Axel Folio, PhD

@ISASaxonists

Dr. MRO Early English Medievalist | Digital Humanist | WoC | | dual citizen | gif lover | racist magnet | | she/her/hers

Vrijeme pridruživanja: prosinac 2017.

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    31. sij

    For those who ask for tips & recommended readings, I've compiled all previous threads with info in this meta-thread for easy access. Use as a resource. Bookmark to have them all together. Will continue to add more.

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    but without him neither would have been made possible. His legacy is expanding the work of Niels Norlund on Euler polynomials. He also expanded the Boole summation formula. If you want to learn more about E.F. Cox’s work go here: 8/8

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    he ended up directing more Mastered degree students than any other prof at Howard. He was promoted several times & eventually became Head of the Dept of Mathematics until he retired. Cox didn’t live to see the scholarship &PhD program in Math established in his honor at Howard 7/

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    recognized by Tohoku Imperial Uni in Japan. For fellow BIPOC scholars, our struggles to publish & facing gate-keeping is not new. Learn more about E.F. Cox here: Cox was a gifted &popular prof. His students performed better than those of other profs & 6/8

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    Cox hadn’t published his PhD dissertation. His former supervisor pursued recognition for him by helping him get it published. It proved harder than expected. His advisor made requests as far away as England &Germany who refused to consider Cox’s thesis, but it was finally 5/8

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    his PhD at Cornell. Cox started his teaching career at the then all-black poorly funded West Virginia State College. He was rare, having a PhD at that college when most instructors didn’t, so he stood out. Within 5 years he was teaching at Howard. Despite his credentials, 4/8

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    Indiana Uni, he & his 3 Black classmates received their degrees with ‘COLORED’ printed across the transcript. This was to mark their ‘otherness’ & limit opportunities for success. Upon graduation with his 1st degree, E.F. Cox enlisted in the army, he was discharged & pursued 3/8

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    In college, Cox also took courses in German, German, English, Latin, history, hygiene, chemistry, education, philosophy &physics. With this he ensured a well-rounded education but it also revealed a general love of learning. When Cox received his bachelor’s in 1917 from 2/8

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    Day 4: Elbert Frank Cox (Dec. 5, 1895-Nov.28, 1969) was a Mathematician, & the first African American to be awarded a PhD in Mathematics in 1925 from Cornell University. As a child, he was also a gifted violinist, which may have been linked to his talent for math & physics. 1/8

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    Results are in. Hypothetical Karen isn't a Nazi. Most of you separate Anti-racism from Anti-fascism according to this poll. It is sensible not to equate the two or consider them interchangeable. One can be antifascist & still be a racist. Things to think about.

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    Just RTing this thread on mental illness and signal boosting 's below to show solidarity with my colleagues who suffer from mental illness and don't use that as an excuse or shield for racism, bullying or otherwise in the field.

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    Just wondering if Grendel was misunderstood because he had a manbag? Another reason to love him, I say. It's chic, I like it.

    Image of Grendel, by J.R. Skelton
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    has contributed to saving millions of lives – even ppl we know & love! She also investigated effects of cigarette smoke on the lungs in connection with hypertension. She has helped advance medicine in immeasurable ways. Read more about M.M. Daly here: 6/6

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    to cardiac & circulatory systems. She established connections between hypertension & atherosclerosis (hardening of arteries). She also ID’d the links between cholesterol & clogged arteries. Her pioneering research paved the way to understanding heart attacks. In this way, she 5/6

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    discrimination, she persisted with courage & strength. Daly is most well known for advancing research on histones (which are important in gene expression). Her work was fundamental to understanding DNA. She & her colleagues also did some of the earliest work on dietary links 4/6

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    was awarded a grant to support her postdoc research. When you think of DNA who do you think of? Watson and Crick? Did you know that when they received the Nobel prize in 1962, Watson cited one of Daly’s papers as contributing to his work? Although she faced racial & gender 3/6

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    money he couldn’t finish studies but Marie continued in her Dad's footsteps & became a biochemist. In her later life she created a scholarship in her Dad’s honor. Daly graduated from Columbia & worked as a science instructor at Howard University. An incredible researcher she 2/6

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    Day 3: Marie Maynard Daly (Apr.16, 1921-Oct. 28, 2003) was the 1st Black American woman in the US to earn a PhD in Chemistry. Her Dad was a West Indies immigrant &her Mom was Af/Am. Her love of science grew from her father’s time at Cornell. Due to lack of 1/6

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    I was thinking of struggles in academia & how BIPOC are often sent the message that we can't. We can't get ahead, we can't publish, we can't make change. While ppl are busy saying we can't, we are busy doing things & making change. ✊🏾

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