#International Day of Women in Science

[noaasanctuaries]

Happy International Women's Day!

We're celebrating the women of our National Marine Sanctuary System and the amazing contributions they make to ocean conservation!

Thank you for all that you do!

Want to learn about some of our favorite sanctuary heroes? Visit the links below!

[strawlessandbraless]

Happy International Women’s Day! To my ladies in SCIENCE 🧪 🧬🔬🔭🧫🦍🐒🌿🌳🍄🚀🛰️

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

[darlingillustrations]

Introducing Dr. Wiggy, who is both a Hedgehog (to celebrate National Hedgehog Day, 2 February) and a Female Scientist (to celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February)

Dr. Wiggy will be featured on my February calendar patreon reward next month!

[arthistoryanimalia]

Excellent resource for #InternationalWomensDay via @histsciart :

[theoriginalearthbender]

*Revives*

HAPPY WOMENS DAY!!!!!! ♡♡♡♡

*Dies again*

*Puts random Allison photos*

[elgaberino-mcoc]

VALERIA RICHARDS has been added to the MCOC Wishlist

The (second?) smartest person in all of Marvel has had a circuitous route to adulthood, but there are multiple ways to faithfully adapt the youngest Richards for 1v1 combat in the Battlerealm. @MarvelChampions #MCOC

[katiajewelbox]

Women’s History Month March 2024

Discover a bouquet of women botanists and plant scientists from history!

Barbara McClintock

Why does Native American flint corn (Zea mays) often have a multicoloured mosaic pattern of kernel colours? The biological answer is transposons or “jumping genes”! Dr. Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was the American cytogeneticist who discovered that certain genetic loci can change position on chromosomes, a phenomenon called “transposition”, using multicoloured corn as the model organism between 1948 and 1950. McClintock courageously pursued her calling as a biologist despite societal attitudes discriminating against women in scientific careers. She went on to win the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for her work on transposons.

Janaki Ammal

The first woman to earn a PhD in botany at a university in the USA was actually from India! Janaki Ammal (4 November 1897 – 7 February 1984) was born in Kerala, India, to a family of civil servants. She travelled to the USA via scholarships for Asian students and earned both a Masters degree and PhD from the University of Michigan by 1931. At the John Innes Centre in the UK, she co-authored the Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants (1945). Later in her career she worked on breeding superior varieties of sugarcane and eggplant in her home country.

Estelle Leopold

A botanist interested in both the past and the future of plant life, Estelle Leopold (January 8, 1927 – February 25, 2024) pioneered the use of fossilised pollen and spores to document environmental changes over vast time periods. Her research uncovered connections between climate change and evolution plus extinction of plant species, including trends of the central regions of continents experiencing more species turnover than coastal areas. Her work as a conservationist led to the protection of the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Colorado, and she also helped prevent the building of dams in the Grand Canyon as well as oil shale development and the transport of nuclear waste in the Pacific Northwest.

#womeninscience#womenshistorymonth#plantscience#botany#barbaramcclintock#scientist#womenscientists#botanists#janakiammal#estelleleopold#history#inspiringwomen#WomenInSTEM#womeninplantscience#PlantBiology

[rjdavies]

Celebrating Black History Month: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

On a mission … celebrating Black History Month with amazing and inspirational Black Women for the rest of the month and continuing into March to celebrate not only inspirational Black Women but International Woman’s Day.

Born September 15, 1977 (45 years old) Enugu Nigeria

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, her father was a professor there and her mother was the first female Registrar there.  she graduated from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science. She also has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Arts degree in African History from Yale University. 

She has written several books and has appeared on TedTalks

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED Talk

She is best known for her themes of politics, culture, race and gender. Her novel, short stories, and plays have all received both public and critical acclaim. She warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. 

R. J. Davies

A Riveting Jacked-In Dreamy Mind-Bender

RJ Davies - Science Fiction Author, Maddox Files, Novels

[loversveil]

compilation of some of my  library displays ive made

[ID: a pinboard made for international womens’ day, with a variety of famous influential women authors arranged on the board. the “for $1 name a woman” meme is placed in the centre, and the text has been edited to say “for $1 name a woman author”. my students have been asked to match the names up with the authors, and they are failing miserably. they have labelled sappho as elizabeth bronte, and angie thomas as mary shelley. end ID]

[ID: a display made for national science week. many of the letters have been made into science themed objects, i.e: the “A” is a ruler, the “I” is a test tube, the “O” is a planet, and the word “science” is covered in green slime. end ID]

[ID: a display made for NAIDOC week (NAIDOC stands for National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Day Observation Committee). the Australian Aboriginal flag is hung in the centre, and the board has paper cutouts of eucalyptus leaves and stars scattered around. end ID]

[ID: a close up on the NAIDOC week board. a map of the australian state of victoria is shown, with the lands labelled with their tradtional owners shown, rather than the colonial names and borders. notable/populated cities are labelled externally with string, showing which Peoples land the city was erected on. end ID]

[ID: a close up on the NAIDOC week board. a small amount of common Woiwurrung vocabulary is shown, with pronunciation guides and translations. Woiwurrung is the language spoken by the indigenous peoples of Narrm (colonially known as melbourne) and its surrounding areas.

full text as follows:

Woiwurrung: (woy-WUH-rung) - The language spoken by the Wurunjderi people, the traditional owners of this land.

