Color photo of Shyamala Gopalan in the lab. She is smiling, looking into a petri dish she is holding. She has short hair, and is wearing bright colors.

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   Hilda Bastian (hildabast@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 17:00:16 JST Hilda Bastian

   This is Shyamala Gopalan Harris, Kamala Harris' scientist mother. 🥥

   When her daughters spoke glowingly of her influence on them at the DNC, I was one of the 300,000 people who flocked to her Wikipedia page to find out more.

   It left me curious about her life as a scientist & sent me down a rabbit hole. My new @PLOS post is what I learned:

   https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2024/08/29/some-context-of-what-came-before-shyamala-gopalan-harris-scientist-life/

   #WomenInSTEM #tbt