A Passion for Science: Stories of Discovery and Invention - now with 100% more #trowelblazing

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Well as you may have guessed from the slightly OTT twitter/facebookage, we at @TrowelBlazers Towers (shout out to Drs Wragg-Sykes, Birch, and Herridge!) are so excited to have a chapter in the excellent new book 'A Passion for Science: Stories of Discovery and Invention'.

Suw Charman-Anderson (@Suw) is the driving force behind the truly inspirational Finding Ada project. It's all about recognizing the contributions of women scientists, and hopefully demonstrating that sisters are not only capable of doing it for themselves, but they've been doing it for a lot longer than you thought. I mean, Georgian-countess-computer-programmer longer than you thought.

you can read some of Suw's thoughts on the project in today's Guardian or you can just read the book!

And if you like what Team TrowelBlazers has put together, you will love the awesome network diagram of our women in the #trowelblazing sciences (mad props to @ToriHerridge) !

By Tori Herridge, available to download here.

Available exclusively through the Finding Ada Project site here, and you get 25% off with promo code 'ALDbook'



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