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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)

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Space archaeologist | Vice-chair, Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Explorers Club 50, 2024 | Author, Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-junk-vs-the-universe/

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 11m

He looks a little bit like you-know-who in that picture.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 13m

Well this does sound very prescient.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 50m

Ooooh, and with this list too:

Female mathematicians - Biographies

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 52m

Fanstastic.

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 59m

"Flow Down Like Silver" on Hypatia by Ki Longfellow

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Flow Down Like Silver (Hypatia of Alexandria) - Ki Longfellow: 9780975925591 - AbeBooks

Ki Longfellow, author of the acclaimed The Secret Magdalene, has now written the astonishing life of Hypatia, famed throughout the Mediterranean world, a beauty and a genius, yet for 17 centuries igno...

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Marek @marekmcgann.bsky.social · 1h

And one of the world's most famous statisticians.

Cover of the biography, "Florence Nightingale: The Woman and her Legend" by Mark Bostridge.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 53m

Really! How fascinating, go Florence!

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 54m

Oh I didn't think to look at that. No, haven't seen it ....

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 55m

Does Emilie du Châtelet count?

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 56m

I'll take it!

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 57m

What made you start with this one?

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Marek @marekmcgann.bsky.social · 1h

I guess this one might count as a bit obvious, but was a book that turned me on to biographies in general.

The book cover of "A Beautiful Mind", by Sylvia Nasar

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 58m

The kids are getting the best books!

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 1h

There's a picture book about him.
The boy who dreamed of infinity.

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 1h

The girl with a mind for math.

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 1h

Maryam's magic.

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 1h

One for children: Nothing stopped Sophie.

Nothing stopped Sophie by Cheryl Bardoc.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 59m

I was thinking about her, I forgot her last name - which I guess is part of the whole problem with #WomenInStemi isn't it

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1h

Your secret is safe with me!

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1h

They surely can't have read the books? Or they genuinely think they're not the baddies?

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1h

I don't know which movie it is!

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 1h

Next it will be female archbishops. You mark my words!

Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 1h

You wouldn't believe the number of morons on Twitter pretending that a temporary exhibition of vinyl stickers at Canterbury Cathedral is permanent graffiti, just so they can feel outraged. Then JD Vance joins in, because clearly this is an international crisis.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1h

Also, any women's biographies? #mathematics 🧪

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1h

Like co-option.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1h

I don't understand!