I really enjoyed @Felienne's narrative about narratives about Computer Science yesterday. She applied some of the ideas presented in the Glaciers, Gender and Science paper (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132515623368) to her experiences in the Computer Science / Programming Languages communities. She's also starting a reading club to brainstorm the meaning (and the name?) of the field of "Computer Science".

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This is Sechi Katō (1893-1989) in 1918. It's her graduation photo from a women's college in Tokyo.

Eventually she would become the first woman principal investigator at RIKEN, Japan's national chemistry & physics institute. She faced incredibly daunting hurdles before then...

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#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.

The Exquisite Illustrations of a Pioneering Woman Herbalist

A Curious Herbal, the first modern edition of Elizabeth Blackwell’s 18th-century botanical guide, grants her the recognition that she has long deserved.

By Lauren Moya Ford (from the archives)

https://hyperallergic.com/815868/exquisite-illustrations-of-pioneering-woman-herbalist-elizabeth-blackwell/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=DOGE%20Is%20Coming%20for%20Culture%20Workers&utm_campaign=D040425

Books by Elizabeth Blackwell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53378

This is what 'girls' do to silly fashion products.

A good news item about #HyperemesisGravidarum, and a perfect demonstration of why diversity and #WomenInSTEM are important

https://www.aaas.org/news/geneticist-wins-womens-health-prize-pioneering-discoveries-about-severe-morning-sickness

Happy Birthday, Dr. Jane Goodall! Born on this day in 1934, Jane Goodall is an anthropologist, primatologist, and conservationist. She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees. Her work revolutionized our understanding of what it means to be human and proved that women could be successful as scientists in a world previously dominated by men. 1/2

#JaneGoodall #BOTD #OTD #WomenInStem #StemEducation #Education #Homeschooling @education

If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist

Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming’s source?

By Sidney Perkowitz (from the archives)

https://nautil.us/if-only-19th-century-america-had-listened-to-a-woman-scientist-237859/?utm_content=unlocked-article&utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nautilus-newsletter

Ángela Alessio Robles, Mexican civil engineer & town planner. 1940/50s Director General of Planning for Mexico City, then President of Planning & Director of Plan for Urban Development. 1980s oversaw dev't of huge #Monterrey Macroplaza b. #OTD 30 Mar 1917 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngela_Alessio_Robles #WomenInSTEM #WHM #WHM2025 @CarveHerName @histodons

The Forgotten Victorian Craze for Collecting Seaweed
Victorian women were excellent at it.

by Cara Giaimo (from the archives)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-victorian-craze-for-collecting-seaweed

Books by or about Margaret Gatty at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Margaret+Gatty&submit_search=Search

Meet Williamina Fleming, a 19th-century Scottish maid who became an astronomer

Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed astronomical data at the university.

By Joe Esposito

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/scottish-maid-astronomer-williamina-fleming/

Hello Old Friend, Talos II

This was my first IBM POWER9 system, acquired in 2020 and built for home/desk use. Dual socket SMT4 Sforza, 144 threads, 256-512GB RAM, various storage/net/accelerators over the years. [1]

As expected, I fell in love and acquired four IBM Power System L922-2U [2], which are presently in the colo awaiting network rebuild (remote hands this time).

The Talos II has served a variety of purposes, with most of its time running FreeBSD PPC64le (&a bit of PPC64be for fun). Sometimes also Linux, back when I was tearing into qemu code for compiler optimization hypothesis testing, RTX GPU passthrough, +validating assumptions about qemu on P9/le handling amd64 & arm64 emulation.

So, out of storage! Into the rack! New user accounts! But first it needs updated OS drives (the 3x 64GB SATADOM in Raid-Z1 need to be repurposed), and a NIC (25G-DP CX-5 or X710-DA4).

- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#Raptor_Computing_Systems_/_Raptor_Engineering
- [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#IBM

@dexter electricity comes next

Happy birthday to one of greatest #mathematicians 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/

8 women botanical artists from across Europe

Making contributions to both art and science

by Aleksandra Strzelichowska (from the archives) via @europeana

https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/8-women-botanical-artists-from-across-europe

"My methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously."

Happy Birthday Emmy Noether!!

She made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She proved Noether's 1st and 2nd theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. She developed theories of rings, fields, & algebras. In physics, Noether's theorem explains the connection between symmetry & conservation laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

March 22 is #WorldWaterDay and an apt birthday for Japanese #geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised the alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched peaceful uses of nuclear power. A supporter of women in science, she established the Society of Japanese Women Scientists & 1/n

One of the most exhausting things about being a (perceived) woman working in computational physics is dealing with men who don't think women can do physics and men who don't think women can code (there is a lot of overlap here). Things men have tried to 'explain' to me recently:
- Basic coding practices
- A topic I have published papers on
- How to debug a code ("have you tried adding print statements")
- How code releases work
- My own ideas
#WomenInSTEM #WomenWhoCode