Episodes
Monday Feb 17, 2020
Short Stories 2 -Anita Hoffmann | Acarologist
Monday Feb 17, 2020
Monday Feb 17, 2020
Alternate Title: Tucked in Ticks
Emma flies solo this week with a short story about the prolific Mexican acarologist, Anita Hoffmann.
Website: https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/
Sources
Main Story - Anita Hoffmann
- Ortiz, Tila Maria Perez. "Ana Hoffmann Mendizabal." UNAM. 2007. http://www.100.unam.mx/pdf/ana-hoffmann-mendizabal.pdf
- Garza, CDE & AAM, Ochoa. Dra. Ana Esther Hoffmann Mendizábal. Artrópodos y Salud. Ene.-Jun., 2016. Vol. 3 No. 1. http://artropodosysalud.com/Publicaciones/No5-Abr2016/2Monografia.pdf
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Cover Image
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Holiday Merch and Delayed Episode!
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
First! We have a new website and some holiday merchandise (www.stemfatalepodcast.com/merch) based on our listener survey! We’re selling high-quality color sticker packs of some our favorite portraits by Caitlin Friesen, covering many different disciplines such as Eugenie Clark, badass shark lady, and Annie Easley, NASA Rocket Scientist! We are super pumped about these stickers and getting to spread more awareness of these ladies. Any proceeds from this merch will go towards making the podcast affordable for us to run, that means costs of equipment, hosting site, website. These would be a great stocking stuffer, Hanukkah gift, or just because! To keep these affordable and high quality, we are buying the stickers directly, so please don’t wait as we only ordered a limited number!!
The second announcement is that we couldn’t get it together in time and so our episode will be coming out sometime on Tuesday! Sorry, its been crazy!
Thanks!!
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Episode 044 - Beatrice 'Tilly' Shilling | Aeronautical Engineer
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Alternate Title: Tilly the Tool Woman Shilling
Emma tells Emlyn about the British aeronautical engineer and amateur racing driver, Beatrice 'Tilly' Shilling, and Emlyn tells Emma about climate activists Autumn Peltier, Xiye Bastida, and Mari Copeny!
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Sources
Main Story - Beatrice “Tilly” Shilling
- “Magnificent Women: Beatrice Shilling.” Women in Engineering Society. https://www.wes.org.uk/sites/default/files/u82/Magnificent%20Women%20-%20Beatrice%20Shilling.pdf
- Wynarczyk, Pooran and Jaffe, Deborah. Innovative Women: Illuminating Achievement and Success. Paper presented at 9th International Triple Helix Conference. 2011. https://www.leydesdorff.net/th9/Innovative%20WomenFINAL15JUNE2011N.pdf
- Price, Alfred. The Spitfire Story: Second edition. London: Arms and Armour Press Ltd., 1986.
- “Beatrice Shilling – Engineer and Battle of Britain heroine.” The University of Manchester. 2015. https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/beatrice-shilling--engineer-and-battle-of-britain-heroine/
- Ferriera, Becky. “How Thrill-Seeking Gearhead Beatrice Shilling Helped Win World War II.” Motherboard. 2017. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z4k455/beatrice-shilling-women-stem-international-womens-day
- “Beatrice Shilling: Pioneering engineer's genius 'helped win World War Two’.” BBC.com. 2017. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-40267364
- Morris, Carol. “Beatrice Shilling (1909-1990).” OpenLearn. 2018. https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/engineering-technology/beatrice-shilling-1909-1990
- Blake-Coleman, Barry. “The Fabulous 'Tilly' Shilling!” http://www.inventricity.com/tilly-shilling
- “The Life and Work of Beatrice ‘Tilly’ Shilling OBE PhD MSc CEng” an illustrated talk by Frankie Webb. 2019. https://thefarnboroughsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Beatrice-Shilling-Talk.pdf
Women who Werk
This week we highlight young women climate activists!
Autumn Peltier:
Xiye Bastida:
- https://www.eomega.org/workshops/teachers/xiye-bastida
- https://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/2019/09/meet-xiye-bastida-americas-greta-thunberg/
Mari Copeny:
- https://shortyawards.com/11th/littlemissflint
- https://www.oprahmag.com/life/a25383285/mari-copeny-barack-obama-flint-water-crisis/
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Cover Image
Norton Vintage
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Episode 030 - Zelia Nuttall | Anthropologist & Archeologist
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Alternate Title: Terracotta Heads and the Island of Sacrifices
Emma tells Emlyn about the American anthropologist and archeologist, Zelia Nuttall, who spent her life studying remnants of ancient Mexican civilizations, and Emlyn tells Emma about #MeTooSTEM founder, Dr. McLaughlin, and Project PHaEDRA!
