An extraordinary pharmaceutical #chemist to celebrate for #BlackHistoryMonth - Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.⁠
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Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later.

#printmaking #sciart #BlackInSTEM #womenInSTEM #histstm

In case anyone here follows me on Twitter still and has seen me post there.

I return for the #RSCPoster event. As coorganizer I'm kind of obligated to do so. I plan to be more active for the event on mastodon if enough posters make it here.

After that (despite my silly poll) my birdapp account WILL keep Posting. Jut then exclusively about transphobia, fascism and the way people like EM make the world a worse place.
I will tweet things I had previously censored myself to say. I'll do so until im deplatformed or noone listens anymore (that might be quick, lol)

I though long and hard about deleting the whole account. I cannot and will not use and support a system that fosters hate and inequality, and at best only serves to fill the ego of a maglomaniac. But deleting achieves nothing. 95% of birdapp users don't care. So I'll shout at them. Show them the side of me that is angry. Ultimately they won't care about that either. But it's better than nothing.

Your friendly neighborhood queer academic persona will remain here on mastodon :)

One day I will wake up in a country where the national news headlines won’t be about demonizing a marginalised section of society.

Let’s just call the UK press for what it is: bullies.

In September 1902, Henry Jackson--a laborer and small-time thief--broke into a house in South London and left a thumbprint on a freshly painted windowsill. He became the first person in Britain convicted based on fingerprint evidence.

Bonus points for the serious stache action.

#history #research #truecrime #amwriting #writing #forensics #London