So #WomeninScience.. who's up for a thread of our Scottish foremothers who were STEM sheroes? 1st up let's have engineer Dorothee Pullinger who oversaw munitions factories during WWI & went on to design a car for women which she put into production in her own factory. Go Dot! /1

Poster girl for #WomeninScienceDay - Mary Somerville joint 1st female member of the Royal Astronomical Soc. Her work formed the backbone of the1st science curriculum at Cambridge Uni. What I love about her most is that she refused sugar in her tea as a child cos slavery. /2

Mathematicians & sisters Jane & Flora Sang did a pioneering work on logarithmic tables originally credited to this guyEdward (their dad) It wasn't until 1874 they were honoured by @news_RSE as the originators. So many women disappear into their menfolks biographies. Sheesh! /3

Isabella Gordon was a marine biologist who was the 1st woman member of staff @britishmuseum . She was an expert on crustaceans who met Emperor Hirohito when she travelled for work in Japan. Honestly, we have loads of women who were pioneers like this during the 20th century. /4

Also inventors. Mrs Lovi's balls were glass beads that determined the gravity of liquids. In the early 19th century they were used in the bleaching, distilling and dairy industries. Yet nobody has ever heard of Mrs Lovi, who lived in Edinburgh during the enlightenment. Bah! /5

How about mathematician Marian Gray whose calculations about network theory are still used today and have practical applications all over the place including mobile phone masts. She went to work at AT&T in the US cos she was a genius, basically. /6

And I haven't touched yet on our amazing history of female medics. Elsie inglis, who founded the Scottish Women's Hospitals in WWI, thus saving thousands of lives. Elsie was a POW at one point, was released and *walked across the Alps to freedom*. Some quine. /7

Here's a thread I did about historical lesbians in STEM /8 https://twitter.com/sarasheridan/status/1147094599388844032

Obviously I wrote a book. When I started I honestly didn't know I was gong to find *so many of our amazing grannies* We have a huge female legacy which we don't credit nearly enough. Generation on generation of women who achieved and were forgotten. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-are-Women-Imagined-Scotland/dp/1849172730/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=where+are+the+women&qid=1581415199&sr=8-1

Bonus Scottish #WomenInScience Botanist, Ursula Duncan who won the Linnean Society's Bloomer Medal. She loved lichens esp and created an extensive herbarium which she donated on her death to Dundee University. Honestly, we have hunners of these talented women in our history. /10

Please feel free to add your favourite female scientific talents to this thread. We are not short but I need to get back to writing the novel I'm working on... I simply couldn't resist a sneaky wee thread in memoriam tho. You know me.