Ele Willoughby, PhD

Happy birthday to Caroline Herschel (1750 –1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. Hers was a real life Cinderella story where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage was her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant & purposely stood in the way of her learning 🧵

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#printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #astronomer #histsci

My son spontaneously started this project where he’s claiming otherwise unclaimed days and declaring an animal awareness day for unusual and lesser known animals. (You can follow along on Bluesky.)

It’s got me thinking about lesser known animals in my portfolio, like this wandering anemone. Phlyctenactis tuberculosa, the wandering sea anemone or swimming anemone, is a species of venomous sea anemone 🧵1/

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1753886726

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #invertebrate #wanderingAnemone

For #InternationalWomensDay I’m sharing my ongoing series of women in science through history. I’m now at 79.

Here’s to the day a scientist’s sex is no longer remarkable in any field.

Since last year I have added these 12 #linocut prints.

#sciart #histsci #linocut #printmaking

Happy birthday to Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922-2004), a #mathematician who overcame personal tragedy, faced Soviet totalitarianism & the catastrophic political upheaval of the 20th century to make a huge impact on the math, making important contributions to study of partial differential equations (PDEs). She changed the way PDEs are examined & popularized the notion of weak solutions (which satisfy the equations but may not be differentiable).🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4448674156

#linocut #sciart #womenInSTEM

For the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt angle, my #linocut of astronomer Elisabeth Koopmann-Hevelius (1647-1693) using a brass sextant to make astronomical observations & some of the new constellations her husband Johannes Hevelius named based on their observations, & she published in Prodromus Astronomiae ('Elements of Astronomy'), in 1690, after he had died. I am highlighting the Lynx constellation, 🧵1/

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#womenInSTEM #histsci #astronomy #mastoArt

Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer.

What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), 🧵1/

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#geographer #geography #histstm #sciart #linocut #printmaking #mapart #maps #Mercator

A throwback for World Rat Day from my collection of Chinese Zodiac prints.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/12606503

#Rat #WorldRatDay #ChineseZodiac #linocut #printmaking

My polar bear and aurora lightbox for #InterNationalPolarBearDay, a day to focus conservation efforts for these magnificent animals who face habit loss under climate change.

This multimedia light box combines my hand-printed linocut polar bear and aurora print on translucent Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper with some electronics to make a mesmerizing arctic scene with colour changing Northern Lights.

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Some whale #linocut prints for #WorldWhaleDay! I’ve had the great privilege of seeing humpbacks and orcas (and other species) when working at sea. They seem as curious about us as we are of them. 🧵1/2

The 3rd Saturday in February is is World Pangolin Day draw attention to the plight of the world’s most trafficked animals, these magnificent scaly mammals. There 8 species of #pangolin in Africa and Asia, all endangered, threatened by poachers for their meat and 🧵

Happy birthday to Marjorie Rice (née Jeuck, 1923–2017) who discovered 4 new pentagonal tilings of the Euclidian plane!

The San Diego mother of 5 (6th died in infancy) completed half a correspondence art course after high school & had no training as a #mathematician but was always interested in #math & art. She began to follow SciAm writer/amateur mathematician Martin Gardner’s column, … 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1413024426

#womenInSTEM #printmaking #mathematics #linocut #mastoArt

#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate astronaut Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992! She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer and choreographer, 🧵

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#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt

Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵 #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #mastoArt

For #InternationalWomensDay a short thread of my ongoing series of portraits of women in science through history. If you look for them, they’re there. I’m up to 67 now! Here’s to the day when a scientist’s sex is no longer remarkable in any field!

#IWD #IWD2025 #womenInSTEM #histsci #linocut #printmaking

#scientists #sciArt #MastoArt