☀️ While we were away, maths kept moving…

We took a little summer break, but there was still plenty to discover! Before we dive back into sharing new stories, here are three things that caught our attention this summer:

📚 READ
Research Directions in Number Theory: Women in Numbers VI — a new open-access volume bringing together research in number theory and highlighting the work of women mathematicians.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007…

🎧 LISTEN
The Leelavati Prize 2026: Hannah Fry — a conversation with Hannah Fry, this year's Leelavati Prize winner, about communicating mathematics, mathematics in culture, and why sharing the joy of maths matters.
plus.maths.org/hannah-fry-icm-…

🎥 WATCH
The Mathematics in Machine Learning by mathematician and science communicator Ellie Sleightholm — an accessible introduction to the mathematics behind vector embeddings, recommendations and large language models. youtube.com/watch?v=GbPNRDvpQ6…

Three different ways of looking at mathematics — through research, communication and the technologies shaping our future.

And now… we're back! 🎉

📅 Our first new story will be published on 16 September.

We can't wait to continue sharing the stories and experiences of women in mathematics with you. 💚

What maths have you been reading, listening to or watching this summer?

#HerMathsStory #WomenInMathematics #WomenInSTEM #Mathematics #WomenInScience

Women in STEM #storytime! 💅

Two years ago, Isabel was presenting an idea at a history of science conference…

…And group of older men told her that “everything on the history of women in science has already been published.” 🫪🤦‍♀️

So, she went and published a new paper on the history of women in science. 😁🤭

It’s all about the early history of (colonial) women in #scicomm in Australia, and how their work looked different to men’s approaches.

Link: jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JC…

#womeninSTEM

NASA’s new telescope is named after astronomer Nancy Grace Roman – but who was she?

by Ian Whittaker

The US astronomer battled discrimination in a male dominated field.

theconversation.com/nasas-new-…

#astronomy #Womeninstem

Happy birthday to mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of the US crewed spaceflights from the beginning. 🧵

minouette.etsy.com/listing/130…

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInStEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #physics #space #mastoArt

Two years ago, a group of older men told me that “everything on the history of women in science has already been published” 🙃🤦‍♀️

Two papers on Rosalind Franklin is “research completed”…

But there’s no problem producing the 1000th paper on Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein…

Written partly out of spite, but mostly out of passion for making women’s stories visible, this is my new paper on the early history of women in Australian #scicomm.

jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JC…

#historyofscience #womeninSTEM

The coeds of 1894

In the 1890s, MIT alumnae weren’t expected to have meaningful careers. The women of the Class of 1894 proved that assumption wrong.

By Mackenzie White

technologyreview.com/2026/06/2…

Books in Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf…

#books #science #architecture #womenInStem

Thank you for sharing this inspiring photo. ❤️
We need more shout outs to the #womeninSTEM #womenintech!
For reference, here's the high resolution photo in #WikimediaCommons:

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…

#Wikimedia #publicdomain #space

Happy birthday to British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & you and I are all stardust! She was the 1st author of a monumental scientific paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, which became known as B2FH from the initials of its authors: 🧵1/4

minouette.etsy.com/listing/185…
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #mastoArt

spore.social/@minouette/117065… minouette@spore.social - Happy birthday to #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist and Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠
⁠
Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the Trail of Tears, Ross attributed her success in math to the Cherokee tradition of encouraging equal education for boys and girls. 🧵1/

minouette.etsy.com/listing/634…

#printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #Indigineer #SpaceRace #planetaryScience #linocut #mastoArt

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🪼🔄 Host Esther Ikoro explains how the immortal #jellyfish resets its life cycle.

