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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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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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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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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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Ele Willoughby, PhD

For the #printerSolstice2425 prompt silicon my #linocut of brilliant trailblazing US #geologist & prof Florence Bascom (1862-1945) who championed women’s education, & used polarizing microscopes for detailed petrographic analysis to show that rocks previously identified as sedimentary were in fact metamorphosed volcanic rocks she called aporhyolite (implying a change in rhyolite, a silica rich igneous rock, as in her 🧵1/n

My linocut portrait of geologist Florence Bascom as a young woman from neck up, in blue, looking at the viewer with her curly hair pulled back wearing a blouse with large lace collar on green vinyl. Behind her are two geological cross-sections with layers carved with different patterns to indicate different rock materials in black. Below on either side are two circular diagrams: these are thin sections of rhyolite printed in pale beige, brown, and black.
#printmaking#womenInSTEM#histsci
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Jeffrey Yost

In the Twin Cities, please join us TODAY at 5pm (Humphrey Room 105) for a free public lecture by U. of Illinois' standout Prof. of Information Sciences Anita Say Chan, her talk: "Predatory Data."

Co-hosted by UMN CBI for Computing, Information & Culture; & Ctr for Women, Gender & Public Policy. I will give a short framing talk.

@politicalscience
@histodons
@anthropology
@sociology
@commodon

#eugenics
#genderstudies
#womenshistory
#womenintech
#womeninstem
#tech #history

Promotional poster of Prof. Anita Say Chan's lecture, "Predatory Data" to be held on March 6 at 5pm in Humphrey School of Public Policy, Humphrey Building, Room 105.
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