Hey Bay Area folks! I'm going to be at the Dublin Library Bay Area Author Showcase on May 30 from 1-3 if you want to come on by, say hi, get some cool Summer Reading material, and maybe, just maybe, a Dope High Five as well. Come visit! #BookSky #BookLover #RomanceReader

Scottish pediatrics trailblazer Helen Marion Mackay was born 135 years ago today. In the 1920s her studies uncovered the link between iron deficiency and pediatric anemia, in recognition of which she was the first woman to be made a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, in 1934. #WomenInSTEM

Wishing a happy 80th birthday to Ukrainian astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravleva, who between 1972 and 1992 discovered some 213 minor planets and served as president of the Crimean branch of the Prince Menshikov Foundation. #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #BookSky

It's May 21, which means it is once again time to remember the life and remarkable career of Mary Anning, born on this day in 1799. Her discovery of pterodactyl, ichthyosaurus, and plesiosaurus remains in the early 1800s set the paleontological world afire. Here is her story! tinyurl.com/ypzvabcp

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we remember Rose Maddox (1925-1998), whose career as a vocalist with The Maddox Brothers and Rose was a driving force in the evolution of "Hillbilly Boogie" in the 1940s towards its ultimate form, Rock and Roll. #MusicSky #RockandRoll #BookSky

Neuroanatomist Una Fielding was born 138 years ago today. With Grigore Popa she discovered the hypophyseal portal system, i.e. the vascular connection linking the pituitary gland and hypothalamus, which was presented before the Royal Medical Society in 1935. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #NeuroSky 🧠

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we salute composer Joan Tower (b. 1938), who started her career in serialism with compositions like Breakfast Rhythms I and II and moved into her own synthesis of styles, as heard in her most well-known work, Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (1986). #MusicSky

Lady Charlotte Guest was born 214 years ago today. She published her translation of an important paper on Hot Blast techniques in 1836, and assumed control of the Dowlais Ironworks after the death of her husband in 1852. Here is her story. tinyurl.com/y5fnujbe #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory 🏭

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we salute the women whose compositions stood at the center of the Women's Suffrage movement - Ethel Smyth ("The March of the Women"), Kate Horn ("Woman's Rights"), Sophia Loebinger ("The Suffragette") and Lila Bliven ("Give Us the Ballot") #MusicSky #BookSky

Neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin was born 89 years ago today. Taking over the HM case from Brenda Milner, she spent decades probing the boundaries of what the hippocampus does and does not do in memory consolidation, with fascinating results. tinyurl.com/5n7djxwv #NeuroSky #WomenInSTEM #PsychSky 🧠

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we celebrate Abby Hutchinson (1829-1892), the star of the Hutchinson Family Singers, which popularized four-party harmony and traveled the US in the 1840s singing popular and abolitionist pieces, and even went to England in 1845 on tour with Frederick Douglass.

Dr. Hawa Abdi was born 79 years ago today. For decades, in the face of civil war, famine, drought, and threats of sectarian violence, she held together and ran the Somali hospital that served as a place of refuge for thousands. tinyurl.com/2bk6ck4x #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #WomensHistory ⚕️

Nancy Grace Roman, the first Chief of Astronomy at NASA, was born 101 years ago today. For years, she bore the responsibility of directing NASA's scientific mission, including being the guiding force of the Hubble telescope. Here is her story! tinyurl.com/4rhjefb5 #AstroSky #WomenInSTEM 🔭

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we salute living legend Dionne Warwick (b. 1940), whose career of Top 100 records began in 1962 with "Don't Pass Me Over" and stretched through an astounding 56 charting singles over nearly four decades. #MusicSky #BookSky

Today we induct Antonia Novello into the Women In Science Archive. The first woman and first Hispanic individual to become Surgeon General of the United States, her tenure was often controversial, but her tough stance with the alcohol and tobacco industry remains. tinyurl.com/2v7ey4v7 #WomenInSTEM

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we celebrate Sara and Maybelle Carter, whose haunting vocals and "Carter Scratch" guitar style were the core of the massive success of The Carter Family in the 1930s, their records constituting the very soundtrack of the Great Depression. #MusicSky #BookSky

