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Ainissa Ramirez, PhD
@ainissaramirez.bsky.social
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Scientist. Speaker. Writer. #Kidlit #Picturebook
OUT NOW⚡SPARK: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone via @mitpress.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/SPARKbk 🎤
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Ainissa Ramirez, PhD @ainissaramirez.bsky.social · Oct 21
Happy #BookBirthday to SPARK! 🎉
Out now via @mitpress.bsky.social 🥳

📕 bit.ly/SPARKbk
Give the gift of #science 🔎

Book 1 in the Black Innovator series 🎤

#science #booksky #Blacksky #SciArt #WomeninSTEM 🧪
#sciencenews #STEM #STEMforkids #picturebooks #kidlit
ainissaramirez.bsky.social
I enjoyed talking about my new book, SPARK, at the @ncte.org conference in Denver 💫

A big thank you to my fellow panelists, @moyuksel.bsky.social, @mcusolito.bsky.social, @alisongreenmyers.bsky.social, and @macappiello.bsky.social 🤓

@mitpress.bsky.social #ncte #kidsbooks #booksky #kidlit
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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physicstoday.bsky.social
Climate physicist @drkatemarvel.bsky.social probed the mysteries of the cosmos as an astrophysicist before shifting to climate modeling because, she says, she is drawn by questions that are big and expansive but also relevant. #physics #climatescience #astronomy
Q&A: Kate Marvel on the physics and emotions of climate change
The astrophysicist turned climate physicist connects science with people through math and language.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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tigerkitty.bsky.social
Margaret Ellen Mayo Tolbert (born November 24, 1943) is a biochemist who served as director of the New Brunswick Laboratory, becoming first African American and first woman in charge of a Department of Energy lab #stem #BlackinSTEM #WomeninSTEM #BlackWomenSTEM edu.lva.virginia.gov/changemakers...
Margaret Ellen Mayo Tolbert · Virginia Changemakers
Site for VWIH, SMW, AAT
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November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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ainissaramirez.bsky.social
I got the chance to listen to one of my heroes at the @ncte.org Denver conference this weekend: Ruth Simmons.

She’s very cleared eyed about how universities should operate in these times. Very inspiring.

#ncteconference #education #teachers #Blacksky #inspiration
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
ainissaramirez.bsky.social
I got the chance to listen to one of my heroes at the @ncte.org Denver conference this weekend: Ruth Simmons.

She’s very cleared eyed about how universities should operate in these times. Very inspiring.

#ncteconference #education #teachers #Blacksky #inspiration
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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This sweatshirt gets me 🤓 At @ncte.org conference in Denver

#ncteconference #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #science #booksky @mitpress.bsky.social #STEMforkids #STEAMforkids
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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ellenhokanson.bsky.social
@scbwirockymtn.bsky.social
If you’re at #ncte this year, here’s a roundup of censorship-related sessions.

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November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
ainissaramirez.bsky.social
This sweatshirt gets me 🤓 At @ncte.org conference in Denver

#ncteconference #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #science #booksky @mitpress.bsky.social #STEMforkids #STEAMforkids
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
ainissaramirez.bsky.social
SATURDAY AFTERNOON at the @ncte.org conference in Denver 💫

Come say Hi to me and my fellow panelists, @mcusolito.bsky.social, @mnewsome.bsky.social, and @lesliebarnardbooth.bsky.social!

#ncteconference2025 #nctedenver #science #booksky #teachers #kidsbooks #picturebooks #kidlit
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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#BlackInNeuro has supported marginalized neuroscientists for 5️⃣ years!! ✨

We have gorgeous limited-edition pins 😍 for $15 donations to support BIN programming ❤️ blackinneuro.com/donate

I can mail it to you or if you just want to donate, I’ll give your pin to trainees at #ABRCMS 🤗

Please share 🙌🏾✨
A black hand with red nails holding a Black In Neuro 5 year pin against a white linen background. The pin is a gorgeous gold laurel wreath with the original Black In Neuro logo on top and the big gold glittery 5 on the bottom
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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macappiello.bsky.social
Come join us on Saturday morning! #ncte2025
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM
ainissaramirez.bsky.social
Getting ready for the @ncte.org conference in Denver.

SPARK. ✔️
Lab coat. ✔️
Yes, I’m bringing my lab coat.

