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Main Story - Marie Maynard Daly

1. Debakcsy, Dale. Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), America's First Black Woman Chemist. Women You Should Know. 2018.
2. Kessler, James H., et al. Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century. United States, Oryx Press, 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=-ydHVdMUqdEC&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false
3. Marie Maynard Daly | Science History Institute. 2018.
4. DALY, M M et al. “CHOLESTEROL CONCENTRATION AND CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS IN AORTAS OF RATS WITH RENAL HYPERTENSION.” The Journal of clinical investigation vol. 42,10 (1963): 1606-12. doi:10.1172/JCI104845 
5. Marie M. Daly PhD Memorial Celebration | Graduate Programs in the Biomedical Sciences | Albert Einstein College of Medicine 

Women who Work 

• Paper: During, M.A.D., Smit, J., Voeten, D.F.A.E. et al. The Mesozoic terminated in boreal spring. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04446-1
• Additional Paper: DePalma, R.A., Oleinik, A.A., Gurche, L.P. et al. Seasonal calibration of the end-cretaceous Chicxulub impact event. Sci Rep 11, 23704 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03232-9
• Video: An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring—which might explain why mammals survived | Ars Technica 
• Uppsala University. "The last day of the dinosaurs." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 23 February 2022. .
• “Fossil fish reveal timing of asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.” by Colin Barras. Nature News, 23 February 2022.  

Spreadsheet of Labs supporting Ukrainian Scientists: Labs supporting Ukrainian Scientists 

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Main Story - Annie Dodge Wauneka

Niethammer, Carolyn. I’ll Go and Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist. Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE. 2001. 

Women who Work 

Here's why whales don't drown when they gulp down food underwater

Anatomical mechanism for protecting the airway in the largest animals on earth: Current Biology

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Emlyn tells Emma about public health advocate Annie Dodge Wauneka.

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Main Story - Annie Dodge Wauneka

Niethammer, Carolyn. I’ll Go and Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist. Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE. 2001. 

Women who Work 

https://lostwomenofscience.org/ 

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Main Story - Dr. Deborah S. Jin

1. Weil, Martin Deborah Jin, government physicist who won MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, dies at 47. Washington Post. 2016.
2. Deborah Jin Fellowship | Department of Physics | The University of Chicago
3. Bolometer - Wikipedia
4. Padavic-Callaghan, Karmela. Deborah Jin engineered new quantum states of matter — twice. Massive Science. 2020.
5. Siegel, Ethan. Ask Ethan: What's The Difference Between A Fermion And A Boson? Forbes. 2017.
6. Bose–Einstein condensate - Wikipedia
7. DeMarco B, Jin DS. Onset of fermi degeneracy in a trapped atomic Gas. Science. 1999 Sep 10;285(5434):1703-6. doi: 10.1126/science.285.5434.1703. PMID: 10481000. 
8. Ultracold Polar Molecules | Joint Quantum Institute

Women who Work - Dr. Adi Utarini

1. Website: http://www.adiutarini.id/
2. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02492-1 
3. https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2021/6095805/adi-utarini/

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Main Story - Bessie Blount Griffin

1. Amisha Padnani. Overlooked No More: Bessie Blount, Nurse, Wartime Inventor and Handwriting Expert. New York Times. March 27, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/obituaries/bessie-blount-overlooked.html
2. Elena Ferrarin. Bessie Blount Griffin: A Black Woman's Journey to Pioneering Forensic Scientist. True Crime Blog: Stories & News, A & E. March 9, 2021. https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/bessie-blount-griffin
3. "Bessie Blount Griffin." Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 135, Gale, 2017. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1606007708/BIC?u=uga&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=86f6c869. Accessed 15 Aug. 2021.
4. Portable Receptacle Support Patent: https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=2550554 

Women who Work 

1. Shape-shifting: changing animal morphologies as a response to climatic warming
2. The warming climate is causing animals to 'shapeshift'  

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Main Story - Edna Lee Paisano

1. Edna L. Paisano | Obituaries | lmtribune.com
2. Sterrett, Andrew. 101 Careers in Mathematics. 1996. https://archive.org/details/101careersinmath0000unse/page/136/mode/2up?q=paisano 
3. U.S. Census Bureau. We, the First Americans. 1993. https://www.census.gov/prod/cen1990/wepeople/we-5.pdf 
4. U.S. Census Bureau. “Ch. 5: American Indian and Alaska Native Areas” Geographic Areas Reference Manual. https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/GARM/Ch5GARM.pdf 
5. Why We Conduct the Decennial Census. U.S. Census Bureau.
6. Roos, David. How the Census Works | HowStuffWorks. 2020
7. U.S. Census Bureau. Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test. 1997.
8. Lujan, Carol. As Simple as One, Two, Three: Census Underenumeration Among the American Indians and Alaska Natives. 1990. 
9. Connolly, Colleen. COVID-19 Adds a New Snag to the 2020 Census Count of Native Americans. Smithsonian Magazine. 2020.
10. Connolly, Michele and Jacobs, Bette. Counting Indigenous American Indians and Alaska Natives in the US census. 1 Jan. 2020 : 201 – 210. 
11. Lossom, Allen. By Right of Discovery: United Indians of All Tribes Retakes Fort Lawton, 1970 - Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. 2006.

Women who Work 

Preorder a Forces of Nature book here: https://forcesofnaturebook.com/Preorder 

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Edna L. Paisano | Obituaries | lmtribune.com 

Emlyn tells Emma all about herpetologist and anatomist Inez Whipple Wilder! 

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Main Story - Inez Whipple Wilder

1.  Houck, Max M. (2016). Forensic Fingerprints. Elsevier Science. pp. 63–64. ISBN 978-0-12-800672-6.
2. The Morphology of Amphibian Metamorphosis, Smith College, 1925
3. Wilder, Inez W. 1913 The life history of Desmognathus fusca. The Biological Bulletin. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/BBLv24n4p251  
4. “Inez Whipple Wilder,” Wikipedia.  
5. Kirakosian, K.V., Swedlund, A.C. Glass Cabinets and Little Black Boxes: The Collections of H. H. Wilder and the Curious Case of His Human-Hair Samples. Hist Arch 53, 280–294 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-019-00180-0

Women who Work 

1. Göttingen University. “Press release: Branching worm with dividing internal organs growing in sea sponge.” 2021. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.21356 
2. Published article: Ponz‐Segrelles, G, Glasby, CJ, Helm, C, et al. Integrative anatomical study of the branched annelid Ramisyllis multicaudata (Annelida, Syllidae). Journal of Morphology. 2021; 1– 17. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21356 
3. Thiele, Kevin. The World's Weirdest Worm. 2019.

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Whipple, Inez L. (1906). "The naso-labial groove of lungless salamanders". Biological Bulletin 11: 1-26.

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Emma tells Emlyn all about Marietta Blau, the physicist that developed photographic emulsion technology in order to discover and describe subatomic particles and their behavior! 

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Main Story - Marietta Blau

1. Perlmutter, A.. “Marietta Blau's Work After World War II.” arXiv: History and Philosophy of Physics (2001). https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0110028 
2. Sime, Ruth L. “Marietta Blau: Pioneer of Photographic Nuclear Emulsions and Particle Physics.” Physics in Perspective (2013).  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00016-012-0097-6
3. McArdle, James.  January 27: Exposed. On This Day in Photography. 2018.
4. Interview of Leopold Halpern by Maria Rentetzi on 1999 March 5, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/32406  

Women who Work 

• G. Casetta, A.P. Nolfo and E. Palagi. Yawn contagion promotes motor synchrony in wild lions, Panthera leo. Animal Behaviour. Vol. 174, April 2021, p. 149. Doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.02.010.
• “Yawning helps lions synchronize their groups’ movements” by Jake Buehler, Sciencenews.com. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lion-yawn-contagious-synchronize-group-movement-hunt 

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Emlyn tells Emma about the Indian cytologist and plant breeder, Dr. Janaki Ammal!

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Main Story - Dr. Janaki Ammal

1. “Pioneering Female Botanist Who Sweetened a Nation and Saved a Valley” by Leila McNeill, Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pioneering-female-botanist-who-sweetened-nation-and-saved-valley-180972765/ 
   1. Follow Leila McNeil @LEILASEDAI on twitter, check out her website (http://www.leilamcneill.com/) and the Lady Science Magazine (https://www.ladyscience.com/).
2. “Celebrating Women’s History Month: Janaki Ammal, India’s First Woman Ph.D in Botany, and a Michigan Connection,” University of Michigan.  https://mbgna.umich.edu/celebrating-womens-history-month-janaki-ammal-indias-first-woman-ph-d-in-botany-and-a-michigan-connection/
3. “Remembering Dr Janaki Ammal, pioneering botanist, cytogeneticist and passionate Gandhian” by Geeta Doctor, scroll.in. https://scroll.in/article/730186/remembering-dr-janaki-ammal-pioneering-botanist-cytogeneticist-and-passionate-gandhian
4. “Janaki Ammal”, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janaki_Ammal 

Women who Work 

• URI researchers: Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process 

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Emma tells a short story about Spain's first oceanographer, Jimena Quirós.

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Lozano, Pablo. "Jimena Quirós: the Civil War cut short the career of the first oceanographer in the history of Spain." Oceánicas. 2018. Translated by Google Translate. https://oceanicas.ieo.es/jimena-quiros-la-primera-oceanografa-en-la-historia-de-espana-cuya-carrera-trunco-la-guerra/ 

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Emma tells a short story about Dr. Geraldine Pittman Woods, the neuroembryologist turned science administrator and advocate for minorities in STEM. 

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1. Warren, Wini. Black women scientists in the United States. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1999. https://archive.org/details/blackwomenscient00warr/page/269/mode/1up 

2. Woo, Elaine. "Geraldine Woods; Scientist Helped Launch Head Start." Los Angeles Times. 2000. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-05-mn-50930-story.html 

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Emlyn tells Emma about the bacteriologist and duck disease expert, Dr. Jessie Isabelle Price!

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Main Story - Jessie Price 

1. Wikipedia, “Jessie Isabelle Price”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Isabelle_Price 
2. "Doctor to Long Island Ducks". Ebony. September 1964. 
3. Find a Grave, “Dr. Dorsey William Bruner.” Dr Dorsey William Bruner (1906-1996)   
4. Gillmer, S. (2018, August 04) Jessie Isabelle Price (1930-2015). https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/price-jessie-isabelle-1930-2015/ 
5. “Dr. Jessie Isabelle Price - Veterinary Microbiologist” by Karel Green, POC2 . https://poc2.co.uk/2019/03/14/dr-jessie-isabelle-price-veterinary-microbiologist/ 

Women who Work 

• Discoveries at the Edge of the Periodic Table: First Ever Measurements of Einsteinium 

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"Doctor to Long Island Ducks". Ebony. September 1964. 

Emma tells Emlyn about the famous botanist and Queen of Cacti, Helia Bravo Hollis!

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Main Story - Helia Bravo Hollis

1. Aguilar-Rocha, M. A lifetime among Cacti: Helia Bravo-Hollis – Biodiversity Heritage Library.
2. Natural History Museum. Bravo Hollis, Helia (1901-2001) on JSTOR. 
3. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Mexican Revolution". Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 May. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/event/Mexican-Revolution.  
4.  Lopez, Alberto. Helia Bravo Hollis, la reina de los cactus. El País. 2018.
5. Salcedo Meza, Concepción. Helia Bravo Hollis. ¿Cómoves? 2001.
6. Morales-Sandoval, Jesús & Scheinvar, Leia. (2019). The Cactus Explorer Cactus People Histories. Who is Helia Bravo-Hollis?. 2019. 16-22. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334316889_The_Cactus_Explorer_Cactus_People_Histories_Who_is_Helia_Bravo-Hollis
7. Bravo-Hollis, Helia. Memorias de una vida y una profesión. Mexico, Instituto de Biología, UNAM, 2004. 

Women who Work

• Pan, YY., Nara, M., Löwemark, L. et al. The 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan. Sci Rep 11, 1174 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79311-0 
• Yu-Yen Pan, Masakazu Nara, Ludvig Löwemark, Olmo Miguez-Salas, Björn Gunnarson, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Tzu-Tung Chen, Shahin E. Dashtgard. The 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan. Scientific Reports, 2021; 11 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79311-0
• Pennichnus formasae: Homes of Ancient Bobbit Worm were Discovered! https://youtu.be/2ik3L_R9dDA 

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Emlyn tells Emma about the genius engineer, mathematician, physicist, inventor, and suffragette, Hertha Aryton. 

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Main Story - Hertha Ayrton

1. “The Life and material culture of Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854-1923): suffragette, physicist, mathematician, and inventor” by Elizabeth Bruton. Science Museum Group Journal. Autumn 2018, Issue 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/181002 
2. “Meet Hertha Ayrton, the mathematician who cleared WWI trenches of poisonous gas” by Joan Meiners. June 5th, 2020. Massive Science. https://massivesci.com/articles/hertha-ayrton-mathematics-bodichon-electric-arc/    
3. Wikipedia, “Hertha Ayrton”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertha_Ayrton 

Women who Work

This week, we wanted to give credit to the many wonderful women who made the new COVID-19 vaccines possible! Read more about them in the following articles:

1. Kizzmekia Corbett, an African American woman, is praised as key scientist behind COVID-19 vaccine 
2. Katalin Kariko's work in mRNA is the basis of the Covid-19 vaccine
3. Meet Kathrin Jansen who leads Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine team 
4. Prof Sarah Gilbert: The woman who designed the Oxford vaccine 

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Emma tells Emlyn about the geneticist Dr. Nettie Maria Stevens, who was one of the first scientists to discover sex determination by chromosomes.

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Main Story - Nettie Maria Stevens 

1. Brush, S. (1978). Nettie M. Stevens and the Discovery of Sex Determination by Chromosomes. Isis, 69(2), 163-172. Retrieved November 23, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/230427
2. Ogilvie, M., & Choquette, C. (1981). Nettie Maria Stevens (1861-1912): Her Life and Contributions to Cytogenetics. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 125(4), 292-311. Retrieved November 23, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/986332
3. Stevens, Nettie Maria. (1901). Studies on Ciliate Infusoria. United States, Hopkins Seaside Laboratory. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Studies_on_Ciliate_Infusoria/8Ic_AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22studies+on+ciliate+infusoria%22&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover
4. O'Connor, C. & Miko, I. (2008) Developing the chromosome theory. Nature Education 1(1):44. https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/developing-the-chromosome-theory-164/#
5. Gelling, C. (2016). Nettie Stevens: Sex chromosomes and sexism. Genes to Genomes Blog by GSA. http://genestogenomes.org/nettie-stevens-sex-chromosomes-and-sexism/

Women who Work

1. Sara B Weinstein, Katrina Nyawira Malanga, Bernard Agwanda, Jesús E Maldonado, M Denise Dearing. The secret social lives of African crested rats, Lophiomys imhausi. Journal of Mammalogy, 2020 DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyaa127
2. University of Utah. "The secret social lives of giant poisonous rats." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 19 November 2020. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201119135403.htm 

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The Incubator (courtesy of Carnegie Institution of Washington) - http://incubator.rockefeller.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/NettieStevens.jpg

Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American physician, who used her training and expertise to campaign for social reform and health care in her Omaha community.

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Main Story - Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte

1. 1. “The Incredible Legacy of Susan La Flesche, The First Native America to Earn a Medical Degree” by Carson Vaughan, Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/incredible-legacy-susan-la-flesche-first-native-american-earn-medical-degree-180962332/
   2. “The First Native American to Receive a Medical Degree” by Allison C. Meier, JStor Daily. https://daily.jstor.org/the-first-native-american-to-receive-a-medical-degree/
   3. “Native American Disease and Epidemics,” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics
   4. Susan la flesche picotte: A doctor who spanned two cultures. The Lancet. 2019;393(10173):734. 
   5. “Susan La Flesche Picotte,” National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/people/susan-la-flesche-picotte.htm
   6. “Ulysses S. Grant: Mass Genocide Through ‘Permanent Peace’ Policy” by Alysa Landry, Indian Country Today. https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/ulysses-s-grant-mass-genocide-through-permanent-peace-policy-Ing8OYiNuU6hw6ZgulRA9Q
   7. Starita, Joe. A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor. New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2016. 

Women who Work

Flaherty, Colleen. Study finds gender bias in TA evals, too. Inside Higher Ed. 2020.

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Courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections. This image was found at The National Library of Medicine. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_253.html

Emma tells Emlyn all about the designer of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, Captain Frances Glessner Lee, who was incredibly influential in the development of early forensic science in the United States. 

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Main Story - Frances Glessner Lee

1. Melinek, Judy, and Goldfarb, Bruce. 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics. United States, Sourcebooks, 2020.
2. The Nutshell Studies. (99 Percent Invisible).
3. The People — Glessner House
4. Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. (Smithsonian American Art Museum).
5. Biographies: Frances Glessner Lee (1878–1962). (NIH).
6. Bush, Erin N. The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. Death by Diorama.
7. Kahn, Eve. “Murder Downsized.” The New York Times. 2004. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/garden/murder-downsized.html?_r=0
8. The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. (CorrineBotz.com).
9. Miller, Laura J. Frances Glessner Lee. Harvard Magazine. 2005.

Women who Work - Dr. Andrea Ghez

1. Nobel Prize Press Release - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/press-release/  
2. “How Andrea Ghez Won the Nobel for an Experiment Nobody Thought Would Work” by Hilton Lewis, Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-andrea-ghez-won-the-nobel-for-an-experiment-nobody-thought-would-work/ 

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Miller, Laura J. Frances Glessner Lee. Harvard Magazine. 2005.

Emlyn tells Emma about the cryptanalyst and numismatist Joan Clarke, who worked as a codebreaker for the British army during WWII. 

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Main Story - Joan Clarke

1. “Joan Clarke, woman who cracked Enigma cyphers with Alan Turing” by Joe Miller , BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29840653
2. “100 years ago: Joan Clarke” by American Mathematical Society. https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201703/rnoti-p252.pdf
3. “The Enigma of Joan Clarke: Numismatist” by Heritage Editorial. https://blog.ha.co
4. “Banburismus”, Wikipedia Article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banburismus

Women who Work 

• Wallace, KJ, York, JM. A systems change framework for evaluating academic equity and inclusion in an Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program. Ecol. Evol. 2020; 00: 1– 8. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6817

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Original publication: Sykes, Christopher (Director) (1992). The Strange Life and Death of Dr. Turing (Videotape). London: BBC Videos for Education and Training. OCLC 36219490.

Immediate source: http://www.bletchleyparkresearch.co.uk/waiting-for-joan-clarke/

Emma tells Emlyn about Xia Peisu, a key founder of China’s electronic computing industry.

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Main Story - Xia Peisu

1. Benavente, Rocío P. “Xia Peisu, the Chinese mother of computing.” Mujeres con Ciencia. 2020. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2020/05/14/xia-peisu-la-madre-china-de-la-computacion/
2. McNeil, Leila. “The computer pioneer who built modern China.” BBC Future. 2020. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200219-xia-peisu-the-computer-pioneer-who-built-modern-china
3. Wei, Qi. “Xia Peisu, one of the founders of China's computer industry: a quiet life.” Science China Press. 2015. http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2015/4/317119.shtm
4. Lee, Lily Xiao Hong. Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume 2. 1998. https://books.google.com/books?id=XOGdnCPJSOMC&pg=PA572#v=onepage&q&f=false
5. Dr. XIA Peisu’s Funeral Committee “Obituary of Academician XIA Peisu (1923-2014).” Institute of Computing Technology, CAS. 2014. http://english.ict.cas.cn/ns/es/201408/t20140830_127073.html

Women who Work 

1. Greaves, J.S., Richards, A.M.S., Bains, W. et al. Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus. Nat Astron (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1174-4 
2. “Phosphine gas found in Venus’ atmosphere may be ‘a possible sign of life’” by Lisa Grossman, Science News. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/phosphine-gas-found-venus-atmosphere-possible-sign-life 
3. “Astronomers spy phosphine on Venus, a potential sign of life” by Mark Zastrow, Astronomy. https://astronomy.com/news/2020/09/astronomers-spy-phosphine-on-venus-a-potential-sign-of-life 

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https://kknews.cc/zh-cn/news/mnp85jp.html 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xia_Peisu.jpg

Emlyn tells Emma about the amazing mathematician and Fields Medal Winner, Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani.

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Main Story - Maryam Mirzakhani

1. “STEM HISTORY - Maryam Mirzakhani” by STEMulus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAorhUrYO6c
2. “Meet the First Woman to Win Math's Most Prestigious Prize “ by Erica Klarreich. https://www.wired.com/2014/08/maryam-mirzakhani-fields-medal/
3. Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) by Kasra Rafi. https://www.nature.com/articles/549032a
4. “Maryam Mirzakhani” Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani
5. Check out this film: “Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Visions of Maryam Mirzakhani” by George Csicsery: http://www.zalafilms.com/secrets/index.html#about

Women who Work 

1. Study finds 'nomophobia' is associated with poor sleep health in college students.
2. Study evaluates immersive virtual reality as a sleep aid for teens.

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Courtesy Stanford News Service

Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai, the environmentalist, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner who founded the grassroots tree-planting campaign, the Greenbelt Movement. 

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Main Story - Wangari Maathai 

1. The Green Belt Movement
2. Maathai, Wangari, Unbowed: a Memoir. William Heinemann, London, 2007.
3. Wangari Maathai – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. Mon. 24 Aug 2020.
4. Perlez, Jane. “Nairobi Journal; Skyscraper's Enemy Draws a Daily Dose of Scorn.” The New York Times. 1989. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/06/world/nairobi-journal-skyscraper-s-enemy-draws-a-daily-dose-of-scorn.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
5. Gettleman, Jeffrey. “Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dies at 71.” The New York Times. 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/world/africa/wangari-maathai-nobel-peace-prize-laureate-dies-at-71.html

Women who Work 

1.  Press release by The Royal Society: https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/attenborough-prize/
2. Wikipedia on Alice Roberts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roberts

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Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA - Wangari Maathai 2004 Nobel Peace prize winner

Emlyn tells Emma about the pioneering Abenaki archeologist and anthropologist, Bertha Parker, and Emma tells Emlyn about glaciers on Mars! 

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Main Story - Bertha Parker

1. Marranzino, Ashley. “Bertha Parker, the trailblazing first Indigenous North American archaeologist, taught herself how to excavate a site.” Massive Science. https://massivesci.com/articles/bertha-parker-pallan-archaeology-native-american-abenaki-seneca/
2. Bertha Parker Pallan Cody (1907-1978). Smithsonian Institute Archives. https://www.si.edu/es/object/bertha-parker-pallan-cody-1907-1978:siris_arc_306365
3. Bruchac, Margaret M.  and Zobel, Melissa Fawcett Tantaquidgeon. 2018. Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists (Native Peoples of the Americas). University of Arizona Press. 
4. IMDB pages for crimson challenge and Desert Gold. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134611/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013034/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
5. Wikipedia, “Bertha Parker Pallan” and “Gypsum Cave”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsum_Cave_(Nevada) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Parker_Pallan

Women who Work 

1.  Wickramasinghe, Sachintha. “Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers.” University of British Columbia News. https://news.ubc.ca/2020/08/03/early-mars-was-covered-in-ice-sheets-not-flowing-rivers/ 

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Smithsonian Institution flickr.com/people Uploaded by Magnus Manske - Bertha Parker Pallan (Cody) (1907-1978) Persistent URL:Link to data base record https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_306365 https://www.si.edu/object/siris_arc_306365

Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Kono Yasui, an expert plant cytologist and the first woman to receive a doctorate of science in Japan.

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Main Story - Kono Yasui

1. McNeill, Leila. “How a Pioneering Botanist Broke Down Japan’s Gender Barriers.” Smithsonian Magazine. 2017. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-pioneering-botanist-broke-down-japans-gender-barriers-180967595/
2. Ochanomizu University “Kono Yasui (1880-1971) - Japan’s First Woman Doctorate of Science.” Ochanomizu University Digital Archives. 2011. http://archives.cf.ocha.ac.jp/en/researcher/yasui_kono.html
3. Yamazaki, Miwae. “Where no other dared to go: Kono Yasui (1880-1971) Japan’s First Woman Doctorate of Science.” Blazing a Path: Japanese Women’s Contributions to Modern Science. 2001. http://www.igs.ocha.ac.jp/igs/IGS_publication/pdf/yasui_where.pdf
4. HARRINGTON, A. (1987). WOMEN AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE JAPANESE EMPIRE (1895—1945). Journal of Asian History, 21(2), 169-186. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41930686?seq=6#metadata_info_tab_contents

Women who Work 

1. Virginia Tech. "Researchers convert female mosquitoes to nonbiting males with implications for mosquito control." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 14 July 2020.  www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200714144730.htm 
2. Azadeh Aryan, Michelle A. E. Anderson, James K. Biedler, Yumin Qi, Justin M. Overcash, Anastasia N. Naumenko, Maria V. Sharakhova, Chunhong Mao, Zach N. Adelman, Zhijian Tu. Nix alone is sufficient to convert female Aedes aegypti into fertile males and myo-sex is needed for male flight. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020; 202001132 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2001132117

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Date 28 July 1948

Source "Asahi Graph" July 28, 1948 issue

Author Asahi Shimbun

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kono_Yasui#/media/File:Yasui_Kono.JPG

Emlyn tells Emma about the legendary botanist, Dr. Marie Clark Taylor, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in botany. Dr. Taylor was not only a top researcher in her field of photomorphogenesis, but she spent much of her career training science teachers in innovative teaching methods that involved the use of plants.

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Main Story - Marie Clark Taylor

1. “Women of Firsts: Marie Clark Taylor” by Lucy Dinsmore, Women in Horticulture. https://www.womeninhorticulture.com/post/woman-of-firsts-marie-clark-taylor 
2. Warren, Wini. Black Women Scientists in the United States. Indiana University Press, 1999. 
3. Plant Science Bulletin, Botanical Society of America, 1957. https://www.botany.org/PlantScienceBulletin/psb-1957-03-2.php 
4. “New Guinea Campaign”, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea_campaign 
5. “Marie Taylor”, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Taylor 

Women who Work 

1. Devitt, James. “Scientists Discover a New Connection Between the Eyes and Touch.” NYU, 2020. https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2020/july/scientists-discover-a-new-connection-between-the-eyes-and-touch.html

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Clark_Taylor_(1911-1990).jpg

Emma tells Emlyn about Martha Bernal, a clinical child psychologist and pioneer in the study of ethnic minority psychology. 

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Main Story - Martha Bernal

1. George, M. (2012). Profile of Martha Bernal.In A. Rutherford (Ed.), Psychology's Feminist Voices Multimedia Internet Archive. http://www.feministvoices.com/martha-bernal/
2. O'Connell, Agnes N & Russo, Nancy Felipe, 1943- (1988). Models of achievement: reflections of eminent women in psychology. Hillsdale, NJ Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
3. CDC page for “Behavior or Conduct Problems in Children” https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/behavior.html
4. Vasquez, M.J.T. “Martha Bernal (1931-2001)”. The Feminist Psychologist, Newsletter of the Society for the Psychology of Women, Division 35 of the American Psychological Association, Volume 30, Number 1, Winter, 2003. https://www.apadivisions.org/division-35/about/heritage/martha-bernal-biography

Women who Work 

• “NASA Names Headquarters After Its First Black Female Engineer, Mary Jackson” by Allyson Waller, The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/science/nasa-mary-jackson-hidden-figures.html

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From A. M. Amado & E. Olmedo, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, Vol. 15, 2009, p. 366.

