Hosting this podcast episode was so much fun! Dr. Sarah Gabbott described her discovery of a remarkably preserved 444-million-year-old fossil that puzzled her for 25 years, her prior work on ancient hagfish that overturned the prevailing theory for the evolution of the eye, her path to becoming a paleontologist, her new book on technofossils, her favorite hobbies outside of work, and more!
Happy Women in Maths Day! 
Today we celebrate all the incredible women like Maryam Mirzakhani that paved the way for new generations and everyone who supports women in maths today!
Here we‘ve got six tips for you how to spend the day reading about inspiring women:
1. Check out this Plus magazine article about Maryam Mirzhakani's work - https://plus.maths.org/content/mm
2. Mathematical Association of America News on the European Girls' Math Olympiad - https://maa.org/news/us-team-earns-2nd-place-at-2025-european-girls-mathematical-olympiad/
3. Ingrid Daubechies, mathematician from Duke University offered special tours of "Mathemalchemy", a traveling multimedia math-meets-art installation - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/science/mathematics-daubechies-mathemalchemy.html (https://mathemalchemy.org/about/)
4. Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize 2025 awarded to 3 outstanding women mathematicians, Si Ying Lee, Rajula Srivastava and Ewin Tang - https://breakthroughprize.org/News/91
5. International prize in Statistics awarded to Grace Wahba this year - https://imstat.org/2025/04/02/2025-international-prize-in-statistics-winner/
6. Science News Explores covering the fascinating math journey of Angela Tabiri (Her Maths Story, Alumni) on becoming 2024's world's most interesting mathematician - https://www.snexplores.org/article/worlds-most-interesting-mathematician (also check out her story on our website)
#womeninmaths #womeninstem #celebratewomen #mathsisbeautiful #womeninscience #hermathsstory
Great to learn about a female scientist, through sadly having to battle #misogyny with her research partner:
"Instead, for a time, he favored the Expanding Earth hypothesis,[20][21] (now infamously) dismissing her explanation as "girl talk".[22]"
Vor einer Woche besuchten über 80 Mädchen GSI/FAIR, um mehr über #MINT Berufe zu erfahren. Nach einer Campus-Tour konnten die Mädchen selbst forschen, bohren, löten und mehr!
Interessiert? Kommt in unseren SCIENCE POP-UP in Darmstadt!
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The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades
After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone
By Ella Jeffries
Rebecca Lee Crumpler at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Rebecca+Lee+Crumpler&submit_search=Search
For #LearnAboutButterfliesDay
:
The Science and Splendor of Australian #Butterflies : How Two 19th-Century Teenage Sisters' Forgotten Paintings Sparked a Triumph of Modern Conservation
https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/07/30/harriet-helena-scott-butterflies-australia/
#JWST at it again!
This is Lynds 483 -- two protostars putting on a show!
.. also in re: #InternationalWomensDay -- Lynds refers to Beverly T. Lynds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Turner_Lynds)
On #InternationalWomensDay (and all other days) -- let's celebrate the amazing #women #astronomers who often get left out of history books & pushed to the margins
Learn more (and feel free to comment with others!):
: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-annie-jump-cannon-spectral-types/
: https://daily.jstor.org/eight-women-astronomers-you-should-know/ : https://www.space.com/trailblazing-women-in-astronomy-astrophysics : https://astrosociety.org/education-outreach/resource-guides/women-in-astronomy-an-introductory-resource-guide.html : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Mink : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Oppenheimer
[#veille] Un effort collectif pour les pages Wikipédia des scientifiques pasteuriennes | BIP
https://newsletter.pasteur.fr/fr/newsletters/bip-lhebdomadaire-du-7-mars-2025/femmes-et-science/un-effort-collectif-pour-les-pages
via @lessanspages
#wikipedia #womeninscience #FemmesEnSciences #institutpasteur
This is Centaurus A aka NGC 5128 -- it didn't win Jordan's Gold Star, but 
Centaurus A is 11 million LY away and contains the closest AGN to Earth
Learn more about the incredible #astronomy of the #constellation #Centaurus here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/centaurus-cosmic-background/
Musen oder Macherinnen? Zum Frauentag am 8. März laden wir zu einer Führung auf den Campus Dahlem in #Berlin ein. Der Rundgang stellt die Lebenswege von Frauen vor, die den Campus prägten, und zeigt, wie sie die männlich geprägte Welt der #Wissenschaft eroberten.
https://www.mpg.de/24226527/dahlemtour-berlin1.html #WomenInScience
On 7 March, the Netherlands Women’s Health Research & Innovation Center will open at Erasmus MC! 
I’m honoured to be speaking alongside neuroscientist Stéphanie Dijkhuizen, where we’ll introduce the SCANNER project—an initiative tackling 1 of the most critical questions in autism research:
(why) are there more men than women with autism?
Mexico’s President Claudia argues that if cartels are terrorists, then those supplying their weapons—over 74% of which come from the U.S.—should be held accountable for aiding terrorism.
https://x.com/upholdreality/status/1892745922398019810
#mexico
#blackmastodon
#WomenInScience
#whitesupremacy
#dei
#immigration
#whiteidentitypolitics
@palestine @blackmastodon @blackvoices
@BLKNewsNow
@blackgirlnerds
#tiktok
#canada
#usa
#africa
#democracy
#resistance
#humanrights
#geopolitics
#socialism
#trump
What measures that target women and girls in science would you care about and/or would you like to see realized in the scientific community?
“In the longer term, I care about measures more focused into education in equity, at all different levels. Of course, all these issues I consider to be more general than targeting only women.”
What measures that target women and girls in science would you care about and/or would you like to see realized in the scientific community?
“It’s hard to choose particular measures because I consider that an issue that needs to be addressed on a global scale. In any case, I think there should be more measures that take care of family support, reducing possible biases in evaluation processes and having an effective protocol of support when there are complaints about a situation of discrimination.”
The SETI Institute's research is #notjustaliens. Meet Dr. Uma Gorti, who joined the SETI Institute's Carl Sagan Center in 2008 as a Principal Investigator and is mainly interested in star and planet formation. Such studies will help us understand the conditions under which planets form, the likelihood of planet formation, and hence, the potential for life in different star-forming environments.
How and when did you choose to do physics?
“I decided to study physics in my final year of high school, around the time I was applying to universities. Prior to that point I had planned to study engineering, but I took an internship supervised by a physicist who inspired me to learn about the mechanics of our world at a more fundamental level. I also got involved with a particle physics competition around that time, which piqued interest in contemporary physics research more specifically.”
What would you recommend to young women wanting to start a physics career?
“Always do the things you love, no matter what other people tell you. In the end, it only matters what makes you happy and everything else will work itself out. This won’t always be easy, but it is worth the fight.”
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