Excavation of the tomb of Akhet-Hetep at Giza revealed a monument to his mother Peseshet, the "Overseer of Women Physicians." She is the world's earliest known woman doctor, and practiced at the time of the building of the great pyramids in Egypt, about 2500 BC. #CelebratingWomen

"A Fellow, at whom the 👉 Finger of Contempt should always be pointed" Marvellous

Please make this happen

it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

Dorothy Rowntree BSc. 1st woman in UK to qualify in naval architecture & 1st woman to graduate in engineering from @glasgow.ac.uk Worked @ Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard #Govan. Later moved to #Lebanon & worked @ American University of Beirut'. d. #OTD 5 Feb 1988 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

Jonathan Ferguson 1915-74 UK #pilot @wes1919.bsky.social member #WWII joined Women's Air Transport Auxiliary #ATA Postwar Chief Experimental Officer @ Ministry of Supply. 1958 had F>M gender reassignment surgery. Civil Service stated “will not affect his employment” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...

2/4/1865 — b. Lila Meade Valentine, American educator, health reformer, suffragist, lecturer. Edu + #publichealth champion; co-founder/pres,VA Equal Suffrage League. Introduced Richmond,VA kindergartens + vocational training. Lectured for suffrage in the eastern states #womenshistory #PolSky #EduSky

In a new low for payments to external academics, a university within the EU just offered me 255 euros for a year’s work supervising a PhD student. For context, the usual workload allocation is around 6 working days a year for this, so that’s 50% of the minimum wage for an unskilled 21 year old. 😮

2/1/1857— b. Lucy Wheelock, American educator, author. Early childhood educator; a key figure of the U.S. kindergarten movement. Founder of Wheelock College, Boston; wrote and edited numerous articles, books, and journals #womenshistory #womenwriters #WriterSky #BookSky #edu #highered

Archaeologist Gertrude Caton Thompson was born #OTD in 1888. She was one of the first in the field to use aerial surveys to identify sites, using them successfully for her famed work in Zimbabwe & Egypt. She led the first all-female archaeological expedition in history in 1929. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

tucson.com/news/local/b... And in Arizona.

www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil... Convergence of worrying policies leading to an inevitable conclusion.

I really do not need to see a photo of a certain politician in his underpants in the top story in the Times. I cannot unsee this now.

Ella M. Collin BSc PhD FRIC #Metallurgist specialising in analysis of non-ferrous & precious metals. Later HM Schools Technical Inspector & 1952 @wes1919.bsky.social President. Campaigned on night working laws & equal pay issues. b. #OTD 15 Jul 1903 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Ma...

It was apparently one of those special 360 degree walls that give you skull fractures on both sides and front to back if you run into them.

"Four hours after his arrest, he was taken to a hospital emergency room in Edina with swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain..." apnews.com/article/immi...

Liam goes home… www.instagram.com/reel/DUOW4_E...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I want these girls as my backing singers

Alva Myrdal was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat, politician, and a prominent leader of the #disarmament movement. She was born #OTD in 1902. She received the #Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 (along with Alfonso Robles) "for their work for disarmament and nuclear and weapon-free zones."

A Kentucky family battling extreme cold temperatures on their farm over the weekend opened their home to a newborn calf that was struggling in the deep freeze. Hours later, the calf, fed and fluffed, took a spot on the couch with the Sorrell family's two children. https://cnn.it/4taPoQx

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

Buttigieg on Fox News: "When you see an American woman opening the door to her home and on her doorstep finds half a dozen federal agents in tactical gear that is more tricked out than what I would take outside the wire in Afghanistan -- I think most people get that that is wrong."

Buttigieg on Fox News: "Seeing an American taken to the ground, having his gun removed, being shot in the back 10 times, then having the govt say he was a terrorist all along based on no evidence.. those are kinds of things that as painful as they are, can actually bring together a lot of Americans"

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 🚀

A brilliantly insightful blog post by Ben Williamson. There’s an elephant in the room though. Maybe in the social sciences, the way we have to write papers and books is now so painfully formulaic that many of them have said comparatively little for a very long time. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

On this day in 1926, Violette Neatly Anderson became the first black woman admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court. She passed the Illinois bar in 1920, established a private practice, and later became an assistant prosecutor in Chicago. #WeTheMen arthurashe.ucla.edu/2016/01/29/n...

