WoSTEM

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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

“I was the first US woman to spacewalk. My feet were pointing towards the Earth, and as I moved my gaze downward, the very distinctive Maracaibo peninsula of Venezuela was sliding right between my boots...”
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

"I studied the evolution of so-called 'cookie-cutter sharks'—they don’t kill the other animal, they just eat a piece of its flesh, like they’re eating a cookie." @unsamoficial
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

"Our goal is to provide information to the coaches, front office, and anyone else in basketball operations so they can easily get insight to help with decisions."
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

"What I love most about my job is that it’s so beautiful. To see a volcano erupting to me is beauty, beauty, beauty. I find it very invigorating, and I feel so good and so happy when I’m able to see our planet being created."
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

"By spraying our material onto thin ice we can increase its reflectivity, to potentially help preserve Arctic ice through the summer so it can rebuild multi-year, thick ice...We could buy up to ~15 years to urgently achieve climate goals."
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

"A lot of my work involves having conversations with different folks involved with fisheries—fishers, consumers, policy makers—and making sure we have a holistic understanding of the system as opposed to just an ecological understanding."
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

"When you become a mother, your attention shifts to your kids. Now that mine are teenagers, I’ve been drawn back to tech and a chance for a third career in it. We live so long these days, you can have multiple careers in 15 to 20 year chunks."
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

"I’m trying to understand how psychological, social, and environmental factors interact in the development of mental health disorders like anxiety, depression, and addiction." @JoyonnaGamble
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

"There's no universal consensus as to what forensic science represents—it’s interpreted as a science that serves justice, but also as the study of trace evidence. I specialize in digital trace evidence, in the traceology and crime analysis subfield."
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

"My dream is to build a math museum in Panama where as soon as you walk in you'll find all kinds of puzzles to play with. We’ll have space for events like origami classes—you can learn mathematical concepts while creating something beautiful."
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

"There are many layers of thousands of years of history we are trying to capture—it takes literally sitting inches away from the wall to study it—to find details like carved facial features or painted bird feathers in the art and hieroglyphs."
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

"Since VR objects don’t have weight, patients who don’t have the strength to interact with physical objects can perform real-world tasks much easier. The visual stimulation of VR helps your brain link movement to an object, so it can speed up recovery."
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

"When interviewing, talk about your accomplishments, because you’re your best advocate. As women we should be empowered to talk about them, because if we don’t, who will? Tell your story in a factual way that highlights how great you are."
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

"Textbooks in South Africa show constellations as seen from the N. Hemisphere—when you see Orion from our sky, he’s doing a cartwheel! Decolonizing astronomy makes the knowledge relevant to the audience."
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

"I like that I am able to provide investigative information to law enforcement agencies that help solve cases, or to families who have gone for so long without getting closure or provide answers to help them heal."
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

“We need our leaders to create solutions that not only see a quarterly return, but will make sure our grandchildren live on a healthy planet. That’s a different definition of return on investment.” -@speirsspeirs
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

“There are 80,000, maybe 100,000 people who are missing in Mexico. But not only do we have a lot of missing persons, we also have a lot of bodies that have not been identified, so we have a forensic crisis.”
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

“I work a lot, but it’s not about the hours you work. It’s about the fulfillment you get. In Italian you say, ‘Il lavoro nobilita l'uomo.’ It means work enriches you.”
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

“I get to work with NASA satellite datasets and partner with those on the frontlines battling climate change while meeting the needs of our communities—and see how our assets can sustainably manage limited resources.”
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

“When I finished high school my parents wanted me to become a doctor—it was like I was going to have an arranged marriage with medicine. But I ran away with the bad boy: engineering.”
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[WoSTEM @_womenofstem]

“Why do we find it so tough to make progress at the pace demanded by climate science when we have low-cost, clean solutions? We’re holding the extreme challenge & extreme possibility of the energy space together.”
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