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Sources
Main Story - Zelia Nuttall
- The Archaeologist Who Helped Mexico Find Glory in Its Indigenous Past. McNeil, Leila. Smithsonian.com. Nov 5, 2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologist-who-helped-mexico-find-glory-its-past-180970700/
- Ruiz, Carmen. Insiders and outsiders in Mexican archaeology (1890-1930). Diss. 2003. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/905
- Zelia Nuttall: The Queen of Mexican Archeology https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/zelia-nuttall
- Tozzer, Alfred M. Zelia Nuttall. American Anthropologist 35.3 (1933): 475-482. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1525/aa.1933.35.3.02a00070
- Adams, Amanda. Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure.
Women who werk
Shoutout #1: Science article about Dr. McLaughlin. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/neuroscientist-fighting-sexual-harassment-science-her-own-job-peril
Shoutout #2: Project Phaedra. https://library.cfa.harvard.edu/project-phaedra
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Cover Image: The Bancroft Library, University of California
Images of Terracotta Heads: https://archive.org/details/jstor-495843/page/n23
Monday Feb 04, 2019
Episode 028 - Florence Bascom | Geologist
Monday Feb 04, 2019
Monday Feb 04, 2019
Alternate Title: The United States of Bascom
Emma tells Emlyn about the American geology pioneer and first woman hired to the USGS, Dr. Florence Bascom, and Emlyn tells Emma about gene drives in mammals!
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Sources
Main Story - Dr. Florence Bascom
- Arnold, Lois B. “BECOMING A GEOLOGIST: FLORENCE BASCOM IN WISCONSIN, 1874-1887.” Earth Sciences History, vol. 18, no. 2, 1999, pp. 159–179.
- Arnold, Lois B. “BECOMING A GEOLOGIST: FLORENCE BASCOM AND JOHNS HOPKINS, 1888–1895.” Earth Sciences History, vol. 19, no. 1, 2000, pp. 2–25
- Ogilvie, Ida H. “Florence Bascom: 1862-1945.” Science, vol. 102, no. 2648, 1945, pp. 320–321.
- Schafer, Elizabeth D. “Bascom, Florence (1862–1945).” Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Ed. Anne Commire. Vol. 2. Detroit, MI: Yorkin Publications, 2002. pp. 205-211.
- Schneiderman, Jill S. “A Life of Firsts: Florence Bascom.” GSA Today, July 1997, pp. 8-9
- Shillito, Lisa-Marie. “Florence Bascom.” https://trowelblazers.com/florence-bascom/
Women who werk
Gene Drive in Mammals
- Nature article by Grunwald et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0875-2
- Nature commentary by Bruce Conklin: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00185-y
- Science News article by Tina Hesman Saey: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/crispr-gene-drive-mice-pest-control-one-step-closer-reality
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Cover Image’
Lyell collections
Monday Jan 07, 2019
Episode 026 - Gertrude Belle Elion |Biochemist
Monday Jan 07, 2019
Monday Jan 07, 2019
Alternate Title: Purine Queen
Emma tells Emlyn about the chemist, Gertrude Belle Elion, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering new ways to treat diseases like leukemia and HIV, and Emlyn tells Emma about the upcoming film about Mary Anning!
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SOURCES
Main Story - Gertrude B. Elion
- Gertrude B. Elion – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1988/elion/biographical/
- Koenig, Rick. The Legacy of Great Science: The Work of Nobel Laureate Gertrude Elion Lives On. The Oncologist. October, 2006. http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/content/11/9/961
- American Chemical Society. Gertrude Elion (1918–1999). https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/women-scientists/gertrude-elion.html
- Science History Institute. George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/george-hitchings-and-gertrude-elion
- Avery, Mary Ellen. Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999). Biographical Memoir for the National Academy of Sciences. 2000. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/elion-gertrude.pdf
- Kresge, N, Simini, RD, and RL Hill. Developing the Purine Nucleoside Analogue Acyclovir: the Work of Gertrude B. Elion. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2008. http://www.jbc.org/content/283/19/e11.full.html#ref-list-1
- Altman, Lawrence K. “Gertrude Elion, Drug Developer, Dies at 81.” New York Times, 1999. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/23/us/gertrude-elion-drug-developer-dies-at-81.html
Women who werk
New movie coming out about Mary Anning! https://variety.com/2018/film/news/kate-winslet-saoirse-ronan-ammonite-fossil-hunter-francis-lee-1203090106/
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“La Vie Boheme” by Rent
Cover Image
Courtesy of GlaxoSmithKline Inc. Heritage Center.
Monday Oct 29, 2018
Episode 021 - Margaret S. Collins | Entomologist
Monday Oct 29, 2018
Monday Oct 29, 2018
Alternate Title: Midtermites!
This week Emma tells Emlyn about the entomologist and civil rights activist (a.k.a. "the termite lady"), Dr. Margaret S. Collins, and Emlyn tells Emma about four female scientists running for office this November in IN, GA, VA, and NV!
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Sources
Main Story - Margaret S. Collins
- Black Women Scientists in the United States by Wini Warren.
- Carey, Charles W. "Collins, Margaret S. (1922–1996) Zoologist." African Americans in Science: An Encyclopedia of People and Progress, vol. 1, ABC-CLIO, 2008, pp. 51-52. Gale Virtual Reference Library,
- Child Prodigy, Pioneer Scientist, and Women and Civil Rights Advocate: Dr. Margaret James Strickland Collins (1922–1996) by Vernard R. Lewis. http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1653/024.099.0235
- Strickland, M. (1950), Differences in Toleration of Drying between Species of Termites (Reticulitermes). Ecology, 31: 373-385. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.2307%2F1931492
- Jensen’s AAAS Fellowship. Science 20 May 1977: Vol. 196, Issue 4292, pp. 832. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/196/4292/832.1/tab-article-info
- “Margaret Collins: Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, and Mentor” by Lisa Fthenakis, March 27, 2018. https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/margaret-collins-scholar-civil-rights-activist-and-mentor
Women who werk
Candidates:
- Edie Hardcastle: Democrat for Indiana State Senate, 49th district. http://hardcastle2018.com/
- Jasmine Clark: Democrat for Georgia House of Representatives, 108th district. https://www.jasmineclarkforgeorgia.com/
- Elaine Luria: Democrat for U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia’s 2nd district. https://elaineforcongress.com/
- Jacky Rosen: Democrat for U.S. Senate from Nevada. https://www.rosenfornevada.com/
Organization helping promote science-oriented candidates: http://www.314action.org/home/
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Cover art
Wikipedia
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Episode 019 - Edith Clarke | Electrical Engineer
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Alternate Title: She's Electric! Boogie woogie, woogie!
Emma tells Emlyn about the first female electrical engineer and National Inventor's Hall of Famer, Dr. Edith Clarke, and Emlyn tells Emma about the science of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford!
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Sources
Main Story - Edith Clarke
- From Computer to Electrical Engineer: The Remarkable Career of Edith Clarke by James Brittain (1985): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4321775
- Clarke’s patent for the Clark Calculator: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1552113A/en
- Short biography of Edith Clarke by General Electric: https://www.ge.com/reports/edith-clarke-mother-of-invention/
- Archived NY Times article about Edith’s first talk before the AIEE: https://www.nytimes.com/1926/02/09/archives/woman-addresses-electrical-institute-miss-edith-clarke-the-only-one.html
Women who werk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Blasey_Ford
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Cover art
Wikipedia
Monday Aug 20, 2018
Episode 016 - Roger Arliner Young | Marine Biologist
Monday Aug 20, 2018
Monday Aug 20, 2018
Alternate Title: Young and Just
Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in zoology and publish an article in Science, and Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Jess Wade, who wrote Wikipedia pages of 270+ female scientists!
Main Story - Roger Arliner Young
- The San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Women in Science: https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/young.html
- Zoologist Roger Arliner Young and the Politics of Respectability by Dr. Sara Diaz: https://www.aaihs.org/zoologist-roger-arliner-young-and-the-politics-of-respectability/
- Scientific American article by DNLee https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/roger-arliner-young-zoologist/
- Young, R.A. On the excretory apparatus in paramecium. Science. Vol 60, Issue 1550. Sep 12 1924
Women who werk
S/O this week to Dr. Jess Wade for writing the Wikipedia pages of 270+ female scientists this year! More about her work:
- https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jul/24/academic-writes-270-wikipedia-pages-year-female-scientists-noticed
- https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/27/health/scientist-women-wikipedia-entries-trnd/index.html
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Monday Jul 02, 2018
Episode 010 - Sally Ride | Physicist/Astronaut
Monday Jul 02, 2018
Monday Jul 02, 2018
Alternate Title: Ride Sally Ride!
Emma tells Emlyn about the first American woman and LGBTQ+ astronaut in space, Dr. Sally Ride, and Emlyn tells Emma about mammals going nocturnal and narwhal sounds!