Wominjeka: (wommin-JI-ka) - Welcome

Twaganin: (TWUH-ga-NIN) - Farewell

Kirrip: (kir-rip) - Friend

Biik: (bEEk) - Country*

Darrang: (dar-RUNG) - Tree

Narrm: (nar-rm) - The land Melbourne is on

Winmali: (WIN-muh-li) - North

Gurrin: (Gooh-RRIN) - South

Galen bariem: (GAH-len BUH-rri-em) - East

Mumilam: (MOOH-mi-lum) - West

please not that I am not Indigenous, nor do I speak Woiwurrung. I transcribed the pronunciation of these words to the best of my ability from this video by Wurundjeri woman and Woiwurrung language expert Mandy Nicholson.

* Country is the term often used by Aboriginal peoples to describe the lands, waterways and seas to which they are connected. The term contains complex ideas about law, place, custom, language, spiritual belief, cultural practice, material sustenance, family and identity. Source link: AIATSIS

end ID.]

[ID: a pinboard display for valentines day that reads “blind date with a book”. the words are made of pink and red papercut letters, and the letter ‘O’s in the word book are frilly hearts. the display is surrounded by paper cut hearts. end ID.]

[ID: a lunar new year display, centred around a paper bunny. the board is covered in traditional chinese new year decorations, including hongbao and lucky tassels. various messages around the board wish students a happy new lunar year, such as 新年快樂 (chinese), happy new year (english), 새해 복 많이 받으세요 (korean), chúc mừng năm mới! (vietnamese), and Амар байна уу? (mongolian) as these are the some of the most prominent groups of students at this school that celebrate this holiday. end ID]

hope u enjoyed!! I change the displays every week or so, so theres about ~40 other themed displays ive done that i could post if anyones interested ^_^

[pandynogatonga]

#WomenInScience

[artejoke]

It’s a cure thing

Peter Paulus Rubens, Lady Alethea Talbot, Countess of Arundel, 1620, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel was a famous patron and art collector, and one of England's first published female scientists. She wrote Natura Exenterata, a book containing medicinal recipes using native herbs and plants.

[czardasm]

08.03.23 | Hearing the diva Maria Callas

[milkywayan]

Happy international women's day to my fellow women in science, who always have to do extra work to proof ourselves to male colleagues and collaborators! We are strong and smart and are changing the world! We are the role models of little girls today, who will soon reach for the stars themselves!

[iamanathemadevice]

Space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock given Barbie honour

A space scientist, best known for presenting BBC One's The Sky at Night and CBeebies Stargazing, is to be honoured with a Barbie doll.

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock has been named as a Barbie Role Model for her work promoting science careers to girls.

It comes ahead of International Women's Day on Wednesday and British Science Week from 10-19 March.

[arthistoryanimalia]

Resharing this blog post about one of my favorite Marianne North works for #InternationalWomensDay:

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for Wild Koala Day: “Australian Bears and Australian Pears”

Marianne North (British, 1830–1890)

Australian Bears and Australian Pears, c. early 1880s

oil on board, H 69.2 x W 34.9 cm

Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens, Richmond, UK

[womeninscienceday]

We must – and we can – do more to promote women and girl scientists.

On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we highlight a simple equation: More women and girls in science equals better science.

Women and girls bring diversity to research, expand the pool of science professionals, and provide fresh perspectives to science and technology, benefiting everyone.

There is growing evidence that gender bias in science is leading to worse outcomes, from drug tests that treat the female body as an aberration, to search algorithms that perpetuate bias and discrimination.

Yet in too many places around the world, women and girls’ access to education is limited or denied completely.

As women look to progress in scientific careers, inequalities and discrimination continue to thwart their potential.

Women make up under a third of the workforce across science, technology, engineering, and maths and even less in cutting edge fields. Just one in five professionals working on Artificial Intelligence is a woman.

We must – and we can – do more to promote women and girl scientists:

Through scholarships, internships, and training programmes that provide a platform to succeed.

Through quotas, retention incentives, and mentorship programmes that help women overcome entrenched hurdles and build a career.

And crucially, by affirming women’s rights and breaking down stereotypes, biases, and structural barriers.

We can all do our part to unleash our world’s enormous untapped talent – starting with filling classrooms, laboratories, and boardrooms with women scientists.

United Nations Secretary-Genral on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2023; February 11th.