My experience as an African researcher trying to travel to a conference in a wealthy country is not an isolated one. Of 10 invited speakers from low & middle income countries only 4 got visas"
#blackinstem
#racisminscience
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00892-1
Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown in 1930)! Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #Spacetober #EarthScience #Math
