This is Toshiko Yuasa (1909-1980). She was the first woman physicist from Japan. It's 1940 & with her science prospects at home blocked by gender prejudice, she'd managed to get into wartime Paris to do physics research...
This is groundbreaking botanist & cytogeneticist, E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897-1984).
She was the 10th of 19 children in a mixed race family in Kerala, India, with caste adding to the discrimination she faced in life. Ammal chose a life of science over a planned marriage.
"My work is what will survive", she said. She was right. Her achievements are awesome....
This is a photo of a happy, fulfilled scientist, who has some colossal achievements to her credit.
Meet Nathalie Josso (1934-2022), the French pediatric endocrinologist who isolated & named the anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) that differentiates sex in the fetus, studied intersex, & much more besides.
#tbt One of the greatest breakthroughs in immunology – working out how where antibodies are produced – was made by a PhD student in her 1948 dissertation: Astrid Fagraeus (1913-1997). She would play a major role in developing the vaccine that eradicated polio from Sweden... 1/8
#ThrowbackThursday for this image from my garden a couple years ago, when I broadcast #sulfurcosmos into a bare patch of dirt and was rewarded with an incredible vibrant color show for months.
For #ThrowbackThursday some autumnal trees reflecting in the calm waters of Frillensee near Inzell in Bavaria, Germany; photographed in October 2008.
LG Electronics licensed this photo to show the brilliant colors on one of their TVs, quite a few years back. It's also one of my most stolen photos (in countries with laughable copyright protections, of course).
I think I have posted this before but today for #tbt for #fiberartcamp I’m posting it as one of my favorite knitting projects. It’s a topsy-turvy toy that turns inside out from an egg to a penguin! So fun. Made it as a gift for my cousin who loves penguins. #fiberarts#knitting#handmade#toys
One of the things I've seen on social media lately has been "pics of when you were 24 for 2024." So, I dug deep to see what I could find, as I was 24 in 2007.
What I found was this. This is a picture of me as a graduate student. 16 years, 4 kids, and one big old beard ago.
I look back at this and think, "Wow, I looked young."
Hoje é dia de #TBT e aproveitaremos para agradecer o trabalho de 2 anos da gestão 2022/2023, formada por 50% por PyLadies e responsável por manter o trabalho da Associação bem como criar novas formas de apoiar as iniciativas da comunidade, como o Boletim Informativo, Termos para Anonimização dos dados e outros!