When stressed or damaged, Turritopsis dohrnii turns its adult #medusa body back into a #polyp colony through a cellular process called #transdifferentiation.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/immortal-jelly…

#ocean #zoology #genetics #sea #aging #animals #animation #babies #biology #blackandstem #cells #immortaljellyfish #larva #marinebiology #nature #reproduction #science #underwater #womeninstem #tksst #video

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Our July POTM looks at the life of Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who lived most of her adult life with rheumatoid arthritis.

by Elizabeth Wood

aip.org/library/ex-libris-univ…

Quoted by Dorothy Hodgkin during her 1964 Nobel Prize Lecture, W. H. Bragg's "Concerning the Nature of Things" (Bragg's work influenced a young Dorothy Crowfoot to pursue science) is available on PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/79146

#books #cristallography #WomenInStem

Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate it, Project Gutenberg created a new bookshelf titled Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics:

gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf…

More information about these magnificent women can be foud in PG´s March Newsletter:
gutenberg.org/newsletter/

#books #literature #womeninstem #womenhistoryMonth

Enrico-Fermi-Stipendium für Laura Roberts – Doktorandin am @mpi_grav in Hannover erhält großzügige finanzielle Unterstützung für eine interdisziplinäre Ausbildung in theoretischer und experimenteller Physik.

Laura Roberts erhält für zwei Jahre ein Enrico-Fermi-Stipendium in Höhe von insgesamt 200.000 Euro.

Das Stipendium dient einer interdisziplinären Ausbildung in theoretischer und experimenteller Physik. Es wird Roberts’ Arbeit unterstützen, die die erste Laborbeobachtung der magnetischen Doppelbrechung im Vakuum – einer 90 Jahre alten theoretischen Vorhersage – vorbereitet.

Lassen sich der vorhergesagte Effekt messen oder strenge Grenzwerte in dessen Nähe festlegen, so wird dies neue Physik jenseits des Standardmodells einschließlich Dunkler Materie testen.

ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1415561/enrico-ferm…

ℹ️ eff.cstq.org/

#Stipendium #PhD #Physik #Forschung #Wissenschaft #Fundamentalphysik #EnricoFermi #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

Enrico Fermi Fellowship for Laura Roberts – PhD student at @mpi_grav in Hanover, Germany, wins generous financial support for cross-training in theoretical and experimental physics.

Laura Roberts will receive €200,000 over two years through an Enrico Fermi Fellowship.

The fellowship is aimed at cross-training in theory and experiments. It will support Roberts’ work on preparing the first laboratory observation of vacuum magnetic birefringence – a 90-year-old theoretical prediction.

Measuring the predicted effect or placing stringent limits close to it would test new physics beyond the standard model, including dark matter.

ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1415159/enrico-ferm…

ℹ️ eff.cstq.org/

#Fellowship #PhD #Physics #Research #Science #FundamentalPhysics #EnricoFermi #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

Gestrige „Space Night science“ zum Thema „Frauen im All“.

Mit dabei ist auch – und terminlich sehr passend – Michèle Heurs, Professorin an der @unihannover und ihre Forschung rund um das Thema Gravitationswellen.

🎞️ Gravitationswellen-Forscherin Prof. Michèle Heurs: ardmediathek.de/video/space-ni…

🎞️ Gesamte Sendung „Frauen im All“ ardmediathek.de/video/space-ni…

#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #Gravitationswellen #WissKomm #SpaceNightScience

Wir machen in Hannover beim Girls’ Day 2026 unter dem Motto „Laserlicht und Schwarze Löcher – Einblicke in die Physik“ mit.

ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/girlsdayhannover202…

25 Teilnehmerinnen können einen Blick in ein Physik-Institut bekommen, mit unseren Forschenden sprechen und etwas über das Physik-Studium erfahren.

Die Anmeldung wird ab dem 18. Februar über die Girls’ Day-Homepage möglich sein.

#Hannover #GirlsDay #Forschung #Outreach #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Today, 11th of February, marks the United Nations' International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

The @mpi_grav and the Institute for Gravitational Physics at @unihannover celebrate the event by highlighting female researchers and their work at the institutes.

Explore our scientists' profiles at aei.mpg.de/idwgs.

#WomenInSTEM #IDWGS #Physics #Research #Science #WomenInScience