Senior reporter Nathan Halverson wanted to ask a federal law enforcement officer—someone trained in handling quick-moving altercations while armed—what he saw in the video with trained eyes. Watch former FBI agent Ken Bagchi’s analysis and stay tuned for more reporting on ICE at MotherJones.com.

Microbiologist Alice Catherine Evans was born #OTD in 1881. She proved that the bacterium 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘴 caused brucellosis (aka undulant fever) in humans & cattle. This led to the pasteurization of milk in the US in 1930. First woman president, Society of American Bacteriologists. #WomenInSTEM

“Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme, for it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension yet — & this is its horror — it can spread like a fungus over the surface of the earth & lay waste the entire world. Evil comes from a failure to think.” — Hannah Arendt

Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine

I have long enjoyed writing to my literary heroes. No more so than as a romantic book-mad 20year-old, pre library employment. Muriel Spark was quick to recommend the library as a source for her further reading faves to save me 'dipping into my dole'. How I treasure this letter #libraries

Marie-Neurath-Preis: Einreichfrist wird verlängert ⏰ Grafiker:innen, Studierende, Wissenschafter:innen aufgepasst! Der #Preis für #Datenvisualisierung der #AK sucht starke Arbeiten. Einreichfrist neu = 15. Februar. Preisgeld bis 3.000 €, Preisverleihung am 17. März im Wien Museum. 👉 Mehr Infos hier:

1/30/1829 — b. Catharine Van Valkenburg Waite, American lawyer, suffragist, journalist, author, publisher. Early suffragist; co-founder, Illinois Wmn Suffrage Assn (1869). Founder, editor of the “Chicago #Law Times” (1886); president, Woman’s Intl Bar Assn (1888) #womenshistory #womensrights #PolSky

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

1/28/1938 — Crystal Bird Fauset is elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature, she becomes the first African American female state legislator. She was later appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a Civil Defense race relations advisor #womenshistory #gov #woc #BHM #PolSky #SheIsTheFirst

Nannie Helen Burroughs, educator, entrepreneur, women’s rights advocate, daughter of formerly enslaved parents, founded a school in Washington DC in 1901. She observed, “Education & justice are democracy’s only life insurance.”

Rand Paul: "After seeing this, if you call this a good shooting you aren't watching the video. This was a real tragedy and a mistake. The man had been disarmed and then shot 10 times ... if we say things that are obviously not true, the situation is going to get worse."

Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856–1913) is generally considered to be the first woman to practice as a professional architect in the United States. Her enthusiasm and advocacy led to 200 women joining the profession by the year of her death.

We’ve just got new speakers at home and one very nice thing about being a grown up is being able to play all the vinyl you’ve accumulated from extended family who got rid of their record players really loud whenever you like. Oh yes.

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

Marie Jahoda (26. Januar 1907- 28. April 2001) Pionierin der empirischen Sozialforschung setzte mit ihrer Studie , Die Arbeitslosen von Marienthal' einen empirischen Meilenstein. Ihr politisches Engagement als überzeugte revolutionäre Sozialistin ist daneben nur wenig bekannt. 

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... All my children are vaccinated.

Biophysicist & inventor Dr. Maria Telkes (the Sun Queen) was a pioneer in solar energy research & considered a founder of solar thermal storage systems. She developed the 1st solar-powered home heating system & a solar-powered desalination kit. #WomenInSTEM It's International Day of #CleanEnergy! ☀️

Who funds NATO budget ⬇️

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” ~Ida B. Wells. Image: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

English writer Virginia Woolf was born #OTD in 1882. Woolf is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. #literature #litsky #booksky newyorker.com/magazine/195...

When Anthropic says it's recruiting 100,000 teachers to be "co-architects" of AI in education through partnering with the global Teach for All network, that sounds like a lot of free labour, brand advocacy, and integration into teaching that it'll benefit from www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...