#ncte #science #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #booksky #kidlit #picturebooks #kidsbooks #booksky #newbook #teachers @mitpress.bsky.social #sciart #STEM #STEAM
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
ainissaramirez.bsky.social
Looking forward to this @ncte.org panel and meeting all of the panelists 💫

@macappiello.bsky.social
@moyuksel.bsky.social
@mcusolito.bsky.social
@pamismylmnop.bsky.social

#kidsbooks #picturebooks #sciencebooks #scienceforkids #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #science #booksky #ncte #STEM
November 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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physicsworld.bsky.social
In this podcast we chat about the physics of coffee making, ponytails, toilet flushes and much more from the book Physics Around the Clock 🧪⚛️. ow.ly/5STm50Xtv0y
Better coffee, easier parking and more: the fascinating physics of daily life – Physics World
The author of Physics Around the Clock is our podcast guest
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November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
ainissaramirez.bsky.social
Heading to the @ncte.org conference!

Excited to meet other Candlewick authors 🤓

@dowphumiruk.bsky.social
@suma-subramaniam.bsky.social
@mrschureads.bsky.social
@fangmousbooks.bsky.social
@patricknessbooks.bsky.social
@allanwolf100.bsky.social

#picturebooks #kidlit #BookSky #kidbooks #ncte
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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hiddenherstory.bsky.social
Ellen Gleditsch worked with Marie Curie, established radium's half-life, proved isotopes exist, then became Norway's 2nd female professor in 1929. During WWII she hid scientists in her home. What modern scientist inspires you most? #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
ainissaramirez.bsky.social
Wow! What an honor! I LOVE Ms. Frizzle 🤓

#booksky #kidsbooks #picturebooks #science #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #STEM #STEAM
lifeontamiami.bsky.social Kathleen Lowry @lifeontamiami.bsky.social · 12d
PSA! The Verse Show's interview with @ainissaramirez.bsky.social should come with the warning "YOU WILL WANT TO BUY ALL HER BOOKS!"

Ainissa sounds like a real life Miss.Frizzle and I can't wait for all her books to be available!

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Ainissa Ramirez's SPARK!
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November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
ainissaramirez.bsky.social
TOMORROW at the Yale Peabody Museum.

I'll be talking about my latest book, SPARK, and doing fun science activities.

Hope to see you there!

#science #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #makesciencefun #scienceteacher #scientist #STEM #BlackinSTEM
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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#womeninstem #womeninscience

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November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
ainissaramirez.bsky.social
Sending SPARK to my beloved Marion Branch library in Jersey City. I spent lots of time at this storefront library after school 🥰

📗 bit.ly/SPARKbk

#science #kidsbooks #picturebooks #JerseyCIty #Blacksky #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #librarylove @mitpress.bsky.social #Booksky #SciArt #libarian #scienceteacher
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
Dorothy Vaughan | NASA mathematician, programmer & manager died #OTD in 2008

First Black female supervisor at NACA (precursor to NASA), expert programmer, Scout Launch Vehicle Program contributor & more. #WomenInSTEM

Learn more about this "Hidden Figure:" nasa.gov/people/dorot...
Black-and-white photo of Dorothy Vaughan in front of an IBM machine (computer maybe?). She is smiling, her hair is up, and she is wearing a sleeveless dress with a multistrand of pearls. Headshot of Dorothy Vaughan in later life.
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Lost Unix v4 Possibly Recovered on a Forgotten Bell Labs Tape From 1973

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0528258/lost-unix-v4-possibly-recovered-on-a-forgotten-bell-labs-tape-from-1973?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Lost Unix v4 Possibly Recovered on a Forgotten Bell Labs Tape From 1973
"A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years," reports The Register. And the software librarian at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, Al Kossow of Bitsavers, believes the tape "has a pretty good chance of being reco...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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SATURDAY: #STEAM Family Adventure with me at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford!

Create a color wheel to explore the science of light and enjoy a special reading of SPARK: Jim West’s Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone 🎤

Hope to see you there!

www.thewadsworth.org/event/second...
Second Saturdays for Families: STEAM Adventures October 3, 2025 | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
11am–2pm activities | Free admission all day Celebrate National STEAM Day and discover what happens when art and science collide! Create a color wheel to
www.thewadsworth.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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jashar.bsky.social
“I don’t think we should write for the market. Your imagination is too important to the world to constrain it to what’s going on right now...”
-Ainissa Ramirez, author of SPARK!
from You May Contribute A Verse podcast
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-jx3qk-...
Ainissa Ramirez's SPARK!
Ainissa Ramirez has something in common with the subject of her debut picture book, Jim West, inventor of the microphone: the passion, the drive, and the creative spark to turn her commitment into her...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
ainissaramirez.bsky.social
SATURDAY: #STEAM Family Adventure with me at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford!

Create a color wheel to explore the science of light and enjoy a special reading of SPARK: Jim West’s Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone 🎤

Hope to see you there!

www.thewadsworth.org/event/second...
Second Saturdays for Families: STEAM Adventures October 3, 2025 | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
11am–2pm activities | Free admission all day Celebrate National STEAM Day and discover what happens when art and science collide! Create a color wheel to
www.thewadsworth.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM