"Birutė Galdikas, primatologist who spent a lifetime studying & defending orangutans, has died"
news.mongabay.com/2026/03/birute-galdikas-primatologist-who-spent-a-lifetime-studying-defending-orangutans-has-died-at-79/amp/
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/birute-galdikas-primatologist-who-spent-a-lifetime-studying-defending-orangutans-has-died-at-79/#conservation #WomensOpportunities
Birutė Galdikas, primatologist who spent a lifetime studying & defending orangutans, has died at 79
In the early 1970s, orangutans occupied an ambiguous place in science. They were known to exist, of course, but remained poorly understood, rarely observed, and difficult to study in the wild. Their forest habitat in Borneo and Sumatra was still vast, though already beginning to change. Logging roads were extending into areas that had long […]
Very cool — "Founded in 2014 by Susan R Eaton, Sea Women Expeditions* creates opportunities for women and gender-diverse individuals to lead polar science expeditions."
"I was in awe and crying just looking at the scenery."
Geela Qaqqasiq returns to Yellowknife (Northwest Territories 🇨🇦) from Antarctic expedition —
https://cabinradio.ca/283809/news/yellowknife/geela-qaqqasiq-returns-from-antarctic-expedition/ v @cabinradio
*https://seawomen.com/
#WomensOpportunities #Arctic #Antarctic #science #PolarScience
Geela Qaqqasiq returns from Antarctic expedition
Life's Better at the Cabin
Essay on Martha Washington:
'Before Women Could Hold Office, She Created One'
https://www.inpursuit.org/lessons/before-women-could-hold-office-she-created-one by Karin Wulf, Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, and Professor of History at Brown University
#WomensOpportunities #PresidentsDay #history #histodons #InPursuit
Lesson #2: Before women could hold office, she created one | In Pursuit
by Karin Wulf, studying Martha Washington
This discussion of women's roles — and suppression of those roles as well as knowledge about them — in map making, is thought provoking. How much is lost by not acknowledging women's participation? (A: Lots — too much.)
https://theconversation.com/women-have-been-mapping-the-world-for-centuries-and-now-theyre-speaking-up-for-the-people-left-out-of-those-maps-272757 v
@TheConversationUS #MapMaking #cartography #WomensOpportunities
Women have been mapping the world for centuries – and now they’re speaking up for the people left out of those maps
Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.
@Natasha_JayThis is incredible. Thank you for posting!
#WomensOpportunities "‘A drug that’s very safe and healthy‘: what ultrarunners can teach us about life" — This piece primarily (but not entirely) features female ultrarunners. Bravo!
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/18/ultrarunners-teach-us-about-life-caitriona-jennings#running #UltraRunning #sports #WomensOpportunities
‘A drug that’s very safe and healthy‘: what ultrarunners can teach us about life
Caitriona Jennings ran 100 miles in just over 12 hours and wants other women to follow her example – ‘it’s not actually that difficult’
Rich Stein (he/him)