Posts tagged ‘physics’

This week’s Wednesday Geek Women are Moran Paldi, game designer; Leena van Deventer, gaming writing; and Catriona Wimberley, medical physics student.

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.

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

Women in genre fiction, a non-physicist at CERN, open journal access as a feminist issue, and more!

This is a guest post by Maya. This entry originally appeared at the Project Exploration blog. Sally Ride was born in 1951 in Los Angeles, California. As a young woman, her interests included science and ...

The Wednesday Geek Woman series is mostly on hiatus. Remaining WGW posts are appearing sporadically. This is a guest post by Shauna, a psychologist, programmer, writer and blogger. Lise Meitner was born into an affluent ...

Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All White Men: If white, male elites started saying, I will not participate in your panel, event, or article if it is all about white ...

Grants to attend AppSec USA 2011: For the first time, the OWASP Foundation is gathering sponsors for a program to increase the participation of women in the field of application security. The grants are for ...

The Wednesday Geek Woman series is mostly on hiatus. Remaining WGW posts will appear sporadically over the next few months. This is a guest post by Jennifer, an Australian actuary and feminist who blogs at ...

Words and Offense: Of course slurs are still bad… Offense is just not the reason why. Systemic oppression, concept association and a phenomenon known as hostile tagging (where the phrase either tags a person as ...

Wednesday Geek Woman submissions are currently open. This is a guest post. Emmy Noether was one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th Century. Noether’s (first) theorem, which states that for every symmetry in ...

A Very Special Episode of Grey Areas: Privilege Denying Dude Edition: In social justice, not all tactics that are divisive are effective, but all tactics that are effective are divisive. That doesn’t mean we should ...

Wednesday Geek Woman submissions are currently open. This is a guest post by Twostatesystem. Twostatesystem is a physicist and feminist who wants to see his field be open and welcoming to all people. There are ...

This is a guest post by Megan. Megan is a life-long geek and feminist currently working towards a PhD in Chemistry. Émilie du Châtelet is one of the most under-celebrated scientists of the Age of ...

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The Finding Ada blog says an upcoming biopic of Ada Lovelace needs support from people willing to publicise the film, especially inside the United States. There’s been discussion on feminist blogs about the interpretation of ...