Emlyn tells Emma all about Katherine Johnson, the mathematician whose complex calculations of orbital mechanics were essential for sending astronauts safely into space.

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Main Story - Katherine Johnson

1. “Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician And An Inspiration For 'Hidden Figures,' Dies” by Russell Lewis, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/24/517784975/katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician-and-an-inspiration-for-hidden-figures-dies 
2. “Katherine Johnson” by Margot Lee Shetterly, Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00749-3 
3. “The True Story of “Hidden Figures,” the Forgotten Women Who Helped Win the Space Race” by Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/forgotten-black-women-mathematicians-who-helped-win-wars-and-send-astronauts-space-180960393/ 
4. Shetterly ML. Hidden Figures : The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. First edition. William Morrow; 2016. 
5. “Katherine Johnson” Wikipedia Page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson

Women who Work 

This week, our shout outs go to three amazing podcasts hosted by Black women scientists:

1. In Those Genes. https://inthosegenes.com/
2. Blk + In Grad School. https://www.blkingradschool.com/
3. Dope Labs. https://www.dopelabspodcast.com/

We also made a longer list of podcasts hosted by Black women that may be of interest to our listeners, as they cover related topics like science, technology, and women in academia!

In addition, we discuss the Twitter threads #BlackAFinSTEM and #BlackintheIvory which brought to light the experiences of Black people in science and academia, and we give a shout out to the BlackAFinSTEM Ologies episode which featured “30 new science heroes who are @BlackAFinSTEM.”

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Public Domain

File:Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966 - Original.jpg

Created: 1 January 1966

Emma tells Emlyn all about the nuclear physicist turned world-renowned bee researcher, Eva Crane, and Emlyn tells Emma about new research on bumble bee behavior!

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Main Story - Eva Crane

1. Eva Crane: Bee Scientist 1912-2007. United Kingdom, International Bee Research Assn., 2008. https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/6GwZ2ZkADL4C?hl=en&gbpv=1
2. Miksha, Ron. “Remembering Eva Crane: Beekeeper and Physicist.” Bad Beekeeping Blog. 2019. https://badbeekeepingblog.com/2019/06/12/remembering-eva-crane-beekeeper-and-physicist/
3. Marren, Peter. Obituary for Eva Crane. The Independent. 2007. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/eva-crane-402281.html
4. Railton, Francesca. “The secret life of bees: the life and work of Eva Crane.” Royal Botanical Gardens KEW, KEW.org. https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/the-secret-life-of-bees-the-life-and-work-of-eva-crane
5. “About Eva Crane.” Eva Crane Trust. https://www.evacranetrust.org/page/eva-crane
6. “Publication Index.” Eva Crane Trust. https://www.evacranetrust.org/page/publication-index

Women who Work 

• “Bumblebees Bite Plants to Force Them to Flower (Seriously)” by Jim Daley, Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bumblebees-bite-plants-to-force-them-to-flower-seriously/?amp
• Pashalidou, F. G., Lambert, H., Peybernes, T., Mescher, M. C. & De Moraes, C. M. Bumble bees damage plant leaves and accelerate flower production when pollen is scarce. Science 368, 881 (2020). https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6493/881

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The Eva Crane Trust

https://www.evacranetrust.org/page/eva-crane

Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Tilly Edinger, who combined paleontology and neurology to found the field of paleoneurology. She used endocasts of brains of extant and extinct animals to answer questions about brain evolution, provide crucial evidence for cladogenesis, and assess the behavior of extinct animals.

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Main Story  

1. Wilson, Laura. “Tilly Edinger.” Trowelblazers.  https://trowelblazers.com/tilly-edinger/
2. Buchholtz, Emily A. and Ernst-August Seyfarth. “The Study of “Fossil Brains”: Tilly Edinger (1897–1967) and the Beginnings of Paleoneurology”, BioScience, Volume 51, Issue 8, 2001. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/51/8/674/220658
3. Buchholtz, Emily A. and Ernst-August Seyfarth. “The gospel of the fossil brain: Tilly Edinger and the science of paleoneurology”, Brain Research Bulletin, Volume 48, No 4, 1999. http://academics.wellesley.edu/Biology/Faculty/Emily/BRB48(4).pdf
4. Wikipedia Article, “Tilly Edinger.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_Edinger
5. McNeill, Leila.“The woman who shaped the study of fossil brains,” Smithsonian Magazine, March 1, 2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/woman-who-shaped-study-fossil-brains-180968254/

Women who Work 

• Brumfield, Ben. “People Think Robots Are Pretty Incompetent and Not Funny, New Study Says.” Georgia Institute of Technology. May, 2020.

https://chi.gatech.edu/people-think-robots-are-pretty-incompetent-and-not-funny/

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TillyEdinger.jpg

Emma tells Emlyn about the scientists that created the first widely used vaccine for whooping cough (pertussis): Dr. Pearl Kendrick, Dr. Grace Eldering, and Loney Clinton Gordon.

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Main Story  

1. Shapiro-Shapin, Carolyn G. “‘A Whole Community Working Together’: Pearl Kendrick, Grace Eldering, and the Grand Rapids Pertussis Trials, 1932-1939.” Michigan Historical Review, vol. 33, no. 1, 2007, pp. 59–85. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20174193.
2. Killian, Eryn. “The Trailblazer.” University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library. https://bentley.umich.edu/features/the-trailblazer/
3. Shift7 for Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls. “Pearl Kendrick, Grace Eldering, and Loney Clinton Gordon developed the whooping cough and single dose DTP vaccines” https://amysmartgirls.com/20for2020-pearl-kendrick-grace-eldering-and-loney-clinton-gordon-developed-the-pertussis-and-c035f2858d6
4. CDC pages on Pertussis/Whooping Cough. https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/index.html
5. Finding aid for the Michigan women and the whooping cough vaccine collection. Collection 328. The Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering papers, Katherine Chase scrapbook and other sources Finding aid prepared by Jill Bannink. This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit May 24, 2013. Describing Archives: A Content Standard. https://www.grpl.org/uploads/grhsc/328.pdf 
6. Shapiro-Shapin, Carolyn G. “Pearl Kendrick, Grace Eldering, and the Pertussis Vaccine.” Emerging Infectious Diseases. www.cdc.gov/eid. Vol. 16, No. 8. August 2010. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9198/ba161ce6ecbb2c6816e10cc7e4ef28625048.pdf?_ga=2.142500848.35409263.1587737011-1375607549.1587737011
7. Santa Fe Institute News. “Study: Is the whooping cough resurgence due to vaccinated people not knowing they’re infectious?” 2015. https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/althouse-scarpino-whooping-cough-asymptomatic 
8. Marks, Harry M. “The Kendrick-Eldering-(Frost) pertussis vaccine field trial.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. vol. 100,5 (2007): 242-7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1861415/

Women who Work 

• Guardian Article about the success of female leaders in containing covid-19: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/why-do-female-leaders-seem-to-be-more-successful-at-managing-the-coronavirus-crisis

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Lt: Pearl Kendrick (Image courtesy of U-M Library Digital Collections. Bentley Image Bank, Bentley Historical Library). Center: Grace Eldering (Image via Grand Rapids History and Special Collections (GRHSC), Archives, Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan) Rt: Loney Clinton Gordon (image via Michigan Women Forward).

Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Alice Hamilton, a scientist, doctor, public health expert, and pioneer in the fields of industrial toxicology and occupational health. 

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Main Story - Alice Hamilton 

1. “Pandemics Come and Go But Medical Masks are Eternal” by Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg Opinion.  https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-10/medical-face-masks-an-illustrated-history
2. “Celebrating the life of Alice Hamilton, founding mother of occupational medicine” by Dr. Howard Markel, PBS. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/celebrating-life-alice-hamilton-founding-mother-occupational-medicine
3. “Lead, TNT, and Rayon: Dr. Alice Hamilton’s Battle Against Industrial Poisons” by Dale Debakcsy, Women You Should Know. https://womenyoushouldknow.net/alice-hamiltons-battle-against-industrial-poisons/
4. Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Hamilton 

Women who Work 

Shoutout to Katelyn Allers and her team for devising a new method for measuring wind speeds on brown dwarfs! 

• NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 9 April 2020.
• Finley, Dave. “Astronomers Measure Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf.” National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 9 April 2020. https://public.nrao.edu/news/brown-dwarf-wind-speed/
• CalTech’s Cool Cosmos page on Brown Dwarfs (for background info): http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/cosmic_reference/brown_dwarfs.html

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Photo courtesy of NIH https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Alice_Hamilton#/media/File:Alice_Hamilton.jpg

Emma tells Emlyn about Rebecca Lee Crumpler, who became the first female African American doctor during the American Civil War, and who later treated thousands of freed slaves, along with many others, after the war had ended. 

Sources:

Main Story - Rebecca Lee Crumpler

1. Markel, Howard. "Celebrating Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first African-American woman physician." PBS News Hour. 2016. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/celebrating-rebecca-lee-crumpler-first-african-american-physician
2. Pfatteicher, S. "Crumpler, Rebecca Davis Lee (1831-1895), physician." American National Biography. 2000. https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1201058.
3. Friend of Hyde Park Branch Library Blog. "Rebecca Lee’s Medical Training." 2020.  https://hplibraryfriends.wordpress.com/2020/03/01/rebecca-lees-medical-training/ 
4. Cazalet, Sylvain. "New England Female Medical College & New England Hospital for Women and Children." 2001. http://www.homeoint.org/cazalet/histo/newengland.htm
5. Neal, Anthony W. "Dr. Crumpler: Nation’s first African American woman physician." 2012. https://www.baystatebanner.com/2012/09/05/dr-crumpler-nations-first-african-american-woman-physician/

Women who Work 

Shoutout to Rebecca Lakin and team for their paper on the reproduction across Crocodylia!

1. University of Bath. "Crocs' better parenting skills could make them more resilient to climate change." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 11 March 2020. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200311112008.htm. 
2. Lakin, R. J., Barrett, P. M., Stevenson, C., Thomas, R. J. & Willis, M. A. First evidence for a latitudinal body mass effect in extant Crocodylia and the relationships of their reproductive characters. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blz208/5713003

Shoutout to Otlet and co-founder, Madeline Green, for their work starting a match-making system between graduate students in need of data and PIs with datasets that need to be analyzed. 

1. Goodle Forms: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdl32ju3IifAETih1F116fdqygS-WGVOI_7NVBhKTg7m6P6ZQ/viewform

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There are no known pictures of Rebecca Lee Crumpler, thus our cover image is from her book, available to the public through the NIH:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crumpler_A-Book-of-Medical-Discourses.jpg

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Emlyn tells Emma about Clara Barton, the self-taught nurse who cared for thousands of wounded soldiers and founded the American Red Cross.

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Sources: 

Main Story - Clara Barton 

1. Clara Barton Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton
2. Sawbones podcast, Episode 3 (Bloodletting) Transcript https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/sawbones/transcript-sawbones-bloodletting/
3. “Founder Clara Barton” by the Red Cross. https://www.redcross.org/content/dam/redcross/enterprise-assets/about-us/history/history-clara-barton-v5.pdf
4. “The founder of the Red Cross faced down sexism her whole life” by Gillian Brockell, Washington Post Article. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/05/06/union-doctors-demanded-male-nurses-during-civil-war-clara-barton-defied-them/

Women who Work 

1. Wolters Kluwer Health. "COVID-19 appears less severe in children, Says Review in Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal." March, 2020. http://home.lww.com/news.entry.html/2020/03/13/covid-19_appearsles-YgCo.html
2. University of California - Berkeley. "Coronavirus outbreak raises question: Why are bat viruses so deadly? Bats' fierce immune systems drive viruses to higher virulence, making them deadlier in humans. February, 2020. https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/02/10/coronavirus-outbreak-raises-question-why-are-bat-viruses-so-deadly/

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Mathew Brady

http://www.wepanknowledgecenter.org/marie-curie/

Emma flies solo again this week with a short story about the amazing woman who determined how to image and identify viruses like the coronaviruses, hepatitis B, HIV, rubella, and more!

Website: https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/

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Main Story - June Almeida 

1. Almeida J. (2008). June Almeida (née Hart). BMJ : British Medical Journal, 336 (7659), 1511. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a434 
2. Booss, J., MD and August, M.J., PhD (2014). Imaging Viruses and Tagging Their Antigens. In To Catch a Virus (eds J. Booss and M.J. August). doi:10.1128/9781555818586.ch7
3. Goldsmith, C. S., & Miller, S. E. (2009). Modern uses of electron microscopy for detection of viruses. Clinical microbiology reviews, 22(4), 552–563. https://doi.org/10.1128/CMR.00027-09 

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From Joyce Almeida, in Booss, J., MD and August, M.J., PhD (2014). Imaging Viruses and Tagging Their Antigens. In To Catch a Virus (eds J. Booss and M.J. August). doi:10.1128/9781555818586.ch7

Emma flies solo this week with a short story about the prolific Mexican acarologist, Anita Hoffmann.

