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.

I always thought my friend Sarah summed up the appeal of My Little Pony the best: Once you believe in rainbow-coloured ponies who can talk, there isn’t much limit to your imagination.

Haecken CFP, gay YA, toxic menstruating women, and more.

How does the warning from the Open Video Conference about Cindy Gallop’s sexual talk content work for you?

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Branca Edmée Marques, sometime student of Marie Curie.

Want to remind the vast majority of women, especially breast cancer patients and survivors, that they aren’t sexy and compliant enough for your playground? Start a “save the tits” campaign today!

It’s the 45th anniversary of Star Trek today! I fell in love with the show during Star Trek: The Next Generation’s run, and in rewatching it with my sister I’ve been realizing a lot of ...

A skeptic finds menstrual synchrony evidence unconvincing, Elizabeth Bear doesn’t think the technological singularity is all that, men get more from professional networking, and more.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is early twentieth century archaeologist, Annette Laming-Emperaire.

Links for you! Is Wikipedia more or less gender-balanced than Encyclopædia Britannica? Is outing powerful tech figures OK? And how to praise girls.