Happy 308th Birthday to Laura Bassi!! She was an early expert on electrical phenomena and the first woman to obtain a full professorship in Europe! https://t.co/DYlvTTEJLR

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Even if you can’t make it to today’s Edit-A-Thon, we still want to hear from you! Which Wikipedia articles about women environmentalists and ecologists would you like to see improved?

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There’s still time to register for tomorrow’s Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon! Join us for a day dedicated to improving Wikipedia’s representation of women in science. https://t.co/DM2BmcdVy1

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New post out tomorrow! "The Petrified Fern" by Mary Bolles Branch is about how time may reveal the worth of an apparently "useless" thing, like a very small fern. Featuring super awesome guest art by !

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Perfect picture book pairing: ADA BYRON LOVELACE AND THE THINKING MACHINE and GRACE HOPPER: QUEEN OF COMPUTER CODE.

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Snippets from my Women Scientists series. Check our the rest at https://t.co/igGKisnbeG

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In collaboration with the series presents Laura Bassi - Physicist & the 1st woman to become a professor in a scientific field in the EU https://t.co/VdOzZjJFVE
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Adverts from 1967 serving some female scientist realness

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As a tribute to Johanna "Tilly" Edinger (1897-1967), paleontologist and founder of paleoneurology, I drew her in my new about Europe's for Dinopark Münchehagen!

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Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person—man or woman—to win the award twice. 
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Happy Enjoy the gorgeous botanical of Matilda Smith digitized for and included in : https://t.co/BHdX6ODiX7 --

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R is for Rosalind Franklin
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“Her Research and Discoveries on Viruses Remain of Lasting Benefit to Mankind.”
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Happy ! Feast your eyes on this illustration entitled Catasetum saccatum by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), produced for Lindley's 'Sertum Orchidaceum’ publication

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Day 19 features Patricia Bath, ophthalmologist and surgeon, and first lady to lead a grad program in and an inventor!

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Happy 137th birthday to Emmy Noether, who united the conservation laws of physics and made fundamental contributions to the development of linear algebra!! https://t.co/ZEztQt1Bqh

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The "Black-headed Snake" exquisitely & expertly illustrated by Harriet Scott, in "The Snakes of Australia" (Krefft 1869). https://t.co/cllxbymNin via (Aspidites melanocephalus)

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It's British Science Week! To celebrate, we're sharing one of our late-Victorian biology posters that used to hang on the classroom walls (in an age before science textbooks had many illustrations).

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