Does Congress even still exist?

Alice Perry in B&W head and shoulders photo #WomenInSTEM #WomenInEngineering

Alice Perry 1st woman in #Ireland to graduate w' engineering degree. Only woman to have been Irish County Surveyor (Engineer), but not allowed to do job permanently. Factory inspector, later published poet. Uni of Galway named building for her. d #OTD 21 Apr 1969 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_P...

Whilst this is absolutely never a reason to ban anything, I recall from my own schooldays in the 1960s/70s and those of my kids in the 1990s/2000s that a lot of what we were offered was rather on the depressing side!

NEW BOOK: Sisters Behind the Wheel: a global history of women's motoring clubs | eBay UK The ladies had to do it for themselves. Sisters Behind the Wheel. · Beneath the Radar. An illustrated account of an ordinary radar operator's life in RAF radar stations 1942-6. In her 30s she took an ...

#Self-publishers #Authors I am experimenting with also selling my books on Ebay. Has that worked for you?

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And much of its origin came exactly because the factory bosses etc wanted healthier, better educated workers ('prole normies' if you want to be that rude). Also, more grimly, because governments were aghast at the poor health quality of WW1 conscripts.

I just restarted ST SG1 season1 for the gazillionth time, because someone on here commented that one of the delights is that the project is supported by a sensible POTUS.

Amalia Ercoli Finzi #WomenInSTEM

Amalia Ercoli Finzi Italian engineer, Principal Investigator SD2 drill on Philae spacecraft. 1962 1st Italian woman aeronautical engineering grad, @ Polytechnic Uni of Milan Taught there >50 yrs, professor 1994. Scientific advisor to NASA ASI & ESA b #OTD 20 Apr 1937 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalia_...

Paperback from Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/0fkQluzr Or DM me if you prefer to buy direct from me (cheaper than Amazon!). If you know of a magazine or blog which might like to do a review, DM me.

Ladies Motor Club. Do you have any idea where this club was based?

If it's #ShamelessSelfpromoMonday then perhaps you would like to buy my new book about women's clubs and read about this mystery club's badge. Perhaps you can unlock the mystery.
Sisters Behind the Wheel, a global history of women's motoring clubs, driving schools and garages.
Details in ALT.

If the US had honest negotiators . . .

Your family member is pissed off about the anthem or that signing was used alonside?

This is one of hundreds of stories I reference in my book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work www.infinite-women.com/books/

It could almost be DNA!

Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early 1900s, computing joined teaching and nursing as one of the few careers open to ...

Women have always played baseball/have always been good at math. Sallie Pero was an award winning math student/3 sport athlete, including baseball, at Columbia. Read about Sallie and about women were the original computers. @iwbc4me.bsky.social @awm-math.org

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A family member, the first in his family to do postgraduate work, has been told there is no chance of him getting a post-doctoral job in his field because his topic contains that fatal word: "diversity". His work is on marine biodiversity.
What an appalling waste of a very talented person.

I am old. 'Proper' Daleks never used to do anything but roll.

up next: a joint episode on Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) and The Mummy (1932), plus a Patreon-only review of The Pitt season 2, about which Morgan and I have A LOT of strong opinions.

Ep. 336: Battle Royale (2000) — OVERINVESTED Claire and Gavia look back at the influential Japanese survival thriller Battle Royale, a dystopian tale about a class of teenagers who are forced to fight to the death by their authoritarian governme...

Out now on Overinvested: BATTLE ROYALE!

IMO you can absolutely enjoy this ep without watching the film. We spend a lot of time discussing Battle Royale's creative backstory, its controversial reception, and its potential influence on things like The Hunger Games and Squid Game.

Talk to the Daleks about the stairs problem.

Wonderful news.
If you want to support more of this sort of research, you might like to take part in the @pancreaticcanuk.bsky.social's Weekly Lottery.
I won £25 recently in it! But the real winners will be the people saved by the research.
weeklylottery.pancreaticcancer.org.uk

How much of an emergency does it have to get to for him to be able to stop the elections?

I can recommend @mercoglianos.bsky.social 's Youtube videos about the state of play in the Straits of Hormuz. Facts and nothing but the facts.

Kudos to their captains for 'threading the needle' by going through what used to be known as the "Hole in the wall" at the top of Oman instead of either the old one-way system or the new fee-paying one.

Ask yourself how you would respond if another country, say Russia, demanded that the United States unconditionally surrender or it would blow up all our bridges and power plants. Would you choose surrender or would you choose defense?

Could you re-work the dumbass plumbing where the pancreas and galll bladder ducts meet at the same point in the gut, so that gall stones sometimes block the pancreas causing very dangerous pancreatitis?

Honor Salmon in B&W headshot in ATA uniform #WomenPilots

Honor Salmon (née Pitman of shorthand family). Learned to fly @ 14 1936 joined First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. #WWII 1941 First Officer pilot in UK Air Transport Auxiliary. Crashed 1943, 1 of 15 women pilots who lost their lives whilst flying for #ATA d. #OTD 19 Apr 1943 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_S...

Cover of Sisters behind the wheel. A global history of women's motoring clubs, driving schools and garages. Paperback, from Amazon at £16 +P&P or direct from me for £13 incl P&P (UK only) https://amzn.eu/d/07CIkKGw

One of the great joys of putting this book together has been the kindness of many strangers, sharing their knowledge and images so generously.
So today I have been sending them 'Thank you' copies. It feels like the least I can do.
If you would like a signed copy, DM me.
Details of how to buy in ALT.

Natalie Demassieux around 1910 in a lab. #WomenInSTEM #EiffelTower

Nathalie Demassieux (1884–1961) Russian born French chemist & academic, specialised in mineral chemistry. 1923 PhD in physical sciences @ University of Paris. 1930 3rd woman to become lecturer in a French university (Caen) (after Irène Joliot-Curie & Pauline Ramart). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathali...

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

My father survived a year with pancreatic cancer but it was a year of terrible suffering. This is very encouraging news.

www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...

@grace-knight.co.uk @gavia.bsky.social

Thanks. I will let MOH know!