Stories by Sophie McNulty

Sophie McNulty has worked for a wide range of podcasts, including Gardening with the RHS, Freakonomics Radio, and Safe Space Radio. She produced the first two seasons of Lost Women of Science: “The Pathologist in the Basement” and “A Grasshopper in Tall Grass.”

HistoryJuly 30, 2024

This Researcher Is on a Crusade to Correct Wikipedia’s Gender Imbalance

Physicist Jess Wade explains the importance of recognizing female scientists on Wikipedia. She’s created more than 2,000 Wikipedia articles to do just that

Katie Hafner, Sophie McNulty, The Lost Women of Science Initiative

The green cover of the book "Wild by Design" surrounded by the following text: Lost Women of Science Conversations Restoration Ecology Pioneers Eloise Butler and Edith Roberts, Laura J. Martin, and the logos of Lost Women of Science, PRX, and Scientific American

PlantsJune 13, 2024

Meet the Unknown Female Botanists Who Established the Field of Ecological Restoration

Historian and ecologist Laura J. Martin rediscovers the female scientists who established ecological restoration in her book Wild by Design

Sophie McNulty, The Lost Women of Science Initiative

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HistoryMay 2, 2024

The Poetic Lives of Lost Women of Math and Science

When poet Jessy Randall saw that so many female scientists weren’t getting their due, she got mad. And then she decided to write poems for as many as she could

Carol Sutton Lewis, Sophie McNulty, The Lost Women of Science Initiative

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Public HealthFebruary 29, 2024

The Untold Story of the Black Nurses Who Helped Develop a Cure for Tuberculosis

Black nurses worked through unsanitary conditions and racial prejudice to help patients through the debilitating disease TB before a cure was found—with their help

Carol Sutton Lewis, Sophie McNulty, The Lost Women of Science Initiative