💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🌳🪨 A large-scale field #experiment in #Wales shows that adding crushed volcanic #basalt rock dust to #soil accelerates native woodland growth.

The #nature-based method boosted #carbon capture by up to 27% in the first four years, providing an urgent tool for global #climate restoration efforts.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/how-does-magic…

#biology #calcium #chemistry #climatechange #conservation #ecology #forest #iron #magnesium #minerals #plants #research #rocks #science #silica #solutions #trees #uk #womeninstem #tksst #video

Rail: A High Speed Adventure is now officially available as an ebook in Canada!

This eco‑fiction novel grew out of years of work in architecture, infrastructure, climate research, and storytelling. I’m excited to finally share it with Canadian readers.

Paperback pre‑sales will be opening soon.
Amazon link: amazon.ca/dp/B0H85946VT
Note: if the Kindle link doesn’t load in Chrome, try another browser — Amazon.ca is still updating the listing.

Thanks for following along on this long creative journey.

#Arctic #ArcticFiction #Architecture #CanadianAuthor #ClimateFiction #CreativeWriting #EcoFiction #HighSpeedRail #Hokkaido #IndieAuthor #IndiePublisher #Japan #NYC #Permafrost #ScribesAndMakers #Sustainability #Svalbard #WomenInArchitecture #WomenInSTEM #WomenInSTEAM

I posted a new Medium piece about presales and how they shape an independent book rollout. Readers often see presales as a convenience, but they influence visibility, search behaviour, and how a book enters the market. I wanted to map out the mechanics from an indie author’s perspective.

The post is here:
maiakumari.medium.com/10-thing…

Posting the image here natively for clarity. It is one of my paintings, Intertidal Light.

#Arctic #ArcticFiction #BCAuthor #CanadianAuthor #CrossBorderFiction #Ecofiction #Hokkaido #HokkaidoFiction #IndieAuthor #IndiePublisher #NewYork #NewYorkFiction #PlaceBasedFiction #Presales #ScribesAndMakers #Svalbard #SvalbardFiction #VancouverAuthor #WomenInArchitecture #WomenInSTEAM #WomenInSTEM

Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), mathematician, physicist & translator

By Marie Lebert

literaryladiesguide.com/transl…

Books by Émilie du Châtelet at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/56…

#books #literature #translators #WomeninStem

PRESS RELEASE: seti.org/news/seti-institute-n…

The SETI Institute announced today that Dr. Lori Marino will receive the 2026 Drake Award, continuing its tradition of celebrating contributions to the search for life and intelligence beyond Earth. Marino is recognized for advancing our understanding of intelligence—on Earth and beyond—and for applying that knowledge to foster meaningful scientific, ethical, and social change.

#seti #womeninstem #science

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🤖⚙️ Every fall, #Caltech #engineering #students design #machines for a massive head-to-head challenge.

This year, teams built #robots to scale a 4 ft (1.2 m) steel pyramid with steep slopes. Watch the classroom #footage and high-energy tournament matches as students repair their bots under pressure.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/me72-caltech-s…

#blackandstem #pyramids #school #science #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

Happy birthday to #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. My portrait of Leavitt is printed in silvery lavender ink on Japanese kozo paper. Behind her is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of time (t). She is printed over constellations in gold (Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Draco, Ursa Minor & Andromeda). ⁠🧵1/

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#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #sciart #histsci #astronomy #mastoArt

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🤖⚙️ Every fall, #Caltech #engineering #students design #machines for a massive head-to-head challenge.

This year, teams built #robots to scale a 4 ft (1.2 m) steel pyramid with steep slopes. Watch the classroom #footage and high-energy tournament matches as students repair their bots under pressure.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/me72-caltech-s…

#blackandstem #pyramids #school #science #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🤖⚙️ Every fall, #Caltech #engineering #students design #machines for a massive head-to-head challenge.

