Post AxijlTvIXyN1rjLSPw by CarlBLatro@gleasonator.com
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 (DIR) Post #Axhh8MlapKJRJH4AXA by Flick@spinster.xyz
       2025-08-30T18:32:38.712542Z
       
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       Just listened to this, and damn she’s done a good job of overcoming her education! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hswsSouth African–born space physicist Michele Dougherty has been awarded the honorary title of Astronomer Royal. She becomes the first woman to hold the title in the 350–year-old history of the role.Although her all-girls school in Durban did not offer science as an option*, her father sparked her love for planetary science when he built a telescope in the back garden of the family home. After qualifying as a mathematician and moving to Germany for a fellowship, Dougherty changed focus and joined teams working on two major space missions.*In the seventies! Wtaf?
       
 (DIR) Post #AxhhQ8A7rd8DEC0o88 by Flick@spinster.xyz
       2025-08-30T18:35:51.434836Z
       
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       (Although I am reminded of the time one of my SA nth cousins proposed marriage — to my father — when I was sixteen and was shocked to be gently told that I probably wanted to do A levels and go to university before I even thought about that.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AxijlTvIXyN1rjLSPw by CarlBLatro@gleasonator.com
       2025-08-30T22:54:23.222004Z
       
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       @Flick You could've done both! :))
       
 (DIR) Post #Axj6FcJ0905bXfCsgi by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
       2025-08-31T10:43:52.302409Z
       
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       @Flick Blimey.Mind you, and this was the 80s, my school did not let boys do HE or girls woodworking/tech. The headmaster belonged to some weirdo sect called Cooneyites, headbangers. It was not long after my cohort left that it changed, one boy wanted to become a chef, so that blew the doors off it.