Just a reminder that the Wellington Wiki Meetup is happening this Saturday the 14th of March at 10am. We're meeting in the Te Kupenga room of the National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets. Hope to see Wellington folk there! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
This amazing scientific advance may one day lead to either more effective treatments or dare I say perhaps a cure.
This is why it is vitally important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimer’s Disease share.google/Vm0hfSMfkGIc...
28m podcast with my remarkable former colleague @drbfreeman.bsky.social taking with @sydney.edu.au VC Mark Scott on vaping & kids open.spotify.com/episode/0fHL... highly recommended
B&W photo of Annette sitting behind a desk with some engineering bits and bobs to set the scene. Titled "The first woman engineer to address the Incorpotated Society of Engineers Miss A Ashberry, AMSE"
Annette Ashberry worked @ Tongland car factory in 1920s. Set up & ran Atalanta Ltd womens' #engineering company, invented prize winning dishwashing machine. 1st woman elected to Society of Engineers (IET) @wes1919.bsky.social member b. #OTD 9 Mar 1894 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette... #WomenInSTEM
Maria Pastori in B&W headshot #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
Maria Pastori #Italian mathematician & teacher. From poor family, 1915 won scholarship to University of Pisa. Became Professor of Rational Mechanics at Univ of Milan, worked on differential calculus & application of mathematics to electromagnets b. #OTD 10 Mar 1895. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_P...
Mrs Ying Hsi Yuan at Women's Engineering Society's 1944 conference #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
Mrs Ying Hsi Yuan #Chinese #CivilEngineer 1930s trained @ #Peiping worked in bridge design in #China b4 taking postgrad degree @ Uni of Liverpool @livuninews.bsky.social in 1940s. Attended @wes1919.bsky.social 1944 conference & joined organisation. Later worked in #architecture in #HongKong
Marie Surcouf standing between ropes in balloon basket #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
Marie Surcouf balloonist feminist. 1906 1st French woman to earn aeronautical balloon pilot's license & to pilot balloon flight with all-woman crew. Set up La Stella women's aeronautical club when men tried to limit her ladies committee. d. #OTD 11 Mar 1928 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_S...
Why the USA can't afford anything.
This isn't getting a lot of media attention, but this is really really disgusting ... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
#supercars pile-up in lap 1 of just 14 in Melbourne
Australia Weekly COVID Update, 6 March 2026. TAS up +38.8%. QLD up +28.6% (33 in hospital). VIC up +20.0%. NSW up +7.2%. SA down -6.3%. WA down -8.0% (avg 19/day in hospital). ACT Health ended weekly reporting for 2025; will resume in autumn/winter 2026. NT no longer publishes COVID data. Aged care: The Australian Government no longer publishes weekly COVID-19 case data for residential aged care facilities.
AUSTRALIA Weekly COVID Update: 6 March 2026
🔹TAS: ⬆️ (+38.8%)
🔹QLD: ⬆️ (+28.6%) 33 in hospital
🔹VIC: ⬆️ (+20.0%)
🔹NSW: ⬆️ (+7.2%)
🔸SA: ⬇️ (-6.3%)
🔸WA: ⬇️ (-8.0%) Avg 19/day in hospital
🔹Aged Care: The Australian government ended weekly COVID-19 reporting.
I just donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, as suggested in the ABC article. Would've been nice if I could've added "In memory of MaryAnn Bin-Sallik" but I didn't see any opportunity to do so. donate.ilf.org.au Full disclosure: I created her #Wikipedia article back in 2018
Still (FREE) tickets available for our Women's History Month Wikipedia Workshop on 28 March - please share
#Perth #Scotland #WHM26
Thanks to this article, I went from "I must get my booster before winter" to "I will get my booster this week". So today, between meetings, I went to my local pharmacy as a walk-in. The entire process (including the precautionary hanging around afterwards) took 15 mins. Get to it Kiwis #nz
Screenshot of a Stuff news article dated March 4, 2026 titled “Covid hospitalisations climb as New Zealand enters new wave,” written by Rachel Powe. Below the headline is an illustration of several black coronavirus particles on a light background with diagonal yellow shapes.
New Zealand: COVID hospitalisations climb as the country enters a new wave.
COVID deaths are also rising as New Zealand enters its 9th wave.
Wastewater data shows cases are at their highest level in over 6 months
Source: archive.md/ij18m
Muriel Thompson in First Aid Nursing Yeomanry uniform #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
Muriel Thompson racing & ambulance driver, suffragist. Helped found Brooklands Automobile Racing Club. 1908 won 1st ladies motor race. Chauffeur 4 WSPU drove Emmeline Pankhurst on 1909 national tour. #WWI driver/mechanic in 1st Aid Nursing Yeomanry d. #OTD 3 Mar 1939 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_...
Marguarite Stocker in uniform
Marguerite EG Stocker apprentice engineer @ Galloway Engineering Co in #Tongland #Scotland which advertised professional training & was "a fine university for women engineers". Later Governor of HM Prison Askham Grange #Yorkshire 1959-67. b. #OTD 2 Mar 1901 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguer...
Frances V. Spence in 1980s
Frances V. Spence (née Bilas) 1 of original women 'Computers' or programmers for #ENIAC the 1st electronic digital computer. Its computational development was led by team of 6 women. She is considered 1 of 1st computer programmers in world. b. #OTD 2 Mar 1922 #WHM26 bit.ly/37PgCnS #WomenInSTEM
March is Women's History Month
Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances...
The emus didn't come to play: although many birds were killed during the war, the population persisted and continued to cause crop destruction in Australia.
Cartoon by Adam Zyglis | cagle.com/zyglis
Jackie Moggridge at young age in flying helmet and stripy jumper
Jackie Moggridge SA born UK pilot. @ 15 youngest SA woman pilot @ 17 1st woman in SA to parachute jump Moved to UK to train as commercial pilot #WWII flew 82 types of plane in #ATA 1st woman airline captain of scheduled passenger services b #OTD 1 Mar 1922 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_...
Important to understand the differences. Also, the Wicking Centre offer two MOOCs, Understanding Dementia and Preventing Dementia - both free and study at own pace mooc.utas.edu.au
Such great talents
Great photo - t-shirt in the snow! Arlene is now 81. You can read more about her on #Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene_...
“The design of a children's space is not a detail. It's cognitive stimulus, sensory invitation, and learning experience in formation.” #libraries
Read more about Nancy in her #Wikipedia bio en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_W...
B&W watercolour sketch of Clotilde Catalán de Ocón as a young woman. hair in 2 plaits tied with bows
Clotilde Catalán de Ocón #Spanish #entomologist #poet known for study of lepidoptera 🦋 in Sierra de Albarracín. 1st Spanish woman to practice #entomology Wrote poems as La Hija del Cabriel. Sister Blanca Catalán de Ocón 1st Spanish female botanist b. #OTD 1 Mar 1863 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotild...
