
Deputy editorial director @MIT News; author of CARBON QUEEN; creator of @LegoNASAwomen, @LegoCSwomen. Tweets = my views. She/her
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It's here!!! Such an incredible moment... 😭 THANK YOU to everyone who helped make #CarbonQueen possible and who supported me along the way. This is for Millie and for all of you ❤️💖❤️
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🧵/ This #NationalSTEMDay, we're celebrating those who have been historically excluded from the STEM fields and making immeasurable contributions toward inclusion and, of course, science. Join us in celebrating with some of our latest books championing women in #STEM.
Go for launch! Wishing you the best, #MissionToPsyche 🚀
MECO! What a beautiful launch... Congrats, @ltelkins and the entire @MissionToPsyche team... Can't wait for the science to begin!
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My book, Breaking Through, is out today! Join me on a deeply personal journey as I share my triumphs, failures, and discoveries that have revolutionized the field of mRNA. @crownpublishing penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
Congrats, @PikaGoldin! Only the third woman ever to win this prize and wow, is her work deserving. 👏🏻
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”
#NobelPrize
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Mohammadi studied physics at Imam Khomeini International University in the 1990s and becomes the third physicist to win the Nobel Peace Prize, click below to read more ow.ly/SPfh50PUxLV
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Congratulations to Prof. Moungi Bawendi of @ChemistryMIT — newly minted Nobel laureate in chemistry! 🏅
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”
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I received sad news that Mary Beth Ruskai passed away Sept. 27, 2023 at her home in Vermont. She was a titan of quantum information & mathematical physics, most known for her joint proof of strong subadditivity of quantum entropy. She was a strong promoter of women in science.
Anne L’Huillier is now the 5th woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, sharing w/2 others for work to “generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.” (She’s also just the 2nd woman to win the Wolf Prize in Physics after CS Wu in 1978.) Congrats!
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“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.”
Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó (@kkariko) told us how much it means to be awarded the Nobel Prize after a scientific career that has been full of challenges.
Ten years ago, Karikó was still doing all her experiments by hand but today she has been awarded the medicine prize for her research on mRNA, which led to the development of COVID-19 vaccines.
Listen now:
No one more deserving: Congrats to @kkariko for persisting beyond those who doubted you and for helping to save millions of lives with the mRNA covid vaccines! Absolute legend is now a Nobel laureate 🏅 #womeninSTEM
Very nice profile from @Carolynyjohnson on the great @kkariko, newly minted Nobel laureate washingtonpost.com/health/20…
The #IfThenSheCan project has come to MIT for the @CambSciFest! Especially pleased to see Dr. Shirley Malcolm, who taught us about the double bind.
New editions are now available for CARBON QUEEN, my biography of Millie Dresselhaus: Korean language and (English) audiobook! Simplified Chinese coming in December #histstm maiaw.com/home/carbon-queen-…
Rocked out at Fenway tonight with @Pink ⚡
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Deborah Chung of @UBengineering recalls upbringing in Hong Kong, amorphous materials @Caltech, the greatness of Millie Dresselhaus @ScienceMIT, shift to applications @CmuScience, building the Composite Materials Lab, and the origins of Smart Concrete
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Welcome to Boston, Metsies! See you when the skies clear up. #lgm
RIP Evelyn Boyd Granville, who had a remarkable career in mathematics and was another "computer" who contributed to the space program via her work at IBM and N. American Aviation washingtonpost.com/obituarie…
Greetings from @LifeAtPurdue 🚂 Enjoyed speaking with some talented biochemistry @SSPers about science communication! And nice to see statues of Amelia Earhart and France Córdova gracing the campus :-)





























