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Dr Buki Fatona

@bukifatona.bsky.social

@University of Oxford, research in Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience & Religion: memory; imagination; action. ❤️classics, mathematics, & art❤️ https://theology.web.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-buki-fatona

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Dr Buki Fatona@bukifatona.bsky.social · 7d ago

Happy birthday to Euphemia Lofton Haynes; first African American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics (1943); and a reformer of the segregated D.C. public school system. Her thesis was on symmetric correspondences. So, I think she would have enjoyed the one in her b.-d. years (1890-1980).

B/w graduation photo of Euphemia Haynes
Dr Buki Fatona@bukifatona.bsky.social · 2w ago

When Dorothy Hodgkin--the only British woman to get a Nobel prize in science--heard that one of her assistants' grant had been cut because she got married, she wrote a furious letter to the Secretary of the Research Council dated 21st October 1955. #WomenInStem

Dr Buki Fatona@bukifatona.bsky.social · 4w ago

Happy birthday to Florence Nightingale David (1909). Like her namesake, F. N. David was an English statistician. What are the (statistical) chances?! An advocate for women in statistics, she went on to head the Statistics Department at the University of California, Riverside.

Florence Nightingale David
Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 4w ago

Watching so many people in the last 48 hours across the ideological spectrum insist that gutter racism is an intellectual position open to debate rather than a toxic belief has certainly been clarifying. People lose their lives & you continue to treat this as an intellectual exercise.

Dr Buki Fatona@bukifatona.bsky.social · last mo.

Lost in Mary Sommerville's diary (1874) which reads like a Jane Austen novel. Love this story of how her uncle, "Dr Sommerville" taught her to read Latin and assured her that "in ancient times...some women had been very elegant scholars." Male allyship ❤️

Picture of page 37 of Sommerville's Personal Reflections. Text can be accessed at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009386676&seq=49
Dr Buki Fatona@bukifatona.bsky.social · last mo.

Today I am immersing myself in Toni Morrison: comforting & strengthening. "She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order."

Dr Buki Fatona@bukifatona.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On James Baldwin's birthday, here is my favourite portrait of him (2014) by Marlene Dumas. The black and white portrait features a quote by Baldwin, "Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

black and white portrait of James Baldwin featuring a quote by Baldwin, "Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
Alisa Bokulich@alisabokulich.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy Bday to Maria Mitchell (1818-1889).Here's her house on Nantucket & telescope of historic comet fame in window.She was hired 1845 by A.D.Bache at USCoastSurvey to establish cardinal point for latitude & longitude in US & spent season in field w/ Survey as 1st fed funded woman scientist in US 🧪🗃️

double photo collage with one a cedar shingle two story house with plaque saying "birthplace of Maria Mitchell America's first woman astronomer" & second photo her brass telescope in the window.
Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Maria Mitchell was the first professional female astronomer in the US.🔭 * First American to discover a new comet, 1847 ☄️ * First woman elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences & the American Assoc for the Advancement of Science She was born #OTD in 1818. #WomenInSTEM #astronomy

A black-and-white historical portrait of Maria Mitchell (1818–1889), America’s first professional female astronomer and the first American to discover a comet. Shown from the waist up, Mitchell sits in a three-quarter profile facing right, her dark eyes looking forward with a serious, dignified, and determined expression. Her light hair is styled in tightly curled ringlets framing her face. She wears a dark, lustrous silk or satin dress with a high collar, a white neck frill, and an intricate, dark lace shawl draped over her right shoulder. She leans against the dark, carved wooden railing of a chair or balustrade in the foreground. The composition features soft studio lighting against a plain, dark, finely textured gradient background, casting a gentle shadow to the left. The overall mood is solemn, intellectual, and reverent, capturing her historical significance as a pioneering 19th-century scientist and advocate for women in STEM.