Ele Willoughby
Artist/marine geophysicist (PhD Physics)
Printmaker
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minouette.Etsy.com
minouette.blogspot.ca
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I post art, science, #sciart and stuff with typos. She/her, Settler in Tkaronto 🇨🇦
- Manitoba for #ManitobaDay
- Happy birthday to x-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (née Crowfoot, 1910-1994), Nobel laureate in chemistry for her models of biomolecules like penicillin, vitamin B12 & insulin. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬 #histsci She was “captured for life by chemistry and crystals," in childhood, 1 of 2 girls 🧵
- Happy birthday to #mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)! 🐡🧪👩🏻🔬🧮 #histsci The Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious #math awards, is awarded to mathematicians < 40. In 2014, she became 1st woman to win. Her research included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, & 🧵
- The loggerhead shrike, endemic to North America, is also known as the butcherbird for its carnivorous tendencies and habit of ostentatiously displaying stored prey dramatically impaled on convenient spikes like tree thorns or barbed wire. 🧪🐡🪶Its usual prey are insects, amphibians, lizards, small 🧵
- A piece for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination about who decides what gets pollinated if humans and our devices are the only pollinators. 🐡🧪 The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in our human biases. 🧵
