Jagienka Czarna 🟢⚪️🟣

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[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Woman of the Day physicist and chemist Maria Skłodowska (1867-1934) of Warsaw, OTD in 1903 defended her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at the Sorbonne, becoming the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree. You haven’t heard of her? Oh, you have. Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, the first person to win twice and the only person to win in two scientific fields.

This isn’t about her stellar career, however, or about the many hardships she overcame before she made her breakthrough discovery. This is about the invaluable wartime service she rendered for her adopted country France during WW1.

On 2 September 1914, construction of the Radium Institute was complete but Marie had not yet moved her lab over from the University of Paris. That was the day that the first three German bombs fell on Paris, the government evacuated to Bordeaux, the German Army was rapidly approaching, and most of her researchers had been conscripted. France's entire stock of precious radium - one gram - was in Marie’s lab.

The government wanted it somewhere safe so she carried it to them in a heavy lead box on a train bound for Bordeaux and then returned to Paris to consider how else she could help. “I am resolved to put all my strength at the service of my adopted country, since I cannot do anything for my unfortunate native country just now.”

Marie tried to donate her gold Nobel Prize medals to the war effort but the French National Bank refused to accept them so she bought war bonds with her Prize money.

“I am going to give up the little gold I possess. I shall add to this the scientific medals, which are quite useless to me. There is something else: by sheer laziness I had allowed the money for my second Nobel Prize to remain in Stockholm in Swedish crowns. This is the chief part of what we possess. I should like to bring it back here and invest it in war loans. The state needs it. Only, I have no illusions: this money will probably be lost.”

Although Marie had lectured about X-rays at the Sorbonne, she had no experience of working with them but she realised that X-rays could save soldiers' lives by helping doctors to see bullets, shrapnel and broken bones as near to the battlefield as possible. They could avert amputations so limbs could be saved. The idea of a mobile X-ray unit was born.

Persuading the government to let her set up France’s first military radiology centres, she learned how to drive a car and gave herself cram courses in anatomy, the use of X-ray equipment, and auto mechanics.

As the new Director of the Red Cross Radiology Service, Marie wheedled cars and funds from wealthy acquaintances, persuaded auto body shops to convert the cars into vans, and successfully lobbied manufacturers to do their bit too by donating equipment. Within six weeks, the first of Marie’s 20 radiology mobile units was ready to be equipped. She had the financial support of the Union des Femmes de France (Women’s Union of France) and the Patronage National des Blessés (National Protectorate of the Wounded). French soldiers dubbed the units the petites Curies (little Curies).

Initially, Marie could only count on the help of a military doctor and her 17 year old daughter, Irène, who was already well-versed in the sciences. “Dear Irène, dear Eve, things seem to be going badly: we are expecting mobilisation at any moment…You and I, Irène, will try to make ourselves useful." They made their first trip to the Front in the autumn of 1914.

After training Irène as a radiologist for a year, Marie knew her daughter was capable of directing a battle-front radiology installation on her own but she needed more trained staff. She and her daughter could not run the 20 mobile X-ray units she had established nor the 200 stationary units needed at battlefield hospitals. By 1916, Marie had trained 150 women as radiological assistants at the Radium Institute, assisted by Irène. “Theoretically, they were supposed to serve as aides to physicians, but several of them proved capable of independent work.”

A military radiotherapy service was needed. Retrieving the gram of radium from Bordeaux, Marie extracted radon. She worked alone without protecting herself adequately from the radioactive vapours and used an electric pump to collect the gas at 48-hour intervals before sealing the radon in thin glass tubes to military and civilian hospitals. There, doctors injected the tubes into the bodies of patients using platinum needles, effectively destroying diseased tissue.

“The story of radiology in war offers a striking example of the unsuspected amplitude that the application of purely scientific discoveries can take under certain conditions. X-rays had only a limited usefulness up to the time of the war...A similar evolution took place in radium therapy, the medical applications of radiations emitted by the radioelements.”

