ "Pop Culture" --> Pop Culture Superstar

STARRY TIME PODCASTEpisodesYou want to hear the pod? Excellent! You can listen to Starry Time on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, YouTube , and a few other services, or you can listen below!
#InternationalWomensDay2025#WomenInStem#Science
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