This year, teams built #robots to scale a 4 ft (1.2 m) steel pyramid with steep slopes. Watch the classroom #footage and high-energy tournament matches as students repair their bots under pressure.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/me72-caltech-s…

#blackandstem #pyramids #school #science #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🤖⚙️ Every fall, #Caltech #engineering #students design #machines for a massive head-to-head challenge.

This year, teams built #robots to scale a 4 ft (1.2 m) steel pyramid with steep slopes. Watch the classroom #footage and high-energy tournament matches as students repair their bots under pressure.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/me72-caltech-s…

#blackandstem #pyramids #school #science #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🌋🌍 The #RingOfFire experiences most of #Earth's volcanic #eruptions and #earthquakes.

The activity is driven by #tectonic plates shifting and colliding over billions of years. Marie Tharp's #ocean floor mapping eventually provided the proof that confirmed continental drift.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/tectonic-plate…

#20thcentury #cartography #geography #geology #geophysics #gravity #history #lava #maps #marianatrench #mountains #naturalhistory #pacific #pangea #rocks #science #underwater #volcanology #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🌋🌍 The #RingOfFire experiences most of #Earth's volcanic #eruptions and #earthquakes.

The activity is driven by #tectonic plates shifting and colliding over billions of years. Marie Tharp's #ocean floor mapping eventually provided the proof that confirmed continental drift.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/tectonic-plate…

#20thcentury #cartography #geography #geology #geophysics #gravity #history #lava #maps #marianatrench #mountains #naturalhistory #pacific #pangea #rocks #science #underwater #volcanology #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐋❄️ In #Antarctica, a #research team spent an hour floating with three #humpback #whales that swam directly under and around their small inflatable boat.

The curious #animals stayed less than a meter away to look closely at the crew.

👉 Learn more at seethis.tv/post/humpback-whale…

#adventure #biology #boats #calm #marinebiology #ocean #science #scientists #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🌋🌍 The #RingOfFire experiences most of #Earth's volcanic #eruptions and #earthquakes.

The activity is driven by #tectonic plates shifting and colliding over billions of years. Marie Tharp's #ocean floor mapping eventually provided the proof that confirmed continental drift.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/tectonic-plate…

#20thcentury #cartography #geography #geology #geophysics #gravity #history #lava #maps #marianatrench #mountains #naturalhistory #pacific #pangea #rocks #science #underwater #volcanology #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐋❄️ In #Antarctica, a #research team spent an hour floating with three #humpback #whales that swam directly under and around their small inflatable boat.

The curious #animals stayed less than a meter away to look closely at the crew.

👉 Learn more at seethis.tv/post/humpback-whale…

#adventure #biology #boats #calm #marinebiology #ocean #science #scientists #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🌋🌍 The #RingOfFire experiences most of #Earth's volcanic #eruptions and #earthquakes.

The activity is driven by #tectonic plates shifting and colliding over billions of years. Marie Tharp's #ocean floor mapping eventually provided the proof that confirmed continental drift.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/tectonic-plate…

#20thcentury #cartography #geography #geology #geophysics #gravity #history #lava #maps #marianatrench #mountains #naturalhistory #pacific #pangea #rocks #science #underwater #volcanology #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐋❄️ In #Antarctica, a #research team spent an hour floating with three #humpback #whales that swam directly under and around their small inflatable boat.

The curious #animals stayed less than a meter away to look closely at the crew.

👉 Learn more at seethis.tv/post/humpback-whale…

#adventure #biology #boats #calm #marinebiology #ocean #science #scientists #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🐋❄️ In #Antarctica, a #research team spent an hour floating with three #humpback #whales that swam directly under and around their small inflatable boat.

The curious #animals stayed less than a meter away to look closely at the crew.

👉 Learn more at seethis.tv/post/humpback-whale…

#adventure #biology #boats #calm #marinebiology #ocean #science #scientists #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐅🐾 Two #tiger mothers live on a small #island in western #Nepal.

One rests in the tall #grass with five cubs around her while the other takes a break. #Drones captured this rare cooperative moment of communal babysitting that #humans have never documented on #camera before.

