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Interactive, Innovative, Social, Practical, Logical

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Scientist Story Kits | Diversity in STEM Representation

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Our story kits show students real-world examples of diversity in science. Get resources for your students to see inclusive STEM representation in the classroom.

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Female science communicators are taking social media by storm in 2025. These aren't your average content creators, and their numbers aren't average either.

This year, out of the top 50 STEM influencers on FeedSpot's media database, no less than 41 spots went to accounts with women presenters. Across TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, female science communicators are drawing millions of followers with their wit and wisdom.

You might already know of Emily Calandrelli, Katie Mack, Emily Graslie, Dianna Cowern aka Physics Girl, Ali Ward, or Simone Giertz, but in honor of International Women's Day, it's worth sharing some up-and-coming sci-com stars that might not yet be on your radar.

One of Bea's most viewed videos on TikTok, at 13.4 million, is of her handling real human brains as she explains the process of organ donation. In another viral video, she handles her very own placenta - with blue gloves of course.

Across the pond in the United Kingdom, mathematician Hannah Fry is answering the big questions in science, like, "Are numbers actually real?", "Is it possible to avoid hangovers?", and "What do Barbie and Ken have in common with a fruit fly?"

Fry makes challenging scientific subjects accessible and practical for everyone, even if mathematics was never their strong suit in school.

During an interview several years ago, when Fry was asked why girls should study science and maths, she replied, "You have to realize that being female at the moment is a superpower. Everything is willing you forward, and I think that there has never been a better time to want to get into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics."

It's been two years since the American forager and vegan cook Alexis Nikole Nelson received the 2022 James Beard Award for Best Social Media Account, and since then, her TikTok account has grown from 3.3 million to 4.4 million followers.

@alexisnikole
LOL @ my nonsense description of the taste 🤣🤣 🌲

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Nelson is not a formally trained scientist, but her passion for finding wild food in the " VERY untamed wilderness of scenic Ohio" is sure to inspire any budding naturalist. Her lessons, like " gathering prickly pears without ruining your life", aim to teach others about the amazing plants they are surrounded by, and to elevate the Black and Indigenous roots of foraging.

Down under, astrophysicist Kirsten Banks has her followers looking up while they look down at their phones. With a PhD in astrophysics, Banks discusses all things space with her followers, and she brings a unique perspective to her social media.

"In Australia alone there are more than 250 Indigenous groups that have used the stars for the last 65,000 years, and their knowledge is still exercised to this day," said Banks in a TED Talk from 2020.

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🚨 Mind-blowing update about Saturn's rings! 🚨 Did you know that sharks have been around longer than Saturn's rings? 🦈 At least, that's what we thought. But new research suggests Saturn's rings might be as old as the Solar System itself, over 4 billion years! 🤯 The Cassini spacecraft revealed Saturn's rings look super clean, which made scientists think they were "young." But it turns out Saturn might have a trick up its sleeve! 💫 Meteorites smashing into the rings at high speeds could turn cosmic dust into charged particles. Saturn's magnetic field then sweeps them away, keeping the rings sparkling clean, like a cosmic Roomba. Someone needs to invent a robot vacuum called Saturn! But it looks like that has already happened?! What do you think? Does this new research ruin the shark vs. Saturn fun fact or make Saturn even cooler? #Saturn #SpaceFacts #NASA #Space #Astronomy

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Her favorite Aboriginal constellation is known in the Wiradjuri language as Gugurmin, the Celestial Emu, which is outlined in the Milky Way. Its position in the night sky is used to determine the right time to go looking for emu eggs.

Xyla Foxlin is cool. There's really no more succinct way to describe her. A mechatronics engineer, pilot, rocketeer, woodworker, and ' creator of chaos' with a passion for the arts, Foxlin has a " disdain for the way engineering is taught in schools", and she is determined to inspire others to make things... any things really - whether it be a Christmas tree rocket, or a foam version of yourself.

