Nadia Nadim is a force to be reckoned with on the pitch. She’s feared by defenders worldwide. But there’s more. She’s also a doctor AND speaks 11 languages.
Moreover, her journey is filled with adversity.
She was born in Afghanistan. At age 9 her father was executed by the Taliban. 2 years later her family fled to Denmark. Imagine overcoming this to reach her heights. 🔥💪🏻
If luck is on our side, there will be a moon landing attempt on February 22. If Intuitive Machines succeeds, this will be the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on the moon since the Apollo missions.
(Newsletter coming tomorrow, sign up at adastraspace.com)
Happy birthday to Queen Seondeok of Silla (c. 595 ~ 610 - 647), 27th ruler of one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632-647, who brought about a renaissance in culture and science and built the Cheomseongdae moon and star-gazing observatory.
Known for her intelligence, wisdom & benevolence, stories survive of her curiosity & cleverness even as a child. When her father the King was gifted peony seeds from China, 🧵1/
Happy birthday to Marjorie Rice (née Jeuck, 1923–2017) who discovered 4 new pentagonal tilings of the Euclidian plane!
The San Diego mother of 5 (6th died in infancy) completed half a correspondence art course after high school & had no training as a #mathematician but was always interested in #math & art. She began to follow SciAm writer/amateur mathematician Martin Gardner's column, rushing to devour the magazine before her son 🧵1/
Angela Borchers Pascual is a PhD student in the @maxplanckgesellschaft independent research group “Binary Merger Observations and Numerical Relativity”. She is working on understanding the imprint of gravitational kicks in the gravitational-wave signals emitted by merging black hole binaries.
“Funding organisations such as IHI have a responsibility to monitor, encourage & safeguard gender balance and participation across all research projects," says Marta Cahill, chair of IHI's States' Repesentatives Group. Read more:https://europa.eu/!ByJqT6#WomenInSTEM#February11
For #PrinterSolstice prompt spectrum: my #linocut of trailblazing American #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941) with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue stars to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named after the university the Harvard Classification her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵1/n
Laura Roberts is a PhD student in the “Precision Interferometry and Fundamental Interactions” department. She joined our institute to continue her work on @LISA during her PhD.
Dr. Ana Alonso-Serrano is a long-term vistor at @mpi_grav Potsdam. She works on the quantum behaviour of spacetime close to the classical singularities and phenomenology of quantum gravity.
“I chose to learn physics in my high school. To me, it has always been thrilling to study how things function and build up from simple principles to complexities. As a child I was fascinated by the stars, the moon and the planets and that's where it all started and lived on. I felt motivated enough to do physics in B.Sc. and M.Sc. (…) I always love how pursuing physics helps a person in developing a problem-solving aptitude.”
"Whatever role, whatever organisation you are working in there should be gender equality," says @NathalieMoll, executive director of @EFPIA. We asked our #WomenInSTEM what funding orgs can do to promote #GenderEquality in #HealthResearch. Read more: https://europa.eu/!ByJqT6
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! We want to take this opportunity to thank the women who have helped make Science & Design what it is today: Stef Daehler, @Em0nM4stodon, @NatSecGeek, Serene, Dr. Ashley Di Battista, Abbey Ripstra, and so many more - you're amazing and thank you for everything you do 🙏
International #WomenInScienceDay is here and we are celebrating some of the brilliant minds at #mdcBerlin! Today, we've taken out the best advice our #WomenInSTEM have to offer to young aspiring scientists.
Shout out to all my friends and colleagues on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
A special celebration to those, like me, who have been at it for a while. #WomenInScience#WomenInSTEM
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