👉 Learn more seethis.tv/post/tiger-island-n…

#animals #predators #asia #babies #bbc #bigcats #biology #cats #community #discovery #nature #parenting #science #tech #technology #womeninstem #tigers #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦅🐟 The solitary #shoebill stands nearly 150 cm tall, has a piercing glare, and can stay still like a #statue for hours.

The #prehistoric-looking shoebill's massive beak gives it an advantage when hunting in muddy #water, while its wingspan is helpful for balance as they walk through unstable, floating vegetation.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/prehistoric-sh…

#africa #animals #biology #birds #blackandstem #boats #botany #conservation #ecosystem #evolution #fish #flowers #geography #grass #kids #mindfulness #nature #nest #paper #plants #science #swamps #tv #tourism #uganda #wetlands #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🐅🐾 Two #tiger mothers live on a small #island in western #Nepal.

One rests in the tall #grass with five cubs around her while the other takes a break. #Drones captured this rare cooperative moment of communal babysitting that #humans have never documented on #camera before.

👉 Learn more seethis.tv/post/tiger-island-n…

#animals #predators #asia #babies #bbc #bigcats #biology #cats #community #discovery #nature #parenting #science #tech #technology #womeninstem #tigers #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: The solitary #shoebill stands nearly 150 cm tall, has a piercing glare, and can stay still like a #statue for hours.

The #prehistoric-looking shoebill's massive beak gives it an advantage when hunting in muddy #water, while its wingspan is helpful for balance as they walk through unstable, floating vegetation.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/prehistoric-sh…

#africa #animals #biology #birds #blackandstem #boats #botany #conservation #ecosystem #evolution #fish #flowers #geography #grass #kids #mindfulness #nature #nest #paper #plants #science #swamps #tv #tourism #uganda #wetlands #womeninstem #tksst #video

I just went on a follow-fest for women with a PhD, but realized I'm already mutuals with almost everyone who shows up in the limited search results 😋

If you're a Dr. Gal or other female science communicator type, pop into the thread, say hi!

I'd love to learn about what you do 💜
(and I'm sure lots of others would too)

#WomenInStem #FollowFriday (on Tuesday) #WomenInMedicine #Dr #PhD

I was today years old when I realised that the glass ceiling is called that because it’s invisible to *men*, not because it’s invisible to *everyone*.

I feel so silly for that penny taking a decade or two to drop for me

Footnote: Referencing men here b/c of the context in which “glass ceiling” was first coined, but obviously glass ceilings are invisible wherever there’s privilege.

#marylinloden #womeninstem #inequity #glassceiling #feminism

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🪸🔈 Healthy #coral reefs produce a symphony of #sounds that #fish and other marine organisms use to navigate.

#Solar powered speakers now play these soundscapes for 14 hours a day to attract life to struggling #ecosystems. The Great Barrier Reef experiment helped double fish populations in 6 weeks.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/how-can-underw…

#3dprinting #animals #art #babies #biology #biomimicry #blackandstem #climate #climatechange #conservation #ecology #ecosystem #island #jamaica #nature #ocean #research #restoration #science #sculpture #solutions #caribbean #underwater #womeninstem #tksst #video

🪸🔈 Healthy #coral reefs produce a symphony of #sounds that #fish and other marine organisms use to navigate.

#Solar powered speakers now play these soundscapes for 14 hours a day to attract life to struggling #ecosystems. The Great Barrier Reef experiment helped double fish populations in 6 weeks.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/how-can-underw…

#3dprinting #animals #art #babies #biology #biomimicry #blackandstem #climate #climatechange #conservation #ecology #ecosystem #island #jamaica #nature #ocean #research #restoration #science #sculpture #solutions #caribbean #underwater #womeninstem #tksst #video

The SETI Institute's premier celebration takes place tomorrow! We're looking forward to welcoming guests at the #DrakeAwards for an evening of celebration and recognition. A full recording of the ceremony will be shared after the event. 🎉

#science #astrobiology #arewealone #womeninstem #womeninscience

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: ❄️🧊 #Antarctica looks empty from above, but researchers find signs of #history and life hidden deep beneath the #ice.

