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Margaret Crosfield: Mapping Deep Time on Suffragette Paper She traced Earth’s history through fossil graptolites while fighting for women’s future on the streets. Discover the silenced story of the geologist who wrote scientific breakthroughs on the …

Margaret Crosfield: Mapping Deep Time on Suffragette Paper
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Graptolite #Stratigraphy #Palaeozoic

The Wisdom of Refusal: An Exploration of Chosen Ignorance “I’ve survived this long without it.” Explore the hidden psychology of wilful ignorance and the sociology of resistance. Discover why refusing to learn isn’t just stubbornne…

The Wisdom of Refusal: An Exploration of Chosen Ignorance
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#Ignorance #Learning #Mindset #Psychology #Sociology

The Truce I gave my panic a spare key. My younger self calls it surrender; I call it a captive audience. He’s horrified I’m laughing at the apocalypse, but frankly, the material is gold.

The Truce
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#Anxiety #Humour #Introspection #Poetry #Resilience

The Spinner’s Thread: 78 Years After the Final Prayer In the garden where he fell 78 years ago, the Mahatma returns to break his silence. Beyond the legend lies a father’s regret and a radical’s truth. Discover what the apostle of peace finds comfort …

The Spinner’s Thread: 78 Years After the Final Prayer
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#Gandhi #Satyagraha #Nonviolence #Mindfulness #History

The Game of Pawns Captain Omelchenko asked what sports I loved before sending us to die. He called it chess – sacrificing pawns to save a King. But in the freezing mud at Kruty, I learned the board bleeds, and…

💛💙 The Games of Pawns 💛💙
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#OnThisDay #Ukraine #Kruty

Mary Buckland: The Invisible Hand Behind the Dinosaur She sketched the first dinosaur, then vanished into the margins. Mary Buckland returns to claim her ink and bones. Hear the voice of the invisible artist who mended fossils and history alike, final…

Mary Buckland: The Invisible Hand Behind the Dinosaur
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Palaeoart #Ichnology #Fossilist

Beyond the Weekend: An Exploration of Leisure, Meaning, and the Art of Living Well Leisure is not just downtime; it is the key to flourishing. Explore the history, philosophy, and psychology of free time – from Aristotelian virtue to modern status anxiety – and discov…

Beyond the Weekend: An Exploration of Leisure, Meaning, and the Art of Living Well
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#Leisure #Philosophy #Wellbeing #Flow #Rest

Etheldred Benett: The Fossil Hunter Who Read the Earth in Secret She whispered to the earth, and it answered in stone. Forgotten for a century, England’s first female geologist finally speaks. Witness the resurrection of a lost legacy, uncovering the hidden stra…

Etheldred Benett: The Fossil Hunter Who Read the Earth in Secret
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Biostratigraphy #Palaeontology #Geology

Matilda Joslyn Gage: The Radical Visionary Who Documented Women’s Stolen Inventions A radical feminist visionary meets her modern interviewer. Gage reveals how institutions stole women’s inventions, why she split from the suffrage movement, and why her 19th-century warnings …

Matilda Joslyn Gage: The Radical Visionary Who Documented Women's Stolen Inventions
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Suffragist #FreeThought #Feminism

The Weight of Domesticity: Why Housework Feels Like a Personal Insult Discover why housework triggers such visceral resentment. This groundbreaking analysis reveals the hidden architecture of domestic burden – spanning centuries of oppression, invisible cogniti…

The Weight of Domesticity: Why Housework Feels Like a Personal Insult
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#Carework #Housework #Inequality #InvisibleLabour #MentalLoad

Margaret W. Rossiter: The Historian Who Named Erasure While Experiencing It Historian Margaret W. Rossiter excavated five hundred hidden women scientists from archives and coined the “Matilda effect” – then watched institutions ignore her own tenure case.…

Margaret W. Rossiter: The Historian Who Named Erasure While Experiencing It
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#Archives #GenderEquity #Historiography #STEM #WomenInSTEM

