#7 on my Romance Literature countdown is 1888's Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward. It is a unique piece of romantic fiction, centering around a pair who marry early in the action, and have to navigate deep issues of religious difference and growth and I adore it. #BookSky #Romance #Bookish 📖

Wishing a happy 88th birthday to neuroscientist Jerre Levy, whose studies of asymmetry between the two brain hemispheres began in the 1970s and carried through into the 2010s, revealing how the halves participate in types of reasoning and visual perception. #WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #BrainSky #BookSky

#8 on my Romance Countdown to celebrate the UK Launch of A History of Romance Novels is Elizabeth von Arnim's 1898 Elizabeth and Her German Garden - a wickedly funny account of marriage in Prussia that sparked the Garden Romance craze of the late 19th century. #BookSky #RomanceBookSky #Romance

Obstetrician Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead was born 159 years ago today. An intern of Marie Zakrzewska, she went on to co-found the Middlesex County Hospital, where for 18 years she was consulting gynecologist. In 1938 she authored A History of Women in Medicine. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky

#9 on my personal Top 10 Romance Novel countdown to celebrate the UK launch of A History of Romance Novels is Gail Carriger's 2009 Soulless. Its sense of fun and snap breathed new life into the vampire-werewolf romance in a way that I am always Here For. #BookSky #RomanceBooks #LitSky 📖💘🧛🐺

Today we celebrate the 125th anniversary of microbiologist Hattie Alexander's birth. She studied meningitis in children, and her development of a sulfa drug regimen for them cut the child mortality rate from Hib from 100% to 25%. We salute her! #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #HistSci #BioSky #BookSky ⚕️🧪

To celebrate the launch of my new book, A History of Romance Novels, I'm counting down my personal Top 10 Favorite pieces of romantic literature of all time! It is Zayde by Madame de La Fayette - published in 1669 it is a psychologically complicated, beautiful and expansive tale! #BookSky #Romance

Today is the 175th anniversary of the birth of physician Ogino Ginko. After getting gonorrhea from her husband (whom she then divorced), she decided on a medical career to help other women in her situation, becoming the first licensed Western medicine woman doctor in Japan. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️

It's Launch Day UK for my new book, A History of Romance Novels! From the raunchy plays of Aristophanes to the world of modern Romantasy, it is a fun stroll through literature's evolving portrayal of romance, sex, and relationships. Hope ya like it! tinyurl.com/ys886zfx #BookSky #RomanceBookSky 📖💘

Phyllis Margaret Tookey Kerridge #chemist #physiologist, created miniature pH electrode for analysing samples eg blood; improved respirator; developed audiometric standards for hearing tests w' significant role in establishing hearing aid clinics. b. April 1901 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis...

Maria Merian was born 379 ago today. An entomologist who founded the ecological approach to taxonomy, she traveled by herself to Surinam in 1599 to document the insect life there, then published her findings with her own lush illustrations. tinyurl.com/2pknyx6n #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #BugSky 🐛🌱

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we feature Jessica Williams (1948-2022), the prodigy whose professional career stretched over some six decades of jazz and neoclassical piano experimentation and was captured on dozens of albums stretching from the 70s to 2020s. #MusicSky #BookSky #WomenComposers

Today is the 250th anniversary of mathematician Sophie Germain's birth! Her use of auxiliary primes in breaking down Fermat's Last Theorem was inspired, and her solution to the elastic deformation of a disc was genius, compelling recognition. tinyurl.com/4dkshwvn #WomenInSTEM #WHM #MathSky 🧮

Anandibai Joshee, the first Indian woman to receive a medical degree, was born 161 years ago today. In 1883, she became the first unconverted high-caste Indian woman to travel abroad seeking medical training. Sadly soon after receiving her degree, she passed away, aged 21. #WHM tinyurl.com/yms79dbz

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we highlight Augusta Browne (1820-1882), a 19th century song and hymn composer with some 200 songs to her credit including "Wake, Lady Mine" (1845) and "Forever Thine" (1871). #MusicSky #WHM #WomenComposers #BookSky

Wishing a happy 69th birthday to Russian cosmonaut Elena Kondakova, who in 1995 became the first woman to undertake a long-duration spaceflight with her five-month mission on Mir-17. After her 1997 mission, Russia did not launch another woman into space until 2014. #WomenInSTEM #BookSky #AstroSky

