'To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful' - award-winning #dancer & #choreographer Agnes de Mille, #BOTD 1905. Her 1939 ballet Black Ritual changed perceptions about black ballet dancers @danceronfilm.bsky.social @royalballetschool.bsky.social @nycballet.bsky.social

Happy birthday to wonderful Julia Donaldson! Writer and playwright, and the 2011-2013 Children's Laureate. Her stories have enchanted children and adults @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social @susannahwalker.bsky.social

Paula Mela, Finnish illustrator known for her fairytale-like works #WomensArt

Wishing a happy 81st birthday to Hiriyakkanavar Ila, who for years was a trailblazer in the creation of new organosulfur synthons to use in reaction and structure analysis, and in the study of small molecule heterocycles. Hoping it is a day of celebration and science! #WomenInSTEM #ChemSky 🧪⚛️

Polish artist NeSpoon from Warsaw, known for her street art featuring traditional lace pattern imagery #womensart

1st woman Chief of the Seminole Tribe 1922-1935, educator, rancher, postmistress, interpreter, unofficial tribal spokesperson of her community, Alice Brown Davis #BOTD 1852 @oklahomawatch.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com

@emwandsworthmerton.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social @supertanskiiii.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @susannahwalker.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @wisarchive.bsky.social @womeninlawscotland.bsky.social www.europeanmovement.co.uk/keep_uk_in_e...

Dames ask you to sign @susannahwalker.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com @helenlewis.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @emwandsworthmerton.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/e8...

Dame Barbara Clayton #BOTD 1922: pathologist who made a significant contribution to clinical medicine, medical research and public service. Latterly Professor of Clinical Pathology. Great Ormond Street Hospital @wisarchive.bsky.social @womeninstem.bsky.social @womeninmedicine.bsky.social

Molecular spectroscopist Hertha Sponer was born 130 years ago today. From the 1920s through the 1960s she was a leading force in the use of molecular absorption spectra to probe molecular structure. tinyurl.com/mshhpt45 #WomenInSTEM #Physics #Chemistry 🧪⚛️

Biochemist Gladys Royal was born 99 years ago today. In the 1950s she and her husband carried out research into the use of bone marrow transplants to treat the radiation overdoses that arose from the heavy radiation used to treat cancer at the time. #WomenInSTEM #BioSky #HistSci 🧪

One of the 1st five women to be elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh: Dr Christina Cruikshank Miller #BOTD 1899 made crucial discoveries in analytical chemistry. @wisarchive.bsky.social @royalsoced.bsky.social @scifri.bsky.social @science.org @standupforscience.bsky.social

Wow! Chapeau bas to this amazing woman. A real inspiration! Go Grace! @womensportfeminism.bsky.social @womeninsports.bsky.social @womensports.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Did you go to #Carnival this weekend? Read about the amazing dame who co-organized 1st carnival celebration in London 1959 to showcase West Indian culture: damesnet.com?p=11038 #blacklivesmatter @womenwarriors.com @rockmysistahs.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social @susannahwalker.bsky.social

'I’m not in danger alone in the forest, but I am when I’m in the presence of men.’ Read our blog about Marie Albert's campaign to open up solo walking for women damesnet.com?p=11050 @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @susannahwalker.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com @carolemason.bsky.social

"There have been cheers of delight from customers when they found out that I would be the postmistress again – they are over the moon, and so I am." Birmingham Postmistress Rooprit Gill back at work after Horizon IT scandal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Portrait of a Prisoner” by Inji Efflatoun (Egyptian) - Oil on canvas / 1959 - Arab Museum of Modern Art (Doha, Qatar) #WomenInArt #art #WomanArtist #artText #WomensArt #InjiEfflatoun #Efflatoun #EgyptianArt #FemaleArtist #MATHAF #WomenArtists #PortraitofaWoman #EgyptianArtist #ArabMuseumofModernArt

#OnThisDay, 10 Aug 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️

‘No Vote, No Census. As women do not count, they refuse to be counted. I have a conscientious objection to filling up this form.’ Princess Sophia Duleep Singh BOTD 1876: suffragette, women's rights campaigner @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social

Child developmental psychologist Florence Goodenough was born 139 years ago today. Her creation of the Draw-A-Man test gave psychologists a non-linguistic means of evaluating child developmental landmarks, and is still in use! #WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #BookSky 🧪🧠

Elizabeth Robins: actor, producer, playwright, novelist, feminist #BOTD 1862. Wrote 'Votes for Women': 1st play to bring the 'street politics of women's suffrage to the stage' @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @susannahwalker.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @womenforjustice.bsky.social

This is bad for boys, but even worse for girls, who don't feel that the skate park, the fenced pitch or the pump track are 'for them' and so are left with nowhere to go. They say that they hate the 'bedroom culture' but have no way out of it. tiny 🧵

Wishing a happy 81st birthday to geneticist Georgia Dunston. She has worked on tumor immunology and research on the genetics of conditions that are particularly prevalent in the Black community, including difficulties with organ donation, and type 2 diabetes. #WomenInSTEM #BlackHealth #MedSky 🧪⚕️

