🌍🐒 Dr. Jane Goodall collaborated with #Google to share an environmental message for #EarthDay. This animated #biography explains her work as an ethologist and her dedication to protecting the planet.

The #video also highlights Roots and Shoots, a program that supports young people in over 140 countries who are working on environmental and humanitarian issues in their local communities.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/dr-jane-goodalls-google-doodle-for-earth-day-2018?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=jane-goodall-earth-day

#animals #animation #anthropology #conservation #diy #earth #ecology #environment #nature #primatology #science #womeninSTEM #tksst

Happy birthday to Italian #neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012) who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with for her co-discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF)

Youngest of 4 of a Turin Jewish family, she planned to be a writer but the death of a nanny to cancer inspired her to pursue medicine. Inspired by neurohistologist Levi to study nerves as an undergrad, she stayed on after med school in ‘36 as his 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4319170349

#womenInSTEM #sciart #histsci #histmed

Kim Delsenno, Andrea Griffiths, Barry Stahl & Ryan Edge have Spotlight Sessions at Nebraska.Code() this July.

https://nebraskacode.amegala.com/

#VSCode #MCP #Architecture #CopilotSDK #AI #OpenSource #Fediverse #EmergingTech #Frontend #GitHub #womenintech #WomenInSTEM #Midwest #SiliconPrairie #Heartland

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons