Dr. Elisa Maggio is a postdoctoral researcher in the “Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity” department. She works on tests of gravity in the strong field regime with gravitational-wave observations and on tests of the nature of black holes.
Oh look, it's International Day of Women and Girls in Science, aka day of asking lots of overstressed women colleagues to do a whole load of extra non-promotable stuff to put on the social media feeds. (I agree that visibility is important and promoting and celebrating the work of science-doing-women is great, but my previous experience has been mostly that it's just another task on the endless list). Not sure what the answer is. #WomenInSTEM
#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first woman appointed as a professor in the Netherlands when she joins Utrecht University.
ICYMI: I posted my first weekly space news roundup Friday! None this week because I'm still recovering from the flu, but I'm planning on making this a regular thing.
...but can we do it without suggesting that the reason a woman would dedicate her life to #science & #teaching was to fill the vacuous space of never having children?
...and maybe also without suggesting some intuitive maternal instinct as the source of her #scientific reasoning?
This #BlackHistoryMonth let’s celebrate trailblazing American #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & our knowledge of the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. 🧵1/
Toute cette semaine, entre midi et 14h, retrouvez-nous à l'ENS Paris pour des #Wikithon dans le cadre de la Journée internationale des femmes et des filles de sciences.
Objectif : vous accompagner à l'édition, la création, l'enrichissement, l'amélioration, la traduction, l'illustration des pages de femmes de sciences sur l'encyclopédie @wikipedia_fr
Que vous soyez novices ou expérimenté·e·s, rejoignez-nous !
Okay, that's not real news, we've known that for awhile. The real news is that the seismic instability that results from that might affect NASA's moon landings. Here's more:
I love researching historical documents at work. It’s easy to forget that this was the norm, and it really puts it into perspective to see it turn up unexpectedly in writing.
“Nominations and Correspondence for the American Men of Science 1970-1971
Prominent engineers, biologists, doctors and other scientists were included in the 1970 call for nominations.”
Ever notice a rainbow or halo around the moon? Lunar halos are actually quite common, and they happen because of cirrus and cirrostratus clouds high up in the atmosphere.
I'm obsessed with JWST's series of photos of spiral galaxies. These are helping scientists understand more about these galaxies' origins, evolution, and structure.
See the swirls of gas and dust in this stellar nursery? JWST snapped this photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy visible from Earth with the unaided eye.
I will defend my PhD thesis in April (yay!). I thought it would be possible to make the reviewing committee less male, but it's harder than I thought.
My (male) professor and (male) supervising PI are set. The chair needs to be from another institute at my faculty - but all 3 (!) women out of 8 (!) institutes are not available.
Let's see if I can at least find a female external referee anywhere in the world... #WomenInSTEM#PhdLife
Thanks to Fulya Gökalp, we can already announce meeting no.5, where chapter 9 of “Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R” by Bruno Rodrigues will be presented.