Cleo Abram talks with scientists about subglacial #lakes and ice cores that act as a frozen timeline of our #atmosphere. The remote environments could help us understand how life might survive on icy moons like #Jupiter's #Europa.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/what-is-under-…

#air #animals #astrobiology #biology #climate #climatechange #discoveries #earth #extremophiles #geography #geology #geothermal #glaciers #lasers #limnology #microbes #moons #mountains #mystery #science #snow #space #underground #virus #volcanoes #water #womeninstem #tksst #video

❄️🧊 #Antarctica looks empty from above, but researchers find signs of #history and life hidden deep beneath the #ice.

Cleo Abram talks with scientists about subglacial #lakes and ice cores that act as a frozen timeline of our #atmosphere. The remote environments could help us understand how life might survive on icy moons like #Jupiter's #Europa.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/what-is-under-…

#air #animals #astrobiology #biology #climate #climatechange #discoveries #earth #extremophiles #geography #geology #geothermal #glaciers #lasers #limnology #microbes #moons #mountains #mystery #science #snow #space #underground #virus #volcanoes #water #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐝🔍 The process of naming and organizing specimens helps scientists study the natural world.

To celebrate 100 years of Sir #DavidAttenborough on the planet, the Natural #History #Museum in #London looks at a #prehistoric fossil plesiosaur and a new genus of parasitic #wasp.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/sylvicanthon-a…

#animals #beetles #biology #england #uk #fossils #insects #nature #reptiles #science #dinosaurs #wasps #womeninstem #tksst #video

#OnThisDay, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM #AmericanHistory #Histodons

🐝🔍 The process of naming and organizing specimens helps scientists study the natural world.

To celebrate 100 years of Sir #DavidAttenborough on the planet, the Natural #History #Museum in #London looks at a #prehistoric fossil plesiosaur and a new genus of parasitic #wasp.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/sylvicanthon-a…

#animals #beetles #biology #england #uk #fossils #insects #nature #reptiles #science #dinosaurs #wasps #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🚀📸 #NASA #spacecraft cameras once weighed as much as mini-fridges before a team at JPL invented a way to fit a camera on a single chip.

This CMOS sensor #technology was meant for #space missions but eventually moved into billions of smartphones and medical devices. It now enables planetary #photography and the documentation of social events on #Earth.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/cmos-image-sen…

#history #california #cassini #computers #culture #data #electronics #engineering #information #photos #physics #science #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

🚀📸 #NASA #spacecraft cameras once weighed as much as mini-fridges before a team at JPL invented a way to fit a camera on a single chip.

This CMOS sensor #technology was meant for #space missions but eventually moved into billions of smartphones and medical devices. It now enables planetary #photography and the documentation of social events on #Earth.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/cmos-image-sen…

#history #california #cassini #computers #culture #data #electronics #engineering #information #photos #physics #science #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐝⚽ #Research at #QueenMary University of #London shows that #bumblebees will choose to stop and play with wooden balls even when #food is available.

This #study from 2022 represents the first time #play behavior has been documented in #insects. Younger #bees participated in ball-rolling more often than older bees, which suggests that playtime helps them practice the motor skills needed to handle different #flowers.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/bumblebees-pla…

#animals #biology #blackandSTEM #cute #experiments #science #tv #womeninSTEM #nature #entomology #wildlife #learning #tksst #video

BZ Trident Scholar

"Zooming in on Dual and Binary Supermassive Black Holes w/ JWST using Aperture Masking Interferometry"

Midshipman 1/c #astronomy research project

photograph of women astronomers at poster session
#USNA #mids #USNavy #USNO #NRL #UnivWynoming #astronomy #JWST #blackhole #womeninSTEM

🐝⚽ #Research at #QueenMary University of #London shows that #bumblebees will choose to stop and play with wooden balls even when #food is available.

