On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we remember The Bodysnatchers, the 7-woman post-punk ska/rocksteady band that existed from 1979 to 1980, hitting with "Let's Do Rock Steady" then reformed as the 5-member The Belle Stars, hitting again with "Sign of the Times" and "Ico Ico." #MusicSky #BookSky

Psychologist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was born 100 years ago today. Her 1967 book On Death and Dying hypothesized the now-ubiquitous 5 Stages of Grief and brought global attention to how humans deal with their deaths and that of people they love. tinyurl.com/vevn5m8d #WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #Death

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we feature Princess Amalie of Saxony (1794-1870), who had an international reputation as a dramatist, but who also composed Italian-style operas for the Saxon Court, at precisely the moment in history when such escapism was needed most. #MusicSky #BookSky

Today is ALSO the 175th birthday of psychologist Lillien Jane Martin, a member of the first generation of professional women psychologists, who was a key figure in seeing the need for, and establishing, specialized psychological resources for the elderly. #WomenInSTEM #PsychSky

Nettie Stevens was born 165 years ago today. Her 1905 paper established the role the X and Y chromosomes play in sex determination, though in the ensuing years other established scientists did their best to rewrite the timeline to strip her of her discovery. tinyurl.com/4mx6rh9n #WomenInSTEM 🧬

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we celebrate South Korean supergroup Red Velvet, formed in 2014, and still going strong. For a decade, they have pushed boundaries about how "Girl Groups" are supposed to look and sound while delivering banger after banger. #MusicSky

Today we remember 12th century physician Trota of Salerno, who lived during a small Golden Age of women in medicine in Italy, and who authored one of the era's most enduring medical texts, the Trotula, which combatted the Galenic tradition. tinyurl.com/3ywc6sns #WomenInSTEM #MedSky

Ichthyologist Louelle E. Cable was born 126 years ago today. The first woman biologist to be employed at the US Bureau of Fisheries, she spearheaded efforts to understand the decline of Great Lakes species and was the first to culture larval stages in labs for study. #WomenInSTEM #Fish #BioSky

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we celebrate The Shirelles, whose 1960 #1 single "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" was arguably the start of the great Girl Group explosion of the 1960s that led to The Supremes and Vandellas. #MusicSky #BookSky

Astronomer Henrietta Swan-Leavitt was born 158 years ago today. Though hired as a computer by Harvard Observatory, she soon began making observations, including noticing a connection between variable star period and intensity that provided us with our first universal yardstick. tinyurl.com/56ueap7h

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we celebrate Amy Beach (1867-1944), the United States's first internationally celebrated composer of large scale symphonic music. A musical prodigy from the age of one, in the 1890s she became the first American woman to have her symphonic work publicly performed.

Brazilian anthropologist Eunice Durham was born 94 years ago today. She was twice president of the Brazilian Anthropology Association, and spent her long career studying the social impact of rural-urban and international migration. #WomenInSTEM #AnthroSky

Harriet Brooks at PG (naturally her supervisor was considered as the 1st author): www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78513

Today we celebrate the 150th anniversary of physicist Harriet Brooks's birth. Before marriage compelled her to give up her career, she was one of the world's most significant nuclear physicists, discovering the phenomenon of nuclear recoil, credit for which was stolen from her. tinyurl.com/mvcd3ape

Psychologist Tomi Kora was born 130 years ago today. She travelled to the United States to earn her Master's and PhD in the ealry 1920s studying the impact of hunger on activity, then returned to Japan where she was a professor, politician, and peace activist. #WomenInSTEM #PsychSky

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we celebrate Australian coloratura soprano and international superstar Nellie Melba (1861-1931), who made her name as the leading lyric soprano at Covent Garden beginning in 1888, and toured the world in the early 1900s as a beloved ambassador of opera. #MusicSky

Marine biologist Joan Murrell Owens was born 93 years ago today. She began her career as a reading specialist working with underprivileged youths, but in 1970, at age 37, she went back to college to pursue her dreams of marine science, becoming a professor at Howard U by 1976. #WomenInSTEM

Grace Chijimma Ezema (née Ezekoka) #Nigerian electrical engineer, recognized as 1st female graduate of electrical engineering in Nigeria. Worked @ National Electricity Power Authority & later founded Guftane Engineering Nigeria Ltd. b. #OTD 30 Jun 1942 #WomeninSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_C...

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we remember Rockstar Ramani Ammal (1954-2023), the house maid who dreamed of a career in music until she got her break, singing in her first movie at the age of fifty, and later making her tv debut at age 63. Sadly, she passed away at the age of 69. #MusicSky

Australian neuropathologist Dorothy Russell was born 131 years ago today. In 1946, she was appointed Professor of Morbid Pathology at the London Hospital Medical College after treating brain injuries in World War II. There she did research on hydrocephalus and brain tumors. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky 🧠

Nobel Prize winning physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer was born 120 years ago today! For most of her career, she was compelled to work without a salary or full-time university professorship, all while developing the theory of nucleus quantization that would win her the 1963 Prize. tinyurl.com/fvyeejcz

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we celebrate the one and only Queen Latifah (b. 1970), whose Black Reign (1993) was the first solo woman rapper album to go Gold, and who throughout her career brought a thoughtful gender consciousness to the rap genre. #MusicSky #BookSky

Astronomer Susan Raymond King was born 134 years ago today. She worked at the Harvard Observatory with Henrietta Swan Leavitt, and later at Yale Observatory and Smith College, restarting her career when her husband moved to new jobs. Sadly, her grave is the only picture we have of her. #WomenInSTEM

And here it is - one of my favorite pieces of recorded music of all time - Kirsten Flagstad's immortal performance of the Liebestod from Tristen und Isolde, as conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fwh...

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we celebrate Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962), the definitive Wagnerian soprano of her age, whose recordings created our sense of what those roles ought to be, and none more than her eternal performances as Isolde. #MusicSky #BookSky

Virginia Satir was born 110 years ago today. Her work prior to her move to California in the 1960s represented a revolution in family counseling, calling attention to the family dynamics that enable different types of toxic relations and roles to develop. tinyurl.com/wsmpct6p #WomenInSTEM

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we remember composer Liza Lehmann (1862-1918), 1st president of the Society of Women Musicians (1911), and a beloved composer of vocal music known for her song cycles set to classic poetry and her comic opera, including 1906's The Vicar of Wakefield. #MusicSky

Here is a lovely performance of Lehmann's "Evensong" by soprano Milly Forrest to give you a little taste of why Lehmann's music was so adored in the late 19th and early 20th century. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlAo...

Today we celebrate the 125th anniversary of experimental psychologist Magdalen Vernon's birth. Over her 44 year career she was recognized as an expert on the psychology of reading, and became the first woman to head the Psych Dep at the University of Reading. #WomenInSTEM #PsychSky 🧠

Astronomer Caroline Furness was born 157 years ago today. In 1910, she took charge of Vassar's astronomy department, turning it into a hub of variable star research, where in 1915 she published the text Introduction to the Study of Variable Stars, long a standard text on the subject. #WomenInSTEM 🔭

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we salute icon Lene Lovich (b. 1949), who injected a sense of quirky absurdity into the New Wave scene through songs like "Sleeping Beauty" and "Lucky Number" and gave Thomas Dolby his start, recording his song "New Toy" in 1980. #MusicSky #BookSky

Today we wish a happy 96th birthday to Sneh Bhargava, who in 1984 became the first woman to direct Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences, appointed by Indira Gandhi. She pushed hard for investment in CT scanner and ultrasound technology, and to combat financial abuses in patient referrals

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we celebrate Florence Welch (b. 1986), songwriter and vocalist for Florence and the Machine, whose towering vocals and unique sense of song structure lie behind songs like "No Light No Light", "Drumming Song" and "Dog Days Are Over." #MusicSky #BookSky

Welsh mathematician Mary Wynne Warner was born 94 years ago today. Beginning in the late 1960s, she worked on the emerging field of fuzzy mathematics (in which objects can "partially" belong to a set), becoming one of its most distinguished pioneering figures. #WomenInSTEM #MathSky #BookSky 🧮

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we remember Clementina de Jesus (1901-1987), a pioneer of the samba movement in Brazil who worked to preserve its roots as an Afro-Brazilian hybrid form. She recorded her first album at the age of 65, after 20 years working as a maid. #MusicSky #BookSky

Clara Immerwahr was born 156 years ago today. Germany's first woman to earn a PhD in chemistry, her career was brought to a screeching halt upon her marriage to chemist Fritz Haber, whose decision to work on poison gas during WWI was among the major contributors to her suicide. tinyurl.com/552h8wax

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we salute violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter (b. 1963), who debuted with the BPO at the age of 13, and went on to international stardom in the 1980s and 90s, particularly in the interpretation of 20th century repertoire. #MusicSky #BookSky

Indian cardiology legend Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati was born 109 years ago today. She was the 1st woman cardiologist in India, starting her practice in 1953, and founding the All India Heart Foundation, specializing in preventative cardiology training, in 1962. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we celebrate Saori Minami (b. 1954), whose 1971 hit "17-sai" is often cited as one of the wellsprings of the idol movement in Japan. Her first 7 albums all hit the top 10 in Japan. #MusicSky #BookSky

Argentine biochemist Rebeca Gerschman was born 123 years ago today. Her 1954 paper proposed oxygen free radicals as an important mechanism of cell aging and death, a result that was generally not believed until its confirmation in 1969. #WomenInSTEM #BioSky #ChemSky 🧪

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we remember Alberta Hunter (1895-1984). The composer of the hit "Downhearted Blues" (which she was cheated out of the royalties for), she recorded a string of records in the 1920s, developing her characteristic low vibrato, and returned to recording in the 70s.

Today is the 140th anniversary of Tsuruko Haraguchi's birth. In 1907, she set out on a journey from Japan to study psychology in the United States, where she specialized in research on fatigue that promised a bright career before tuberculosis cut it short. #WomenInSTEM tinyurl.com/583csbyf

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we remember The Bangles, whose driving guitars, thoughtful ballads, and interesting harmonies drove the albums Different Light (1986) and Everything (1988) to platinum status thanks to singles like "Walk Like an Egyptian" and "Eternal Flame". #MusicSky

Today we remember Hypatia of Alexandria, whose writings on Apollonius and Diophantus attempted to clarify and preserve their work in dark times. Celebrated as a great teacher of philosophy, she was, likely for political reasons, brutally murdered by a mob in 415. #WomenInSTEM tinyurl.com/yr4vm5kw

Curious to know more about the medieval ♀️ medic, Trota of Salerno? We've got you covered! works.hcommons.org/records/w2rx...

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we turn again to Turkey, and to the woman who burned up the charts in the late 2010s, Sura İskenderli, thanks to songs like "Bir Daha Yak", "Yaram Derinden", and my personal favorite, "Yok". #MusicSky #BookSky

It is the birthday of both Barbara McClintock and Andrea Ghez today, but since those are likely to be well celebrated elsewhere, we're going to focus on botanist Ellen Schulz Quillin, who was born 134 years ago today. She co-founded the Witte Museum, which she then directed for 34 years! 🌱

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we celebrate Hiromi Uehara (b. 1989), the jazz pianist and composer who has brought fresh life into the form through her dazzling recordings and projects from her debut album Another Mind (2002) to her work on the Blue Giant anime score. #MusicSky #BookSky

Botanist Inez Clare Verdoorn was born 130 years ago today. Through her over 200 publications and 4000 collected specimens, she played a major role in revising the genera of South Africa, continuing to work unpaid at the herbarium after her retirement. #WomenInSTEM #PlantSky #Botany 🌱

Wishing a happy 72nd birthday to neuroscientist Adele Diamond, whose work has been foundational in establishing the prefrontal cortex's role in the development of executive functioning in children. #WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #PsychSky 🧠