Mary Leakey: The Paleoanthropologist Who Discovered Humanity’s First Footprints and Rewrote Human Evolution Meet the British paleoanthropologist whose meticulous excavations transformed our understanding of human evolution – from discovering “Nutcracker Man” to unearthing 3.6-million-ye…

Mary Leakey: The Paleoanthropologist Who Discovered Humanity's First Footprints and Rewrote Human Evolution
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#STEM #WomenInSTEM #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Palaeoanthropology

Lynn Margulis: Symbiosis, Scientific Rebellion, and the Theory That Rewrote Evolution The evolutionary biologist who challenged orthodoxy and won – then kept fighting. Lynn Margulis on symbiosis, vindication, scientific rebellion, the theories that transformed cell biology, an…

Lynn Margulis: Symbiosis, Scientific Rebellion, and the Theory That Rewrote Evolution
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Endosymbiosis #Symbiosis #Microbiology

Rachel Carson: The Marine Biologist Who Changed How We See the Living World A conversation with the scientist who exposed pesticide dangers whilst dying of cancer. Discover how she translated complex ecology into clarity, challenged industry disinformation, and modelled wh…

Rachel Carson: The Marine Biologist Who Changed How We See the Living World
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #MarineBiology #Ecology #Conservation

Maria Goeppert Mayer: The Nobel Prize Winner Who Worked for Free for 30 Years A physicist who predicted the laser before it existed. Won the Nobel Prize whilst unpaid. Breaks decades of silence to reveal how institutional barriers nearly buried her contributions to nuclear p…

Maria Goeppert Mayer: The Nobel Prize Winner Who Worked for Free for 30 Years
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #NuclearPhysics #TheoreticalPhysics #QuantumMechanics

Mildred Dresselhaus: The Unsung Architect of Graphene and the Fight for Women in Science Meet the Queen of Carbon Science who unlocked graphene’s secrets decades before its discovery – yet was overlooked for the Nobel Prize. From Depression-era Brooklyn factories to the Pre…

Mildred Dresselhaus: The Unsung Architect of Graphene and the Fight for Women in Science
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #CarbonScience #Nanotechnology #Thermoelectrics

Mary Kenneth Keller: The Nun Who Coded Computer Science’s Future – and Chose to Teach A Catholic sister earned America’s first computer science Ph.D. in 1965, then chose a small Iowa college over prestige. In this intimate conversation, she reflects on inductive inference, BAS…

Mary Kenneth Keller: The Nun Who Coded Computer Science's Future - and Chose to Teach
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #AI #Programming #Computing

Karen Spärck Jones: The Hidden Mathematician Behind Every Search Karen Spärck Jones, the British computer scientist whose mathematical insight powers billions of daily searches, sits down to discuss invisible infrastructure, institutional barriers, and why compu…

Karen Spärck Jones: The Hidden Mathematician Behind Every Search
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #InformationRetrieval #ComputationalLinguistics #NaturalLanguageProcessing

Evelyn Berezin: How a Physics Student Became Computing’s Invisible Architect Evelyn Berezin designed the first computerised airline reservation system and invented the word processor – then vanished from history. In this rare conversation, the 93-year-old engineer ref…

Evelyn Berezin: How a Physics Student Became Computing's Invisible Architect
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Wordprocessing #Realtime #Architecture

Frances Elizabeth Allen: The Woman Who Made Code Run Fast – And Was Forgotten Because It Worked Frances Allen sits down to discuss how compiler optimisation became computing’s invisible foundation. From farm girl to Turing Award winner, she reveals why the most profound technical achiev…

Frances Elizabeth Allen: The Woman Who Made Code Run Fast - And Was Forgotten Because It Worked
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #CompilerOptimisation #ProgramAnalysis #ParallelComputing

Thank you for that connection. Yes, Allegra Byron - Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter with Claire Clairmont - died tragically young in an Italian convent in 1822, aged only five. Ada never knew her father or half-sister. The Romantic era held profound darkness alongside its creative brilliance.

