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

• At Flickr, you can now browse or add your image to the group This is What a Computer Scientist Looks Like, featuring images of contemporary computer scientists, mostly women.
• The Anita Borg Institute has posted videos of the winners of their 2011 Women of Vision award: Chieko Asakawa, Mary Lou Jepsen, and Karen Panetta
• Futurity discusses subtle (and probably unintentional) gendering in job ads through the use of words like “competitive”/“dominant” (coded male) or “compassionate”/“nurturing” (coded female).
• Under The Microscope posts about a high school Women in Technology club that increased retention of girls in the computer science program by providing a social support network.
• Gail at The Female Perspective of Computer Science discusses the ways computer science is relevant to other academic realms.

• At CompSci Woman, Gail Carmichael talks about passion and problem solving in her work with computers.
• At GeekMom, MythBuster Kari Byron posts about how to get kids interested in science.
• Michelle Annett shares links to news articles about the multi-touch tabletop she helped to develop.
• Over 5% of Ubuntu Members are now women — up from 2.4% in 2006!

• Women 2.0 is running Women 2.0 Labs this summer — a 5-week program in San Francisco to share support, resources, and feedback with startup developers.

• The Anita Borg Institute is now accepting nominations for an award for the top company for technical women — recognizing companies that have excelled at recruiting, retaining, and providing a good working environment for technical women.

• Allyson Kapin at FastCompany blogs about the many structural problems that lead to male-run startups receiving much more prominence and success with venture capitalists than female-run startups.

• Gail Carmichael at the Female Perspective of Computer Science posts about applying general pedagogical techniques to computer science education.

• Sociological Images discusses a cartoon examining the early stereotyping and nudging in the marketing of children’s toys.

• The Age has an article about scientific evidence for sex biases; they also include some interesting anecdotes from two transgender scientists (a man and a woman) who talk about their differing experiences in the scientific community between being perceived as male and female.

• Geek Feminism posts about girls’ experiences with tinkering, and several women share their experiences about whether/how they were allowed to tinker with technology as a kid (and how their experiences differed from their brothers, where applicable).

• ReclaimPrivacy.org offers a GPL’d bookmarklet that will check your Facebook settings for privacy holes you might not have been aware of and help you plug them if you want.

• ThinkGeek has started a new line of Heroine t-shirts with cool designs of scientific and technical women on them — the first to be released are Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie. Awesome!

• Sigh. Yet again, we need instructions from a third party on how to prevent Facebook from sharing personal information without our permission

• Gail Carmichael at the Female Perspective of Computer Science responds to the contention that women in computing groups might not be useful – Gail’s post reflects on the enjoyable and useful experiences she’s had with the women in engineering group she helped start at her school

• Under the Microscope celebrates Earth Day by profiling oceanographer Sylvia Earle, conservation biologist Dee Boersma, and geographer/glaciologist Julienne Stroeve

• The Anita Borg Institute is seeking nominations for the Change Agent Awards, which recognize women working in technology in developing countries

• Next weekend, the Museum of Science in Boston will be featuring several women in science and engineering as speakers

• An inspiring Flickr group features images of techy women at conferences or doing other techy things

Welcome, new members/readers! Don’t forget that you can learn more about how to use the site by browsing the administrivia category of posts — and that if you have any questions or suggestions, you can get in touch with me at clara@stemming.org.

• There are four women in space right now, which is the most women that have ever been in space at one time. (See also: howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com)

• Teen Skepchick posts a satirical ten step guide to intellectual discussion in high school

• Gail Carmichael recaps her successful Carleton Celebration of Women in Science and Engineering

• Under the Microscope summarizes some recent studies on Women’s participation in STEM (most of the studies cite stereotypes and preconceptions as the main factors keeping women from entering these fields in greater numbers)

• Sophie Scott of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience critiques a Guardian profile of pharmacologist Susan Greenfield

• The AAUW posts about efforts to recruit women to teach physics

• Under the Microscope’s JoAnne Growney shares some of her mathematically-inspired poetry

• Girls Gather for Computer Science is a new summer program aimed at middle school students

• Kansas State’s Women in Engineering and Science program has been honored as the nation’s outstanding women in engineering program

• Greg Babe, CEO of Bayer, writes about why it’s important to encourage women and minorities in STEM

• The Anita Borg Institute profiles Jodi Forlizzi as part of their series on Women in Human-Computer Interaction

• Women at Ohio University are more likely to want to teach math than study it

• Don’t forget to be awesome: Geek Feminism shares a reserve of self-confidence tricks

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