Today, I have been reflecting on the incredible women who have transformed their fields despite systemic barriers. Their dedication and grit paved the way for the next generation of women scientists. Let’s come together to honor their accomplishments and commit to a more inclusive future.🧪👩‍🔬 #IWD2026

Researchers have published the BRCA breakome—a map of double-strand breaks in DNA that occur long before breast cancer is detected. Strikingly, healthy-looking cells in BRCA carriers were more molecularly similar to cancer cells than to healthy controls. 🧪 doi.org/10.1038/s414... My full breakdown—

Scientists have developed Talineuren (TLN), a liposomal formulation of GM1 ganglioside that can cross the blood-brain barrier. In ALS mouse models, this nanoparticle delivery preserved mitochondrial function and synaptic integrity, significantly improving motor symptoms. 👩‍🔬🧪 doi.org/10.1002/advs...

A reminder that it’s never too late to really start living. 💛

Independent journalists make our democracy great. The arrests of Georgia Fort and Don Lemon are an egregious attack on the First Amendment. The Trump administration knows—independent voices can’t be bought or managed like corporate media. Keep writing. Keep filming. Keep standing up.

Alert: Former CNN anchor Don Lemon taken into custody.

Engineer & astronaut Christina Koch was born #OTD in 1979 + December 28, 2019: she broke the record for longest continuous time in space by a woman, ultimately returning from space on Feb. 6, 2020, after 328 days. + October 18, 2019: Participant, all-female spacewalk #WomenInSTEM #AstronautEnvy 🚀

Biochemist/molecular biologist Joan Steitz was born #OTD in 1941. She (& team) figured out how our cells read/use genetic instructions to make proteins. A key person who helped crack the code on RNA—the molecule that acts like a messenger between DNA & and the proteins our bodies need. #WomenInSTEM

Marjory Stephenson was born #OTD in 1885 + Helped establish modern microbial biochemistry + Wrote foundational textbook 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 (1930), shaping the discipline for decades + Co-founded, Society for General Microbiology + 1 of the first 2 women Fellows, Royal Society, 1945 #WomenInSTEM

Me after a long week in the lab when someone asks me to put together a slide deck for Monday. 🤦‍♀️🧫🥼🧬

🏆 We're pleased to share Katie Paul Friedman, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2026 @sotoxicology.bsky.social Achievement Award. Katie is the Director of the Center for Chemical Informatics and Screening UL Research Institutes' Chemical Insights and will be recognized at the #ToxExpo in March. 🧪

Great @nature.com story from @nicolakimjones.bsky.social 🧪 "How central 'being a man' was to someone’s sense of self wasn’t particularly predictive of which group they landed in. "'Manly' men are not necessarily toxic," says Hill Cone. "There is positive masculinity." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A new meta-research study examined the time spent in review for millions of biomedical and life science articles indexed in PubMed. The conclusion is clear, female-authored articles spend longer under review compared to male-authored articles. 🧪

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Not surprising news flash: A new review/meta-analysis out of Europe that included a total of 60 studies show that there is no link between Tylenol use during pregnancy & autism. This supports a previous Swedish study of 2.5 million births. Another debunk of Kennedy et al. 🧪 archive.today/dShVN

The FBI Tried to Blackmail MLK Into Committing Suicide. Every Year, They Pretend Like Nothing Happened. • While politicians who gut voting rights quote King every January, the institution that hunted him has never faced a public reckoning for its campaign of psychological terror.

Exhausting.

Happy birthday to Katalin Karikó! She won the 2021 #LaskerAward for modified mRNA technology, enabling rapid development of highly effective #COVID19 vaccines. 🧪 #RNAbiology #WomenInSTEM Read: https://ow.ly/IVHY50XYOfG Watch: https://ow.ly/6TVG50XYOfI

Apparently 2016 is trending 👀 Here’s a few from my camera roll. 💚 Can anyone’s guess what the bottom right image is? Hint: it’s a lab fail 🤣🧪

In 2025, women’s health research finally became ‘mainstream’, securing funding and regulatory successes while weathering the attack on US science.🧪🧬💚

This is a step in the right direction. News of this unethical study elicited outrage from scientists. Guinea-Bissau has one of the highest burdens of hepatitis B in the world. 90% of babies exposed at birth develop chronic infection. 🧪 www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

"He said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, 'No puedo respirar' — Spanish for 'I can’t breathe'..." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Claudette Colvin was More Than Just the Precursor to Rosa Parks. • She was a plaintiff in the lawsuit that actually ended bus segregation—but civil rights leaders decided a dark-skinned, pregnant teenager wasn't "respectable" enough to be remembered.

