Baba Widdershins

Margaret Ingels early #US woman #engineering graduate & pos 1st woman to earn Mechanical Engineer degree. Air conditioning work included development effective temperature scale to incorporate humidity & air movement in equation for human comfort. b. #OTD Oct 25 1892 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...

Pilar Careaga #Spanish Falangist politician industrial engineer. 1929 finished studies to become locomotive engineer. 1st woman mayor of #Bilbao 1969-77. 1979 shot 6 times by ETA, Basque separatist organisation, 1st woman they tried to assassinate b #OTD 26 Oct 1908 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilar_C...

The "Queen of Gospel" Mahalia Jackson was born #OTD in 1911. "To speak of her voice is to speak of magic and mystery and majesty. Hers is not a voice. It is a force of nature. It moves with the power of a tornado and soothes with the tenderness of a spring rain." #MusicHistory #Music #MusicSky

Maureen Dunlop, Anglo-Argentine pilot #WWII flew in Air Transport Auxiliary. Famous photo on cover of Picture Post leaving Barracuda plane. Post war flying instructor, returned to Argentina, taught pilots, flew for Air Force & commercial airline. b. #OTD 26 Oct 1920 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen...

Yesssssss

10/26/1845 — b. Tennessee Claflin, American journalist, stock broker, feminist, suffragist, unconventional reformer. First wmn to open a #WallSt brokerage. Ran for NY state congress; co-publisher, ‘Woodhull & Clafin’s Weekly’ (1870-76) #womenshistory #womensrights #womenwriters #WomenInSTEM #finance

LET IT SNOW! ❄❄❄ Watch as #snow begins accumulating at Mt. Hood Meadows on Monday afternoon in this time-lapse video. #Oregon #ORwx

1928 Janet Hendry became Scotland’s 1st woman pilot. "On Monday Miss J. Hendry completed her “A” Licence tests most satisfactorily, & we look forward to congratulating her as the first lady holder of an “A” Licence in Scotland.’ b. #OTD 23 Oct 1906 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_H...

Portland’s full Hunter’s Moon Sunday night. Looking very spooky! 🌕

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack

Novelist Anne Tyler was born #OTD in 1941. One of America's greatest chroniclers of family life, marriage & the eccentricities of ordinary people. She wrote 24 novels including "The Accidental Tourist," 1985. She won the 1989 #Pulitzer Prize for #Fiction for "Breathing Lessons." #BookSky #LitSky

Everything is alone. Stars. Stones. Strangers. Even you. And yet, here we are, alone together.

Helen Blanchard US inventor received 28 patents 1873-1915, 22 for sewing machines & tech, & a pencil sharpener. Patent No.141987 introduced buttonhole stitch. Blanchard over-seaming-machine could simultaneously sew & trim knitted fabrics. b. #OTD 25 Oct 1840 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_B...

Gladys Sandford #Australian #NewZealand pioneering driver & aviator. #WWI ambulance driver. 1925 1st woman in #NZ to earn pilot's licence. 1927 drove car 10k miles Sydney to Perth, Darwin, Adelaide & back. Sold cars & taught customers to drive. d. 24 Oct 1971 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_...

Dr. Eunice Brookman-Amissah is a pioneering Ghanaian physician & diplomat. Originally anti-abortion, her life changed when one her pediatric patients, a 14-year-old, died from a botched procedure. She vowed to fight unsafe abortions, which cause up to 30% of maternal deaths in Africa. #WomenInSTEM

No single person should have the ability to turn the tide of a war in another country -- or even the country they're in.

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost between two spiral arms in the outskirts of a galaxy.” ― Carl Sagan

On Dec 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, AL. A veteran NAACP activist, she was arrested and fined. Her defiance sparked the 381-day bus boycott led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., forcing a SCOTUS ruling that ended bus segregation.🧵 #CivilRights

This is what to expect in #Portland on #Halloween 🪦🎃🦇

If I was walking around with even a partial blep, no one would be running up all, "Omigod, how cute is this???"