Foxlin isn't constrained by the idea of usefulness; learning and having fun is more than enough for her.

"My big thing is that femininity and engineering are not mutually exclusive. I'm still the only one in a dress at design reviews or the only one wearing all pink in the shop. We should be teaching our girls that it's OK to like princesses and power tools," she told Cleveland Magazine in 2017.

Happy scrolling this International Women's Day!

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International Women's Day: Female Science Stars to Follow in 2025

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Female science communicators are taking social media by storm in 2025.

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50 Most Important Women in Science for 2025 | Research.com

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The gender gap in STEM is a complex issue with many interrelated causes. Some argue that there are fewer women who are genuinely interested in STEM careers. While there is some truth to this, we can never…

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Smart, outside the box, questions, wise, interested

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Problem solving, curious, observation, clever, & logical.

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Bill Nye the Science Guy

Does a lot.

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Outgoing, Overserving, attune to everything.

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Mechanical engineer, friendly, loves music

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Scientist, Paleontologist, Archeologist.

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Emmet Brown

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most are Outgoing, observing, attune to everything, smart, and open to change.

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Labcoat, goggles, vial, etc. What you typically think of when you think of a scientist

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A scientist researches many things without failure.

If there is failure, it is explosive.

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Someone who is smart, views the world in a new way, and discovers things never seen before.

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always hard at work, studying and trying to find better way to help people.

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Mad, smart, experemential, crazy ideas, explosive

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Always asking questions, thinking outside the box, looking for facts, and never jumping to conclusions

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he is very smart and outgoing always looking for new discoveries.

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Ask for help, ask questions, think of your own solutions

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Scientists are very smart, and they use resources to answer questions.

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He was an extremely smart man who had created the equations E=Mc squared

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He was ridiculusley smart and outgiong for his field of studies

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Lab coat, goggles, microscope, bunsen burner, experiments, vials, chemicals.

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Is a incredible Science teacher who is great at helping her students. Helpful, Observant, Curious.

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Smart, serious, boring, crazy, creepy

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About 2.3 million years ago our ancestors invented their first primitive tool, the split stone, which they used for cutting and scraping.

Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago. About 50,000 years ago they (or should that be we?) began to use language, symbols, and more complex tools.

As inventions and discoveries added to one another, human civilization, technology, and science advanced and evolved.

If you're looking for scientists in particular fields, you could try our pages here:

Most Famous Scientists and Inventors in History

The beginnings of science and the scientific method largely came from the ancient Greek world, which encompassed the eastern part of the Mediterranean.

The names of the great scientists and philosophers of that time, such as Pythagoras, Archimedes, Aristotle, Eratosthenes and Thales, are still known today, over 2,000 years later.

The Era of Modern Science Begins

Science entered a new era with the Renaissance, which began in 14th century Italy. By the 17th century it had extended and blossomed throughout most of Europe.

The fall of Constantinople in 1453 resulted in a large number of refugees fleeing to Europe, bringing with them Greek and Roman books that had been archived in Constantinople, unused for centuries. This, and the invention of the printing press in about 1450 accelerated the pace of learning in Renaissance Europe.

Unfortunately for science, only a few people thirsted for scientific knowledge and progress, while most intellectuals focused on artistic or liberal arts disciplines.

It was only in the 17th century that a rapid scientific revolution finally took place.

Timeline of a Scientific Revolution

* c1600 - Galileo Galilei discovers the principle of inertia, building the stage for a rational view of motion.

* 1600 - William Gilbert finds that Earth has magnetic poles and acts like a huge magnet.

* 1600 - Galileo Galilei discovers that projectiles move with a parabolic trajectory.

* 1608 - Hans Lippershey invents the refracting telescope, which Galileo Galilei soon puts to use.

* 1609 - Galileo Galilei observes Jupiter's four largest moons, disproving church dogma that all movement in the universe is centered on Earth.

* 1609 - Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion showing that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun.

