passim in passing

Hello! This is a crosspost from our TrowelBlazers guest spot over on the British Geological Society's blog . Mary Anning, trowelblazer Thinking geology? Thinking science? Thinking crinolines, bonnets, and muddy skirts? Probably not! However, if you discount the damsels in the discipline, you actually lose quite a bit of history-and that's what our project 'TrowelBlazers' is all about. We're a small collective of researchers who got a bit bored with the hoary old pictures of the great and good in science, and started looking around for some of the unsung (or just amazing) heroines  of the digging fields - archaeology, palaeontology, and, of course, geology . We started the TrowelBlazers site and put out the call for people to nominate  trowelblazing women. After just a few months, we've had 50 posts, many of which were submitted by guest posters who have direct links to the women they are writing about. Official Wikimedian sticker and pin With the