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Main Story - Anita Hoffmann

1. Ortiz, Tila Maria Perez. "Ana Hoffmann Mendizabal." UNAM. 2007.  http://www.100.unam.mx/pdf/ana-hoffmann-mendizabal.pdf
2. Garza, CDE & AAM, Ochoa. Dra. Ana Esther Hoffmann Mendizábal. Artrópodos y Salud. Ene.-Jun., 2016. Vol. 3 No. 1. http://artropodosysalud.com/Publicaciones/No5-Abr2016/2Monografia.pdf

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Emma and Emma jointly tell each other about the two-time Nobel Prize winner in both Chemistry and Physics, Dr. Marie Curie! This is part two of our two-part episode!

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Sources 

Main Story - Marie Curie

1. Pasachoff, N. E. Marie Curie and the science of radioactivity. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=mVCTHbdstdQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false
2. NIST.gov. “Marie Curie and the NBS Radium Standards. 1913: The US Curie Standard.” 2009. https://www.nist.gov/pml/marie-curie-and-nbs-radium-standards/1913-us-curie-standard
3. American Institute of Physics and Naomi Pasachoff. “Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity.” 2004. https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/curie/sitemap.htm
4. Des Jardins, Julie. “Madame Curie’s Passion.” Smithsonian Magazine. 2011. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madame-curies-passion-74183598/
5. Froman, Nanny. “Marie and Pierre Curie and the discovery of polonium and radium.” NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. 1996. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/marie-and-pierre-curie-and-the-discovery-of-polonium-and-radium 
6. American Institute of Physics. “Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity.” https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/curie/stud1.htm 
7. Tasch, Barbara. “Marie Curie's Belongings Will Be Radioactive For Another 1,500 Years.” Business Insider. 2015. https://www.sciencealert.com/these-personal-effects-of-marie-curie-will-be-radioactive-for-another-1-500-years

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“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

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http://www.wepanknowledgecenter.org/marie-curie/

For the 50th episode, Emma and Emma jointly tell each other about the two-time Nobel Prize winner in both Chemistry and Physics, Dr. Marie Curie! This is part one of a two-part episode!

Website: https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/

Sources 

Main Story - Marie Curie

1. Pasachoff, N. E. Marie Curie and the science of radioactivity. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=mVCTHbdstdQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false
2. NIST.gov. “Marie Curie and the NBS Radium Standards. 1913: The US Curie Standard.” 2009. https://www.nist.gov/pml/marie-curie-and-nbs-radium-standards/1913-us-curie-standard
3. American Institute of Physics and Naomi Pasachoff. “Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity.” 2004. https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/curie/sitemap.htm
4. Des Jardins, Julie. “Madame Curie’s Passion.” Smithsonian Magazine. 2011. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madame-curies-passion-74183598/
5. Froman, Nanny. “Marie and Pierre Curie and the discovery of polonium and radium.” NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. 1996. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/marie-and-pierre-curie-and-the-discovery-of-polonium-and-radium 
6. American Institute of Physics. “Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity.” https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/curie/stud1.htm 
7. Tasch, Barbara. “Marie Curie's Belongings Will Be Radioactive For Another 1,500 Years.” Business Insider. 2015. https://www.sciencealert.com/these-personal-effects-of-marie-curie-will-be-radioactive-for-another-1-500-years

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“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

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Merch: http://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/merch 

Promo: The Psyched Podcast (@pyschedpodcast1)

Emma tells Emlyn about the mycologist and famous children's book writer, Beatrix Potter, and Emlyn tells Emma about an eight-year-old girl from Mexico whose IQ rivals Einstein! 

New website and merch store: www.stemfatalepodcast.com 

Sources

Main Story - Beatrix Potter

1. Lear, Linda. Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature. 2008. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312369347/page/130
2. Gardiner, B.G. “Beatrix Potter’s fossils and her interest in geology.” 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101126154132/http://linnean.org/fileadmin/images/Beatrix_Potter/BPotter_fossils.pdf 
3. Debakcsy, Dale. “Mushrooms, Fossils, And A Pen To Draw Them With: Beatrix Potter, Naturalist.” 2019. https://womenyoushouldknow.net/beatrix-potter-naturalist/ 
4. “The Scientific Tale of Author Beatrix Potter.” Science Friday. 2016. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the-scientific-tale-of-author-beatrix-potter/
5. Fleming, Nic. “Beatrix Potter: Pioneering Scientist or Passionate Amateur?” BBC. 2016. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160215-beatrix-potter-pioneering-scientist-or-passionate-amateur
6. Gristwood, Sarah. The Story of Beatrix Potter. 2016. https://books.google.ca/books?id=EvQcDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT99#v=onepage&q&f=false 

Women who Werk - Adhara Perez

1. “8-Year-Old Mexican Girl, Who Was Bullied and Labeled 'Weird,' Has Higher IQ Than Einstein: Report” by Benjamin VanHoose. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/8-old-mexican-girl-bullied-182500208.html
2. “Ella es Adhara Pérez: la niña mexicana que tiene (casi) el mismo IQ que Albert Einstein” by Karina Gonzalez Ulloa. https://www.vogue.mx/estilo-de-vida/articulo/adhara-perez-sanchez-nina-mexicana-prodigio-quien-es

Music “Mary Anning” by Artichoke “Work” by Rihanna

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The second announcement is that we couldn’t get it together in time and so our episode will be coming out sometime on Tuesday! Sorry, its been crazy!

Thanks!!

Emlyn tells Emma about the "grande dame of the everglades", conservationist and writer, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and Emma tells Emlyn about the Broadcom MASTERS middle-school competition winners!

Main Story - Marjory Stoneman Douglas

1. https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/marjory-stoneman-douglas/
2. https://www.nwf.org/en/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2000/Conservation-Hall-of-Fame-Marjory-Stoneman-Douglas
3. http://scholar.library.miami.edu/msdouglas/river_of_grass.html
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjory_Stoneman_Douglas

Women who Werk 

1. Perkins, Sid. “Teen auto-safety researcher nabs $25,000 science fair prize.” Science News for Students. 2019. https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/blog/eureka-lab/MASTERS-2019-teen-auto-safety-researcher-nabs-25000-broadcom-masters-prize

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“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

“Work” by Rihanna

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Emma tells Emlyn about the Chinese doctor who merged eastern and western medicine and brought soy to the US, Yamei Kin, and Emlyn tells Emma about new research unraveling the long-term effects of measles. 

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Main Story - Yamei Kin

1. Biography of Yamei Kin M.D. (1864-1934), (Also Known as Jin Yunmei), the First Chinese Woman to Take a Medical Degree in the United States (1864-2016), 2nd Ed., With McCartee Family Genealogy and Knight Family Genealogy. By William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyag. http://www.soyinfocenter.com/books/192
2. Ives, Mike. Overlooked No More: Yamei Kin, the Chinese Doctor Who Introduced Tofu to the West. The New York Times. 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/obituaries/yamei-kin-overlooked.html
3. Roth, Matthew. The Chinese-Born Doctor Who Brought Tofu to America. Smithsonian Magazine. 2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/chinese-born-doctor-who-brought-tofu-america-180969977/

Women who Werk 

1. “New details on immune system ‘amnesia’ show how measles causes long-term damage” by Laura Sanders https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-details-measles-immune-system-amnesia-long-term-damage
2. V.N. Petrova et al. Incomplete genetic reconstitution of B cell pools contributes to prolonged immunosuppression after measles. Science Immunology. Vol. 4, November 1, 2019. https://immunology.sciencemag.org/content/4/41/eaay6125

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“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

“Work” by Rihanna

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Emlyn tells Emma about the first Alchemist of the western world, Mary the Jewess, and Emma tells Emlyn about the first all-female space walk! 

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Main Story - Mary the Jewess

1. “Mary the Jewess, First Known Alchemist” by Jone Johnson Lewis. https://www.thoughtco.com/mary-the-jewess-biography-3530346
2. “Mary the Jewess, An Inventor of Alchemy”, National Library of Israel. https://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/english/library/reading_corner/pages/maria_the_jewess.aspx
3. “Alchemy May Not Have Been the Pseudo-science We All Thought It was” by Richard Conniff. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/alchemy-may-not-been-pseudoscience-we-thought-it-was-180949430/
4. “Mary the Jewess” by John H. Lienhard, Engines of Our Ingenuity. https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi964.htm
5. “Mary the Jewess”, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_the_Jewess

Women who Werk 

• Zraick, Karen. “NASA Astronauts Complete the First All-Female Spacewalk.” New York Times. 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/science/space/nasa-female-spacewalk.html

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“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

“Work” by Rihanna

“Double Trouble” by John Williams (Harry Potter - Prisoner of Azkaban soundtrack)

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Engraving depicting Maria Prophetissima from Michael Maier's book Symbola Aurea Mensae Duodecim Nationum (1617).

Emma tells Emlyn about the British aeronautical engineer and amateur racing driver, Beatrice 'Tilly' Shilling, and Emlyn tells Emma about climate activists Autumn Peltier, Xiye Bastida, and Mari Copeny! 

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Main Story - Beatrice “Tilly” Shilling

1. “Magnificent Women: Beatrice Shilling.” Women in Engineering Society. https://www.wes.org.uk/sites/default/files/u82/Magnificent%20Women%20-%20Beatrice%20Shilling.pdf
2. Wynarczyk, Pooran and Jaffe, Deborah. Innovative Women: Illuminating Achievement and Success. Paper presented at 9th International Triple Helix Conference. 2011. https://www.leydesdorff.net/th9/Innovative%20WomenFINAL15JUNE2011N.pdf
3. Price, Alfred. The Spitfire Story: Second edition. London: Arms and Armour Press Ltd., 1986.
4. “Beatrice Shilling – Engineer and Battle of Britain heroine.” The University of Manchester. 2015. https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/beatrice-shilling--engineer-and-battle-of-britain-heroine/ 
5. Ferriera, Becky. “How Thrill-Seeking Gearhead Beatrice Shilling Helped Win World War II.” Motherboard. 2017. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z4k455/beatrice-shilling-women-stem-international-womens-day
6. “Beatrice Shilling: Pioneering engineer's genius 'helped win World War Two’.” BBC.com. 2017. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-40267364
7. Morris, Carol. “Beatrice Shilling (1909-1990).” OpenLearn. 2018. https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/engineering-technology/beatrice-shilling-1909-1990
8. Blake-Coleman, Barry. “The Fabulous 'Tilly' Shilling!” http://www.inventricity.com/tilly-shilling
9. “The Life and Work of Beatrice ‘Tilly’ Shilling OBE PhD MSc CEng” an illustrated talk by Frankie Webb. 2019. https://thefarnboroughsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Beatrice-Shilling-Talk.pdf

Women who Werk 

This week we highlight young women climate activists!

Autumn Peltier: 

• https://therising.co/2019/10/04/meet-activist-autumn-peltier-the-young-water-warrior-making-a-splash/

Xiye Bastida: 

• https://www.eomega.org/workshops/teachers/xiye-bastida
• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/2019/09/meet-xiye-bastida-americas-greta-thunberg/

Mari Copeny:

• https://shortyawards.com/11th/littlemissflint
• https://www.oprahmag.com/life/a25383285/mari-copeny-barack-obama-flint-water-crisis/

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“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

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Emlyn tells Emma about the volcanologist who documented over 175 erupting volcanoes, Katia Krafft, and Emma tells Emlyn about the history of the history of women in science (so meta)! 

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Sources  

Main Story - Katia Krafft

1. “Maurice and Katia Kraft” Auckland War Memorial Museum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5CAyaRIW8s
2. “Fire in the Earth, Fire in the Soul: The final moments of Maurice and Katia KRafft” Interdisciplinary studies in literature and environment 4.2 (1997): 71-77. 
3. P.B.S. Nature: "The Volcano Watchers" 60 minute VHS tape [PBS 103] WNET THirteen Copyright 1987, ISBN 1-56111-504-5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UZxCGxBu8A
4. “Into the Inferno” by Werner Herzog (On Netflix)
5. “Katia Krafft” on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katia_Krafft

Women who Werk 

Dominus, Susan. “Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It’s Margaret Rossiter’s Lifelong Mission to Fix That.” Smithsonian Magazine. September 2019.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/unheralded-women-scientists-finally-getting-their-due-180973082/

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Emma tells Emlyn about Ynes Mexia, the late-blooming botanist that collected over 150,000 plants during her short career, and Emlyn tells Emma about a new climate change podcast, the Warm Regards Podcast!

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Main Story - Ynes Mexia

• Siber, Kate. “How Finding Rare Plants Saved Ynes Mexia’s Life.” 2019. Outside Online. https://www.outsideonline.com/2390204/ynes-mexia-plant-collector
• Marks, Gabriela S. “Meet Ynes Mexia, late-blooming botanist whose adventures rival Darwin’s.” 2018. Massive Science. https://massivesci.com/articles/ynes-mexia-our-heroes/
• Radcliffe, Jane. “Ynes Mexia (1870-1938).” California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/library/special/bios/Mexia.pdf
• "Mexia, Ynes (1870–1938)." Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. . Encyclopedia.com. (September 8, 2019). https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mexia-ynes-1870-1938
• Carter, Annetta. Interview of N. Floy Brocelin. "The Ynés Mexía botanical collections : oral history transcript / 1983."  https://archive.org/stream/ynsmexabotan00bracrich/ynsmexabotan00bracrich_djvu.txt
• Kiernan, Elizabeth. “Late Bloomer: The Short, Prolific Career of Ynes Mexia.” 2015. NYBG. https://www.nybg.org/blogs/science-talk/2015/02/late-bloomer-the-short-prolific-career-of-ynes-mexia/
• Shor, E.  (2000, February). Mexia, Ynes Enriquetta Julietta (1870-1938), botanical collector. American National Biography. https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1302002

Women who Werk 

• Warm Regards Podcast - https://slate.com/technology/2016/06/introducing-warm-regards-a-new-climate-change-podcast.html
• https://soundcloud.com/warmregardspodcast/the-dangers-of-doing-science-in-the-field

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Emlyn tells Emma about the founder of bioinformatics and modern sequence databases, Dr. Margaret Dayhoff, and Emma tells Emlyn about the winners of the Science Fiction Hugo Awards!

