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Lucía Perez-Diaz

Illustrator and geodynamic modeller. I spend most of my time trying to understand the mechanisms driving plate tectonics and reconstructing what Earth looked like in the past. A few years ago, I decided to focus my life-long habit of doodling into a part-time adventure into illustration and design. Find out more about me here.

Using comics to talk about sexism in science: how ‘Did this really happen?!’ is trying to change the conversation

Using comics to talk about sexism in science: how ‘Did this really happen?!’ is trying to change the conversation

1953: Marie Tharp created a map that showed the seafloor was spreading via the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and therefore proved the theory of plate tectonics, only for it to be dismissed as “”girl talk” by her (male) supervisors. 1968: A few years after winning the Nobel Prize (without crediting her work), James Watson wrote about Rosalind Franklin saying “By choice she did not emphasize her feminine quali ...[Read More]