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These Lady Scientists Are So Distractingly Sexy I’m In Love and Crying

The internets are having fun destroying biochemist Tim Hunt’s comments about the “trouble with girls” in laboratories. Using the hashtag #distractinglysexy, people are posting ironic pictures of famed female scientists, while working scientists are taking selfies so hot it’s like they’re saturated with thermal energy. Hunt, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and British Knight, will have … Continued

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Many Female Scientists Of Color Say They Have Been Mistaken For Janitors

A new study on gender bias against women of color in science has found that “100 percent of the 60 scientists interviewed reported experiencing bias and discrimination.” Incredibly, it gets worse; 48 percent of African-Americans and 46.9 percent of Latinas also reported being “mistaken for administrative or custodial staff.” Photo by Flickr user the Wandering … Continued

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These Women Have Done Incredible Things For Science In Canada

On December 6th, 1989, women were targeted, shot, and killed for being engineering students. Today is a day to honour women scientists and engineers living and working in Canada. Honouring women scientists working above Canada is good, too. Julie Payette and Ellen Ochoa between 27 May and 6 June 1999. Image credit: NASA Fourteen women … Continued

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You Can Help Bring Even More Female Scientists To Lego

The Lego designer that brought us the fabulous Lego Research Institute earlier this year has returned to Lego’s crowdsourced set creation project Lego Ideas with another trio of awesome Lego scientists – and you can help get it suggested to be turned into a real Lego set! Alatariel’s latest set includes minifigures representing 3 new … Continued

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Thanks To That Shirt, We May Get a Shirt Celebrating Women In Science

It is an incredible day for science when a tiny robot manages to land on a comet. It is an irritating day for science when that gets overshadowed by a poor wardrobe choice. It is a good day for science when that mistake is quickly addressed, and even better when it results in a fantastic … Continued

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The Lady-Scientist Lego Set Is Now Available!

After much anticipation, and more than a little prodding, Lego has added three female researchers to its cadre of scientific minifigs. The “Reseach Institute” playset features an astronomer, a paleontologist and a chemist, and a range of badass accoutrements (like Lego dinosaur fossils!) specific to each specialty. Via Lego: The Research Institute has everything that … Continued

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Women in Science Are Coming to Lego This Summer

After far too long, Lego is finally acknowledging that lady scientists exist. We don’t yet know which figures will be produced, but it looks like the solitary woman in science minifig will be getting some coworkers! Professional women minifig concept fan-pitch art. The project was pitched on the LEGO Ideas platform, and needed to reach … Continued

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Oh, this? Just some teenage girls from Africa who invented a urine-powered generator.

How’s this for an innovative startup: four African girls — the eldest of which is just fifteen years old — have worked together to invent a generator that’s powered by urine. The group presented their creation at this year’s Maker Faire Africa, and it’s so freaking brilliant it makes me want travel back in time … Continued

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This “women in science” outreach video is so godawful it hurts

This video, released yesterday by the European Commission, is supposed to promote women in science… so why does it feel like a cosmetics commercial? (Seriously. Watch it. The male gaze is strong with this one.) European Commission spokesman Michael Jennings chalks it up to its appeal in focus groups, telling Radio Free Europe: We know … Continued

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Behind every great scientist are his two teenage daughters

This is one of many beautiful engravings made by Anna and Susanna Lister, the daughters of the renowned 17th century naturalist Martin Lister. These scientifically accurate illustrations created by two teenagers helped inspire Charles Darwin’s work on natural selection. Anna and Susanna Lister were only about 15 and 13 when their father put them to … Continued