Posts tagged ‘science’

Doesn’t this dance video for the Goodman Cancer Research Centre at McGill University kinda make you feel like it’d be an awesome place to work? Has your organization done anything fun and unusual that you’d ...

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.

While the discussions about pseudonym use on Google+ continues on, there’s a different front that opened up in mid-August: Science Blogs, which is the home of a huge number of top science blogs, has decided ...

More Wikipedia gender stats, encouragement to attend tech events, femme fatale gaming violence as porn, and more.

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

Today’s xkcd comic is about Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, and Emmy Noether: “Just remember that if you want to do this stuff, you’re not alone.” Discuss. Transcript below the fold, courtesy of Cheryl Trooskin-Zoller:

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 ...

Ada Lovelace Day, the once a year blogswarm highlighting women in technology will be held on October 7 (unlike the previous two years when it was held in March). More keynoters in the open source ...

Programming suggestions for WisCon, the feminist scifi convention, close tomorrow, Friday, 28 January. Anyone can submit an idea; just create a login. A recent IBM infomercial highlights the role of Patricia McHugh, designer of the ...

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 ...

Having been part of a field naturalist club when I was in public school, I really love stories of amateur scientists with big impacts: Ten-year-old Kathryn Gray had lots of fun over the winter holidays. ...

Call For Participation: Spectral Amoebas – A Blog Carnival about Asexuality and the Autism Spectrum: We are asexual bloggers on the autistic spectrum who want to explore the intersection between autistic and asexual identities. The ...

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 post was originally published at Restructure! Some tense and time markers have been updated. Some anti-oppressive thinkers distrust powerful institutions, and end up distrusting the scientific institution and even scientific knowledge itself. However, scientific ...

Recommendation letters could cost women jobs, promotions: Turns out women and men get different types of recommendation letters. “Female candidates were described in more communal (social or emotive) terms and male candidates in more agentic ...

This is cross-posted at Restructure! There is a common idea that women are underrepresented in tech startups because we are “nurturing and not risk-taking enough by nature”, an idea often proposed and upvoted in Hacker ...