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Main Story - Dr. Margaret Dayhoff 

• “How Margaret Dayhoff brought Modern Computing to Biology” by Leila McNeill. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-margaret-dayhoff-helped-bring-computing-scientific-research-180971904/
• Wikipedia page on Margaret Dayhoff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Oakley_Dayhoff
• Professor Margaret Dayhoff: https://www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/people/summary/Dayhoff

Women who Werk 

• Gartenberg, Chaim. “Women swept through the Hugo awards -- again.” The Verge 2019. https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20812571/hugo-award-2019-winners-worldcon-mary-robinette-kowal-best-novel-into-the-spider-verse
• More info: http://www.thehugoawards.org/

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By Ruth Dayhoff

Emma tells Emlyn about the physicist and electrical engineer, Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus, who studied all things carbon and Emlyn tells Emma about the diet of saber-toothed cats and dire wolves! 

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Main Story - Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus

1. Weil, Martin. “Mildred Dresselhaus, physicist dubbed ‘queen of carbon science,’ dies at 86.” Washington Post. 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/mildred-dresselhaus-physicist-dubbed-queen-of-carbon-dies-at-86/2017/02/22/3355d3a2-f8a7-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?noredirect=on
2. Mildred Dresselhaus Autobiography for the Kavli Prize. http://kavliprize.org/sites/default/files/%25nid%25/autobiagraphies_attachments/Mildred_Dresselhaus_Biography_0.pdf
3. Anderson, Mark. “Mildred Dresselhaus: The Queen of Carbon.” IEEE Spectrum. 2015. https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/mildred-dresselhaus-the-queen-of-carbon
4. MILDRED DRESSELHAUS: An Interview Conducted by Kelsey Irvin, IEEE History Center, 11 July 2013. Interview # 650 for the IEEE History Center, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Mildred_Dresselhaus
5. Mildred Dresselhaus. The Franklin Institute. https://www.fi.edu/laureates/mildred-s-dresselhaus
6. Angier, Natalie. “Carbon Catalyst for Half a Century.” The New York Times. 2012. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/science/carbon-catalyst-for-half-a-century.html
7. MIT News Office. “Institute Professor Emerita Mildred Dresselhaus, a pioneer in the electronic properties of materials, dies at 86.” 2017. http://news.mit.edu/2017/institute-professor-emerita-mildred-dresselhaus-dies-86-0221

Women who Werk 

1. DeSantis et al 2019 Current biology paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdfExtended/S0960-9822(19)30786-9
2. Science daily article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190805111913.htm

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“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

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Emlyn tells Emma about the FDA scientist, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey,  that kept the birth-defect causing drug, Thalidomide, off the shelves in the US, and Emma tells Emlyn about the *power* of vitamin supplements! 

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Main Story - Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey

1. Transcripts of Dr. Kelsey: https://www.fda.gov/media/89162/download
2. "Frances Oldham Kelsey: Medical reviewer famous for averting a public health tragedy" : https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/virtual-exhibits-fda-history/frances-oldham-kelsey-medical-reviewer-famous-averting-public-health-tragedy
3. "The Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’" by Leila McNeill: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/woman-who-stood-between-america-and-epidemic-birth-defects-180963165/
4. Wikipedia article about Frances Oldham Kelsey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Oldham_Kelsey
5. "Frances Oldham Kelsey, Who Saved U.S. Babies From Thalidomide, Dies at 101" by Robert D.  McFadden: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/science/frances-oldham-kelsey-fda-doctor-who-exposed-danger-of-thalidomide-dies-at-101.html?_r=0
6. Biography of Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey: https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_182.html

Women who Werk

Johns Hopkins Medicine. "Vast majority of dietary supplements don't improve heart health or put off death, study finds." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 16 July 2019. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190716095529.htm

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The White House

This week we change up the format and talk about TWO historical women in science! Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Yvonne Barr, who helped discover the first cancer-causing virus in humans, and Emma tells Emma about Dr. Sameera Moussa, an egyptian nuclear physicist who worked to make the medical use of nuclear technology affordable to all! 

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Sources

Story 1 - Dr. Yvonne Barr

1. The Cancer Virus: The story of Epstein-Barr Virus. D.H. Crawford, A. Richinson, and I. Johnnessen. 2014. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
2. Video of Dr. Yvonne Barr for 50th anniversary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MXFUHBRQjo 
3. UK Cancer Research Institute, https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/03/26/50-years-of-epstein-barr-virus/ 
4. “Viral Causes of Lymphoma: The History of Epstein-Barr Virus and Human T-Lymphotropic Virus” by Daniel Esau, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5621661/pdf/10.1177_1178122X17731772.pdf 
5. Cancer virus discovery helped by delayed flight, https://www.bbc.com/news/health-26857610 

Story 2 -  Dr. Sameera Moussa 

1. Sameera Moussa by Ignite Global Fund for Women http://ignite.globalfundforwomen.org/be-the-spark/sameera-moussa
2. Decou, Christopher. 2018. “This Week in Science: Sameera Moussa, the Egyptian Mother of Nuclear Energy.” https://medium.com/@ccdecou/week-science-history-sameera-moussa-egyptian-89cdc6312838

Further reading on gender equality issues in STEM:

1. Old boy's club of 1989: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277539589800111
2. Negative and marginalizing interactions limiting women's access to important resources: http://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/00551c876cc2f027,31a33a3e53bad464,08629c0a217631d5.html
3. Sexism and microaggressions: https://journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.12.020119
4. Research labs described as a “chilly place” for women: http://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/00551c876cc2f027,3d9029c134ca6690,734a6ef163b4eb9c.html
5. Lack of female gatekeepers for research funding:  https://www.ingenere.it/en/articles/gate-keeping-and-gender-challenge-science
6. More ways in which STEM graduate environments disfavour women: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0308018815Z.000000000112
7. An article in science magazine about the issue:  https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2018/10/when-you-re-only-woman-challenges-female-phd-students-male-dominated-cohorts

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Emma tells Emlyn about the astronomer, Dr Vera Rubin, who found the best evidence of dark matter, and Emlyn tells Emma about research showing that male ecologists/zoologists rarely co-author papers with women! 

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Main Story - Vera Rubin

1. Interview of Vera Rubin by Alan Lightman on 1989 April 3, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA. https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/33963
2. Carnegie Science Staff Bio for Vera Rubin. http://dtm.carnegiescience.edu/people/vera-c-rubin
3. Irion, R. (2002). The Bright Face behind the Dark Sides of Galaxies. Science, 295(5557), 960-961. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3076066 
4. Overbye, Dennis (2016) “Vera Rubin, 88, Dies; Opened Doors in Astronomy, and for Women.” https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/science/vera-rubin-astronomist-who-made-the-case-for-dark-matter-dies-at-88.html?login=facebook
5. Rubin, Vera C. (2011). An Interesting Voyage. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 49(1), 1-28. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-astro-081710-102545

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Salerno, P. E., Páez-Vacas, M., Guayasamin, J. M. & Stynoski, J. L. Male principal investigators (almost) don’t publish with women in ecology and zoology. PLoS ONE 14, e0218598–14 (2019). https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0218598 

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Emlyn tells Emma about the marine biologist, writer, and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and Emma tells Emlyn about a heck of a lot of boss ladies!

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Main Story - Rachel Carson

1. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
2. Women's History: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/rachel-carson
3. American Chemical Society: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/rachel-carson-silent-spring.html
4. Fire Ants Video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:16-p-1402-2_Fire_Ants_on_Trial.webm

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• Jess Wade was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire! https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/191453/imperial-academics-awarded-honours-queen/
• Xinzhu Wei and Rasmus Nielsen find that mutations in the CCR5 gene that make some people resistant to HIV may also reduce longevity. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0459-6
• Olga Troyanskaya and a team of researchers develop a machine learning model that identified mutations in non-coding regions of the genome that are associated with autism. https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2019/05/27/autism-noncoding-mutations/

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Emma tells Emlyn about the chemist who found an effective treatment for leprosy, and Emlyn tells Emma about emotional contagion in ravens! 

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Main Story - Alice Augusta Ball

1. Brown, Jeannette. African American Women Chemists. Oxford University Press, 2012.
2. UW School of Pharmacy. “UWSOP alumni legend Alice Ball, Class of 1914, solved leprosy therapy riddle.” 2017. https://sop.washington.edu/uwsop-alumni-legend-alice-ball-class-of-1914-solved-leprosy-riddle/
3. Brewster, Carisa D. “How the Woman Who Found a Leprosy Treatment Was Almost Lost to History.” National Geographic. 2018. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/alice-ball-leprosy-hansens-disease-hawaii-womens-history-science/

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• Adriaense, J. E. C., Martin, J. S., Schiestl, M., Lamm, C. & Bugnyar, T. Negative emotional contagion and cognitive bias in common ravens (Corvus corax). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 201817066 (2019). https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/05/14/1817066116
• Ars Technica article by Scott K Johnson: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/watching-a-hangry-friend-makes-a-raven-a-pessimist/

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University of Hawai’i

Emlyn tells Emma about the Pacific phycologist and Hawaiian ethnobotanist, Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott, and Emma tells Emlyn about the body mass index (BMI) of Marvel characters!

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Main Story - Isabella Aiona Abbott

1. LONG STORY SHORT WITH LESLIE WILCOX. Isabella Aiona Abbott. https://www.pbshawaii.org/long-story-short-with-leslie-wilcox-isabella-aiona-abbott/
2. Stanford News, Isabella Abbott, world-renowned Stanford algae expert, dies at 91” https://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/december/izzie-abbott-obit-120710.html
3. “Pioneering professor is first lady of limu” by Jennifer Crites http://www.hawaii.edu/malamalama/2010/10/isabella-abbott/
4. Isabella Aiona Abbott: 2001 Distinguished Economic Botanist: Interpreting Pre-Western Hawaiian Culture as an Ethnobotanist. (2002). Economic Botany, 56(1), 3-6. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/stable/4256514
5. “Inspiration of Izzie” by Julie Packard https://www.huffpost.com/entry/inspiration-from-izzie_n_791382
6. “A tribute to Isabella Aiona Abbott on the occasion of her 85th birthday. Happy Birthday Izzie!” by Huisman J.M. and Norris J.N. Cryptogamie, Algol., 2004, 25 (3): 219-239 https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/23539/1/tribute%20to%20isabella%20abbott.pdf

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1. Scientists find a possible biomarker for detecting CTE

• https://www.livescience.com/65434-cte-concussion-biomarker-tau.html
• https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2019/05/08/WNL.0000000000007608

2. Captain Dorito and the bombshell

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190501153356.html
• https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Febs0000164

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Stanford University

Emma tells Emlyn about the Hollywood star and inventor, Hedy Lamarr, and Emlyn tells Emma about the book, Invisible women! Apologies on this episode, we get excited, and there is quite a bit of audio distortion. 

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Main Story - Hedy Lamarr

1. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Directed by Alexandra Dean (2017).
2. George, Alice. “Thank This World War II-Era Film Star for Your Wi-Fi.” Smithsonianmag.com. Aug. 4, 2019. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/thank-world-war-ii-era-film-star-your-wi-fi-180971584/
3. Schearer, Steven M.  Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr. Sept. 28, 2010. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=d4hLFzsNgKEC&oi=fnd&pg=PT4&dq=hedy+lamarr&ots=uZOGX1rctz&sig=kokzynKHFjilAy2HGANNJ9PphcQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
4. Ouellette, Jennifer. Hop, Skip and a Jump: Remembering Hedy Lamarr. Jan. 9, 2012. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/hop-skip-and-a-jump-remembering-hedy-lamar/

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Caroline Criado Perez’s book entitled, “Invisible women: data bias in a world designed for men”.

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Zeitgeist Films

Emlyn tells Emma about the cartographer and oceanographer, Marie Tharp, who mapped the ocean floor and found evidence for continental drift, and Emma tells Emlyn about research on sex differences in spatial reasoning!

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Main Story - Marie Tharp

1. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute article, “Marie Tharp”: https://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7500&tid=282&cid=23306
2. “Marie Tharp - Plate Techtonics Pioneer” by Hali Felt: https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/27/6/pdf/i1052-5173-27-6-32.pdf
3. “Marie Tharp, The Woman Who Discovered The Backbone Of Earth” by David Bressan, Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2018/07/30/hundreds-missing-and-many-feared-dead-after-laos-dam-collapse/#2d5f9e17f91b
4. “How One Brilliant Woman Mapped the Secrets of the Ocean Floor | Short Film Showcase” by National Geographic https://youtu.be/vE2FK0B7gPo
5. Four facts about Marie Tharp, the woman whose art mapped the bottom of the sea by Cassie Freund: https://massivesci.com/articles/marie-tharp-bottom-ocean-maps/

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Researchers Jillian E. Lauer, Eukyung Yhang, and Stella F. Lourenco describe the development of gender differences in spatial reasoning.

Journal article: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-17809-001?doi=1

Summary: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190411154728.htm

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“I’m on a boat” by Lonely Island

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https://exploration.marinersmuseum.org/subject/marie-tharp/

Emma tells Emlyn about the NASA computer, mathematician, and rocket scientist, Annie Easley, and Emlyn tells Emma about the first female winner of the Abel Prize, Dr. Karen Uhlenbeck! 

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Main Story - Annie J. Easley

1. Interview of Annie J. Easley by Sandra Johnson, 2001, for the NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project. https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/NASA_HQ/Herstory/EasleyAJ/easleyaj.htm
2. “Annie Easley, Computer Scientist” by Anne K. Mills. 2014. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/annie-easley-computer-scientist
3. “The Trailblazing Human Computer Who Represented a New Age of Working Women” By Belle Hutton. 2018. http://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/gallery/9695/annie-easley/4

Women who werk - Dr. Karen Uhlenbeck

1. “Retired UT professor becomes first woman to win prestigious prize in mathematics” by Brenna Hinshaw. http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2019/03/25/retired-ut-professor-becomes-first-woman-to-win-prestigious-prize-in-mathematics
2. “Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Abel Prize” by Erica Klarreich. https://www.quantamagazine.org/karen-uhlenbeck-uniter-of-geometry-and-analysis-wins-abel-prize-20190319/
3. “Karen Uhlenbeck Is First Woman to Win Abel Prize for Mathematics” by https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/science/karen-uhlenbeck-abel-prize.html

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“Work” by Rihanna

“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

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NASA

Emlyn tells Emma about the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, and Emma tells Emlyn about schoolgirl climate change warrior, Greta Thunberg. 

WARNING: This episode gets nasty (i.e. war hospitals in the 1800s).

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Main Story - Florence Nightingale

1. “Florence Nightingale” by History Channel: https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/florence-nightingale-1
2. “Florence Nightingale: the Lady with the Lamp By” Mark Bostridge. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/nightingale_01.shtml#five
3. Nightingale in Scutari: Her Legacy Reexamined by Christopher J. Gill and Gillian C. Gillhttps://academic.oup.com/cid/article/40/12/1799/314039
4. "A history that lives on: Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole first met in the Crimea. Elizabeth Anionwu describes how they overcame personal battles to get there." by  Anionwu, Elizabeth. http://link.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/apps/doc/A270979329/HRCA?u=txshracd2598&sid=HRCA&xid=4378b9e3.
5. Florence Nightingale, the Woman and her Legend, by Mark Bostridge
6. Eight little-known facts about Florence Nightingale by the History Press https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/eight-little-known-facts-about-florence-nightingale/
7. A Brief History of Sexy Nurses by Dan Gentile. https://www.thrillist.com/sex-dating/nation/history-of-the-sexy-nurse

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Greta Thunberg, schoolgirl climate change warrior: ‘Some people can let things go. I can’t’ by Jonathan Watts (2019). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/11/greta-thunberg-schoolgirl-climate-change-warrior-some-people-can-let-things-go-i-cant

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“Work” by Rihanna

“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

“The Fish Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To Die Rag” by Country Joe and The Fish

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Emma tells Emlyn about the American anthropologist and archeologist, Zelia Nuttall, who spent her life studying remnants of ancient Mexican civilizations, and Emlyn tells Emma about #MeTooSTEM founder, Dr. McLaughlin, and Project PHaEDRA!

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Main Story - Zelia Nuttall

1. The Archaeologist Who Helped Mexico Find Glory in Its Indigenous Past. McNeil, Leila. Smithsonian.com. Nov 5, 2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologist-who-helped-mexico-find-glory-its-past-180970700/
2. Ruiz, Carmen. Insiders and outsiders in Mexican archaeology (1890-1930). Diss. 2003. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/905
3. Zelia Nuttall: The Queen of Mexican Archeology https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/zelia-nuttall
4. Tozzer, Alfred M. Zelia Nuttall. American Anthropologist 35.3 (1933): 475-482. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1525/aa.1933.35.3.02a00070 
5. Adams, Amanda. Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure.

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Shoutout #1: Science article about Dr. McLaughlin. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/neuroscientist-fighting-sexual-harassment-science-her-own-job-peril

Shoutout #2: Project Phaedra. https://library.cfa.harvard.edu/project-phaedra

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“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

Cover Image: The Bancroft Library, University of California

Images of Terracotta Heads: https://archive.org/details/jstor-495843/page/n23

Emlyn tells Emma about the revolutionary oncologist and surgeon who contributed immensely to chemotherapy, Dr. Jane Cooke Wright, and Emma tells Emlyn about the hidden female figures behind population genetics!

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Main Story - Jane Cooke Wright

1. “WOMEN IN SCIENCE: JANE C. WRIGHT REVOLUTIONIZED CANCER RESEARCH (1919-2013)” by Dr. Ellen Elliot. https://www.jax.org/news-and-insights/jax-blog/2016/november/women-in-science-jane-wright
2. “A Passion for Solving the Puzzle of Cancer: Jane Cooke Wright, M.D., 1919-2013” by Sandra M. Swain. http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/content/18/6/646.full
3. Women Pioneers of Medical Research: Biographies of 25 Outstanding Scientists by King-Thom Chung.
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_C._Wright

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Researchers discover some of the “hidden figures” of population genetics by scouring old papers’ acknowledgement sections for female scientists whose contributions have been overlooked.

1. Illuminating Women’s Hidden Contribution to Historical Theoretical Population Genetics. Samantha Kristin Dung, Andrea López, Ezequiel Lopez Barragan, Rochelle-Jan Reyes, Ricky Thu, Edgar Castellanos, Francisca Catalan, Emilia Huerta-Sánchez and Rori V. Rohlfs. GENETICS. February 1, 2019 vol. 211 no. 2 363-366; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301277
2. “The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes” by Ed Yong: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/womens-history-in-science-hidden-footnotes/582472/

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U.S. National Library of Medicine

Emma tells Emlyn about the American geology pioneer and first woman hired to the USGS, Dr. Florence Bascom, and Emlyn tells Emma about gene drives in mammals! 

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Main Story - Dr. Florence Bascom

1. Arnold, Lois B. “BECOMING A GEOLOGIST: FLORENCE BASCOM IN WISCONSIN, 1874-1887.” Earth Sciences History, vol. 18, no. 2, 1999, pp. 159–179.
2. Arnold, Lois B. “BECOMING A GEOLOGIST: FLORENCE BASCOM AND JOHNS HOPKINS, 1888–1895.” Earth Sciences History, vol. 19, no. 1, 2000, pp. 2–25
3. Ogilvie, Ida H. “Florence Bascom: 1862-1945.” Science, vol. 102, no. 2648, 1945, pp. 320–321.
4. Schafer, Elizabeth D. “Bascom, Florence (1862–1945).” Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Ed. Anne Commire. Vol. 2. Detroit, MI: Yorkin Publications, 2002. pp. 205-211.
5. Schneiderman, Jill S. “A Life of Firsts: Florence Bascom.” GSA Today, July 1997, pp. 8-9
6. Shillito, Lisa-Marie. “Florence Bascom.” https://trowelblazers.com/florence-bascom/

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Gene Drive in Mammals

1. Nature article by Grunwald et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0875-2
2. Nature commentary by Bruce Conklin: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00185-y
3. Science News article by Tina Hesman Saey: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/crispr-gene-drive-mice-pest-control-one-step-closer-reality

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Lyell collections

Emlyn tells Emma about the x-ray crystallographer, Dr. Rosalind Franklin, who was instrumental in discovering the structure of DNA, and Emma tells Emlyn about "messy" companion stars!

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Main Story - Dr. Rosalind Franklin

1. “Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment” by Beryl Lieff Benderly https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2018/08/rosalind-franklin-and-damage-gender-harassment
2. Dainton, Sir Frederick Sydney (1981). "Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, 9 November 1897 – 7 June 1978". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 27: 379–424. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1981.0016. JSTOR 769878.
3. “Rosalind Franklin” by PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bofran.html
4. Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
5. “Rosalind Franklin” by Wikipedia

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Dr. Melissa Graham and a team of researchers observe “messy” companion stars in binary star systems that lead to supernova.

1. https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/01/10/messy-supernova/
2. https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-a-supernova.html

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“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

“Supernova Girl” by Zenon

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Ann Ronan Picture Library—World History Archive/age fotostock

Emma tells Emlyn about the chemist, Gertrude Belle Elion, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering new ways to treat diseases like leukemia and HIV, and Emlyn tells Emma about the upcoming film about Mary Anning! 

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Main Story - Gertrude B. Elion

1. Gertrude B. Elion – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1988/elion/biographical/
2. Koenig, Rick. The Legacy of Great Science: The Work of Nobel Laureate Gertrude Elion Lives On. The Oncologist. October, 2006. http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/content/11/9/961
3. American Chemical Society. Gertrude Elion (1918–1999). https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/women-scientists/gertrude-elion.html 
4. Science History Institute. George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/george-hitchings-and-gertrude-elion
5. Avery, Mary Ellen. Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999). Biographical Memoir for the National Academy of Sciences. 2000. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/elion-gertrude.pdf
6. Kresge, N, Simini, RD, and RL Hill. Developing the Purine Nucleoside Analogue Acyclovir: the Work of Gertrude B. Elion. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2008. http://www.jbc.org/content/283/19/e11.full.html#ref-list-1
7. Altman, Lawrence K. “Gertrude Elion, Drug Developer, Dies at 81.” New York Times, 1999. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/23/us/gertrude-elion-drug-developer-dies-at-81.html

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New movie coming out about Mary Anning! https://variety.com/2018/film/news/kate-winslet-saoirse-ronan-ammonite-fossil-hunter-francis-lee-1203090106/  

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“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

“La Vie Boheme” by Rent

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Courtesy of GlaxoSmithKline Inc. Heritage Center.

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“21 questions" by 50 Cent

“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

“No Copyright Music: Christmas Instrumentals” by Heroboard: Music for Creators https://youtu.be/dYyPTy6425U

Emlyn tells Emma about Eunice Newton Foote, the climate scientist who discovered that carbon dioxide was the main cause of global warming, and Emma tells Emlyn about geckos and coffee! 

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Main Story - Eunice Newton Foote

1. The Current, UC Santa Barbara, “Righting a Scientific Wrong”: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018985/righting-scientific-wrong
2. Wikipedia, “Eunice Newton Foote”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote#cite_note-genealogy-1
3. AAPG Search and Discovery, “Eunice Foote’s Pioneering Research on CO2 and Climate Warming: Update*”: http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2018/70317sorenson/ndx_sorenson.pdf.html
4. Smithsonian Magazine article by Leila McNeil entitled “This Lady Scientist Defined the Greenhouse Effect But Didn’t Get the Credit, Because Sexism”: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lady-scientist-helped-revolutionize-climate-science-didnt-get-credit-180961291/
5. Think Progress article by Kyla Mandel entitled “This woman fundamentally changed climate science — and you’ve probably never heard of her”: https://thinkprogress.org/female-climate-scientist-eunice-foote-finally-honored-for-her-contributions-162-years-later-21b3cf08c70b/
6. “AMERICAN WOMEN IN SCIENCE BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR” by Elizabeth Wagner Reed: http://www.catherinecreed.com/assets/writings/women_in_science.pdf

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Jessica Nirodi and co. describe how geckos (almost) walk on water.

1. 1. Pop Article: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physics-how-geckos-almost-walk-water?tgt=nr
   2. Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31469-6#%20

Marilyn Cornelis and co. find that coffee drinkers are more likely to perceive bitterness of caffeine.

1. 1. Pop article: https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2018/11/genetic-variants-in-caffeine-perception/
   2. Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-34713-z

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“Work” by Rihanna

“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

“PlasmaMash” by Daryl Bolling

Emma tells Emlyn about the first woman to get at PhD in Mathematics, Dr. Sofia Kovalevskaya, and Emlyn tells Emma about the burden of antimicrobial resistance in the EU! 

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Main Story - Sofia (Sonya) Kovalevskaya

1. Alic, Margaret. (1986) Hypatia's heritage : a history of women in science from antiquity to the late nineteenth century. http://www.worldcat.org/title/hypatias-heritage-a-history-of-women-in-science-from-antiquity-to-the-late-nineteenth-century/oclc/1023906461
2. Cooke, R. (1984) The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387960302
3. Lamb, Evelyn (2017) A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Kovalevskaya Top. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-few-of-my-favorite-spaces-the-kovalevskaya-top/
4. Ellison, Leigh (2002) Sofia Kovalevskaya. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Projects/Ellison/index.html
5. Wilson, Becky (1997) Sofia Kovalevskaya. https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/kova.htm
6. Belits, Yuriy (2005) A Brief Biography of Sofia Kovalevskaya. https://web.archive.org/web/20060920215141/http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~wcherowi/courses/m4010/s05/belitspdf.pdf
7. Meares, Kimberley. The Works of Sonya Kovalevskaya http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/2000/sofia/SKpaper.html

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Tacconelli, E. and M.D. Pezzani (2018). Public health burden of antimicrobial resistance in Europe. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(18)30648-0/fulltext

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Emlyn tells Emma about the astrophysicist that discovered the composition of the sun and stars, Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin, and Emma tells Emlyn about midterm election results and the STEMinists headed to Washington!

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Main Story - Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin

1. American Physics Society NEWS by Richard Williams: https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201501/physicshistory.cfm
2. American Institute of Physics Interview with Payne-Gaposchkin: https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/4620
3. Wikipedia article: ­­­https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin

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1. Many amazing women elected Nov 6, 2018:  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/us/elections/women-elected-midterm-elections.html https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-women-elected/
2. Scientists that won their elections: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/some-takeaways-science-yesterday-s-us-elections
3. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas and former psychiatric nurse) may take over for Lamar Smith as Chair of the House Science Commiittee: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/11/eddie-bernice-johnson-science-returns-to-the-house/

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This week Emma tells Emlyn about the entomologist and civil rights activist (a.k.a. "the termite lady"), Dr. Margaret S. Collins, and Emlyn tells Emma about four female scientists running for office this November in IN, GA, VA, and NV! 

