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Ainissa Ramirez, PhD
@ainissaramirez.bsky.social
Scientist. Speaker. Writer. #Kidlit #Picturebook
OUT NOW⚡SPARK: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone via @mitpress.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/SPARKbk 🎤
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Happy #BookBirthday to SPARK! 🎉
Out now via @mitpress.bsky.social 🥳

📕 bit.ly/SPARKbk
Give the gift of #science 🔎

Book 1 in the Black Innovator series 🎤

#science #booksky #Blacksky #SciArt #WomeninSTEM 🧪
#sciencenews #STEM #STEMforkids #picturebooks #kidlit
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Ellen Gleditsch worked with Marie Curie, established radium's half-life, proved isotopes exist, then became Norway's 2nd female professor in 1929. During WWII she hid scientists in her home. What modern scientist inspires you most? #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Wow! What an honor! I LOVE Ms. Frizzle 🤓

#booksky #kidsbooks #picturebooks #science #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #STEM #STEAM
PSA! The Verse Show's interview with @ainissaramirez.bsky.social should come with the warning "YOU WILL WANT TO BUY ALL HER BOOKS!"

Ainissa sounds like a real life Miss.Frizzle and I can't wait for all her books to be available!

open.spotify.com/episode/7kE2...
Ainissa Ramirez's SPARK!
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November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
TOMORROW at the Yale Peabody Museum.

I'll be talking about my latest book, SPARK, and doing fun science activities.

Hope to see you there!

#science #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #makesciencefun #scienceteacher #scientist #STEM #BlackinSTEM
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Sending SPARK to my beloved Marion Branch library in Jersey City. I spent lots of time at this storefront library after school 🥰

📗 bit.ly/SPARKbk

#science #kidsbooks #picturebooks #JerseyCIty #Blacksky #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #librarylove @mitpress.bsky.social #Booksky #SciArt #libarian #scienceteacher
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Dorothy Vaughan | NASA mathematician, programmer & manager died #OTD in 2008

First Black female supervisor at NACA (precursor to NASA), expert programmer, Scout Launch Vehicle Program contributor & more. #WomenInSTEM

Learn more about this "Hidden Figure:" nasa.gov/people/dorot...
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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SATURDAY: #STEAM Family Adventure with me at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford!

Create a color wheel to explore the science of light and enjoy a special reading of SPARK: Jim West’s Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone 🎤

Hope to see you there!

www.thewadsworth.org/event/second...
Second Saturdays for Families: STEAM Adventures October 3, 2025 | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
11am–2pm activities | Free admission all day Celebrate National STEAM Day and discover what happens when art and science collide! Create a color wheel to
www.thewadsworth.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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“I don’t think we should write for the market. Your imagination is too important to the world to constrain it to what’s going on right now...”
-Ainissa Ramirez, author of SPARK!
from You May Contribute A Verse podcast
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-jx3qk-...
Ainissa Ramirez's SPARK!
Ainissa Ramirez has something in common with the subject of her debut picture book, Jim West, inventor of the microphone: the passion, the drive, and the creative spark to turn her commitment into her...
www.podbean.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
SATURDAY: #STEAM Family Adventure with me at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford!

Create a color wheel to explore the science of light and enjoy a special reading of SPARK: Jim West’s Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone 🎤

Hope to see you there!

www.thewadsworth.org/event/second...
Second Saturdays for Families: STEAM Adventures October 3, 2025 | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
11am–2pm activities | Free admission all day Celebrate National STEAM Day and discover what happens when art and science collide! Create a color wheel to
www.thewadsworth.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
My interview with #TavisSmiley is now live 🎧

BONUS: Scientist, inventor, and the subject of my new book, Jim West, is also on the program!

www.spreaker.com/episode/aini...

#Science #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #BlackInSTEM #BellLabs #inventor #scientist #HiddenFigures #BlackSky @mitpress.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
VOTE!! 🗳
"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers.

For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Dear Physicists and Physics fans,

I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th.

Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬
November 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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James West an african american sound technician that co-invented the electric microphone. He holds over 200 patents
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
TODAY at 6:30 PM EST: Meet Jim West!

I am so excited to be doing this event with @possible-futures.bsky.social and my mentor, amazing scientist, and the subject of my new book SPARK.

Hope you can make it!

www.possiblefuturesbooks.com/events/36908...

@mitpress.bsky.social #Science #SciArt
10/29 Spark: Virtual Book Talk with Ainissa Ramirez and James West | Possible Futures
beloved community, neighborhood bookspace, independent bookstore
www.possiblefuturesbooks.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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WEDNESDAY at @possible-futures.bsky.social: Meet Jim West!

I hope you can make this virtual event with my mentor, hero, and the subject of my new book, SPARK.

Register at:
www.possiblefuturesbooks.com/events/36908...

#Science #BookSky #BellLabs #inventor #scientists #BlackinSTEM #WomeninSTEM 🧪
10/29 Spark: Virtual Book Talk with Ainissa Ramirez and James West | Possible Futures
beloved community, neighborhood bookspace, independent bookstore
www.possiblefuturesbooks.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
WEDNESDAY at @possible-futures.bsky.social: Meet Jim West!

I hope you can make this virtual event with my mentor, hero, and the subject of my new book, SPARK.

Register at:
www.possiblefuturesbooks.com/events/36908...

#Science #BookSky #BellLabs #inventor #scientists #BlackinSTEM #WomeninSTEM 🧪
10/29 Spark: Virtual Book Talk with Ainissa Ramirez and James West | Possible Futures
beloved community, neighborhood bookspace, independent bookstore
www.possiblefuturesbooks.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Let me know if you are interested in joining this starter pack #chemsky ⚗️🧪 #molswitch #molmachine
go.bsky.app/EwimNbK
October 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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In Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone, Ainissa Ramirez introduces readers aged 5-9 to inventor Jim West. It’s the 1st of her children’s picture books on Black innovators. www.nasw.org/member_artic... bsky.app/profile/aini... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
October 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Ainissa Ramirez introduces the first picture book in Candlewick Press/MIT Press Kids' Black Innovators series!

Find "Spark," the story of the insatiably curious scientist Jim West, at the MIT Press Bookstore: bit.ly/4no3FWb
October 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM