Sandy Leaton Gray
@drleatongray.bsky.social
Professor of Education Futures at UCL. Personal account, posts represent my own opinions and not those of my institution.
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Walz: "We've got children that a core memory for them will be their classmate being taken away. That will stick with them the rest of their lives. My hope is what sticks with them is human decency wins out, rule of law matters ... "
February 12, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Walz: "We've got children that a core memory for them will be their classmate being taken away. That will stick with them the rest of their lives. My hope is what sticks with them is human decency wins out, rule of law matters ... "
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The American Medical Association is launching an effort to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness independently of U.S. government health agencies
Top medical groups join forces to review vaccine science as CDC faces criticism
The American Medical Association is launching an effort to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness independently of U.S. government health agencies
www.scientificamerican.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:21 PM
The American Medical Association is launching an effort to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness independently of U.S. government health agencies
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2/10/1878 — b. Jennie Smillie Robertson, Canadian physician, surgeon, educator, reformer. The first female surgeon + first woman to perform a major gynecological surgery in #Canada. Co-founder, chief of #gynecology, Women’s College Hosp, Toronto (1912-42) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #HistMed
February 10, 2026 at 1:09 PM
2/10/1878 — b. Jennie Smillie Robertson, Canadian physician, surgeon, educator, reformer. The first female surgeon + first woman to perform a major gynecological surgery in #Canada. Co-founder, chief of #gynecology, Women’s College Hosp, Toronto (1912-42) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #HistMed
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🎉 Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔬
Today I would like to celebrate Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961), a Dutch #forest #pathologist who discovered the cause of #DutchElmDisease in the 1920’s
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#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna...
Today I would like to celebrate Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961), a Dutch #forest #pathologist who discovered the cause of #DutchElmDisease in the 1920’s
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#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna...
Johanna Westerdijk - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
🎉 Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔬
Today I would like to celebrate Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961), a Dutch #forest #pathologist who discovered the cause of #DutchElmDisease in the 1920’s
(1/3)
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna...
Today I would like to celebrate Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961), a Dutch #forest #pathologist who discovered the cause of #DutchElmDisease in the 1920’s
(1/3)
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna...
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Mary Edmonia Lewis, also known as "Wildfire" (1844 – 1907), was an American sculptor. Born in New York of mixed African-American and Native American heritage, she was the first African-American and Native American sculptor to achieve national,then international prominence. #CelebratingWomen
February 11, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Mary Edmonia Lewis, also known as "Wildfire" (1844 – 1907), was an American sculptor. Born in New York of mixed African-American and Native American heritage, she was the first African-American and Native American sculptor to achieve national,then international prominence. #CelebratingWomen
Just getting ready for the UCL 200th birthday party at the British Museum. Incredibly exciting. @ucl.ac.uk #HereitHappens
February 11, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Just getting ready for the UCL 200th birthday party at the British Museum. Incredibly exciting. @ucl.ac.uk #HereitHappens
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#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...
February 11, 2026 at 8:48 AM
#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...
The “godless institution on Gower Street” is 200 years old today.
Happy Birthday, @ucl.ac.uk!
www.ucl.ac.uk/about/ucls-b...
Happy Birthday, @ucl.ac.uk!
www.ucl.ac.uk/about/ucls-b...
UCL’s Bicentenary
2026 marks UCL’s 200th Anniversary and the start of a year of Bicentennial activity and celebration.
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 11, 2026 at 8:47 AM
The “godless institution on Gower Street” is 200 years old today.
Happy Birthday, @ucl.ac.uk!
www.ucl.ac.uk/about/ucls-b...
Happy Birthday, @ucl.ac.uk!
www.ucl.ac.uk/about/ucls-b...
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Mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya was the first woman to:
+ Earn a doctorate in #mathematics (in the modern sense)
+ Be appointed to a full professorship in mathematics
She was also one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor. She died #OTD in 1891.
#WomenInSTEM
+ Earn a doctorate in #mathematics (in the modern sense)
+ Be appointed to a full professorship in mathematics
She was also one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor. She died #OTD in 1891.
#WomenInSTEM
February 11, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya was the first woman to:
+ Earn a doctorate in #mathematics (in the modern sense)
+ Be appointed to a full professorship in mathematics
She was also one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor. She died #OTD in 1891.
#WomenInSTEM
+ Earn a doctorate in #mathematics (in the modern sense)
+ Be appointed to a full professorship in mathematics
She was also one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor. She died #OTD in 1891.
#WomenInSTEM
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Edith Clarke, the first professional female electrical engineer in the US, was born #OTD in 1883.
+ Invented the Clarke calculator to solve electric power transmission problems faster
+ First woman to earn an MS in electrical engineering (EE) at MIT, 1919
+ First woman EE professor, US #WomenInSTEM
+ Invented the Clarke calculator to solve electric power transmission problems faster
+ First woman to earn an MS in electrical engineering (EE) at MIT, 1919
+ First woman EE professor, US #WomenInSTEM
February 10, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Edith Clarke, the first professional female electrical engineer in the US, was born #OTD in 1883.
+ Invented the Clarke calculator to solve electric power transmission problems faster
+ First woman to earn an MS in electrical engineering (EE) at MIT, 1919
+ First woman EE professor, US #WomenInSTEM
+ Invented the Clarke calculator to solve electric power transmission problems faster
+ First woman to earn an MS in electrical engineering (EE) at MIT, 1919
+ First woman EE professor, US #WomenInSTEM
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AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
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"Excluding pregnant women from randomized research does not prevent them from needing or taking untested medications; it just prevents researchers from learning efficiently when they do."
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Why It Is Unethical Not to Conduct Randomized Trials in Pregnancy
This Viewpoint discusses the need to develop systematic review processes for medications during pregnancy, including routine randomized clinical trials (RCTs), rather than relying on observational stu...
jamanetwork.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:49 PM
"Excluding pregnant women from randomized research does not prevent them from needing or taking untested medications; it just prevents researchers from learning efficiently when they do."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
In the 1940s, it was perhaps possible for citizens to argue that they didn’t know what was really going on in detention facilities. In the 2020s, that argument no longer holds. It’s obvious to all.
Human dignity should be inviolable.
Human dignity should be inviolable.
February 9, 2026 at 8:21 AM
In the 1940s, it was perhaps possible for citizens to argue that they didn’t know what was really going on in detention facilities. In the 2020s, that argument no longer holds. It’s obvious to all.
Human dignity should be inviolable.
Human dignity should be inviolable.
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Bad Bunny “together we are America”
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Bad Bunny “together we are America”
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Daphne Jackson #Nuclear #physicist & 1st UK female physics professor. "Imagine a society that would allow Marie Curie to stack shelves in a supermarket simply because she took a career break for family reasons". @wes1919.bsky.social President d #OTD 8 Feb 1991 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_...
February 8, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Daphne Jackson #Nuclear #physicist & 1st UK female physics professor. "Imagine a society that would allow Marie Curie to stack shelves in a supermarket simply because she took a career break for family reasons". @wes1919.bsky.social President d #OTD 8 Feb 1991 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_...
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At least 30 scientists, including famous paleontologist Jack Horner and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, have been named in the Epstein files so far. Once again proving that shitty men think with the wrong head no matter how smart they are.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known
Latest batch of documents show researchers consulting the financier and sex offender on publications, visas and more.
www.nature.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:07 PM
At least 30 scientists, including famous paleontologist Jack Horner and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, have been named in the Epstein files so far. Once again proving that shitty men think with the wrong head no matter how smart they are.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Excavation of the tomb of Akhet-Hetep at Giza revealed a monument to his mother Peseshet, the "Overseer of Women Physicians." She is the world's earliest known woman doctor, and practiced at the time of the building of the great pyramids in Egypt, about 2500 BC. #CelebratingWomen
February 7, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Excavation of the tomb of Akhet-Hetep at Giza revealed a monument to his mother Peseshet, the "Overseer of Women Physicians." She is the world's earliest known woman doctor, and practiced at the time of the building of the great pyramids in Egypt, about 2500 BC. #CelebratingWomen
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"A Fellow, at whom the 👉 Finger of Contempt should always be pointed"
Marvellous
Marvellous
February 7, 2026 at 11:33 AM
"A Fellow, at whom the 👉 Finger of Contempt should always be pointed"
Marvellous
Marvellous
Please make this happen
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Please make this happen
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it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 6, 2026 at 5:19 PM
it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for
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Dorothy Rowntree BSc. 1st woman in UK to qualify in naval architecture & 1st woman to graduate in engineering from @glasgow.ac.uk Worked @ Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard #Govan. Later moved to #Lebanon & worked @ American University of Beirut'. d. #OTD 5 Feb 1988 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
February 5, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Dorothy Rowntree BSc. 1st woman in UK to qualify in naval architecture & 1st woman to graduate in engineering from @glasgow.ac.uk Worked @ Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard #Govan. Later moved to #Lebanon & worked @ American University of Beirut'. d. #OTD 5 Feb 1988 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
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Jonathan Ferguson 1915-74 UK #pilot @wes1919.bsky.social member #WWII joined Women's Air Transport Auxiliary #ATA Postwar Chief Experimental Officer @ Ministry of Supply. 1958 had F>M gender reassignment surgery. Civil Service stated “will not affect his employment” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...
February 5, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Jonathan Ferguson 1915-74 UK #pilot @wes1919.bsky.social member #WWII joined Women's Air Transport Auxiliary #ATA Postwar Chief Experimental Officer @ Ministry of Supply. 1958 had F>M gender reassignment surgery. Civil Service stated “will not affect his employment” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...
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2/4/1865 — b. Lila Meade Valentine, American educator, health reformer, suffragist, lecturer. Edu + #publichealth champion; co-founder/pres,VA Equal Suffrage League. Introduced Richmond,VA kindergartens + vocational training. Lectured for suffrage in the eastern states #womenshistory #PolSky #EduSky
February 4, 2026 at 3:09 PM
2/4/1865 — b. Lila Meade Valentine, American educator, health reformer, suffragist, lecturer. Edu + #publichealth champion; co-founder/pres,VA Equal Suffrage League. Introduced Richmond,VA kindergartens + vocational training. Lectured for suffrage in the eastern states #womenshistory #PolSky #EduSky
In a new low for payments to external academics, a university within the EU just offered me 255 euros for a year’s work supervising a PhD student. For context, the usual workload allocation is around 6 working days a year for this, so that’s 50% of the minimum wage for an unskilled 21 year old. 😮
February 5, 2026 at 11:21 AM
In a new low for payments to external academics, a university within the EU just offered me 255 euros for a year’s work supervising a PhD student. For context, the usual workload allocation is around 6 working days a year for this, so that’s 50% of the minimum wage for an unskilled 21 year old. 😮