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Martha Jones of Amelia County, Virginia, might have been the first black woman to receive a US patent. She invented an improved corn husking/shelling device. Her patent application also included information on how the separated husks could be put to good use. ipwatchdog.com/2021/02/01/b...

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Bessie Blount Griffin worked as a physical therapist after World War II. She invented en electric feeding tube so that patients without arms could feed themselves. She earned two patents. Later she worked as an expert handwriting analyst assisting police departments. www.aetv.com/real-crime/b...

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If any "geniuses from MIT" aspire to be air traffic controllers and apply to the FAA I hope they aren't white. It is disappointing that this article left out that if cabinet heads don't fire enough people, Musk will anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

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Prior to the Murphy Bed there was Sarah Goode's folding cabinet bed. It folded into a roll-top desk! Goode was granted the patent in 1885 and the bed was something she and her carpenter husband sold in their Chicago furniture store. www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/w...

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Home heating has changed a lot over the years. One major innovation was being able to use gas for heat instead of wood or coal. The patent for a 1919 gas furnace was awarded to Alice Parker, a woman from Morristown, NJ. www.standardheating.com/blog/2025/ja...

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Do you like juice? The first juicer was invented by a black woman named Madeline Turner. Turner's Fruit Press was patented in 1916, serving as another example that women's history affects us all. www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

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If you've ever used a ventilated synthetic bristle hairbrush you can thank Lyda Newman. Newman patented the idea in 1898 when she was only 13. She was only the third black woman to receive a patent. She was also an organizer in the Suffrage movement. www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

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Women's History is for all of us. Do you know anyone who has needed cataract surgery? It became more precise and less painful thanks to the Laserphaco Probe invented in the 1980s by Dr. Patricia Bath. She helped prevent blindness and restored sight when possible. www.biography.com/scientists/p...

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For those of us around the world with looming deadlines & unable to access #Pubmed for many hours, remember there are alternatives. Try searching for papers on #ResearchGate or #GoogleScholar for eg. Hoping this is a temporary situation. Reminded of this just now by my science partner - bless him. 🧪

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Women's History is rich with diversity. You might not like using her invention, yet the ironing board patented by Sarah Boone in 1892 was a huge improvement over planks and helped her dressmaking business. www.biography.com/inventors/sa...

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So disgusting and embarrassing. The ethical code of conduct of the Executive Branch employees is almost 100 pages, and he violates every one of them. www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u...

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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

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This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress appointed him as the first Postmaster General.

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TWO WEEKS UNTIL #STANDUPFORSCIENCE2025! 📣☀️🌎

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This judge is doing it right and defending our service members.

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#Science 🧪 isn't something you can just pause and restart. When research funding is cut, we don’t just lose time, we lose entire generations of scientists 👩‍🔬. And once that happens, recovery isn’t as simple as training new students. A real story: 👇🧵

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"We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay." - Lynda Barry, WHAT IT IS

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