Thread by @royalsociety

Today, we are celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering & maths ow.ly/rR2u30fLxVd #AdaLovelaceDay

For #AdaLovelaceDay, we’ll be highlighting the many wonderful #womeninstem that help us understand the world today ow.ly/ehEe30fLzDU

Pratiwi Sudarmono is professor of microbiology @univ_indonesia & the first Indonesian astronaut ow.ly/Djsn30fzS5g #AdaLovelaceDay

Engineer @NaadiyaMoosajee co-founded @_WomEng, a non-profit developing next gen of female engineers ow.ly/Z06a30fuw0S #AdaLovelaceDay

.@sophiescott is a neuroscientist & @wellcometrust fellow @UCL. 2017 @Ri_Science Christmas lecturer ow.ly/hsjc30furN7 #AdaLovelaceDay

Tu Youyou is a pharmaceutical chemist, best known for her discovery of antimalarial artemisinin ow.ly/m2Qh30fucBA #AdaLovelaceDay

Cheryl Praeger is a maths prof @uwanews, foreign secretary @Science_Academy & past pres @AustMS ow.ly/xtUf30fujYm #AdaLovelaceDay

Astrophysicist @SheerPriya is known for her work in mapping dark matter & dark energy. Prof @Yale ow.ly/ltln30fzGpW #AdaLovelaceDay

Lebanese chemist Niveen Khashab is an associate prof @KAUST_New & 2017 laureates @Loreal -@UNESCO ow.ly/DZ6I30fw1a0 #AdaLovelaceDay

.@aimafidon is the founder & CEO @Stemettes - a social enterprise promoting women in #STEM careers ow.ly/T2M730fBq5o #AdaLovelaceDay

NZ physicist Ocean Mercier teaches & studies the interface of mātauranga Māori & science @VicUniWgtn ow.ly/AbkB30fuxVI #AdaLovelaceDay

Segenet Kelemu is Director-General of @ICIPE & won the 2014 @Loreal-@UNESCO Women in Science Award ow.ly/TJkl30fuDtR #AdaLovelaceDay

Particle accelerator physicist @suziesheehy is a science presenter & @royalsociety URF @UniofOxford ow.ly/ZtyL30fvYLf #AdaLovelaceDay

Kayo Inaba leads the Graduate School of Biostudies @univkyoto & Vice-President for Gender Equality ow.ly/ry2b30fw87s #AdaLovelaceDay

Jennifer Doudna, a professor at @UCBerkeley & director @igisci, is the co-inventor of #CRISPR ow.ly/VOqx30fudIK #AdaLovelaceDay

Lihadh Al-Gazali is a clinical geneticist identifying new inherited disorders in Arab populations ow.ly/uU5930fzw1s #AdaLovelaceDay

Ann Chapman was a limnologist & the first woman to lead a scientific expedition to Antarctica ow.ly/vULX30fzPUd #AdaLovelaceDay

Francisca Nneka Okeke is a Nigerian scientist & first female head of a department @unn_tweets ow.ly/4kgo30fwaER #AdaLovelaceDay

Carme Torras Genís is a Spanish computer scientist who has contributed to research on robotics & #AI ow.ly/QHDf30fzBjh #AdaLovelaceDay

Biodiversity scientist @aguribfakim is the first woman to be elected as President of Mauritius ow.ly/ELb8309Fouu #AdaLovelaceDay

Asima Chatterjee, a pioneering organic chemist, was the 1st Indian woman to gain a science doctorate ow.ly/sgH830fud9X #AdaLovelaceDay

Mazlan Othman is Malaysia’s first astrophysicist & founding director of the Malaysian Space Agency ow.ly/WaK2309FPkO #AdaLovelaceDay

Kate Hutton, nicknamed Earthquake Kate, is a seismologist @Caltech & science educator ow.ly/9aor30fzXnc #AdaLovelaceDay

Argentine biochemist Cecilia Bouzat researches the nervous system & how the brain cells communicate ow.ly/HcsT30fw7zJ #AdaLovelaceDay

Alenush Terian was an Iranian-Armenian physicist, known as the 'Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy' ow.ly/rZLk30fzEgf #AdaLovelaceDay

Aurore Avarguès-Weber is a French cognitive neuroscientist researching the behaviour of bees @CNRS ow.ly/2XV330fzICp #AdaLovelaceDay

Molecular biologist @DrHalfPintBuddy is the founder of @STEMWomen & science writer @The_MRC ow.ly/eEux30fw0di #AdaLovelaceDay

Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi is a Nigerian environmental biochemist, soil scientist & toxicologist ow.ly/VCRK30fw8Ks #AdaLovelaceDay

Irene Ng Oi Lin was awarded @TWASnews prize in medical sciences for her research into liver cancer ow.ly/90Iv30fzUTx #AdaLovelaceDay

Paediatric neurologist @ingridscheffer has made major advances in the field of epilepsy research ow.ly/aU3J30fwodA #AdaLovelaceDay

Khatijah Mohamad Yusoff is a microbiology prof @uputramalaysia & won @UNESCO Carlos J. Finlay Prize ow.ly/MKq230fusNr #AdaLovelaceDay

Anatomist Vera Danchakoff was a pioneer in stem cell research & first woman in Russia to be appointed as a professor #AdaLovelaceDay

Engineer @AnoushehAnsari was the first Iranian in space in 2006 & first self-funded woman to fly to @Space_Station #AdaLovelaceDay

Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka is a leading conservationist working to save endangered mountain gorillas ow.ly/TfPt309FJFV #AdaLovelaceDay

Brazilian physicist Márcia Barbosa is a prof @ufrgsnoticias & researches the properties of water ow.ly/PG3130fwfgd #AdaLovelaceDay

Hong Kong chemist Prof Vivian Wing-Wah Yam researches innovative ways of capturing solar energy ow.ly/HqGy30fznod #AdaLovelaceDay

.@JedidahIslerPhD is the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in Astrophysics @Yale ow.ly/CLab30fuHC3 #AdaLovelaceDay

Mathematician Dk Najibah Era Al-Sufri is the first Bruneian to have reached the South Pole ow.ly/ArkA308NTh0 #AdaLovelaceDay

Ynes Mexia was a Mexican-American botanist who discovered 2 new plant genera & 500 new plant species ow.ly/lzju30fw0qm #AdaLovelaceDay

Karimat El-Sayed is an Egyptian academic, crystallographer, & proponent of women's education ow.ly/JKda30fzyep #AdaLovelaceDay

.@MediciPatricia leads the longest running conservation project to protect the threatened tapir ow.ly/m7xG30fuIfU #AdaLovelaceDay

Hibah Rahmani is an avionics & flight controls engineer @NASA working on Launch Services Programme ow.ly/jGer30fuhU9 #AdaLovelaceDay

Canadian inventor @annmakosinski created the hollow flashlight & won 2013 (15-16) @googlescifair ow.ly/LDMc30fuuzw #AdaLovelaceDay

Idah Sithole-Niang, a biochemist & educator @UZimbabwe, researches viruses which attack cowpea ow.ly/rHwO30fuf1U #AdaLovelaceDay

Palaeontologist @DrShaena, former Newton International Fellow, runs outreach prog Dinosaur Doctors ow.ly/mAlf30fuITO #AdaLovelaceDay

French molecular biologist Catherine Feuillet was the first scientist to map the wheat chromosome 3B ow.ly/OBr130fzJGo #AdaLovelaceDay

Thaisa Storchi Bergmann, a Brazilian astrophysicist @ufrgsnoticias, won 2015 @Loreal -@UNESCO award ow.ly/BEls30fw7ee #AdaLovelaceDay

Mathematician Mary Jackson became @NASA 's first black female aerospace engineer in 1958 ow.ly/soEx30fuGxp #AdaLovelaceDay

Palaeontologist Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini discovered the fossils of the dinosaur Gasparinisaura ow.ly/QeqT308NBlm #AdaLovelaceDay

Dr @margagual is a biologist & senior project director, Centre for Science Diplomacy @AAAS @SciDip ow.ly/bzpf30fvZ7Y #AdaLovelaceDay

.@osnatpenn is an Israeli computational biologist & researches the genetic origins of autism ow.ly/Qse230fwa9A #AdaLovelaceDay

US molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler is a prof @Princeton & was awarded a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship ow.ly/QgKJ30fwgpe #AdaLovelaceDay

Nashwa Eassa, a nanoparticle physicist at Al-Neelain Uni & founder of Sudanese Women in Sciences ow.ly/50Op30fur2R #AdaLovelaceDay

Portuguese astrobiologist @ZitaMartins is a science communicator/ @royalsociety URF @imperialcollege ow.ly/10ef30fuJzi #AdaLovelaceDay

Follow our feed throughout this evening to discover more #womeninscience from across the globe ow.ly/rR2u30fLxVd #AdaLovelaceDay