These 10 Women Are Changing the Way We Talk About Science

Clara Rodriguez is a geoscientist and co-founder of GeoLatinas, an academic group which supports Latin women in the Earth and Planetary Sciences. Her work focuses on the seismic interpretation of sedimentary basins, and she hosts the twitter tag #SaltSaturday. She's also a runner!

Sarah McAnulty is a squid biologist, science communicator, and the Executive Director of Skype A Scientist, which connects scientists and students via video chat. When she’s not actively promoting and supporting women in STEM on social media, she’s wrangling the teeniest, tiniest little squids.

Corina Newsome is a graduate student in biology who focuses on avian conservation and specializes in conserving the MacGillivray’s seaside sparrow. She got her start as a zookeeper and has since worked to increase opportunities for students of color in wildlife science. Corina's feed is packed with wild and wonderful creatures.

Dominique M. David-Chavez is a climate scientist, science communicator, and descendant of the Caribbean Arawak Taíno. Her work focuses on how Indigenous Caribbean communities, who are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, are responding and adapting to a changing environment. Follow her for a fresh perspective on climate change.

Dani Rabaiotti is a scientist and author at the Zoological Society of London’s Institute of Zoology. Her research focuses on the impacts of climate change on wildlife, and, in particular, African wild dogs. Her book with Nick Caruso, Does It Fart?, answers one of science’s most pressing questions. Her twitter feed is just as entertaining.

Eugenia Cheng is a mathematician, pianist, author and Scientist in Residence at the School of Art Institute of Chicago whose goal is to “rid the world of math(s) phobia.” Her research focuses on category theory, and she has teaching appointments at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. and is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at City, University of London.

Nadine Gabriel is the assistant curator of fossil mammals at the Natural History Museum in London. At the museum, she helps to take care of the vast paleontological and mineralogical collections, but on Twitter, she hosts the #365Minerals and #AreYouSiO2 challenges.

Naia Butler-Craig is an aerospace engineering PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in electric propulsion, cubesat nanotechnology, and computational plasma physics. Need an astronomical pick-me-up? Follow Naia!

Herpetologist Earyn McGee is a PhD student and science communicator at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She actively promotes opportunities for women and people of color in herpetology and ecology and hosts the Twitter identification challenge #FindThatLizard.

Kaeli Swift is an ornithologist and lecturer who studies corvids—crows, ravens, jays and other spooky squawkers—at the University of Washington. Each Wednesday, she hosts a Twitter science challenge called #CrowOrNo, where she challenges her followers to identify some good birbs.