Lmst

This year’s #PrinterSolstice prompts are math themed, which seems perfect for my #womenInSTEM series. The first prompt, “addition” made me think of the greenhouse effect, excess additional atmospheric CO2 and the resulting excess terrestrial temperatures. It made me think of a scientist who has been on my to do list for years: Eunice Newton Foote. The reason I have not tackled her portrait 🧵

#EuniceNewtonFoote #histsci #climateScience #atmosphericPhysics #linocut #printmaking

My carved green vinyl Lino block on a cutting mat shows a Victorian woman in dress with apron and sleeves working at a table. She’s viewed from over her shoulder so you can only see her cheek and not her whole face. She has an open book in which she is writing. There is an air pump to one side and two large glass cylinder, each with two thermometers inside.

#TalDíaComoHoy en 1956, Chien-Shiung Wu lleva a cabo el Experimento de Wu, donde se contradecía la ley de la conservación de la paridad, considerado incontrovertible durante 30 años. Sin embargo, fueron sus colegas Tsung-Dao Lee y Chen Ning Yang quienes ganaron el Nobel de Física. #WomenInSTEM

106 years ago UK's Women's Engineering Society becama fully incorporated organisation #OTD 24 Dec 1919. Founders Eleanor Shelley-Rolls; Rachel Parsons; Katharine Parsons Janetta Mary Ornsby; Margaret D Rowbotham; Margaret Moir & Laura Annie Willson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Engineering_Society
@CarveHerName
#WomenInSTEM #OTD #ChristmasEve

The Woman Engineer magazine header "the organ of the Women's Engineering Society" showing train, crane and automobile and ship.

Vera Sandberg #Swedish #engineer. 1914 only woman among 500 male students at Chalmers University of Technology, graduating 1917 to become #Sweden's 1st female engineer. Statue erected 2019, 2 streets & hot air balloon named after her. b. #OTD 23 May 1895 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Sandberg #WomenInSTEM @CarveHerName

#TalDíaComoHoy en 1919, la inventora Alice H. Parker patenta una nueva y eficiente caldera que proporciona calefacción central para casas y edificios enteros. #WomenInSTEM

y'know, I appreciate the help and coaching i get from folks online. but I do get tired of the thinly-veiled misogyny.
#WomenInSTEM #Technology #SelfHosting #Jellyfin #HomeAssistant #FuckYesIDidItMyself

Meet Professor Carlotta A. Berry: She’s Redefining STEM Education Through Inclusion, Robotics, and Storytelling https://shinemycrown.com/meet-professor-carlotta-a-berry-shes-redefining-stem-education-through-inclusion-robotics-and-storytelling/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #STEM #Inclusion #Robotics #Education #WomenInSTEM

Looking at the history of shortlisted and winning books for this prestigious popular science writing prize, I’m kinda shocked but not shocked how terrible the gender balance has been historically… only moderating slightly in the past few years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society_Science_Book_Prize

For many years, the shortlists are all men.

The question is whether the gender balance of authors writing (or rather, being paid to write) good popular science books has suddenly improved – or has the nomination and shortlisting process improved?

#WomenInSTEM #AllMalePanels #AllMalePanel #SciComm

#TalDíaComoHoy en 1898, Marie y Pierre Curie descubren el radio. Poco tiempo antes, el matrimonio de físicos ya había descubierto el polonio, que debe su nombre al país natal de Marie, Polonia. #WomenInSTEM

Fue además una de las mujeres que hicieron posible que una persona pisara la Luna, calculando la trayectoria para la vuelta a Tierra. Otras #MoonWomen: Margaret Hamilton, JoAnn Morgan, Katherine Johnson, Judy Sullivan, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary W. Jackson... 👇 #WomenInSTEM

#TalDíaComoHoy en 1968, la gran Frances «Poppy» Northcutt se convierte en la primera mujer en la sala de control de la NASA con la misión Apolo 8. Incansable luchadora por los derechos de las mujeres 💪💪💪 Conocerla ha sido uno de los regalos que me ha dado la vida. #WomenInSTEM