Psychologist Katharine McBride was born 122 years ago today. After participating in the landmark 1929 Weisenburg aphasia study as a researcher, she turned to educational psychology, becoming the 4th president of Bryn Mawr College in 1942. #WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #EduSky

Today is also the 127th anniversary of the birth of Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, the hydrodynamics expert whose expertise in the physics of groundwater was central to Soviet infrastructure development in the 20th century. tinyurl.com/yc2ywt5t #WomenInSTEM #Engineering #HistSci

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we feature Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804-1860), the soprano whose gift for natural musical delivery and drama brought her to the attention of Richard Wagner, for whom she originated the main female roles of his early operas. #MusicSky #BookSky 🎵

Physician Matilda Evans was born 160 years ago today. Receiving her MD in 1897, she moved to North Carolina, where she became the first Black woman to establish a practice in the state, using the income from treating wealthy patients to treat the poor Black population for free. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we highlight the career of Angela Maria (1929-2018), voted 1954's "Queen of the Radio", and for decades one of Brazil's most celebrated samba musicians, picking up the standard from Carmen Costa and Dalva de Oliveira.

Florence Nightingale was born 206 years ago today. Known for her administrative efforts during the Crimean War, her greater test came afterwards as she battled relentlessly for decades to push nursing and health care in England and India to new levels of professionalism. tinyurl.com/yhfebash

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we salute the woman dubbed by Irving Berlin the "Queen of Tin Pan Alley", Bernice Petkere (1901-2000), whose music has been covered by Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Queen Latifah, Harry Belafonte, and Kate Smith, to name just a few! #MusicSky

Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin was born 116 years ago today. The legend among legends in crystallography, she cracked the 27 atom structure of penicillin, and then the 181 atom structure of vitamin B12, and THEN the 788 atom structure of insulin. tinyurl.com/yketyrn5 #WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #BioSky

Today is also the 126th anniversary of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's birth. In the early 1920s she used Saha's Equation to determine that stars are overwhelmingly Hydrogen-based, but was pressured to downplay her revolutionary results. tinyurl.com/2px4rrdd #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky 🔭

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we salute Lynn Anderson (1947-2015), whose 1970 hit "Rose Garden" was a massive international hit, and set her on the path to becoming Columbia's high energy answer to Dolly Parton at RCA and Barbara Mandrell at MCA. #MusicSky #BookSky

Pioneering orangutan researcher Biruté Galdikas would have been 80 years old today. Her field work of the 1970s rewrote the book on orangutan behavior, demonstrating their startling array of social and topographic capacities. Sadly, she passed away 2 months ago. tinyurl.com/yc8hfhkc #WomenInSTEM 🦧

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we celebrate a trailblazing mother and daughter from 18th century Prussia, Juliane (1752-1783) and Louise (1779-1826) Reichardt. They both had careers as composers of Lieder and keyboard works, some of which have become classics of the folk tradition. #MusicSky

Wishing a happy 69th birthday to evolutionary psychology pioneer Leda Cosmides, whose novel use of the Wason Selection Task showed the refined circuitry we have for catching people breaking social contracts. tinyurl.com/ycxjrh9t #WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #NeuroSky #Evolution 🧠

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we celebrate Indian classical musician Kishori Amonkar (1932-2017), who performed in the Hindustani classical tradition known as khyal, known for its lush and free vocal ornamentation, and in other styles as well. #MusicSky #BookSky 🎵

Physician Clara Marshall was born 179 years ago today. In 1886, she took over the position of dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania from Rachel Bodley, serving (with one interruption) until 1917. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #WomensHistory

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we feature Salt-N-Pepa, whose debut album Hot, Cool and Vicious (1986) brought a powerful new voice to the rap community, probing the genre's assumptions about male and female roles in songs like "Whatta Man", "Let's Talk About Sex" and "Shoop." #MusicSky #BookSky

Wishing a happy 83rd birthday (tomorrow) to Brazilian ecologist Maria Tereza Jorge Padua, who as a director of national park policy in Brazil in the 1970s and 1980s brought some 20 million acres of Amazon basin under protection as part of the park system. #WomenInSTEM #Ecology #RainForest 🌳

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we feature folk legend Buffy Sainte-Marie (b. 1941), whose powerful vibrato and willingness to sing hard truths was at the center of such songs as "Universal Soldier." Recent birth controversy aside, nothing can take away the power of her early records. #MusicSky

