"The Mammals of (1871) by J.L.G. Krefft includes by the amazing Scott sisters, Harriet Morgan and Helena Forde. Explore it for in thanks to : https://t.co/WVPj5L3K81

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Day 17 Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematician and only winner of the Fields Medal, working with shapes unconstrained by the real world.

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(Cirrhopetalum fletcheranum). by Matilda Smith for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 141 (1915). Contributed to by the Peter H. Raven Library of the : https://t.co/0r87SeTi3R --

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Rose Of Venezuela (Brownea grandiceps). by Anne Henslow Barnard for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 106 (1880): https://t.co/PbXb7zBNbq View nearly 3,000 illustrations done by in for https://t.co/n8k2VMG3ec --

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Sneak preview of new family backpack launching soon! Join fossil hunters Mary Anning for a palaeontology adventure. Funded by Ambassor Fund for

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Day 8 By request, the quotable Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress and inventor who laid the groundwork for radio tech leading to bluetooth. Send your requests!

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Celebrate by exploring illustrations from the collection by in our "Women Illustrators in Natural History" Collection: https://t.co/esVjqFH6bi

here by Maria Sibylla Merian via : https://t.co/RTuRNzLlSk

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On this day in 1968, Northern Irish astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a grad student, published her discovery of a new type of star: radio pulsars. Her supervisor won a Nobel prize for the discovery, which many thought was unjust. https://t.co/T7w007ssYE

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Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to travel to space in 1992.

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Happy ! I guess life in academia never really gets much easier, even when you make it past the pipettes 😉 Here’s my an academic 1/3

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Happy to all the amazing 💞💞#LadiesCelebratingLadies (GIF by the fab !)

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Yesterday we celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! The current probability of female students graduating in a science related field is massively lower than their male counterparts, but we all benefit when we make science diverse 🔬

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And some more for International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace, Dian Fossey, and Mildred Dresselhaus.

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Today is Day, so here's a roundup of the Science Heroes I've been posting over on Instagram. Here's Sally Ride, Katherine Johnson, Mae Jemison, and

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On International Day of a shout out to some of my favorite female designers involved in

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Today is International Women in Science day so I brewed up this little gif especially. 🔬🌡️🔭👩🏽‍🚀👩🏻‍🔬👩🏾‍🔧👩🏼‍🏭

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Mary Higgs OBE lived in 1st woman to gain the Natural Science Tripos at in 1874. Taught maths&science at Grammar & Schools. Suffrage activist.

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