A great article focusing on a 17th C woman diarist @susannahwalker.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

#OnThisDay, 4 Aug 1948, the women’s shot put and long jump events were held for the first time at the Olympics in London. Micheline Ostermeyer won gold in the shot put and Olga Gyarmati won gold in the long jump. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #OlympicWomen 🗃️

Quaker taxonomist and ornithologist Graceanna Lewis was born 204 years ago today. In addition to writing about the fine structures of bird feathers, she was also actively engaged in attempts to create new systems of scientific categorization. tinyurl.com/y9dsth37 #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #BioSky 🧪

Nice summary of Sophia Duleep Singh via the Historic England newsletter. We're been steadily looking for a date involving her activism to hook a post to, but most are part of the wider movement where we credit groups of women. heritagecalling.com/2025/07/25/t...

Brazilian paleobotanist Maria Salgado-Labouriau was born 94 years today. Her research into the deep past of plant evolution took her across the Andes Mountains and the Brazilian Plateau, and resulted in a string of books that vaulted her to worldwide scientific status. #WomenInSTEM #Botany 🌱🧪

Sounds like a very good read! @carolemason.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @nasawebb.extwitter.link

TFL take note! @tflbot.bsky.social @london.gov.uk

Wishing a happy 78th birthday to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who in 1983 determined the retrovirus responsible for AIDS, and then spent the next decades traveling the world to coordinate AIDS detection and treatment procedures. tinyurl.com/3yeepc74 #WomenInSTEM #AIDS #BioSky #MedSky #HistSci ⚕️

Astronomer Louise Elizabeth du PIerry was born 279 years ago today. She computed atmospheric refraction effects that affected astronomical observation, and calculated night/day lengths and eclipse occurrences, publishing her work regularly. #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #HistSci🔭

Beatrix Potter was born 159 years ago today - before she rocketed to fame as an author, she was a dedicated researcher and illustrator of fungi, until the academic establishment poured scorn on her for correctly challenging an accepted idea. tinyurl.com/4427xzsu #WomenInSTEM #BookSky #HistSci 🍄

'Either you find a way to oppose the evil, or the evil becomes part of you and you are a part of it.' Anne Braden, activist, journalist, civil rights campaigner #BOTD 1924 @wijuk.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @supertanskiiii.bsky.social

#OnThisDay, 26 July 1913, around 50,000 people, mostly women, rally in Hyde Park, London. Some of the marchers had set out from Cornwall or Scotland 6 weeks earlier. Many had faced abuse and assault along the way. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory 🗃️ 1/2

RIP Dame Cleo: one of the brightest and the best musicians of the last 70 years. Take a bow - we loved your brilliance. @womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social @womenarepowerful.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social @susannahwalker.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

”Complete emancipation lies in ‘equal pay for equal service.’” Louise Blanchard Bethune #BOTD 1856. 1st woman to practise as a professional architect in the US. 1st woman elected to the American Institute of Architects @womenwarriors.com @womensartbluesky.bsky.social @susannahwalker.bsky.social

How fantastic to come across a fellow dressing gown enthusiast! Read our paean of praise here: damesnet.com?p=1243

'The way to right wrongs is to join hands with the person who is standing right beside you.' Ida B. Wells #BOTD 1862: African American journalist, activist, educator in late 19th and early 20th C. @womenwarriors.com @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @susannahwalker.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social

And an astounding Happy 107th birthday to neuropsychology pioneer Brenda Milner! Her studies of the hippocampus's role in memory and the frontal lobe's role in planning are absolute classics, and we wish her all possible joy on this day! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEM #Psychology #PsychSky 🧪🧠

#OnThisDay, 13 Jul 1793, Charlotte Corday assassinates Jean-Paul Marat. She hopes to change the course of the French Revolutionary Republic for the better. #FrenchHistory #WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2

As we head into the 3rd heatwave of the summer, *please* take just 2 moments to sign this petition calling on government to help our communities adapt & prepare for the impacts of #climate change. We are not safe — we need to be #SAFER @climatemajority.bsky.social

Now this is the sort of princess we like, not submissive dolls on TikTok . Check our princess blog on damesnet.com @womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com @carolemason.bsky.social damesnet.com?p=10980&utm_...

Women just get on with it... @womeninpoliticsss.bsky.social

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was born 99 years ago today. She was a pioneer in the development of psychological services for the terminally ill, whose 5 Stages of Grief, as presented in her 1969 On Death And Dying, has become part of the world's psychological lexicon. #WomenInSTEM #Psychology #HistSci

'... something horrible is happening/ and I haven't had time enough to love' Remembering award-winning #Cuban lawyer, artist & poet Carida Oliver Labra, #BOTD in 1922, who wrote this at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. Here we go again... @womensartbluesky.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social

Damesnet.com utterly loathes and rejects this dangerous 'princess' narrative. Just say no @susannahwalker.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com @womenknowhistory.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thanks for this!