PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/news/seti-institute-names-lori-marino-as-2026-drake-award-recipient/

The SETI Institute announced today that Dr. Lori Marino will receive the 2026 Drake Award, continuing its tradition of celebrating contributions to the search for life and intelligence beyond Earth. Marino is recognized for advancing our understanding of intelligence—on Earth and beyond—and for applying that knowledge to foster meaningful scientific, ethical, and social change.

#seti #womeninstem #science

Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. Her work on elasticity theory won her the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathematician #womenInSTEM #histsci

Who was Irina Zaslavskaya?

https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/who-was-irina-zaslavskaya

#AIPHistory #Ukraine #Physics #IrinaZaslavskaya #WomenInScience #WomeninSTEM #AIP #history #science

Geraldyn “Jerrie” Cobb (1931-2019)

scored in the top 2% of ALL candidates on Mercury program screening tests
7k flying hours
1st woman to fly #ParisAirShow
ferried military aircraft in WWII
set 3 world #aviation records
#pilot, flight instructor, mechanic, aviation executive

#NASA restricted the Mercury program to military test pilots, effectively men only

NASA photograph GRC-1960-C-53088 "Pilot Jerrie Cobb Trains in the Multi-Axis Space Test Inertia Facility"
#WomeninSTEM #astronaut #histsci #spaceflight #WomensHistoryMonth

We need more #WomenInSTEM because they make the world better...

#CyberSix

🌊🦑 Sperm #whales consume massive amounts of colossal #squid, but we have rarely seen these giant #animals alive in the deep #ocean.

Researchers are now using environmental #DNA to identify species by filtering genetic material directly from seawater samples. The process helps track known animals and search for unknown organisms.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/whats-really-hiding-in-the-deepest-oceans?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=whats-really-hiding-in-the-deepest-oceans

#biology #carbon #cephalopods #deepsea #discovery #ecosystem #rov #science #technology #tech #underwater #vehicles #water #stem #womeninstem #tksst #video