by, for, and about women in science, technology, engineering, & math

Here in Boston, it’s one of the first spring-like days: hooray! Here are some links for your weekend enjoyment:

• Brown University’s Artemis Program for 9th grade girls interested in science and tech is seeking funding.

• The Free Software Foundation is also seeking donations to their Women’s Travel Fund to help get more women to this year’s LibrePlanet conference in Cambridge

• The National Center for Women & Information Technology is offering an award for high school girls interested in computing.

• 15 Female Scientists Who Changed the World — who else would you include?

• Rebecca Skloot talks about her new book on Henrietta Lacks, a poor black tobacco farmer whose cancer cells were harvested without her consent — descendants of those cells have contributed to a lot of advances in cancer research and are still in use in labs.

• And just for LOLz: Scientific Americat!

• New on our blogroll:

Inkling (tagline: “life in the girl nerd world”), an online science mag that also features great ladygeek content like a gallery of geeky women and the geek perspective on birth control

Skepchick, where a group of mostly female bloggers write about science and skepticism (and recently, what most people won’t tell you about pregnancy (kind of terrifying!))

• ReadWriteWeb posts about why we need tech events for women
• Girl-wonder.org has a page up about the Con Anti-Harassment Project
• Bao Phi blogs at Racialicious about being a nerd of color
• Restructure! blogs about male IT geeks thinking they are low-status and venture capitalists consciously rewarding candidates for being white and male
• There’s been a lot of buzz about Google Buzz, and [trigger warning] its potentially serious privacy concerns. Are you using it? Do the privacy issues affect whether you’re using it?
• Notes from a mini-conference on how to make women welcome in tech at Agile Open Northwest
• As was mentioned here before, “computer engineer” was in the running for Barbie’s next career — and it turns out computer engineering Barbie will be produced!
• PhDork at The Pursuit of Harpyness writes about feminism in the classroom and her experiences teaching a class where male students volunteer to talk more often
• Nadya Fouad, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, studies the reasons girls don’t stick with math and science
• At Salon, Kate Harding writes about Christine Alvarado and Linda Geddes, women who’ve developed or expressed their scientific leanings through “girly” means (My Little Pony and weddings)!
• And for your Friday dose of science+cuteness=win, a neuroscience study guide… with cats!