We have grown quickly over the past 4 years. Today, over 14,000 women & gender minorities in STEMM from >100 countries are connected through our 500+ Pods. Join a pod today and find your community of inspiring peers and changemakers: https://t.co/hp4am95JlO
Under the Peachtree 2021 (our first EVER Twitter conference) is coming up this FRIDAY! Tune in at 1 PM to see the awesome work that #WomenInSTEM in the Atlanta area are doing. 👩🔬🍑🌳
More info/follow along 👇: https://t.co/ivfAFWeHpq
#scicomm#ATLWomenSci2021
Are you or someone you know applying to STEM grad programs this fall?
Check out our FREE mentorship program for grad school applicants! 🚀📢👏✨
80% of our students were accepted into grad school in 2020! Visit https://t.co/yY47F9q5nU to sign up. RT to help us spread the word!
Meet our Director of Outreach - Nicole Williams - a marine biologist and diversity and inclusion practitioner. Hit play to hear why she supports @500womensci
TOMORROW: Head to #MISConference2021 to hear from our executive director, Lauren Edwards, and leadership team member, @GretchenTG, about the impacts of the pandemic on mothers in STEMM fields.
Be sure to tune in!
It's a Public Health Emergency in India and here's what we can do in the U.S. to help, courtesy of Brown University:
1. Consolidated, ongoing list of mutual aid: filter for "urgent" and "FF" for places accepting foreign funds
Do you identify as a woman or gender minority in STEMM? Looking for more opportunities to have your voice heard? Register in our directory to be contacted for speaking opportunities & for STEMM research: https://t.co/Oz5JXycoci #WomenEngineers
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Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award applications are open! $75,000 to women in the first 1-3 years of an independent faculty-level position whose genetics research displays originality and scientific creativity. Deadline May 28. https://t.co/BrCP3XopUg @The_Gruber_Fdtn
Born on this day @AstroSamantha is an @esa astronaut!
If you dreaming to become the next 👩🚀woman ESA astronaut, you have a chance now! #ESA 's #AstronautSelection is open until 28 of May!
Check 🧵for details
#DidYouKnow a fume hood consumes the energy of 3.5 households? How we can make science more #Sustainable? Join us on Apr 21 @ 9am PST/6pm CEST for a chat with Dr. Fanny Yuen from @GreenYourLab
"Black families, have the right to raise their children in a healthy and safe community. No one should have their children taken from them far too soon. In the words of Naisha Wright: it is 'not because of a mistake. Because of a murder.'"
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@Gage_500WS is the world's largest directory of women & gender minorities in STEMM. Have you signed up yet? Help us reach more folks by signing up or inviting your friends and colleagues to #Gage: https://t.co/Cj8bE9e2Wn #Discoverbrilliance#stem#stemm
Calling all STEMM professionals — especially those in engineering, technology, mathematics & medicine! We've launched a 10-min survey to crowd-source speaking fees & honoraria received for speaking engagements. Help normalize compensation for expertise: https://t.co/R3GaN3nWOB
Follow @BlkMamasMatter to find out about all things related to Black Maternal Health Week (4/11 - 4/17). BMMA serves to "amplify the voices of Black mamas & center the values & traditions of the reproductive & birth justice movements"
#PictureaScientist co-director @SharonShattuck1 has a new short film, The Scientists Versus Darthmouth, about a group of women neuroscientists who were sexually harassed by professors. Be among the first to see it. @chickeneggpics: https://t.co/4rZVQzUGMk
#LunaFest#WomenInSTEM
Great #SciPol experts incorporate an intersectional lens in their work
That's why we co-hosted 5 workshops w/ @scipolnetwork@sacnas@NSBE & @500womensci to help folks write effective policy memos addressing JEDI in science policy
Links at: https://t.co/KsYSiIlKzc
#ISPMC2021
The top five private universities that had an even split of men and women in their top ten earners include Duke, Cornell, Princeton, Brown, and Syracuse. At Yale, only 10% of women were among the top earners. Hmmm @wff_yale
https://t.co/zCgasezIYo
Have you filled out our survey to crowd-source speaking fees and honoraria received by individuals in #STEMM for speaking engagements?
Our 10 min survey is now available in French, Spanish and Portuguese too! https://t.co/eu46nZJ8a1 #PayEquity#FixTheGap#SciComm@iamscicomm
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We are TOO excited to welcome spring in April with the announcement of our #Fellowship4Future 2021 Fellows!! Today we welcome five (5!) extraordinary women who are leading community-based projects focused on increasing equity and justice within STEMM!
"It is an act of defiance to show up as my authentic self and in doing so, I hope it normalizes the act of others doing the same." Read more from Lauren Edwards of @500womensci on our blog this week: https://t.co/RJE9BTJlEJ