This #study from 2022 represents the first time #play behavior has been documented in #insects. Younger #bees participated in ball-rolling more often than older bees, which suggests that playtime helps them practice the motor skills needed to handle different #flowers.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/bumblebees-pla…

#animals #biology #blackandSTEM #cute #experiments #science #tv #womeninSTEM #nature #entomology #wildlife #learning #tksst #video

🌍🐒 Dr. Jane Goodall collaborated with #Google to share an environmental message for #EarthDay. This animated #biography explains her work as an ethologist and her dedication to protecting the planet.

The #video also highlights Roots and Shoots, a program that supports young people in over 140 countries who are working on environmental and humanitarian issues in their local communities.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/dr-jane-goodal…

#animals #animation #anthropology #conservation #diy #earth #ecology #environment #nature #primatology #science #womeninSTEM #tksst

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦖🪶 Archaeopteryx lithographica is a famous transitional #fossil that shows the evolutionary connection between #dinosaurs and #birds.

Dr. Jingmai O'Connor explains how this specific specimen from the Field #Museum demonstrates the #Jurassic origins of flight through its unique feathers. The fossil took over 1,270 hours to uncover and shows details previously unknown in other specimens.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/KNjiH

#animals #bones #flying #fossils #history #naturalhistory #paleontology #science #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

🦖🪶 Archaeopteryx lithographica is a famous transitional #fossil that shows the evolutionary connection between #dinosaurs and #birds.

Dr. Jingmai O'Connor explains how this specific specimen from the Field #Museum demonstrates the #Jurassic origins of flight through its unique feathers. The fossil took over 1,270 hours to uncover and shows details previously unknown in other specimens.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/chicago-archae…

#animals #bones #flying #fossils #history #naturalhistory #paleontology #science #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐆🏔️ Four snow #leopard cubs at #Melbourne #Zoo recently left their den for the first time to undergo their initial veterinary health check.

Watch as the veterinary team examines Maya, Kira, Lumi, and Sabu while they venture into their outside habitat.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/snow-leopard-c…

#animals #babies #cats #cute #endangeredspecies #jobs #play #snow #snowleopards #womeninstem #work #tksst #video

🐆🏔️ Four snow #leopard cubs at #Melbourne #Zoo recently left their den for the first time to undergo their initial veterinary health check.

Watch as the veterinary team examines Maya, Kira, Lumi, and Sabu while they venture into their outside habitat.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/snow-leopard-c…

#animals #babies #cats #cute #endangeredspecies #jobs #play #snow #snowleopards #womeninstem #work #tksst #video

Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. Her work on elasticity theory won her the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathematician #womenInSTEM #histsci

Geraldyn “Jerrie” Cobb (1931-2019)

scored in the top 2% of ALL candidates on Mercury program screening tests
7k flying hours
1st woman to fly #ParisAirShow
ferried military aircraft in WWII
set 3 world #aviation records
#pilot, flight instructor, mechanic, aviation executive

#NASA restricted the Mercury program to military test pilots, effectively men only

NASA photograph GRC-1960-C-53088 "Pilot Jerrie Cobb Trains in the Multi-Axis Space Test Inertia Facility"
#WomeninSTEM #astronaut #histsci #spaceflight #WomensHistoryMonth

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦋📱 Scientists are tracking #monarch #butterflies using #solar-powered microchips and a smartphone #app. This crowdsourced project helps researchers map the 3,000 mi (4,800 km) trip to #Mexico in more detail than ever before.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/smartphone-tra…

#activities #animals #biology #conservation #diy #experiments #howto #insects #maps #migration #nature #science #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

🦋📱 Scientists are tracking #monarch #butterflies using #solar-powered microchips and a smartphone #app. This crowdsourced project helps researchers map the 3,000 mi (4,800 km) trip to #Mexico in more detail than ever before.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/smartphone-tra…

#activities #animals #biology #conservation #diy #experiments #howto #insects #maps #migration #nature #science #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

Happy birthday to Caroline Herschel (1750 –1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. Hers was a real life Cinderella story where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage was her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant & purposely stood in the way of her learning 🧵

minouette.etsy.com/listing/187…
#printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #astronomer #histsci