WOD: Taawantinyu The Word Of the Day is Taawantinyu which means alight, settle after descending in Walmajarri. #WOD #danggujarra @wangki936 #fitzroycrossing #OurMediaMatters

WOD: Wirrpparnu The Word Of the Day is Wirrpparnu which means fly up, scatter in Walmajarri. #WOD #danggujarra @wangki936 #fitzroycrossing #OurMediaMatters

My collages are in a group show at Stephen Lawrence Gallery, SE10 9BD University of Greenwich Galleries - open till Friday September 13 😊 ⌚️Walk-in from 11am-5pm Tues-Fri and 11am-4pm on Saturdays Get more info below & add it to your calendar: bit.ly/3yo0Hxc

We recently had the privilege of speaking to co-founder of Stemettes ® ♥★#●+ academic pioneer, author, podcaster and TV host Dr She's in CTRL - OUT NOW - Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE as she received her Honorary Doctorate 🔬💡🧠

📢Call for Participation for #HAP25 is now open. Alongside The National Archives Research & Royal Historical Society we invite you to explore the theme 'Working with Memory: History, Storytelling and Practices of Remembrance'. Full details can be found at: history.ac.uk/events/cfp-hap…

Water temperatures in and around the Great Barrier Reef in the past decade have been the warmest in the past 400 years, according to research in nature. These periods of warming increase the risk of mass coral bleaching and mortality. go.nature.com/3SzZoSH

Cal Newport writes in his latest time-management book ‘Slow Productivity’ about doing fewer things, working at a natural pace and obsessing over quality, according to a Nature Careers feature. He cites how Marie Curie and others worked at their own pace. go.nature.com/4dqxBfS

Kew Science is looking for enthusiastic undergraduates and recent graduates who want to undertake a 6-month paid internship! There are three internships available, in collaboration with the Centre for Forest Protection 🌳🎓 Find out more below and apply by 14 August 👇

As one of NASA’s first African-American employees, Annie Easley helped develop software for the Centaur rocket stage, which enabled several landmark spaceflights in the later 20th century. She also helped develop early battery powered vehicles. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/annie-easley…

Here at Ada Lovelace Day, we believe that you can’t be an advocate for gender equality if you ask women to work for free. So we don’t. We'd like to pay our speakers more, but we need to find new sponsors in order to do so. Can you help? findingada.com/blog/2024/02/1…

Michiyo Tsujimura was an agricultural scientist, biochemist and the first woman to earn a doctoral degree in agriculture in Japan. She discovered that green tea contains vitamin C and is credited with helping to popularise the drink internationally. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-michiyo…

Ada Lovelace Day is fast approaching! Keep up-to-date with all our news for ALD Live on 8 Oct, along with updates on indie events happening around the world, via our newsletter. Plus you'll get weekly profiles of women in STEM, and much more! adalovelaceday.substack.com

"When we could not see any anthologies that told the stories of grief and loss through the lens of what it is like to be a Black person in the UK facing a raft of social injustices, we set about curating one." - Patrick Vernon, Dr Yansie Rolston Pre-order: uk.jkp.com/products/black…

#BWSTEMtalk speaker announcement! Explore the vital role of museums in coral reef conservation with Miranda Lowe CBE (Miranda Lowe CBE) from the Natural History Museum. Perfect for students aged 11-19. Register now: rsb.org.uk/STEMtalk #BiologyWeek #MarineBiology Natural History Museum

Should human remains be included in museum displays ??? antitheses.net Our latest article explores ethical & moral issues as discussed at Culture& University of Leicester event #ANTITHESES Practical Ethics NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics Tropical Medicine Oxford NEUROSEC Oxford Oxford History Ethox Centre

.African Taxonomists Network gets a shoutout at the SPNHC TDWG conference in Okinawa Japan! #Tdwg2024

Brand new blog out today 'Bryozoans on the Move: Trials and Challenges of Packing Collections.' natsca.blog/2024/09/05/bry… Bryo_Abbie

The last known #thylacine died #OTD in 1936. The scant bits of #thylacines we have in our #museums are arguably more powerful physical objects than any items on earth, palpably connecting us with the reality of #extinction. #ThylacineDay #ThreatenedSpeciesDay

To understand the history of race and racism in South Africa is to understand the genesis of pseudo race ‘scientific’ theories that were perfected in museums through acquisitions of skeletal remains, anthropological displays and then later put into apartheid legislation to

#September #Songs 7pm – 8.30pm Thurs 26th Sept 2024 Conway Hall 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL EVT Flower #Quartet who will sing a new set of Eliza Flower songs as yet un-performed live for 200 years.