Day 20 #artAdventCalendar my newest #womenInSTEM #linocut: trailblazing Canadian aeronautical engineer Elsie MacGill (1905 – 1980), born in Vancouver, became the first woman aeronautical engineer & professional aircraft designer in North America, & likely the world. She collaborated on many of Canada’s famous & innovative bush planes & aircraft components, was entirely responsible for Canada’s Maple Leaf Trainer II, 🧵

#printmaking #histsci #engineering #aviation #aeronautics #mastoArt

Lino block portrait of aeronautical engineer Elsie MacGill shows her from the shoulders up wearing a suit and glasses with wavy short hair back, with a Hawker Hurricane above her and several tiny ones flying in front of her as well as a Maple Leaf Trainer II airplane by her head. The print is made in an ink gradient of green at the top, followed by gold in the middle and green again at the bottom on cream coloured Japanese washi paper, 9.25” x 12.5”, numbered, titled “Elsie MacGill, Queen of the Hurricanes” and signed Ele Willoughby, 2025.

Durante la II Guerra Mundial, las mujeres realizaron el 80% de vuelos ferry. Se les conocía como las WASP (avispas) – Women Airforce Service Pilots. #TalDíaComoHoy en 1944, se disuelve esta asociación sin dar ningún beneficio o reconocimiento a sus integrantes. #WomenInSTEM

#MilevaMaric, nata 150 anni fa, non fu soltanto la moglie di #AlbertEinstein. Prima donna a frequentare il Corso di #fisica al Politecnico di Zurigo, collaborò col marito alla formulazione della Teoria della relatività. Ci volevano 2 donne per raccontarla: #LilianaCavani, regista della miniserie #TV linkata, e #GabriellaGreison che, oltre ad aver scritto questo libro, si batte perché le venga riconosciuta una laurea postuma - RaiPlay https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/einstein

@cultura

#physics #WomeninSTEM

Day 19 #artAdventCalendar my #linocut of Italian #neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 – 2012) who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with for her co-discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF)

Youngest of 4 of a Turin Jewish family, she planned to be a writer but the death of a nanny to cancer inspired her to pursue medicine. Inspired by neurohistologist Levi to study nerves as an undergrad, 🧵

#womenInSTEM #sciart #histsci #histmed #printmaking

In a gradient of magenta-red at the top to navy blue at the bottom, this is my linocut print of of neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini in 1940, at a desk with compound binocular microscope, leaning on an incubator, holding an egg and looking at the viewer. Behind her is a large circular image of a photograph of nerve cells she took with this microscope

#TalDíaComoHoy en 1875, nace Mileva Marić. Física brillante a la sombra de su marido, Albert Einstein. Las cartas entre ambos hablan de «nuestros trabajos» y de «nuestra teoría del movimiento relativo». Al divorciarse acordaron que si él ganaba el Nobel, ella se quedaría con el dinero. #WomenInSTEM

Day 18 #artAdventCalendar my #linocut of Marie Meudrac (c. 1610-1680), a woman in science right at the transition between alchemy & chemistry. Born to a land-owning family, she moved to the Château de Grosbois after marrying, where she became good friends with Countess de Guiche. She wrote ‘La Chymie Charitable et Facile, en Faveur des Dames’ [Easy Charitable Chemistry for Ladies]. She had her own lab where she tested all her remedies & 🧵

#printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt

My linocut portrait of Marie Meurdrac in her laboratory is printed on 11” x 14” white Japanese paper in a gradient of dark blue at the bottom to gold at the top. A 17th century lady in a dress with hair piled on top of her head is leaning on a table with head resting on one hand as she reads a book. She is surrounded by tools of her trade like vessels of various shapes, scales and has shelves of jars with alchemical symbols on them. There is text, carved in reverse with elongated s’s with a quotation, ‘Les Esprits n’ont point de sexe’ (or minds have no sexe… that is, one’s sex is irrelevant to the ability to think and learn). There are medicinal plants (rosemary and tansy) hanging above her. In the furnace are flames, tongs and crucible.

El #TalDíaComoHoy es muy especial para mí por mi pasado como sysadmin: en 1951 nace Radia Perlman, conocida como la madre de internet (aunque ella lo odia porque cree que es muy presuntuoso) por ser la creadora del protocolo Spanning Tree, básico para Internet. #WomenInSTEM