It is estimated that over a million wounded soldiers were treated by Marie’s X-ray units. She set aside her scientific research during WW1 to concentrate on her lifesaving work, driving herself on 45 missions and, with her daughter, examining over 1,200 wounded soldiers in four years. Not without personal cost. In April 1915, she was sitting in the back of a vehicle that ended up in a ditch and she was pummelled by heavy boxes of equipment.

"To hate the very idea of war, it is enough to see once what I have seen so often during all these years: Men and boys brought to the ambulance, in a mixture of mud and blood, many dying from their wounds and many others recovering but slowly and painfully after months of suffering."

After the war, the French government recognized Irène's hospital work by awarding her a military medal. No such recognition for Marie. Her war work had not enjoyed unanimous support. Far from it. In the French Army, as well as in the Belgian forces, some senior staff were peeved to see a woman civilian going back and forth to the Front and - worse - a woman who had organised a system and protocols for the proper treatment of the injured, better and faster than the Army.

Marie’s war work continued for a year after WW1 ended on 11 November 1918. In 1919, she trained as radiologists American soldiers who remained in France while awaiting to go home.

Marie Curie, physicist, chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, died in 1934 in Paris from aplastic anaemia, believed to have been contracted from her long-term exposure to radiation causing damage to her bone marrow. Her belongings, everything from furniture to books, can only be handled if you wear protective clothing and sign a waiver. Her notebooks are in lead-lined boxes; they are too dangerous to touch. Marie walked around with bottles of polonium and radium in her pockets all the time and they have a half-life of 1601 years.

“The use of X-rays during the war saved the lives of many wounded men. It also saved many from long suffering and lasting infirmity.”

[Jagienka Czarna 🟢⚪️🟣 @JCzarna2]

RIP Marjane Satrapi - a feminist an author Who stood for no woke

[Saman Rasoulpour @SamRasoulpour]

Marjane Satrapi
1969–2026

“Even if you calculate it in the most cynical way, a democratic Iran is good for the whole world.

A democratic Iran is a mortal blow to Russia.
A democratic Iran is a mortal blow to Hamas.

The Islamic Republic is factually dead.

And they are extremely scared of us.
And they have to be scared of us.

Because we are bold, and we are strong, and we are brave.

And no matter what they do, no matter how many times they rape us physically, mentally, whatever they do, we will fight back.”

[Saman Rasoulpour @SamRasoulpour]

Marjane Satrapi
1969–2026

“Even if you calculate it in the most cynical way, a democratic Iran is good for the whole world.

A democratic Iran is a mortal blow to Russia.
A democratic Iran is a mortal blow to Hamas.

The Islamic Republic is factually dead.

And they are extremely scared of us.
And they have to be scared of us.

Because we are bold, and we are strong, and we are brave.

And no matter what they do, no matter how many times they rape us physically, mentally, whatever they do, we will fight back.”

[Jagienka Czarna 🟢⚪️🟣 @JCzarna2]

@simonmontefiore X lacks emoticons to react. Scary wouls be the one i would choose

[Amanda Craig @AmandaPCraig]

I hope all Britons who loathe racism will RT this in the light of the vile attacks on British Jews.

[ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg]

Alastair Campbell has written that it's "not true" to say the BBC is "pro trans". Here's a TOP 40 of just some eye-catching stories and developments from just the last 12 months, involving the BBC. Could the BBC have some sort of pro trans agenda?

[spiked @spikedonline]

Elizabeth I, Joan of Arc and even Vikings have now been recast as secretly transgender. This ‘queering’ of history’s heroines is just misogyny in drag. To anyone without a university degree, this is absolutely mental, says Julie Burchill
https://t.co/hmfuZLY2JF

[The Spectator @spectator]

The Spectator is pleased to present ‘The Dangers of London’, a satirical map by J.G. Fox that reveals the capital’s perils.

Be warned about day-drinking Clapham yoga mums, Rolex pinchers in Kensington, and the perpetual hazard of a Jeremy Corbyn encounter in Islington. This is your ultimate guide to surviving London’s streets.