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Main Story -  Margaret S. Collins

1. Black Women Scientists in the United States by Wini Warren.
2. Carey, Charles W. "Collins, Margaret S. (1922–1996) Zoologist." African Americans in Science: An Encyclopedia of People and Progress, vol. 1, ABC-CLIO, 2008, pp. 51-52. Gale Virtual Reference Library,
3. Child Prodigy, Pioneer Scientist, and Women and Civil Rights Advocate: Dr. Margaret James Strickland Collins (1922–1996) by Vernard R. Lewis. http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1653/024.099.0235
4. Strickland, M. (1950), Differences in Toleration of Drying between Species of Termites (Reticulitermes). Ecology, 31: 373-385. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.2307%2F1931492
5. Jensen’s AAAS Fellowship. Science  20 May 1977: Vol. 196, Issue 4292, pp. 832. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/196/4292/832.1/tab-article-info
6. “Margaret Collins: Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, and Mentor” by Lisa Fthenakis, March 27, 2018. https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/margaret-collins-scholar-civil-rights-activist-and-mentor

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Candidates:

1. Edie Hardcastle: Democrat for Indiana State Senate, 49th district. http://hardcastle2018.com/
2. Jasmine Clark: Democrat for Georgia House of Representatives, 108th district. https://www.jasmineclarkforgeorgia.com/
3. Elaine Luria: Democrat for U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia’s 2nd district. https://elaineforcongress.com/
4. Jacky Rosen: Democrat for U.S. Senate from Nevada. https://www.rosenfornevada.com/

Organization helping promote science-oriented candidates: http://www.314action.org/home/

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Emlyn tells Emma about the OG ecologist and professionally-trained artist, Maria Sibylla Merian, who described the life cycle and plant host use of ~200 insect species, and Emma tells Emlyn about the research of Nobel Prize winners Dr. Strickland and Dr. Arnold!

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Main Story - Maria Sibylla Merian

1. Wikipedia Article on Maria Sibylla Merian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sibylla_Merian
2. Nature Ecology and Evolution article by Luíseach Nic Eoin: https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/18000-luiseach-nic-eoin/posts/14366-maria-sibylla-merian-1647-1717
3. New York Times Article by JoAnna Klein: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/science/maria-sibylla-merian-metamorphosis-insectorum-surinamensium.html  
4. The Atlantic article by Andrea Wulf: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/the-woman-who-made-science-beautiful/424620/
5. Essay by Kay Etheridge, entitled: “Maria Sibylla Merian: The First Ecologist?” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256297016_Maria_Sibylla_Merian_The_first_ecologist  

 Further reading:

Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd

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Two women won 2018 Nobel Prizes in the Sciences!!!!

1. Dr. Donna Strickland won a prize in Physics for her work on Chirped Pulse Amplification: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/nobel-prize-physics-donna-strickland-gerard-mourou-arthur-ashkin/571909/
2. Dr. Frances Arnold won a prize in Chemistry for her work on direct evolution of enzymes:http://www.caltech.edu/news/frances-arnold-wins-2018-nobel-prize-chemistry-83926  and https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/nobel-winner-overcame-personal-loss-cancer-being-woman-n916391

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Emma tells Emlyn about the first female electrical engineer and National Inventor's Hall of Famer, Dr. Edith Clarke, and Emlyn tells Emma about the science of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford! 

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Main Story - Edith Clarke

1. From Computer to Electrical Engineer: The Remarkable Career of Edith Clarke by James Brittain (1985): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4321775
2. Clarke’s patent for the Clark Calculator: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1552113A/en 
3. Short biography of Edith Clarke by General Electric: https://www.ge.com/reports/edith-clarke-mother-of-invention/ 
4. Archived NY Times article about Edith’s first talk before the AIEE: https://www.nytimes.com/1926/02/09/archives/woman-addresses-electrical-institute-miss-edith-clarke-the-only-one.html 

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

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Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Lise Meitner, the nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission, and Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered pulsars! 

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Main Story - Lise Meitner

1. Fission Girl: Lise Meitner’s Escape from Nazi Germany by Melanie Fine
2. Book Review of Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/reviews/lisemeitner.htm
3. Article from Berkeley Nuclear Research Center: https://web.archive.org/web/20161112205121/http://bnrc.berkeley.edu/Famous-Women-in-Physical-Sciences-and-Engineering/lise-meitner.html

Further reading: Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewis Sime.

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell receives $3 million Breakthrough Prize for her 1967 discovery of pulsars and lifetime of scientific leadership.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/09/08/she-made-discovery-man-got-nobel-half-century-later-shes-won-million-prize/

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Emma tells Emlyn about one of the first Indian women to receive a PhD, Dr. Asima Chatterjee, who studied the organic chemistry of plants, and Emlyn tells Emma about insects that vomit cooperatively! 

Sources

Main Story - Asima Chatterjee

1. Biography of Asima Chatterjee by Julie Banerji for the Indian National Science Academy. http://www.insaindia.res.in/BM/BM32_0709.pdf
2. Biography in Science Reporter by Shri Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/42878/1/SR%2054%2810%29%2048-50.pdf
3. Google Arts and Culture Exhibit. https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/rgKiCdKgS8UJIw
4. Biography by S.C. Prakashi. https://www.ias.ac.in/public/Resources/Initiatives/Women_in_Science/Contributors/Chatterjee.pdf
5. Article containing historical info about usage of Rauwolfia plants for medicinal purposes. By Douglas Lobay. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4566472/

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Nature write-up about paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05853-z

Original Article: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/1884/20180466   

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Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in zoology and publish an article in Science, and Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Jess Wade, who wrote Wikipedia pages of 270+ female scientists! 

Main Story - Roger Arliner Young

1. The San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Women in Science: https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/young.html
2. Zoologist Roger Arliner Young and the Politics of Respectability by Dr. Sara Diaz: https://www.aaihs.org/zoologist-roger-arliner-young-and-the-politics-of-respectability/
3. Scientific American article by DNLee https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/roger-arliner-young-zoologist/
4. Young, R.A. On the excretory apparatus in paramecium. Science. Vol 60, Issue 1550. Sep 12 1924

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S/O this week to Dr. Jess Wade for writing the Wikipedia pages of 270+ female scientists this year! More about her work:

1. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jul/24/academic-writes-270-wikipedia-pages-year-female-scientists-noticed
2. https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/27/health/scientist-women-wikipedia-entries-trnd/index.html

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Emma tells Emlyn about the psychoanalyst, Anna Freud, who pioneered the field of child therapy and Emlyn tells Emma about how spiders may alter greenhouse emissions in the arctic! 

Sources:

Main Story - Anna Freud 

1. Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth (2008). Anna Freud: A Biography.
2. Anna Freud Biography by the Institute of Psychoanalysis. http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/our-authors-and-theorists/anna-freud 
3. Anna Freud Biography by the Freud Museum. https://www.freud-museum.at/online/freud/themen/anna2-e.htm 
4. Gay, Peter (1988). Freud: A Life for Our Time.
5. “Why Freud Survives” by Louis Menand. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/28/why-freud-survives  
6. NYTimes Obituary for Anna Freud. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1203.html 
7. And check out her very thorough Wikipedia page! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Freud  

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1. Original PNAS article: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/17/1808754115 
2. Science news article: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/could-tiny-spider-be-helping-arctic-stay-cool 

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Emlyn tells Emma about the amazing ichthyologist and renown 'Shark Lady', Dr. Eugenie Clark, and Emma tells Emlyn about Melissa Cristina Márquez being bitten by a crocodile while filming for Shark Week! 

Sources:

Main Story - Dr. Eugenie Clark

1. Biography by NOAA: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/may15/eugenie-clark.html
2. Natural Shark Repellent is Alluring to Scientists (1981): https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/20/science/natural-shark-repellent-is-alluring-to-scientists.html
3. ‘Shark Lady’ Eugenie Clark, Famed Marine Biologist, Has Died: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/150225-eugenie-clark-shark-lady-marine-biologist-obituary-science/
4. Obituary by Robert D. McFadden: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/us/eugenie-clark-scholar-of-the-life-aquatic-dies-at-92.html
5. Smithsonian biography by Ashley Gallagher: https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/eugenie-clark-shark-lady
6. Mote Marine Lab Obituary by Hayley Rutger: https://mote.org/news/article/remembering-the-shark-lady-the-life-and-legacy-of-dr.-eugenie-clark
7. Clark, Eugenie; Gorge, Anita (June 1979). "Toxic soles, Pardachirus marmoratus from the Red Sea and P. pavoninus from Japan, with notes on other species". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 4 (2): 103–123.
8. Clark, Eugenie (Jul 1959). "Instrumental Conditioning of Lemon Sharks"(PDF). Science. 130 (3369): 217–218. doi:10.1126/science.130.3369.217-a. Retrieved 15 Feb 2016.

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Jezebel article about Melissa Cristina Márquez: https://jezebel.com/marine-biologist-melissa-cristina-marquez-was-bitten-an-1827816706

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Emlyn tells Emma about the founder of protein crystallography, Dr. Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin, and Emma tells Emlyn about how spiders use electric fields to balloon!

Sources:

Main Story - Dorothy Hodgkin

1. The Nobel Prize: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1964/hodgkin-bio.html
2. Royal Society of Chemistry: http://www.rsc.org/diversity/175-faces/all-faces/dorothy-hodgkin-om-frs/
3. Science History Institute: https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/dorothy-crowfoot-hodgkin
4. Ferry, Georgina. (2014) Dorothy Hodgkin: on proteins and patterns. The Lancet,Volume 384, Issue 9953, Pp. 1496-1497.
5. "Principles, Structure and Activities of Pugwash For the Eleventh Quinquennium (2007–2012)". https://web.archive.org/web/20030819053554/http:/www.pugwash.org/about/principles.htm
6. Dorothy Hodgkin and her contributions to biochemistry, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Nov 2013. http://link.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/apps/pub/2IIA/SCIC?u=txshracd2598&sid=SCIC.
7. 100 years of X-ray Crystallography. http://cen.xraycrystals.org/penicillin.html
8. Thatcher and Hodgkin: How chemistry overcame politics, BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-28801302

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• Study: Erica L. Morley and Daniel Robert show that electric fields elicit spider ballooning behavior. Video and article in Current Biology: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218306936?via%3Dihub
• Article summarizing study’s findings: “The electric flight of spiders” by Ed Wong. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/

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“Bad Things” by Jace Everett

Emma tells Emlyn about the geochemist, Dr. Katsuko Saruhashi, who studied how fast nuclear fallout travels through the ocean, and Emlyn tells Emma about one of the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awardees!

Sources:

Main Story - Katsuko Saruhashi

1. Biography by Sumiko Hatakeyama: https://japanfeministdebates.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/a-life-story-of-saruhashi-katsuko-1920-2007/
2. Jacob Darwin Hamblin and Linda M. Richards. 2015. Beyond the Lucky Dragon: Japanese Scientists and Fallout Discourse in the 1950s. Historia Scientiarum. 25(1). https://jacobdarwinhamblin.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/hamblin-richards-lucky-dragon-2015.pdf  
3. A Woman Scientist and the Daigo Fukuryū-maru Accident (1954) by Yasuko Hatano for the Nagoya Women’s Studies Research Group Japan: https://nagoyawsrg.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/essays2010.pdf
4. Saruhashi, K., 1953. On the Total Carbonaceous Matter and Hydrogen Ion Concentration in Sea Water-A study on the Metabolism in Natural Water (I)-. Papers in Meteorology and Geophysics. 3(3). https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/mripapers1950/3/3/3_202/_article
5. Morell, V. 1993. Called `Trimates,' Three Bold Women Shaped Their Field. Science, 260(5106). https://www.jstor.org/stable/2881089?pq-origsite=summon&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
6. Otsubo, S. (2007). Women Scientists and Gender Ideology. In A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan, J. Robertson (Ed.).  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470996966.ch28#

Extra reading:

1. Paper by Katsuko Saruhashi including the famous Saruhashi table (1955): https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/mripapers1950/6/1/6_38/_pdf/-char/en
2. Autobiography (in Japanese): https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/13188473?q&versionId=15646025
3. An in-depth biography by Fumiko Yonezawa (in Japanese): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Saruhashi-katsuko-ikikata-Fumiko-Yonezawa/dp/4000074970

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Congratulations to Intel ISEF 2018 Winners! https://www.sciencenews.org/sponsored/congratulations-intel-isef-2018-winners?tgt=nr

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This week, Emlyn tells Emma about the Cherokee rocket scientist (i.e. space engineer!), Mary Golda Ross, and Emma tells Emlyn about Earth's core and about why it matters how you refer to female scientists. 

Sources:

Main Story - Mary Golda Ross

1. Article by Cherokee Pheonix newspaper: http://www.cherokeephoenix.org/Article/Index/2470
2. Article by Society of Women Engineers: http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/spring14/index.php#/34
3. Williams JK. Mary Golda Ross: The first native american female engineer. New York Amsterdam News. Mar 2013:28. Available from: http://ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/1349940805?accountid=7118
4. NPR Segment on Morning Edition: https://www.npr.org/2015/05/19/407664385/cherokee-chief-john-ross-is-the-unsung-hero-of-jacksonland
5. Wikipedia article on Lockheed Corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Corporation
6. Wikipedia article on Lil Abner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27l_Abner
7. Massive Science article by Jenny Howard: https://massivesci.com/articles/mary-golda-ross-cherokee/
8. Smithsonian Magazine article by Andrew Chaikin: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-sr-71-blackbird-epitome-cold-war-spycraft-180953402/

Further Reading

1. Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab by Steve Inskeep

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Shoutout #1

• Dr. Jessica Irving and her team develop new models for the Earth’s outer core: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180627160232.htm

Shoutout #2

• PhD Candidate Stav Atir and advisor Dr. Melissa Ferguson found that people refer to male professionals by their surname more often than female professionals, and that this gender bias could negatively impact women in STEM careers. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2172515-calling-men-by-their-surname-gives-them-an-unfair-career-boost/
• Scientific Article: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/06/19/1805284115.short

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Emma tells Emlyn about the first American woman and LGBTQ+ astronaut in space, Dr. Sally Ride, and Emlyn tells Emma about mammals going nocturnal and narwhal sounds!

