Archive for September, 2011

Ada Lovelace Day is a week from today. Publish a profile of a woman in STEM on 7th October.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Jill Bolte Taylor, brain scientist and stroke survivor.

[Warning for ableism.] Kathy Sierra has published a video about online harassment, particularly an incident in 2008 targetting people with epilepsy, transcripted here.

[Trigger warning.] Over 3000 people have signed a UK petition asking Facebook to delete a page that contains ‘joke’ posts about rape against women.

Maud Menten was one of the first Canadian women to receive a medical doctorate, in 1911. Women could not do research in Canada in those days, so she sailed alone across the Atlantic to work at Leonor Michaelis’ lab in Berlin.

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Linkspammed: GNOME Women’s Outreach, swearing in the work place, poor people and ebooks, and more.