There are only 50 available of this limited-edition print. Each is signed and numbered by the artist – something designed to be collected and kept.

Buy now | https://t.co/f1jI7MBP1k

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

David Spiegelhalter: 'Don’t Ask for Trust in Statistics. Earn It.'
https://t.co/8H5bmM00hN

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Fabiana Bolsonaro, a Brazilian politician, protests transgenderism using blackface to prove that changing your appearance doesn't change what you are.

"I identify as black...why can't I preside over the anti-racism commission?.. Because I am not black."

[Michael Foran @michaelpforan]

In the run up to the publication of my next book, Sex, Gender Identity and the Law, Keble College and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford have put together some short videos addressing some of the key themes of the book. The first one was published today:

[Jagienka Czarna 🟢⚪️🟣 @JCzarna2]

@TullipR Alice Schwarzer was the founder of the first feminist magazine „Emma” that I started to buy as teenager - you could say i grew up with it … Alice was editor innchief and founder i think @EMMA_Magazin

[Jagienka Czarna 🟢⚪️🟣 @JCzarna2]

@grok @FanDeMaid2 @EmmanuelMacron @grok teanslate

[Jagienka Czarna 🟢⚪️🟣 @JCzarna2]

@Rebtel you have atechnical glitch which means i can not call spain from tge uk - i suspec the voip number + 443332414417 has an issue can. Can you pls check

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

Things that are legal in Afghanistan:

> 𝙉𝙀𝙒: 𝘿𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚
> Slavery
> Child marriage
> Cousin marriage
> Killing “infidels”
> Sexual violence against kids
> Bacha bazi
> Beating children
> Polygamy
> Honour killings

Things that are illegal:

> Chess
> Women being visible from windows
> Women showing their faces, hands, feet, eyes, legs, mouths, or any other body part
> “Places of immorality” including barber shops and beauty salons
> Women speaking
> Women having a job
> Women going to school or university
> Women singing
> Women leaving the house without a male escort
> Women driving
> Leaving Islam (life imprisonment for women if caught)
> Women going to public places including parks, gyms, amusement parks, and salons
> Women exercising outdoors
> Women reading aloud
> Women accessing healthcare without male approval and control
> Homosexuality
> Playing or listening to music in public
> Dancing
> Photographing or filming any “living things”
> Any depictions of living things, including people and animals
> All non-Islamic holidays
> Converting from Islam
> Sharing any non-Islamic material
> Protesting and any forms of activism
> Photographing government or military personnel, buildings, checkpoints etc.
> Pork
> Alcohol
> Women using public transport
> Women traveling long distances or flying without a male guardian
> Premarital sex (only enforced against women)
> Women appearing in media
> Teaching subjects like democracy, human rights, or women’s studies
> Books written by women
> Live political broadcasts and non-state approved media
> Romantic poetry
> Criticism of the Taliban or Islamic government leaders

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

I wrote this a while ago but its more important as the time goes on - the social contract is broken
https://t.co/UXl7VN4nk9

[Emma Bateman @EmmaBatemanGPW]

Bugger, I have just been on @GBNEWS and was so nervous I forgot to mention my crowdfunder. Please donate if you can! https://t.co/5z9FsXmB0K
https://t.co/5z9FsXmB0K

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

I have never forgotten about this awful tragedy. It is such a reflection of every that is wrong with Britain. The poor are left, ignored & they die & no one cares, no marches, no demands, no political grandstanding, no vigils for them they just die
https://t.co/r1gD9aGrhr

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

Here’s the link to the Darlington nurses’ judgment

https://t.co/7FozUyDPVQ

[Jagienka Czarna 🟢⚪️🟣 @JCzarna2]

@bindelj 43 people on linkedin flag Stonewall as their employer - some are freelancers or already have other jobs. If the number starts nosediving or if they start showing open for work - it will be a sign. Their biggest cost must be staff and office