- io9 interviews Liza Trombi and Kirsten Gong Wong, the new editor and managing editor of the SF magazine “Locus”.
- A cool job post through the Language Creation Society. Linguists take note!
- Hilary Lister, first quadriplegic to sail solo around Britain — but the bit I liked is that she’s also a biochemist. Nerd sailors represent!
- I want to play too! by Selasphorus over on Shakesville, about video games’ screwed up views on sex and gender.
- Alas, A Blog on The Bechdel Test and Race in Popular Fiction, and which SF/F TV shows pass.
- The F-Word Blog reviews Bluestockings, about women at English universities from 1869-1948.
- Inside Higher Ed reviews The University of Texas at Austin’s initiatives to hire women into senior academic positions rather than waiting for them to trickle up the promotion ladder (via tigtog).
- Suzanne’s Bookshelf describes a Where are the women? discussion in Bible blogging (via Jonquil in comments).
- Yonmei over at Feminist SF writes a heartbreaking post about Alan Turing (who was convicted of gross indecency for homosexual acts) and Orson Scott Card (who supports such criminalisation).