Greg Underhill

Huge congratulations to Marcus Smith and Sam Underhill on 50 caps. Both special talents and good guys ❤️

50 up for Sam Underhill 👏

She kept finding women in laboratory photographs from the 1800s. Then she read the published papers—and every single woman had vanished. Someone had erased them from history. Yale University, 1969. Margaret Rossiter was a graduate student studying the history of science. She was one of very few women in her program. Every Friday afternoon, students and faculty gathered for beers and informal conversation. One week, Margaret asked a simple question: "Were there ever any women scientists?" The faculty answered firmly: No. Someone mentioned Marie Curie. The group dismissed it—her husband Pierre really deserved the credit. Margaret didn't argue. But she also didn't believe them. So she started looking. She found a reference book called "American Men of Science"—essentially a Who's Who of scientific achievement. Despite the title, she was shocked to discover it contained entries about women. Botanists trained at Wellesley. Geologists from Vermont. There were names. There were credentials. There were careers. The professors had been wrong. But Margaret's discovery was just the beginning. Because as she dug deeper into archives across the country, she found something far more disturbing. Photograph after photograph showed women standing at laboratory benches, working with equipment, listed on research teams. But when she read the published papers, the award citations, the official histories—those same women had disappeared. Their names were missing. Their contributions erased. It wasn't random. It was systematic. Women who designed experiments watched male colleagues publish results without giving them credit. Women whose discoveries were assigned to supervisors. Women listed in acknowledgments instead of as authors. Women passed over for awards that went to male collaborators who contributed far less. Margaret realized she was witnessing a pattern that stretched across centuries. Women had always been present in science. The record had simply pushed them aside. She needed a name for what she was documenting. In the early 1990s, she found it in the work of Matilda Joslyn Gage—a 19th-century suffragist who had written about this exact phenomenon in 1870. In 1993, Margaret published a paper formally naming it: The Matilda Effect. The term captured something that had been hidden in plain sight for generations. Once you knew the term, you saw it everywhere. Her dissertation became a lifelong mission. For more than 30 years, Margaret researched and wrote her landmark three-volume series: Women Scientists in America. She examined letters, institutional policies, individual careers. She gathered undeniable evidence that women in science had been consistently under-credited and structurally excluded. Her work faced resistance. Many dismissed women's history as political rather than academic. Others insisted she was exaggerating. Margaret didn't argue emotionally. She presented data. Documented cases. Patterns repeated across decades and institutions. Eventually, the evidence became undeniable. Her research helped restore recognition to scientists who had been erased: Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray work revealed DNA's structure—credit went to Watson and Crick. Lise Meitner, who explained nuclear fission—omitted from the Nobel Prize. Nettie Stevens, who discovered sex chromosomes—received little credit. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered stars are made of hydrogen—initially dismissed. And countless others whose names had nearly vanished. Margaret changed the narrative. Science was no longer just the story of solitary male geniuses. It became a story of collaboration that included women who had been written out. The Matilda Effect became standard terminology. Scholars used it to examine how credit is assigned, how authors are listed, who receives awards, who gets left out.

@jaredwright17 He actually said ‘I’m not a medic, I’m not ref so I’m staying out’

Sam Underhill is here to stay 😍✍ Committed to the Blue, Black and White for another two seasons, Sam Underhill is our latest renewal to be unpacked! Welcome to this year's collection, Sam 💙 #OurJourney

"You’re never as bad as people think you are and never as good as people think you are." #Guinnessm6n rugbypass.com/news/sam-under…

England flanker Sam Underhill says he has sympathy with Ospreys players amid uncertainty surrounding the future of the region 🏉 #BBCRugby

Is there not a single rugby union fan in #Wales, the UK, Europe and maybe the world, who is not appalled by the plans to kill the @Ospreys? I live in Cardiff, watch regularly at the Arms Park - because I love rugby. But rugby in Wales is unthinkable without the #Ospreys!

🌟 The fans have voted! Here is your @Capgemini Team of the Series selected from the top performing Northern Hemisphere players 💪 #QuilterNS #QCNS #TransformingSports #TryzoneIQ

Fans favorite 👏🗳️ Congratulations to Sam Underhill and Ollie Lawrence who have both been selected in this year's Northern Hemisphere 'Capgemini' Team of the Series 💪 Selected by supporters, both Sam and Ollie are amongst 7️⃣ England players who have been recognised for their impact in this season's Autumn campaign.

Email hello@headforchange.org.uk to get involved. #ComeWalkWithMe #BePartOfTheSolution

𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 @dyson 📈⬆️ After Saturday's win against Bristol Bears, Sam Underhill has now scored 100 points for Bath Rugby! Some warrior this guy 💯

A huge thank you to our amazing NHS staff working this bank holiday 💙 Your dedication keeps our communities safe and cared for — even on days off. We see you. We appreciate you. 👏

For Thorpey ❤️ An incredible touch of class from Joe Root after reaching his 39th Test century. #BBCCricket #ENGvIND

Love this picture!! Deserved rewards for a great season and it includes one of the most important men in Bath's season and England's performance last night. Attack coaches can make the world of difference 🔵⚫⚪

Thank you guys!! See you soon

🫶🏻 thank you, that was crazy good.

14/6/2025 🏆🏆🏆

Treble complete for @BathRugby 🏆🏆🏆 #Premiership #Rugby

🏆 @BathRugby have made history 👏 #GallagherPremFinal