Posts tagged ‘biology’

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Esther Orozco, cell biologist, winner of the 1997 Pasteur medal, and a 2006 laureate of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science.

Linkspammed today: is geek feminism feminist enough, pronoun swap the Internet, and racism in Silicon Valley.

… you have to admit, it’s pretty! You also have to admit that we haven’t had an open thread in a while. Thus, this is an open thread for general discussion on any topic.

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

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

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Charlie McCord, a PhD candidate in biology at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on biomechanics in fish feeding and the morphology of fish jaws.

Jane Goodall at the Ottawa Writer’s Festival by Terriko. The post about smurfs and animals got me thinking about little girls who love animals, and thus got me thinking about Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee expert ...

What the hell. It’s geeky. And this is a fairly new (published 2006) finding about komodo dragons. To quote from Wikipedia: On December 20, 2006, it was reported that Flora, a captive Komodo dragon living ...

This one’s from last month, but it was sent to me after my last quick hit and I couldn’t resist the urge to share another story of young folk doing ground-breaking science work: “We discovered ...

In anticipation of a December/January slowdown, we’re reposting some older writing for the benefit of new (and nostalgic!) readers. This piece originally appeared on Oct 17, 2009. It comes up a lot in discussions of ...

This is a guest post by L. Minter. L. Minter is a feminist biology student and a blogger at Feminist Book Club. Rachel Carson was born on a farm in Pennsylvania where she was an ...

Valerie’s Conference anti-harassment policy is under discussion at LWN and Hacker News (‘ware: both sites well known for faily comments, although as of writing LWN is doing mostly OK). LWN’s article will be de-paywalled in ...

This is a guest post by L. Minter. L. Minter is a feminist biology student and a blogger at Feminist Book Club. Rosalind Franklin was a British scientist who made significant contributions, but whose work ...

I was surfing around on Vagina Dentata which I stumble across periodically (most recently in our last linkspam) but have not quite got to feed-reader-adding yet. This is poor form I admit — I’ll go right off ...

It comes up a lot in discussions of women in computer science, women who write code, women in open source. Eventually, someone brings up the fact that women score slightly lower on math tests. Clearly, ...