* 1610 - John Napier publishes tables of logarithms, showing how they can be used to accelerate calculations.
The full timeline of the Scientific Revolution

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The biggest resource on the internet, with the histories, biographies and achievements of the most famous scientists and inventors from all over the world. A comprehensive list of the names of famous scientists.

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Steven Hawkings:  Even not being able to talk didn't stop him from inspiring people.

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Steven Hawkings:  Even not being able to talk didn't stop him from inspiring people.

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Nobel Prize Winner, Austrian-Irish, quantum mechanics, theoretical physicist, thought experiments.

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Aristotle was an ancient philosopher and scientist who always asked questions and made the people around him think about stuff that was never thought of before.

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Comes up with theroy's and then finds ways to prove them.

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Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist. She won 2 Nobel Prize awards. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win it twice.

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Fun, Creative, Outgoing, Enthusiastic, Determined

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Serious, chemicals, explosions, always knows everything.

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It is interesting how real scientists are so different from what most people picture. Scientists are always represented as a stone-faced, rigid figure wearing a lab coat and spouting unnecessarily complicated scientific vocabulary. However, real scientists are a lot like everyday people. Sure, they might know a few more fancy words, and they probably have a deeper passion for soil or circuit boards than most do, but they have hobbies and opinions and thoughts and feelings just like the rest of us.

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Fun, interesting, creative, creator, & inspirational.

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Most scientists are hardworking, mad, always doing crazy experiments and serious most of the time.

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Astronomer, physics, robust, engaging, talented.

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People assume many things about scientists mostly because of movies and stuff. But in reality scientists are just like everybody else, they just have a different career and different hobbies.

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A smart woman who became the first women strictly into physics.

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Serious, wise, innovative, logical, passionite.

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Brilliant, extraordinary imagination and shy.

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Smart, brilliant, tenacious, innovative, and British

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A British chemist that helped in discovering and understanding the molecular structures of things like DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. Even though her research was crucial in learning the DNA's structure, she never got awarded for a Nobel Prize.

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It is easy to always picture a scientist. However, what we picture is never quite accurate. There are so many different types of scientists in different fields. No two scientific fields are exactly the same. Furthermore, it is so much more in depth than we realize to prove that their theories are correct. There are scientists that work in a lab and some that don't. So even though it may seem easy to think of a scientist and what they do, it will always be more specific than what you come up with.

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Focused, experimental, serious, calm.

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Thoughtful, insightful, goal-oriented, dedicated, interested.

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Louis Pasteur was a quiet, yet ambitious scientist. Pasteur discovered the several ways to develop vaccines, leading to advancements in the bacteria-preventing industry. This innovation allowed cautions to be taken to prevent food and beer from spoiling.

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Scientists have culminated a stereotypical image throughout history of a smart, experimental person in a lab coat. While this image may describe some scientists, others may center their studies around theories or thoughtful experiments, outside of the lab. After researching this assignment, I found that all scientists have individual interests and ideal studies. A scientist may have several definitions, though each include the studying of an area of research.

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Every stereotypical scientist always seems to be looking under a stethoscope.

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Know-it-all, chemistry, explosions.

These are words that come to mind when I think about the stereotypical scientist.

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Cell Biologist, Determined, Open to Possibilities, Teamwork, Discovery.

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Anthony Covarrubias is a cell biologist who works to find the effect aging has on certain cell conditions. He helps to discover these effects, document them, and then teach them to others working in the lab with him.

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While everything has some stereotype attached to it, science has a very unrealistic image printed over it. Many people just see scientists as people with lab coats and a tie who sit under stethoscopes all day making explosions. But science goes much deeper than spiky-haired crazy people blowing stuff up. Science is an intricate field, that spans thousands of different paths, not just chemistry. And scientists do not know the answer to everything, that is why the field can even exist in the first place! Science has an infinite number of possibilities, so a basic stereotype underrepresents just how intricate and diverse the subject can get.