Zoologist and ecologist Ann Haven Morgan was born 144 years ago today. For three decades, she was chair of zoology at Mount Holyoke (1916-1947), where she worked on aquatic ecosystems and authored two of her three books. She passed away in 1966. #WomenInSTEM #BioSky #HistSci

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we celebrate Maddalena Casulana (c. 1544-c. 1590), who in 1568 entered the record books as the first woman to have a collection of music published, Il primo libro di madrigali, following it with three more collections in the 1570s and 80s. #MusicSky #BookSky 🎵

Archaeologist Dorothy Garrod was born 134 years ago today. She was a key figure in moving the discipline from its jaunty but often haphazard and predatory roots and making it a scientifically rigorous field of study, becoming Cambridge's first woman full professor in 1939. tinyurl.com/yub45yxh

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we celebrate Jane Ira Bloom (b. 1955), a saxophonist and composer who has been recording steadily since 1980, a leading figure in a generation who took up where Vi Redd (1928-2022) and Kathy Stobart (1922-2014) left off. #MusicSky #BookSky #Jazz

Marine biologist Eugenie Clark was born 104 years ago today. Hers is a complicated story filled with practices, which read as chilling to us today, that were simply the state of marine biology of that time, and credit ought to be given to her for helping lead us out of that era tinyurl.com/563476fr

My black grandmother from South Carolina was a head nurse at a huge hospital in NYC as far back as the 70s, maybe earlier. She was a practicing/working nurse in an integrated hospital from NLT the early 50s. Estelle Massey Osborne was important to my family.👇🏾 In my generation, my sister is a MD.

Some new arrivals for the #WomenInSTEM bookshelves, all waiting for the sweet day when the Spring term is done and we have time to just churn through these guys and share the stories with you! #BookSky #MedSky #Engineering

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we celebrate the musician who inspired a generation of singer-songwriters to pick up a guitar, Joan Baez (b. 1941). Her 1959 Newport performance and subsequent debut album shook the world of Folk Music, paving the way for its 1960s explosion. #MusicSky #BookSky

The incredible Estelle Massey Osborne was born 125 years ago today. In 1931, she became the first Black nurse to earn a Master's Degree, and during the 1930s and 40s she was The driving force to desegregating the American Nurses Association. tinyurl.com/3ef6kb5p #WomenInSTEM #MedSky⚕️

For today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we feature Sharlitz Web, which has the big beat energy for which the early 2020s hungered, nestled within a framework of eeriness that keeps you coming back. #MusicSky #BookSky

Emma Darwin was born 218 years ago today. Here is the story of how her unstinting self-sacrifice in managing Charles's chronic illnesses as well as those of their family made his evolutionary publications possible. tinyurl.com/47ffzhkd #WomenInSTEM #HiddenHelper #BioSky #Evolution

Today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight falls on one of the most successful musical groups of all time, the Andrews Sisters. Building on the close harmony and musical inventiveness of the Boswell Sisters, they hit the Top 20 an astounding EIGHTY THREE times from 1937 to 1952. #MusicSky #BookSky 🎵

Evelyn Boyd Granville was born 102 years ago today. She used her expertise improving on SOAP's task assignment processes for the IBM 650 in the early days of NASA's Vanguard project to help calculate trajectories. Here is her story! tinyurl.com/3e46bukr #WomenInSTEM #BlackWomenInSTEM #BlackSky 🚀

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we feature the Queen of Ranchera (though equally regarded as a mariachi performer), Lola Beltrán (1932-1996), whose film performances of the 50s and 60s helped popularize the form internationally. #MusicSky #BookSky #MexicanWomen 🎵

Harvard astronomer Frances Woodworth Wright was born 129 years ago today. She is one of our absolute favorites - author of multiple books on celestial navigation who taught scores of naval officers the craft over the course of her long career. #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #BookSky 🔭

So many April 29 #WomenInSTEM birthdays! They include South African botanist Maria Wilman (1867), Japanese physician Yoshioka Yayoi (1871), physicist Marietta Blau (1894), AND mathematician Marian Pour-El (1928)! #WomensHistory #MathSky #PhysicsSky #PlantSky #MedSky