At a press conference announcing the impeachment of Kristi Noem, Rep. Nydia Velázquez drew the line: Americans want fairness — not brutality, especially toward women and children. We’re watching.

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My latest blog post covers the highs and lows from 2025– “…women and underrepresented groups in STEM will be seriously impacted. According to an analysis by the UltraViolet, an estimated $20.4 million in STEM education grants for women and girls have been cut by the National Science Foundation.”

🧪A reminder of how measles made headlines over a century ago. Headline From The Bridgeport Evening Farmer November 22, 1913 We have forgotten. History rhymes. #ImpeachRFKJr #SackTheQuack

🧪We joined the party and provided a detailed response to RFK and Trump's latest statement on Tylenol use during pregnancy and Autism: www.lbscience.org/en/2025/09/2... @lbscience.org

Great news. Let's do this everywhere. www.krqe.com/news/politic...

Handheld test for urinary tract infections takes 30 min After an easy prep, samples are loaded directly into a detector and can be tested for antibiotic resistance. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪

Happy Birthday, Rosalind Franklin. She captured an X-ray diffraction image of DNA and stated that a helical structure was probable. Watson and Crick then created a detailed model based on her results. They initially received credit for the discovery and were awarded the Nobel Prize after her death.🧪

Barbie, in the eponymous 2023 hit movie, sings, What Was I Made For? A new version of the celeb Mattel doll has a clear answer: to help children who have type 1 diabetes feel more included. scim.ag/4eSKAsg

Congratulations to this year’s Frontiers Planet Prize winners. Launched in 2022, the prize aims to accelerate breakthrough solutions for planetary health. Prof Zahra Kalantari, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Dr Arunima Malik, University of Sydney, are the first women to receive this honor. 🧪

🧠 Parenthood in academia affects mental health – but not equally Academic mothers face a much higher risk of depression than fathers or non-mothers. Risk is greatest for those without support, or who are Black or have disabled children. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #AcademicSky 🧪

Congratulations to Salk Assistant Professor, Deepshika Ramanan, who has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar. The distinction comes with funding for up to five years to support her research on the mechanism of maternal immunity transmission through breastmilk. 🧪

🧪 For the first time, women have won the $1.1M Frontiers Planet Prize. The shift follows criticism of past all-male winners, but the award's solo-winner model is still debated for obscuring the work of large research teams.

Sally Ride became the first US woman in space #OTD in 1983. She was one of three mission specialists aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7. At age 32 she was also the youngest US astronaut. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Image: NASA

🌾🔥 Climate shifts, failed crops – and women’s health suffers In drought-prone southern Ethiopia, changing rainfall and crop failures are linked to rising malnutrition in women. Food insecurity directly mediates this climate–health crisis. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #SciComm #ClimateHealth 🧪

Congratulations to Dr. Tova Holmes and colleagues on receiving a grant from the Simon’s Foundation. Their proposal aims to advance the field of particle physics by working towards the creation of a muon collider. 🧪 @tovaholmes.bsky.social

Adelaide Ames was born #OTD in 1900. She worked with H. Shapley at Harvard, publishing a catalog of galaxies that pointed to an heterogeneous distribution across the sky, eventually leading to the concept of superclusters. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaid...

A quarter for your thoughts? 🪙 We think Vera C. Rubin is a great choice to be honored with a quarter... and with an observatory! Rubin was an accomplished astronomer who provided the first convincing evidence of dark matter, influencing a new subfield of astrophysics. 🧪🔭

A fungal metabolite from the gut helps counter liver disease by reducing metabolic disorders. A surprising ally for liver health! PMID:40310928, Science 2025, @ScienceMagazine https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adx1789 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

The authors of a Comment article in Nature “urge STEMM scientists in the United States to avoid the mistakes of the past and instead stand together and fight for both personal and academic freedom.” #Academicsky 🧪

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 🧪

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

#DorothyHodgkin unveiled the structures of penicillin, B12 & insulin using X-ray crystallography—earning the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her work shaped modern medicine & broke barriers for women in science. #WomenInSTEM #NobelPrize 🧪

Happy birthday to founder of modern nursing, social reformer, statistician, data visualization innovator and writer Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)!⁠ 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮 #histsci Nightingale earned the nickname “The Lady with the Lamp” during the Crimean War, from a phrase used by The Times, describing her 🧵

🧠🔬 Hidden Cause of Alzheimer’s? A new study found the brain protein PHGDH can drive Alzheimer’s even without risky genes. Blocking it helped brain models recover – offering a new treatment idea. 🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #SciComm 🧪