Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #HistoryRemix

One of the things I would miss here on Mastodon was all of the alerts from my local infrastructure and government twitter accounts. These will likely take a very long time to make the migration.

With https://bird.makeup, you can create bot accounts that put those tweets in your Mastodon timeline. For instance, I follow the Washington State Patrol account for regional weather related road closures and accident reports:

@[email protected]

EDIT: I Should have tagged the project's creator: @vincent

Looking for the womxn #science writers & #Journalists on Mastodon? Here we are! Some of us, anyway. Who else is out here? #journalism #womeninstem #writingcommunity

@Kelcsimpkins
@SusanCunningham
@biancanogrady
@laminda
@inkfish
@Ckatz99
@lizseegert
@skrishna
@payaldhar
@lguterman
@EstelleSErasmus
@jamesian
@Trailanderror
@lqlqlq
@jenniferbillock
@AntoniaJuhasz
@alexwitze
@judeisabella
@madelineostrander
@thatsMohrlikeit
@nijhuism
@PaigeBlank
@meredithwadman
@helenczerski
@ECAlberts

There has been such a wonderful outpouring of support for C&EN. I am truly grateful. If you reached out to me, please be patient as I am slowly working through them.

In the meantime, If you are upset about the changes in editorial oversight to C&EN mag, I have compiled a list of action items that can be taken to bring our voices to the ACS executives. Please consider taking one, if not all, of these steps.

#chemiverse #Chemistry #chemtoots

https://kitchenchemistry.substack.com/p/chemical-and-engineering-news-action