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we are happy to feature Gena Branscombe (1881-1977), the composer of the 1920 oratorio Pilgrims of Destiny who was also a choral conductor, pianist, and women's club advocate who published some 74 choral works in her long career. #WHM #MusicSky #WomenComposers 🎹

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we celebrate Sandy Denny (1947-1978), the folk music Legend who was lead singer for Fairport Convention from 1968-69 before striking out with her tonally and lyrically groundbreaking solo album, 1971's The Northstar Grassman and the Ravens. #MusicSky #BookSky 🎹

Mathematician Helen Abbott Merrill was born 162 years ago tomorrow. For nearly four decades, she was a tentpole presence at Wellesley college, where she served as dean of the math dep and wrote two college textbooks that were in use throughout the 1910s and 1920s. #WomenInSTEM #MathSky #BookSky 🧮

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we celebrate Marie Pélissier (1706/07-1749), the soprano who redefined dramatic opera for her age, garnering a group of die-hard loyalists known as Pelissiens who clashed with the Mauriens, a rival opera group centered around Catherine-Nicole le Maure. #WHM #Music

Neurologist Nathalie Zylberlast-Zand was born 143 years ago today. She was one of the key early figures in Polish neurology, working alongside Edward Flatau, publishing some 100 works on meningitis and myeloid leukemia before dying in a Nazi concentration camp in 1942. #WomenInSTEM #WHM #BookSky

Rose Dieng-Kuntz would have been 70 years old today. The first African woman admitted to the Ecole Polytechnique, she soon rose to the top rank of computer scientists through her work on the semantic web and research on parallelism and ontology in early AI systems. #WomenInSTEM #WHM #CompSci 💻

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we salute Nesrin Sipahi, who is still with us at the age of 91. She was a staple of Turkish radio in the early 1970s, releasing a slew of high charting singles on the strength of her powerful delivery and presence. #MusicSky #BookSky #WHM

The indomitable Bertha van Hoosen was born 163 years ago today. A skilled surgeon and medical lecturer of worldwide fame, she was also a founder of the American Medical Women's Association, and an advocate for the refinement of reduced pain birth. tinyurl.com/mtr5yhnm #WomenInSTEM #WHM #MedSky ⚕️

For today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we feature Alina Bzhezhinska, aka Alina HipHarp, the beloved contemporary harpist on a mission to demonstrate the instrument's diversity and ready-for-center-stage status to new generations through her jazz and modern stylings. #WHM #JazzSky #BookSky #MusicSky

Born 24 March 1935 - Carol Kaye, one of the most prolific bass guitarists, who has played on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 50 years. Kaye was the bassist on many Phil Spector and Brian Wilson productions in the 1960s and 1970s. She is 91 years old today. #CarolKaye

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we salute Lotta Crabtree (1847-1924), who began her career as a child performer in the saloons of the Wild West and whose oversized personality and performance style made her by the 1880s the highest paid woman performer in the US. #WHM #BookSky #MusicSky

Clinical psychologist Ruth Howard was born 126 years ago today. The 2nd Black woman to earn a PhD in psychology, for a quarter of a century she co-directed Chicago's Center for Psychological Services, as well as serving as staff psychologist for the Provident Hospital School #BlackWomenInSTEM #WHM

So sorry to hear of the death of Biruté Galdikas today at the age of 79. A visionary who brought the full extent of her observational genius to a species that had been largely ignored by other researchers, she will always be remembered. tinyurl.com/yc8hfhkc #WomenInSTEM #WHM #BioSky #HistSci 🦧

Dame Edith Brown was born 162 years ago today. Educated at Girton and the London School of Medicine for Women, in 1894 she established India's first medical school for women at Ludhiana, and for the next 58 years served as its principal, retiring in 1952 at the age of 88. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #WHM

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we feature Angel Marcloid, the musical experimentalist who has been pushing boundaries since 2015 and whom you might know best through her vaporwave work as MindSpring Memories and her 2018 album Skinless X-1 as Fire-Toolz. #WHM #MusicSky #BookSky 🎹

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we feature Sophia Maria Westenholz (1759-1838), the powerhouse from Mecklenburg-Schwerin who served as a Kapellmeister, toured the German capitals giving performances, and published her own Lieder and piano works. #WHM #BookSky #MusicSky #WomenComposers 🎹

Wishing a happy 73rd birthday to Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, who started Biocon India in her garage in 1978 and which today sells enzymes and pharmaceuticals in some 120 countries, with a focus on providing low-cost drugs to people with chronic conditions in poor countries. #WomenInSTEM #WHM #MedSky 🧪

It is also the 106th anniversary of the birth of Saruhashi Katsuko, whose geochemical work established the ocean-borne spread of nuclear fallout and the CO2 release rates of the world's oceans. Here's our appreciation of her life & work. tinyurl.com/bdzjk3yt #WomenInSTEM #Chemistry #WHM #ChemSky 🧪

The amazing Catherine de Parthenay was born 472 years ago today, in 1554. In any other era, she would have been able to fully develop her gifted mathematical mind, but her position as a leader in the French Civil War ultimately cost her everything. Here's my piece on her life. tinyurl.com/4da8sa7y

Clinical chemist Greta Hammarsten was born 130 years ago today. An expert in chemical analysis of kidney stones and blood diseases, she authored some 80 papers and the book Kliniska Laborationsmetoder, which was the standard text throughout the 1940s and 50s. #WomenInSTEM #WHM #ChemSky #BioSky 🧪

For today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we feature the unforgettable Ethel Merman (1908 - 1984), an icon of Broadway who originated the characters of Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun (1946), and Rose Hovick in Gypsy (1959), while her "There's No Business Like Show Business" is anthemic. #WHM 🎹

Bettye Washington Greene would have been 91 years old today. In 1965, she became the first Black woman chemist hired by Dow chemicals, where she remained until retirement in 1990, rising to the rank of senior research specialist thanks to her work on latex improvement. #WomenInSTEM #WHM #ChemSky 🧪

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we salute Laura Nyro (1947-1997), one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, whose 1968 album Eli and the Thirteenth Confession served as a foundational wellspring in song architecture for all who followed. #WHM #MusicSky #BookSky 🎹

Physicist Xie Xide, China's "Queen of Semiconductors", was born 105 years ago today. She survived tuberculosis, heart disease, breast cancer, and hard labor during the Cultural Revolution to become president of Fudan University. #WomenInSTEM #WHM #PhysicsSky 🧪

For today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we salute the women of Quiet Storm, the musical movement of the 1970s and 1980s that provided us with a steady string of smooth evergreen songs, including Diana Ross’s “Endless Love” (1981), Sade’s “Smooth Operator” (1985), and Patrice Rushen’s “Remind Me” (1982)

Psychologist Alberta Banner Turner was born 117 years ago today. She spent her career investigating how the juvenile incarceration system treated Black youths, and the impact of that treatment, and working to improve Vocational Training. #WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #WHM #BlackWomenInSTEM

Today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight features Pink Lady, the Japanese duo who debuted 50 years ago this month, in 1976. They were pioneers of the J-Pop Idol movement, featuring unique costumes, matching choreography, and peppy up-tempo numbers. #WHM #MusicSky #BookSky #JPop

Today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight features Sophie Gail (1775-1819), who in 1818 teamed up with librettist and novelist Sophie Gay to compose La Sérénade, a smash hit opera that could have been the start of a beautiful partnership were it not for Gail's death the next year. #WHM #BookSKy #MusicSky

Astronomer Caroline Herschel was born 276 years ago today. Rescued from domestic drudgery and abuse by her brother, she spent the middle half-century of her life as one of England's most acclaimed and revered astronomical observers. tinyurl.com/343wmwbf #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #WHM 🔭

Yesterday saw the launching of my 290th piece for the @wisarchive.bsky.social , all about early 20th century botanist Mary Gibson Henry, whose multi-month, thousand-mile treks through uncharted wilderness yielded new troves of botanical data and specimens. Check it out! tinyurl.com/4nx6fcjf

Today we celebrate the induction of botanist Mary Gibson Henry into the #WomenInScience Archive. Her epic expeditions of the 1930s collected key specimens for international botanical study, and her writings nurtured a nascent American conservation movement. tinyurl.com/4nx6fcjf #WomenInSTEM #WHM 🌱

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we celebrate the date of June 12, 1995, which is when two iconic albums hit the stands, Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill and Bjork's Post, gifting us two unforgettable experiments exploring new lyrical themes and melodic worlds. #MusicSky #BookSky #WHM 🎹

She is one of the many women chemical engineers in the book I wrote with Prof Ocone. It is out of print now but if anyone would like a pdf of it, DM me.

Today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight features Beryl Booker (1922-1978), the swing and jazz pianist who formed influential quartets and trios in the late 1940s and early 1950s which featured other women jazz musicians and attracted sit-ins from Miles Davis and tours with Billie Holiday. #WHM #BookSky