Archive for November, 2011

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Margaret Dayhoff, quantum chemist and bioinfomatics pioneer.

I was nine years old when my frenemy Claudia (precociously elegant with her hair in a glossy pageboy) read aloud to me: “Lessa woke, cold.” Dragonflight was my first contraband, and F’lar one of my first crushes.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Women are historical scientist Mary Whiton Calkins and living scientist Elizabeth Spelke, both of whom have done work to debunk the Variability Hypothesis.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Mahananda Dasgupta, award winning professor of physics at the Australian National University, and the first woman to hold tenure at her research school.

Linkspam returns in an all-new series. IT workplaces, sexy superheroines and more.

Trigger warning for quoted harassment and threats in the entry and links.

Feminist writers are tweeting some of the abuse they have received on the #mencallmethings tag.

Tired of hearing the same arguments regarding sexism in games? Here’s a sexism in games bingo card by @fireholly99. Trigger Warning: Includes mention of violence against women. Additional Warning: This card has been copied verbatim ...

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Anne Street, MIT alumni, engineer, manager, and president of the MIT alumni association.

This will probably be another very occasional series. As you know, we have a wiki as well as a blog (in fact the wiki is more than a year older than the blog), and it ...