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Hi everyone! A little late for national Indigenous day in the USA, but today we are talking about Dr. Gladys Iola Tantaquidgeon, who was a Mohegan medicine woman, anthropologist, author, tribal council member, and elder. She was devoted to help minoritized women as well, so we think she was one of the first Steministas! Shoutout to the Smithsonian Instagram, who inspired this podcast episode. Also check out the Google website today, which is in honor of an Indigenous person, We:wa, a Zuni Native American who didn't identify with traditional gender definitions. So many more amazing people to research! References https://www.mohegan.nsn.us/explore/heritage/memoriam/medicine-woman-gladys-tantaquidgeon-memorial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Tantaquidgeon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelia_Fielding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Dance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Dance https://connecticuthistory.org/gladys-tantaquidgeon-preserves-the-states-native-past/ https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/us/gladys-tantaquidgeon-106-mohegans-medicine-woman.html https://womenshistory.si.edu/herstory/object/gladys-tantaquidgeon https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/biography/gladys-tantaquidgeon/

Little is known about Trota of Salerno - and some of what is may be false! What is true: she was a medical practitioner in the 11th and 12th centuries and wrotePractica Secundum Trotam (Book of Practical Medicine). What is false: she did not write theTrotula! Listen in to this episode to learn more facts and misinformation about Trota. References Benton, John F. “Trotula, Women’s Problems, and the Professionalization of Medicine in the Middle Ages. [https://authors.library.caltech.edu/16446/1/HumsWP-0098.pdf]” Humanities Working Paper 98 (November 1984). Green, Monica. “Women’s Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe. [https://sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net/10.1086/494516]” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14, no. 2 (Winter 1989): 434-473. Green, Monica H. “The Development of the Trotula. [https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/rht_0373-6075_1996_num_26_1996_1441.pdf]” Revue d'histoire des textes 26 (1996): 119-203. Green, Monica H. “Who/What is ‘Trotula’? [https://www.academia.edu/4558706/Monica_H._Green_WHO_WHAT_IS_TROTULA_2015]” Academia.edu. 2015.

Hi everyone, it's been a while again. Oh boy we've been busy. I bet you were too! We're back though with a new episode, this time a German/Swiss naturalist, entomologist (one of the first) and botanical illustrator. Because of her we now know that insects don't just spontaneously emerge from poop. She also...you won't believe it, is responsible for coining the name (we think) Vogelspinne, which means tarantula in German! She was a world traveler and appeared to be good hearted, always acknowledging the people she talked to and who helped her out with her discoveries, no matter their rank. References https://www.botanicalartandartists.com/about-maria-sibylla-merian.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/science/maria-sibylla-merian-metamorphosis-insectorum-surinamensium.html https://nmwa.org/art/artists/maria-sibylla-merian/ https://nmwa.org/art/collection/plate-47-dissertation-insect-generations-and-metamorphosis-surinam/ https://nybooks.com/articles/2014/03/06/darwin-einstein-case-for-blunders/ https://www.sierracollege.edu/ejournals/jscnhm/v6n1/merian.html https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/maria-sibylla-merian-metamorphosis-art-and-science.html https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/the-woman-who-made-science-beautiful/424620/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sibylla_Merian

Instead of covering a specific woman in STEM this week, Ellen and Susi discuss the Matilda Effect. The Matilda Effect, coined by Margaret Rossiter in 1993, is the phenomenon where women in STEM are under- or unrecognized for their contributions to STEM fields. Listen in to learn more about this phenomenon, and who Matilda is. References Dominus, Susan. “Women Scientists Were Written Out Of History. It’s Margaret Rossiter’s Lifelong Mission to Fix That. [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/unheralded-women-scientists-finally-getting-their-due-180973082/]” Smithsonian Magazine, October 2019. Gage, Matilda Joslyn. “Woman as an Inventor. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25118273.pdf]” The North American Review 136, no. 318 (May 1883): 478-489. Lincoln, Anne E., Stephanie Pincus, Janet Bandows Koster and Phoebe S. Leboy. “The Matilda Effect in Science: Awards and Prizes in the US, 1990s and 2000s. [https://eswnonline.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/23-b28d66b6400f67d9648a049f8faf44e0/2015/05/Lincoln2012-The-Matilda-Effect.pdf]” Social Studies of Science 42, no. 2 (February 20, 2012): 307-320. Merton, Robert K. “The Matthew Effect in Science: The Reward and Communication Systems of Science are Considered. [https://sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net/10.1126/science.159.3810.56]” Science 159 (January 5, 1968): 56-63. Merton, Robert K. “The Matthew Effect in Science, II: Cumulative Advantage and Symbolism of Intellectual Property. [http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/merton/matthewii.pdf]” Isis 79 (1988): 606-623. Rossiter, Margaret W. “The Matthew Matilda Effect in Science. [https://sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net/10.1177/030631293023002004]” Social Studies of Science 23 (May 1, 1993): 325-341.

Hi everybody, we're back with a new episode on one of my favorite woman we've covered so far, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkins. Dorothy discovered the 3D structure of penicillin and many essential biomolecules. Penicillin is an antibiotic that was discovered in fungi, which saved many lives, especially during the war. Dorothy's whole family is fascinating, we hope you enjoy her story as much as we did. Also check out the Netflix mushroom documentary Fantastic Fungi [https://www.netflix.com/title/81183477]!!! References https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/leading-figures/dorothy-hodgkin-the-woman-who-saw-penicillin/ [https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/leading-figures/dorothy-hodgkin-the-woman-who-saw-penicillin/] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-lactam [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-lactam] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1964/hodgkin/biographical/ [https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1964/hodgkin/biographical/] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dorothy-Hodgkin [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dorothy-Hodgkin] https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/grants/dorothy-hodgkin-fellowship/ [https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/grants/dorothy-hodgkin-fellowship/]