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Feature image via MIT fan film about Riri Williams, linked below.

Hey do you want to read a bunch of lists about women in STEM? Good news! It was just International Women’s Day and everyone had the same idea! Super into it.

Lady Scientists

+ These Black Female Mathematicians Should Be Stars in the Blockbusters of Tomorrow

+ 12 incredible women you’ve never heard of who changed science forever (probably you’ve heard of one or two of them, though)

+ 9 female nature writers who will inspire you to explore, enjoy, and protect the planet

+ 12 unstoppable women who are making tech a better place for everyone

+ Historic England and The Royal Society mapped 28 pioneering women scientists and places associated with them

+ 15 Women Leading in European Biotech

+ Um this is awesome: The Pioneer of Graphic Adventure Games Was a Woman

Via Compound Interest.

Meltdown

+ Nature posted about women scientists being attacked on social media

+ EPA environmental justice leader resigns, amid White House plans to dismantle program

+ Scott Pruitt is an idiot

+ NASA’s new budget is big on other worlds but ignores our own. I’m kind of torn on how I feel about this. Maybe because my expectations for this administration are so low, I wasn’t even sure they’d allow space research to continue?

Geekery Grab Bag

+ Why Whales Leap Into the Air: “After hundreds of hours of observations, we now know it’s true: breaching humpback whales are yelling.”

+ The Roosevelt Tree Army poisoning

+ NASA: Six Things You Don’t Know About Snow

+ California is making a whole lot of solar power

+ What is uranium? Trump apparently doesn’t know, but you can/should

+ Check out this fan film MIT students made about Riri Williams, the new Iron Man:

Can’t Hold Us Down

+ Nurturing New Black and Latino Math Whizzes

+ Rachel Carson’s Brave and Prescient 1953 Letter Against the Government’s Assault on Science and Nature

+ Here’s an annotated list of important recent studies on Gender Bias in Academe

+ It’s time to change the face of psychology

+ Nikola Tesla on gender equality:

This struggle of the human female toward sex equality will end in a new sex order, with the female as superior. The modern woman, who anticipates in merely superficial phenomena the advancement of her sex, is but a surface symptom of something deeper and more potent fermenting in the bosom of the race.

Same, bro.

Do Make Say Think

+ Tutorial Tuesday: What 3D Design Software Should I Use?

+ Official March For Science fundraising merch is now available

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