Climate physicist @drkatemarvel.bsky.social probed the mysteries of the cosmos as an astrophysicist before shifting to climate modeling because, she says, she is drawn by questions that are big and expansive but also relevant. #physics #climatescience #astronomy

Margaret Ellen Mayo Tolbert (born November 24, 1943) is a biochemist who served as director of the New Brunswick Laboratory, becoming first African American and first woman in charge of a Department of Energy lab #stem #BlackinSTEM #WomeninSTEM #BlackWomenSTEM edu.lva.virginia.gov/changemakers...

I got the chance to listen to one of my heroes at the @ncte.org Denver conference this weekend: Ruth Simmons. She’s very cleared eyed about how universities should operate in these times. Very inspiring. #ncteconference #education #teachers #Blacksky #inspiration

I got the chance to listen to one of my heroes at the @ncte.org Denver conference this weekend: Ruth Simmons. She’s very cleared eyed about how universities should operate in these times. Very inspiring. #ncteconference #education #teachers #Blacksky #inspiration

This sweatshirt gets me 🤓 At @ncte.org conference in Denver #ncteconference #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #science #booksky @mitpress.bsky.social #STEMforkids #STEAMforkids

@scbwirockymtn.bsky.social If you’re at #ncte this year, here’s a roundup of censorship-related sessions. bsky.app/profile/dran...

This sweatshirt gets me 🤓 At @ncte.org conference in Denver #ncteconference #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #science #booksky @mitpress.bsky.social #STEMforkids #STEAMforkids

SATURDAY AFTERNOON at the @ncte.org conference in Denver 💫 Come say Hi to me and my fellow panelists, @mcusolito.bsky.social, @mnewsome.bsky.social, and @lesliebarnardbooth.bsky.social! #ncteconference2025 #nctedenver #science #booksky #teachers #kidsbooks #picturebooks #kidlit

#BlackInNeuro has supported marginalized neuroscientists for 5️⃣ years!! ✨ We have gorgeous limited-edition pins 😍 for $15 donations to support BIN programming ❤️ blackinneuro.com/donate I can mail it to you or if you just want to donate, I’ll give your pin to trainees at #ABRCMS 🤗 Please share 🙌🏾✨

Come join us on Saturday morning! #ncte2025

Getting ready for the @ncte.org conference in Denver. SPARK. ✔️ Lab coat. ✔️ Yes, I’m bringing my lab coat. #ncte #science #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #booksky #kidlit #picturebooks #kidsbooks #booksky #newbook #teachers @mitpress.bsky.social #sciart #STEM #STEAM

Looking forward to this @ncte.org panel and meeting all of the panelists 💫 @macappiello.bsky.social @moyuksel.bsky.social @mcusolito.bsky.social @pamismylmnop.bsky.social #kidsbooks #picturebooks #sciencebooks #scienceforkids #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #science #booksky #ncte #STEM

In this podcast we chat about the physics of coffee making, ponytails, toilet flushes and much more from the book Physics Around the Clock 🧪⚛️. ow.ly/5STm50Xtv0y

Heading to the @ncte.org conference! Excited to meet other Candlewick authors 🤓 @dowphumiruk.bsky.social @suma-subramaniam.bsky.social @mrschureads.bsky.social @fangmousbooks.bsky.social @patricknessbooks.bsky.social @allanwolf100.bsky.social #picturebooks #kidlit #BookSky #kidbooks #ncte

Ellen Gleditsch worked with Marie Curie, established radium's half-life, proved isotopes exist, then became Norway's 2nd female professor in 1929. During WWII she hid scientists in her home. What modern scientist inspires you most? #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/EZrEK

Wow! What an honor! I LOVE Ms. Frizzle 🤓 #booksky #kidsbooks #picturebooks #science #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #STEM #STEAM

TOMORROW at the Yale Peabody Museum. I'll be talking about my latest book, SPARK, and doing fun science activities. Hope to see you there! #science #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #makesciencefun #scienceteacher #scientist #STEM #BlackinSTEM

#womeninstem #womeninscience time.com/100-women-of...

Sending SPARK to my beloved Marion Branch library in Jersey City. I spent lots of time at this storefront library after school 🥰 📗 bit.ly/SPARKbk #science #kidsbooks #picturebooks #JerseyCIty #Blacksky #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #librarylove @mitpress.bsky.social #Booksky #SciArt #libarian #scienceteacher

Dorothy Vaughan | NASA mathematician, programmer & manager died #OTD in 2008 First Black female supervisor at NACA (precursor to NASA), expert programmer, Scout Launch Vehicle Program contributor & more. #WomenInSTEM Learn more about this "Hidden Figure:" nasa.gov/people/dorot...

Lost Unix v4 Possibly Recovered on a Forgotten Bell Labs Tape From 1973 https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0528258/lost-unix-v4-possibly-recovered-on-a-forgotten-bell-labs-tape-from-1973?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

SATURDAY: #STEAM Family Adventure with me at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford! Create a color wheel to explore the science of light and enjoy a special reading of SPARK: Jim West’s Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone 🎤 Hope to see you there! www.thewadsworth.org/event/second...

“I don’t think we should write for the market. Your imagination is too important to the world to constrain it to what’s going on right now...” -Ainissa Ramirez, author of SPARK! from You May Contribute A Verse podcast www.podbean.com/ew/pb-jx3qk-...

SATURDAY: #STEAM Family Adventure with me at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford! Create a color wheel to explore the science of light and enjoy a special reading of SPARK: Jim West’s Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone 🎤 Hope to see you there! www.thewadsworth.org/event/second...

My interview with #TavisSmiley is now live 🎧 BONUS: Scientist, inventor, and the subject of my new book, Jim West, is also on the program! www.spreaker.com/episode/aini... #Science #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #BlackInSTEM #BellLabs #inventor #scientist #HiddenFigures #BlackSky @mitpress.bsky.social

TODAY! TUNE IN! 🎧 #BlackSky #Science #STEM #TavisSmiley #JimWest

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Dear Physicists and Physics fans, I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th. Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬

The science of fear... 💀 Happy Halloween! 🎃 www.edutopia.org/blog/the-sci... #science #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #Halloween #neuroscience

James West an african american sound technician that co-invented the electric microphone. He holds over 200 patents

TODAY at 6:30 PM EST: Meet Jim West! I am so excited to be doing this event with @possible-futures.bsky.social and my mentor, amazing scientist, and the subject of my new book SPARK. Hope you can make it! www.possiblefuturesbooks.com/events/36908... @mitpress.bsky.social #Science #SciArt

WEDNESDAY at @possible-futures.bsky.social: Meet Jim West! I hope you can make this virtual event with my mentor, hero, and the subject of my new book, SPARK. Register at: www.possiblefuturesbooks.com/events/36908... #Science #BookSky #BellLabs #inventor #scientists #BlackinSTEM #WomeninSTEM 🧪

WEDNESDAY at @possible-futures.bsky.social: Meet Jim West! I hope you can make this virtual event with my mentor, hero, and the subject of my new book, SPARK. Register at: www.possiblefuturesbooks.com/events/36908... #Science #BookSky #BellLabs #inventor #scientists #BlackinSTEM #WomeninSTEM 🧪

Let me know if you are interested in joining this starter pack #chemsky ⚗️🧪 #molswitch #molmachine go.bsky.app/EwimNbK

Attn #MITAlum: I will be at the Little Kresge Auditorium this SATURDAY! I'll be discussing my new book, SPARK, about Jim West, and playing Black Inventor Bingo. Hope to see you! mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/event/2025-1... @mitpress.bsky.social #MIT #science #scientist #booksky #sciencenews #STEM

Attn #MITAlum: I will be at the Little Kresge Auditorium this SATURDAY! I'll be discussing my new book, SPARK, about Jim West, and playing Black Inventor Bingo. Hope to see you! mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/event/2025-1... @mitpress.bsky.social #MIT #science #scientist #booksky #sciencenews #STEM

In Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone, Ainissa Ramirez introduces readers aged 5-9 to inventor Jim West. It’s the 1st of her children’s picture books on Black innovators. www.nasw.org/member_artic... bsky.app/profile/aini... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

I'll be at the @mitpress.bsky.social bookstore this SATURDAY! Hope to see you there! We'll be playing Black Inventor Bingo. mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/event/2025-1... #MIT #Science #BookSky #STEM #BlackinSTEM #inventor #WomeninSTEM #sciencenews #BellLabs #scientists

Ainissa Ramirez introduces the first picture book in Candlewick Press/MIT Press Kids' Black Innovators series! Find "Spark," the story of the insatiably curious scientist Jim West, at the MIT Press Bookstore: bit.ly/4no3FWb

ATTN: @sciencewriters.org members! I discuss my new book, SPARK, in the latest Advance Copy column. Distilling science for the youngest minds is my small way of making the world a better place. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @mitpress.bsky.social #science #booksky #newbook #womeninSTEM 🧪 #STEM

Great #kidlit Interview with @ainissaramirez.bsky.social , author of SPARK ... and a #giveaway! writersrumpus.com/2025/10/21/i...

Q&A with Ainissa Ramirez about her new children's picture book, SPARK. @ainissaramirez.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdefzya7

Happy #BookBirthday to SPARK! 🎉 Out now via @mitpress.bsky.social 🥳 📕 bit.ly/SPARKbk Give the gift of #science 🔎 Book 1 in the Black Innovator series 🎤 #science #booksky #Blacksky #SciArt #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #sciencenews #STEM #STEMforkids #picturebooks #kidlit

Interview with Ainissa Ramirez, author of SPARK ... and a giveaway! writersrumpus.com/2025/10/21/i...

Happy #BookBirthday to SPARK! 🎉 Out now via @mitpress.bsky.social 🥳 📕 bit.ly/SPARKbk Give the gift of #science 🔎 Book 1 in the Black Innovator series 🎤 #science #booksky #Blacksky #SciArt #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #sciencenews #STEM #STEMforkids #picturebooks #kidlit

It was such a treat to read Spark to 4th graders today. (The book comes out officially tomorrow. But I got permission to show it today.). www.wtnh.com/news/connect...

Jim West, the co-creator of the microphone, did his early work here. This room is featured in my new book, SPARK, which comes out TOMORROW!! 📕 bit.ly/SPARKbk @mitpress.bsky.social #BellLabs #JimWest #Science #STEM #BlackinSTEM #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #BlackSky #sciencebook

I am so excited to be on the Talk Nerdy Podcast! Thanks for having me, Dr. Cara Santa Maria! www.carasantamaria.com/podcast/aini... @mitpress.bsky.social #BlackSky #Science #BookSky #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #inventors #Blackscientists #BlackinSTEM #engineering #BellLabs #JimWest #newbook

Happy birthday to Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel in space, who began her communications to #NASA with "Hailing frequencies open"—and guest starred in #StarTrekTNG's "Second Chances."

I got to talk about amazing scientist, inventor, and the subject of my new book, Jim West, on The Lisa Wexler Show! Listen here 🎧 shows.acast.com/the-lisa-wex... #Booksky #Science #BlackSky #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #inventor #scientist @mitpress.bsky.social #BellLabs #picturebook #kidsbooks #sciencebook