Sources:

Main Story - Sally Ride

1. Article by astronaut and engineer Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar: https://theconversation.com/astronaut-sally-k-rides-legacy-encouraging-young-women-to-embrace-science-and-engineering-97371
2. Interview by Rebecca Wright for NASA in 2002: https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/RideSK/RideSK_10-22-02.htm
3. Interview by Gloria Steinem in 1983 after Sally’s first space flight : https://blankonblank.org/interviews/sally-ride-space-shuttle-first-woman-space-nasa/#read-more
4. Obituary in the NY Times by Denise Grady https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/science/space/sally-ride-trailblazing-astronaut-dies-at-61.html?pagewanted=all
5. Article by Dr. Rhea Seddon: http://astronautrheaseddon.com/the-first-six-american-women-astronauts/
6. Review and summary of Lynn Sherr’s book by Andrew Liptak: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-secret-life-of-sally-ride-the-first-american-woman-1586255004
7. (Extra reading) Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space  http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sally-Ride/Lynn-Sherr/9781476725772
8. Sally Ride Science Website: https://sallyridescience.ucsd.edu/about/   
9. Sally Ride’s UCSD research page: http://casswww.ucsd.edu/archive/personal/sride.html

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Shoutout #1

1. Gaynor, K. M., Hojnowski, C. E., Carter, N. H. & Brashares, J. S. The influence of human disturbance on wildlife nocturnality. Science 360, 1232–1235 (2018).   

Shoutout #2

1. Here’s what narwhals sound like underwater: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/what-narwhals-sound-underwater?tgt=nr
2. Blackwell SB, Tervo OM, Conrad AS, Sinding MHS, Hansen RG, et al. (2018) Spatial and temporal patterns of sound production in East Greenland narwhals. PLOS ONE 13(6): e0198295. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198295

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Emlyn tells Emma about the queer scientist who helped develop treatments for African Sleeping Sickness and Syphilis, Dr. Louise Pearce, and Emma tells Emlyn about the organizations 500 Women Scientists and 500 Queer Scientists!

Sources

Main Story -  Louise Pearce

1. Chung, K., 1943. (2010). Women pioneers of medical research: Biographies of 25 outstanding scientists. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland.
2. https://greenwichvillagehistory.wordpress.com/tag/heterodoxy/

Further reading: Schwarz, J. (1982). Radical feminists of Heterodoxy : Greenwich Village, 1912-1940. Lebanon, N.H.: New Victoria Publishers.

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500 Women Scientists has coordinated a ton of cool projects in the last two years that aim to increase visibility and inclusivity of minorities in STEM. Check out their organization and projects, or find a local chapter here: https://500womenscientists.org/

You can also support this month’s new offshoot campaign, 500 Queer Scientists by sharing it and posting about it on your own social media, and by following their Twitter (@500QueerSci) and Instagram (@500QueerScientists). Or you can submit your own story at: https://www.500queerscientists.com/

Emma tells Emlyn about Sarah Elizabeth Stewart, a Mexican-American researcher who convinced the world that cancer-causing viruses were real, and Emlyn tells Emma about how pollution may promote alzheimers and about Bonobo "doulas"! This episode gets a bit raunchy when we talk about bonobos. You have been warned.

Sources:

Main Story -  Sarah Elizabeth Stewart  

1. Obituary by John P. Utz: http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/canres/37/12/4674.full.pdf
2. Biography by Carl Fulghieri and Sharon Bloom in Emerging Infectious Diseases: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012821/
3. Obituary by Bernice Eddy: https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article-abstract/59/4/1039/920231?redirectedFrom=fulltext
4. Article: “Ludwik Gross, Sarah Stewart, and the 1950s discoveries of Gross murine leukemia virus and polyoma virus” by Gregory J. Morgan https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/science/article/pii/S1369848614000946
5. The tale of the great cuckoo egg by George Klein. https://www.nature.com/articles/22906       

Women who werk

Shoutout #1

1. “Dirty air can harm your brain and stress the body” by Lindsey Konkel: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/dirty-air-can-harm-your-brain-and-stress-body
2. ​​L. Calderón-Garcidueñas et al. Hallmarks of Alzheimer disease are evolving relentlessly in Metropolitan Mexico City infants, children and young adults. APOE4 carriers have higher suicide risk and higher odds of reaching NFT stage V at ≤ 40 years of age. Environmental Research.Vol. 164, July 2018, p. 475. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.03.023.

Shoutout #2

1. Pregnant bonobos get a little delivery help from their friends: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pregnant-bonobos-get-little-delivery-help-their-friends?tgt=nr
2. E. Demuru, P.F. Ferrari and E. Palagi. Is birth attendance a uniquely human feature? New evidence suggests that bonobo females protect and support the parturient. Evolution and Human Behavior. Published online May 9, 2018. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.05.003.

Emlyn tells Emma about the U.S. Rear Admiral and Computer Scientist, Grace Hopper, and Emma tells Emlyn about the dangers of traveling to mars and the importance of seagrass beds! 

SOURCES:

Main Story - Grace Hopper    

1. Biography of Grace Hopper: https://www.biography.com/people/grace-hopper-21406809
2. Navy Biography: https://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg70/Pages/namesake.aspx
3. https://president.yale.edu/biography-grace-murray-hopper
4. Amazing Women in History: http://www.amazingwomeninhistory.com/amazing-grace-hopper-computer-programmer/
5. New York Time Obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/03/us/rear-adm-grace-m-hopper-dies-innovator-in-computers-was-85.html
6. Computer History Podcast: http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/grace-murray-hopper/

Women who werk

1.  Drug prevents brain damage in mice exposed to high levels of radiation. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/05/410421/deep-space-radiation-treatment-reboots-brains-immune-system

2. Seagrass meadow conservation is necessary to maintain fishery health. http://www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office/latest-research/worldsbiggestfisheriessupportedbyseagrassmeadows.php

Emma tells Emlyn about the Italian neurobiologist and nobel laureate, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Emlyn tells Emma about the mathematical rules of living cells and about males that choose very, very bad mates. 

Sources

Main Story - Rita Levi Montalcini  

1. Biography in Treccani http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/rita-levi-montalcini_(Dizionario-Biografico)/
2. Biography in Neurological Sciences https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10072-013-1303-2
3. Obituary: https://source.wustl.edu/2013/01/obituary-nobel-laureate-rita-levimontalcini/
4. Biography in Trends in Cell Biology  https://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/fulltext/S0962-8924(04)00143-6?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0962892404001436%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
5. Biography in Nature https://www.nature.com/news/2009/090401/full/458564a.html

Women who werk

Shoutout #1

1. Robyn P. Araujo, Lance A. Liotta. The topological requirements for robust perfect adaptation in networks of any size. Nature Communications, 2018; 9 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04151-6
2. Queensland University of Technology. "Math sheds light on how living cells 'think'." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 2 May 2018. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180502094636.htm

Shoutout #2

1. Shevy Waner, Uzi Motro, Yael Lubin, Ally R. Harari. Male mate choice in a sexually cannibalistic widow spider. Animal Behaviour, 2018; 137: 189 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.01.016
2. American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. "Brown widow male spiders prefer sex with older females likely to eat them afterwards." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 30 April 2018. .

Emlyn tells Emma about the "First Lady of Physics," Chien-Shiung Wu, and Emma tells Emlyn about horses remembering human emotions and about the winner of the AWIS Pinnacle Award!

Sources

Main Story - Chien-Shiung Wu

1. Atomic Heritage Foundation: https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/chien-shiung-wu
2. National Women’s Hall of Fame: https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/chienshiung-wu/
3. American National Biography: https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1302686
4. Madame Wu and the Holiday Experiment That Changed Physics Forever: https://gizmodo.com/madame-wu-and-the-holiday-experiment-that-changed-physi-1749319896
5. Inside Story: C S Wu – First Lady of physics research: http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/51556
6. Channeling Ada Lovelace: Chien-Shiung Wu, Courageous Hero of Physics: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/channeling-ada-lovelace-chien-shiung-wu-courageous-hero-of-physics/

Women who werk

1. Horses remember peoples’ facial expressions (Article): https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30364-6?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982218303646%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
2. Science Daily Article about paper: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180426130024.htm
3. Sue Desmond-Hellmann wins 2018 AWIS Pinnacle Award. https://www.awis.org/awis-announces-top-awards-for-stem-and-gender-equity-champions/

Trivia

Article: “Almost a Fellow…” by the Royal Society

http://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2012/03/08/almost-a-fellow/

Emma tells Emlyn about the "Mother of Chromosomes," Barbara McClintock, and Emlyn tells Emma about the Bajau people and why male fruit flies like to mate. This episode gets a bit raunchy when we talk about fruit flies. You have been warned.

Sources:

Main Story - Barbara McClintock  

1. A Feeling for the Organism by Evelyn Fox Keller

2. The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control by Nathaniel C. Comfort
3. The Barbara McClintock Papers - NIH  https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/LL/p-nid/45
4. Biography by Cold Spring Harbor Labs http://library.cshl.edu/sp/scientists/barbara_mcclintock/mcclintock_biography.html
5. Biography by American National Biography http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1302550

Women who werk

Shoutout #1

1. Larger spleens may help ‘sea nomads’ stay underwater longer: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/larger-spleens-help-bajau-divers-stay-underwater-longer?tgt=nr
2. M. Ilardo et al. Physiological and genetic adaptations to diving in sea nomads. Cell. Published online April 19, 2018. doi:10/1016/j.cell.2018.03.054

Shoutout #2

1. Male Fruit Flies Love to Cum, and Turn to Alcohol If They Can't: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43b87b/male-fruit-flies-love-to-cum-and-turn-to-alcohol-if-they-cant
2. S. Zer-Krispil et al. Ejaculation induced by the activation of Crz neurons is rewarding to Drosophila males. Current Biology. Vol. 28, May 7, 2018.  doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.039.

Trivia

Article: “Almost a Fellow…” by the Royal Society

http://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2012/03/08/almost-a-fellow/

Emlyn tells Emma about the engineer who inspired "Cheaper by the Dozen," Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and Emma tells Emlyn about self-medicating orangutans and the winner of the NSF Waterman Award!

Sources

Main Story - Lillian Moller Gilbreth

1. The Economist; Gurus; Frank and Lillian Gilbreth https://www.economist.com/node/12060343
2. The management theory of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. https://www.business.com/articles/management-theory-of-frank-and-lillian-gilbreth/
3. Remembering the Contributions of Engineer Lillian Gilbreth. http://alltogether.swe.org/2017/08/remembering-contributions-engineer-lillian-gilbreth/
4. Feminist Voices, Profile: Lillian Gilbreth. https://www.feministvoices.com/lillian-gilbreth/
5. Lillian Moller Gilbreth Pressed for Inclusion. https://womensenews.org/2009/09/lillian-moller-gilbreth-pressed-inclusion/
6. Episode 59: Lillian Gilbreth. http://thehistorychicks.com/episode-59-lillian-gilbreth/
7. Pictures from Frank and Lillian Gilbreth papers, MSP 7, Box 114, Folder 6, Courtesy Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries

Women who werk

1. Orangutans use plant extracts to treat pain: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/orangutans-use-plant-extracts-to-treat-pain1/
2. Kristina Olson wins NSF Waterman Award: https://www.washington.edu/news/2018/04/12/uws-kristina-olson-wins-nsf-waterman-award-for-studies-of-how-children-see-themselves-and-the-world/

Trivia

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Emma tells Emlyn about the psychologist Mamie Phipps Clark who conducted the doll test for racial self-hate and Emlyn tells Emma about sea ice algae and how to keep your junk safe!

Sources: 

Main Story - Mamie Phipps Clark

1. An interview of Mamie Clark by Ed Edwin from 1976
2. Encyclopedia.com; Clark, Mamie Phipps https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/clark-mamie-phipps
3. Psychology’s Feminist Voices; Profile: Mamie Phipps Clark. https://www.feministvoices.com/mamie-phipps-clark/
4. “The Doll Test for Racial Self-Hate; Did it Ever Make Sense.” https://www.theroot.com/the-doll-test-for-racial-self-hate-did-it-ever-make-se-1790875716
5. “How a Psychologist’s Work on Race Identity Helped Overturn School Segregation in 1950s America” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/psychologist-work-racial-identity-helped-overturn-school-segregation-180966934/#KxyS5GZY76Y6U6We.99

Women who werk

1. Polar sea ice leads to more productive ocean http://www.sciencemag.org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/news/2018/04/polar-sea-ice-leads-more-productive-oceans
2. This material uses energy from ambient light to kill hospital superbugs. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/material-uses-energy-ambient-light-kill-hospital-superbugs  

Trivia

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Emlyn tells Emma about "the greatest fossilist the world ever knew," Mary Anning, and Emma tells Emlyn about the science of farting embarassment, the fate of frogs, and sea turtle kerplunking!

Sources: 

Main Story - Mary Anning

1. Emling, Shelley (2011) The Fossil Hunter : Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. 
2. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/anning.html
3. Wikipedia

Women who werk

1. How to deal with embarrassing situations: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180327102814.htm
2. Frogs rebounding from chytrid fungus: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/science/frog-species-panama-fungus-rebound.html
3. Turtles use limbs in foraging: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180328083421.htm

Trivia

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