Kenyan environmental activist Phyllis Omido is known as the “East African Erin Brockovich.” Her multi-year fight against toxic lead pollution from a battery smelter transformed her from a plant employee into one of #Africa’s leading environmental justice advocates.

“Coca Cola… for EVERYONE” as if that shit is good for you.

No Frog is an island.

This an original piece I wrote. On this recording, I play dulcimer, guitar, and autoharp. Friends helped on fiddle, flute and bass. open.spotify.com/track/1eLFMe...

Imagine the road rage if cats could drive

As an aside... I wanna be the reaper riding the bus...

Did you feel it? A weak 3.0 Magnitude earthquake was recorded near St. Helens early Thursday morning. Details: www.koin.com/news/environ...

And, "Why the grumpy face? You should smile more."

Magpie: How dare you call me "common." Observe my gloriousness! Matching beak & legs, vibrant colors... I roll out of bed like this.

American aviator, test pilot & #WWII commander Nancy Harkness Love fundamentally reshaped the role of women in military #aviation. She founded the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) in 1942, which later merged to become the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). She died #OTD in 1976.

Sung to the tune of Sunshine On My Shoulders 🎶 Peacock… Has the shittiest App-li-ca-tionnnnm🎶

Beatrice Hicks US #engineer. 1st #WomanEngineer hired by Western Electric, later owner of engineering firm. 1950 co-founder of 1st president Soc of Women Engineers. Developed gas density switch used in US space program, incl Apollo moon landings. d #OTD 21 Oct 1979 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatric...

In these waters, there be MONSTERS... the drinks, the drinks :::wink, wink::: Sail right on thru! Enjoy your... beverage.

I hate when accounts ask for likes 👎

One that got away... Teresa Billington-Greig "When I was quite young I desired to be an engineer. But as I was a woman, such mechanical talent as I possessed had to be wasted. No department of engineering, theoretical or practical was open to me". d. #OTD 21 Oct 1964

Mildred Hemmons Carter 1 of 1st women to earn pilot's license via US Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1st Black woman pilot in #Alabama Denied admission to Tuskegee Airmen, & #WASPs due to race, later declared official member of both. d. #OTD 21 Oct 2011 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred...

On today’s podcast, we’re joined by Natalie Grueninger to celebrate Anne Boleyn’s lasting legacy. We ALSO do some mythbusting, explaining how rumours started that Anne had a sixth finger, black hair, and was a witch. podfollow.com/1489560920

May all beings be safe.

Now I want to read that book!

Your library card is the most priceless card you will ever own.

Dr. Irene Sänger-Bredt #German #engineer #mathematician & #physicist. Co-credited with design of proposed intercontinental spaceplane/bomber before & during #WWII. In 1970 awarded Hermann Oberth Gold Medal for her scientific activity. d. #OTD 20 Oct 1983 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_S...

Mary E. Dillon US businesswoman President of Brooklyn Borough Gas Company. 1st woman president of utility company in world. 1920s worked w Lillian Gilbreth creating Kitchen Practical which underpins kitchen planning today @wes1919.bsky.social memb d. #OTD 20 Oct 1983 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_E....

Irena Kempówna #Polish glider pilot & flight instructor #architect. #WWII solider in Polish Home Army, part of Warsaw Uprising. 1st woman pilot to win international gliding competition against men. Set 6 world & 11 national records in 1950/60s. b. #OTD 20 Oct 1920 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_K...

I'm always looking on the dark paths too <snort>

Same, same

Mary Earle Scottish-born New Zealand food technologist. 1st female faculty member of university engineering dept in NZ when joined @ Massey University food tech dept in 1965. 1992 full professor w personal chair 1st in uni's technology faculty. b. #OTD 20 Oct 1929 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Earle

Developmental biologist Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard shared the 1995 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development." First/only female German national to win a Nobel in the sciences. Born #OTD in 1942. #WomenInSTEM