Ada Lovelace: The Woman Who Saw the Future of Computing a Century Early A visionary mathematician meets her future. In 1843, Ada Lovelace encoded the first algorithm for a machine that didn’t exist. Now, across two centuries, she reflects on how her insights into…

Ada Lovelace: The Woman Who Saw the Future of Computing a Century Early
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Mathematics #Algorithms #Computing

Helen Megaw: The Crystallographer Who Made Atomic Structures Visible in Wallpaper, Solar Cells, and History Helen Megaw decoded perovskite crystals that now power solar panels – then designed wallpaper from atoms themselves. Yet history forgot the woman who bridged science and art. Hear how she fou…

Helen Megaw: The Crystallographer Who Made Atomic Structures Visible in Wallpaper, Solar Cells, and History
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Crystallography #Perovskite #MaterialsScience

Hilda Phoebe Hudson: The Forgotten Mathematician Behind Epidemics, Aircraft, and Geometry Hilda Phoebe Hudson calculated disease spread before epidemiology existed, modelled aircraft stress during WWI, and mastered Cremona transformations – yet history erased her name from all thr…

Hilda Phoebe Hudson: The Forgotten Mathematician Behind Epidemics, Aircraft, and Geometry
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #AlgebraicGeometry #Epidemiogy #Aeronauts

Zinaida Yermolyeva: Weaponising Mould, Defying Death Discover the Soviet microbiologist who weaponised mould under German bombardment, drank cholera to test vaccines, and saved the Red Army in 1943 – years before the West. A story of wartime pr…

Zinaida Yermolyeva: Weaponising Mold, Defying Death
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Microbiology #Antibiotics #Epidemiology

Alice Perry: The Engineer Who Built Roads and Left in Poetry – Ireland’s Only Woman County Surveyor A woman who calculated bridge loads and inspected factories speaks candidly about the doors that opened, then closed. From Galway’s county surveyor to Boston’s Christian Science poet, A…

Alice Perry: The Engineer Who Built Roads and Left in Poetry - Ireland's Only Woman County Surveyor
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #CivilEngineering #Construction #Infrastructure

Florence Violet McKenzie: Australia’s First Female Electrical Engineer and the Architect of the WRANS Mrs Mac built the infrastructure that forced Australia’s Navy to accept women – and trained 12,000 servicemen in Morse code from a woolshed on Clarence Street. Discover how one electric…

Florence Violet McKenzie: Australia's First Female Electrical Engineer and the Architect of the WRANS
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #ElectricalEngineering #RadioTelegraphy #SignalsTraining

Elsie MacGill: Queen of the Hurricanes and Aeronautical Engineer Who Built Trust in Flight Elsie MacGill, the world’s first female chief aeronautical engineer, discusses mass-producing 1,451 Hawker Hurricanes during WWII, overcoming polio with metal canes, and redesigning society i…

Elsie MacGill: Queen of the Hurricanes and Aeronautical Engineer Who Built Trust in Flight
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Aviation #Engineering #Aerospace

Kathleen Drew-Baker: The Botanist Who Saved Sushi but Lost Her Job to the Marriage Bar Discover how a Manchester scientist’s 1949 breakthrough transformed Japan’s nori industry – yet her own university fired her for marrying. Hear her candid reflections on erasure, …

Kathleen Drew-Baker: The Botanist Who Saved Sushi but Lost Her Job to the Marriage Bar
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Phycology #MarineBiology #Algae

Marlyn Meltzer: The Mathematician Who Wired the First Computer, Then Disappeared Into Community Service Marlyn Meltzer taught herself to program ENIAC’s 3,000 switches without manuals, inventing software engineering before the discipline existed. Erased from history after marrying in 1947, she …

Marlyn Meltzer: The Mathematician Who Wired the First Computer, Then Disappeared Into Community Service
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Programming #Computing #Ballistics