Sources:
Main Story - Sally Ride
- Article by astronaut and engineer Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar: https://theconversation.com/astronaut-sally-k-rides-legacy-encouraging-young-women-to-embrace-science-and-engineering-97371
- Interview by Rebecca Wright for NASA in 2002: https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/RideSK/RideSK_10-22-02.htm
- Interview by Gloria Steinem in 1983 after Sally’s first space flight : https://blankonblank.org/interviews/sally-ride-space-shuttle-first-woman-space-nasa/#read-more
- Obituary in the NY Times by Denise Grady https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/science/space/sally-ride-trailblazing-astronaut-dies-at-61.html?pagewanted=all
- Article by Dr. Rhea Seddon: http://astronautrheaseddon.com/the-first-six-american-women-astronauts/
- Review and summary of Lynn Sherr’s book by Andrew Liptak: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-secret-life-of-sally-ride-the-first-american-woman-1586255004
- (Extra reading) Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sally-Ride/Lynn-Sherr/9781476725772
- Sally Ride Science Website: https://sallyridescience.ucsd.edu/about/
- Sally Ride’s UCSD research page: http://casswww.ucsd.edu/archive/personal/sride.html
Women who werk
Shoutout #1
- Gaynor, K. M., Hojnowski, C. E., Carter, N. H. & Brashares, J. S. The influence of human disturbance on wildlife nocturnality. Science 360, 1232–1235 (2018).
Shoutout #2
- Here’s what narwhals sound like underwater: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/what-narwhals-sound-underwater?tgt=nr
- Blackwell SB, Tervo OM, Conrad AS, Sinding MHS, Hansen RG, et al. (2018) Spatial and temporal patterns of sound production in East Greenland narwhals. PLOS ONE 13(6): e0198295. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198295
Music
“Mustang Sally” by Wilson Pickett
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Monday May 21, 2018
Episode 004 - Barbara McClintock | Cytogeneticist
Monday May 21, 2018
Monday May 21, 2018
Alternate Title: The A-MAIZE-ing Race
Emma tells Emlyn about the "Mother of Chromosomes," Barbara McClintock, and Emlyn tells Emma about the Bajau people and why male fruit flies like to mate. This episode gets a bit raunchy when we talk about fruit flies. You have been warned.
Sources:
Main Story - Barbara McClintock
-
A Feeling for the Organism by Evelyn Fox Keller
- The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control by Nathaniel C. Comfort
- The Barbara McClintock Papers - NIH https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/LL/p-nid/45
- Biography by Cold Spring Harbor Labs http://library.cshl.edu/sp/scientists/barbara_mcclintock/mcclintock_biography.html
- Biography by American National Biography http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1302550
Women who werk
Shoutout #1
- Larger spleens may help ‘sea nomads’ stay underwater longer: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/larger-spleens-help-bajau-divers-stay-underwater-longer?tgt=nr
- M. Ilardo et al. Physiological and genetic adaptations to diving in sea nomads. Cell. Published online April 19, 2018. doi:10/1016/j.cell.2018.03.054
Shoutout #2
- Male Fruit Flies Love to Cum, and Turn to Alcohol If They Can't: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43b87b/male-fruit-flies-love-to-cum-and-turn-to-alcohol-if-they-cant
- S. Zer-Krispil et al. Ejaculation induced by the activation of Crz neurons is rewarding to Drosophila males. Current Biology. Vol. 28, May 7, 2018. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.039.
Trivia
Article: “Almost a Fellow…” by the Royal Society
http://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2012/03/08/almost-a-fellow/
Monday May 14, 2018
Episode 003 - Lillian Moller Gilbreth | Engineer
Monday May 14, 2018
Monday May 14, 2018
Alternate Title: She Dozen Have it All
Emlyn tells Emma about the engineer who inspired "Cheaper by the Dozen," Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and Emma tells Emlyn about self-medicating orangutans and the winner of the NSF Waterman Award!
Sources
Main Story - Lillian Moller Gilbreth
- The Economist; Gurus; Frank and Lillian Gilbreth https://www.economist.com/node/12060343
- The management theory of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. https://www.business.com/articles/management-theory-of-frank-and-lillian-gilbreth/
- Remembering the Contributions of Engineer Lillian Gilbreth. http://alltogether.swe.org/2017/08/remembering-contributions-engineer-lillian-gilbreth/
- Feminist Voices, Profile: Lillian Gilbreth. https://www.feministvoices.com/lillian-gilbreth/
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth Pressed for Inclusion. https://womensenews.org/2009/09/lillian-moller-gilbreth-pressed-inclusion/
- Episode 59: Lillian Gilbreth. http://thehistorychicks.com/episode-59-lillian-gilbreth/
- Pictures from Frank and Lillian Gilbreth papers, MSP 7, Box 114, Folder 6, Courtesy Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries
Women who werk
- Orangutans use plant extracts to treat pain: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/orangutans-use-plant-extracts-to-treat-pain1/
- Kristina Olson wins NSF Waterman Award: https://www.washington.edu/news/2018/04/12/uws-kristina-olson-wins-nsf-waterman-award-for-studies-of-how-children-see-themselves-and-the-world/
Trivia
(no sources this week)