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Fabienne Gallaire"Sur le rôle de l’expérience, est-ce que vous connaissez un texte que j’adore, qui est la controverse entre le mathématicien René Thom (médaille Fields en 1958) et le physicien Anatole Abragam, à l’Académie ? Cette controverse a été extraordinaire. (...) Thom avait publié [en 1984] un article d'une demi-page dans Le Monde, dans lequel il trouvait que l’on dépensait beaucoup trop d'argent dans la recherche expérimentale. Il avait pris deux exemples. Le premier était l'exemple de l'ADN. Il disait qu'il suffisait de réfléchir pour voir qu'il n'y avait besoin de faire des expériences pour comprendre sa structure. Le deuxième exemple était celui de la physique des particules. Il disait qu’il suffisait de regarder comment sont les équations et qu’il n’était pas utile de dépenser autant dans les accélérateurs. Cela avait fait scandale. Le Bureau de l’Académie avait organisé un débat public Abragam-Thom sur le rôle de l’expérience en sciences." Roger Balian <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/phisci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phisci</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/socsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socsci</a> <a href="https://journals.openedition.org/hrc/10577" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://journals.openedition.org/hrc/10577</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. In 1814, when he envisioned an entity such ⁠🧵 <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Laplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Laplace</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/LaplacesDemon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaplacesDemon</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#determinism</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ImaginaryFriends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ImaginaryFriends</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday to one of greatest <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mathematicians</a> of all time Emmy Noether (1882-1935), here with her eponymous theorem, the backbone of modern physics. Noether’s theorem links any symmetry of a system with a conservation law. In my portrait, I chose to depict a young Emmy in front of a blackboard with a more simple formulation of her theorem and three specific applications of it, shown schematically, 🧵1/<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday to Canadian medical researcher & <a href="https://spore.social/tags/biochemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biochemist</a> Maud Menten (1879-1960). Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/enzyme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enzyme</a> kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histochemistry</a>, still used in imaging of tissues today & she also performed the first <a href="https://spore.social/tags/electrophoretic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electrophoretic</a> separation of blood haemoglobin in 1944!⁠ 🧵1/n ⁠<a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Dr Surekha Davies (she/her)Public book talk (no need to RSVP) on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY ( <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/ucpress.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ucpress.bsky.social</a> ) at Wesleyan University on Tuesday March 25th at 4:30pm in PAC), room 100! 💙📚 🧪🗃 <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ancient" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancient</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23medieval" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medieval</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23earlymodern" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#earlymodern</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23histsci" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23histmed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histmed</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%2318thCentury" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#18thCentury</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23HAMH" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HAMH</a> 1/🧵 <a href="https://wesleyan.campuslabs.com/engage/event/11104801" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wesleyan.campuslabs.com/engage/event...</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday to botanist & photography trailblazer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children!Atkins’ mother died when she was still an infant, but she was close with her naturalist father & received a much more scientific education than was common for women in her time. Her 250 detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father’s translation of Lamarck’s ‘Genera of Shells’; 🧵1/n<a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/cyanotype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cyanotype</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womensHistoryMonth</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday to Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a>. Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, & purposely stood in the way of her learning French, or music,🧵<a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomer</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDMercury, final prompt for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printerSolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printerSolstice2425</a>, made me think of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/alchemy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alchemy</a>. It is an element the alchemists favoured & felt was fundamental in their efforts to transmute base into precious metals, both in western & Chinese alchemy (from whence western alchemy emerged).This is my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> portrait of an <a href="https://spore.social/tags/alchemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alchemist</a> known as Master Geng (before ~975, 耿先生; Gěng Xiānshēng, sometimes Kêng Hsien-shêng). 🧵1/n<a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday to chemist William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This <a href="https://spore.social/tags/lino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lino</a> block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. ⁠ ⁠ Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 🧵1/n ⁠ <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/dye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dye</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chemist</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/FashionHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FashionHistory</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/purple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purple</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mauve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mauve</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/colour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colour</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDFor <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InternationalWomensDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InternationalWomensDay</a> a short thread of my ongoing series of portraits of women in science through history. If you look for them, they’re there. I’m up to 67 now! Here’s to the day when a scientist’s sex is no longer remarkable in any field!