Admirable Women

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06 October 2026 09:18

#OTD in 2015, Chinese pharmaceutical chemist & malariologist Tu Youyou won the #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria." The therapy saved millions of lives—particularly across Asia, Africa, and South America. #wow #WomenInSTEM

Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre

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06 October 2026 09:18

We're celebrating 25 years of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site this year, and part of that is 25 years of recording the incredible scientifically important finds from West Dorset and East Devon! 🧵 ⬇️

ESA Space Science

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06 October 2026 09:17

Can planets emerge from the deaths of stars? 💀 Astronomers looking through Hubble data from 1999 have identified unusual amounts of niobium in the chemical signatures from a white dwarf. 🔭 🧪

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)

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06 October 2026 09:15

It's not just that women are silenced, harrassed, assaulted, pushed out of work, assumed to be incompetent, have their work stolen or credit denied. It's that men get ahead standing on the backs of women being pushed down. When you point this out they get ANGRY. #patriarchy

The Women In Science Archive

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06 October 2026 09:14

Wishing a happy 92nd birthday today to biochemist Mahtab Sohrab Bamji, whose long career was centered around the study of Vitamin B and the biochemistry of its functioning in the body, particularly what happens in Vitamin B deficiency. #WomenInSTEM #Biochem #NutritionalScience 🧪