<a href="https://spore.social/tags/IWD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IWD</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/IWD2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IWD2025</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scientists</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDFor the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printerSolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printerSolstice2425</a> prompt silicon my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> of brilliant trailblazing US <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geologist</a> & prof Florence Bascom (1862-1945) who championed women’s education, & used polarizing microscopes for detailed petrographic analysis to show that rocks previously identified as sedimentary were in fact metamorphosed volcanic rocks she called aporhyolite (implying a change in rhyolite, a silica rich igneous rock, as in her 🧵1/n<a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geology</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDSince silicon is a common element in the crust, for the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printersolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printersolstice2425</a> prompt silicon I’m making a portrait of trailblazing geologist Florence Bascom (1862-1945), complete with geological cross sections and thin sections from her publications. 🧵1/2<a href="https://spore.social/tags/wip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wip</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geology</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mineralogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mineralogy</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geologist</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/FlorenceBascom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FlorenceBascom</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer. What made Mercator a great <a href="https://spore.social/tags/cartographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartographer</a>, was in fact his abilities as a <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mathematician</a> -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), globes, 🧵1/n<a href="https://spore.social/tags/geographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geographer</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geography</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mapart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercator</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDFor the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printerSolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printerSolstice2425</a> prompt sodium, my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> of Marie Meudrac (c. 1610-1680), a woman in science right at the transition between alchemy & chemistry. Born to a land-owning family, she moved to the Château de Grosbois after marrying, where she became good friends with Countess de Guiche. She wrote ‘La Chymie Charitable et Facile, en Faveur des Dames’ [Easy Charitable Chemistry for Ladies]. She had her own lab where she tested all 🧵<a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDFor <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackHistoryMonth</a> pharmaceutical <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chemist</a> Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/leprosy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leprosy</a>. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for women & Black scientists.⁠ ⁠ Ball studied <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. 🧵1/n<a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDFor <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackHistoryMonth</a>: <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mathematician</a> & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 🧵1/n<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histSci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geodesy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geodesy</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/EarthScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EarthScience</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Math</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday to Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)! This is my linoleum block print showing Copernicus and his model of the celestial spheres, or as we would say, the solar system. Copernicus is shown in green with a lily of the valley, the standard Renaissance symbol to indicate a medical doctor, since like most proto-scientists, or ‘philosophers’ (doctors of philosophy) he learned his astronomy incidentally, 🧵<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Copernicus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Copernicus</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomer</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Kristin Wilson"What a splendid place for growing spuds!” 🥔 That's what William Lashly exclaimed when he, Edgar Evans, and Robert Falcon Scott discovered Antarctica's Dry Valleys in 1903, on the way back from reconnoitering the polar plateau.A lot has changed in the past 120 years. Mostly to do with a lot more people.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/Antarctica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antarctica</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistSci</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ScienceStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceStudies</a> 🎨 Jean Donaldson

Ele Willoughby, PhDQueen Seondeok of Silla (c. 595 ~ 610 - February 20, 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 🧵<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Seondeok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Seondeok</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Fabienne GallaireTake your pick: Experimenters Disputing Even About Tastes! Leibniz and the Invention of the Journal Article! Leibniz, Leeuwenhoek and the Ideal of an International Academy of Mighty Microscopists! <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/sociosci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociosci</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/histmath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histmath</a> <a href="https://www.paris-iea.fr/fr/evenements/lots-of-understanding-and-communication-practices-of-collaboration-and-collective-knowledge-in-early-modern-natural-philosophy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.paris-iea.fr/fr/evenements/lots-of-understanding-and-communication-practices-of-collaboration-and-collective-knowledge-in-early-modern-natural-philosophy</a>

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