Right now @l_avrot & @karenhjex are on stage at #pgconfeu demonstrating creativity on steroids (!!!!) to shine a light on the challenges women face navigating a male-dominated tech world, including in Postgres… The talk is “Trying to be Barbie in Ken's Mojo Dojo Casa House” & I applaud Lætitia’s & Karen’s courage in giving this talk #Barbie#PostgreSQL#database#diversity#womenintech
Some say the event’s co-organizer, Julia Krisina, is also a fake. “She posts the same content he does with a time delay. He is catfishing, using her image, as she is his female mouthpiece,” says Fong-Jones. “There are screenshots of him being logged into two accounts as well as Julia’s account.”
Fake female speakers represent more than just ethical violations. “This is all so incredibly damaging to women working in technology,”
It's 2023. If you still can't find anyone besides your white male friends to speak at conferences, time to step aside and get out of the way.
"Imagine a tech conference having no CFP, as they reach out to speakers directly. They successfully attract some of the most heavy hitter men speakers in tech, and 3 women speakers.
Now imagine my surprise that 2 of those women are FAKE profiles.
Looking forward to reading this book by @histoftech that just arrived in the post on Friday! Got a book on Theranos to finish, after which this has leapfrogged into the next spot! 📚
Winding my way through life and learning more about myself along the way. Will be sharing my thoughts and a bit of my day to day, as well as my hobbies. Will look forward to meeting new people along the way!
We'll be guest lecturing at the Royal College of Art in London next week for RCA masters (of research) students. Will be lovely to share some of our collective's processes and experiments! Co-thinking/making in a collective comes with it's challenges but also so many great rewards when you operate as one multi-tendrilled unit. 🐙
Du studierst Informatik oder ein verwandtes Fach? Du bist Studentin in Berlin und Umgebung (Potsdam, Wildau...)? Du möchtest Dich mit anderen MINT-Studentinnen und mit Studentinnen, die bei FOKUS arbeiten sowie mit Wissenschaftlerinnen aus unserem Institut vernetzen?
Wir freuen uns ganz besonders, dass bei unserem nächsten Treffen im November Dr. Martina Niemann, Vorstand Finanzen/Controlling und Vorstand Angebotsmanagement von DB Cargo, vor Ort dabei sein wird. Sie kann Eure Karrierefragen basierend auf über 25 Jahren Führungserfahrung beantworten.
OpenGeoHub welcomes 2 new staff to our team: Nkem Nora Ehujuo and Tianyu Yang. We are proud to be running a #DeepTech organization on Laddies ingenuity #Womenintech embracing #ethnodiversity and #neurodiversity. Because solutions to solving the climate crisis and loss of biodiversity is in our own diversity. We are now speaking 15 languages!
Missing on the picture: Robert Minarik and Leandro Parente.
Meet the Ladies of Swift Leeds 💃❤️ Four badass speakers, and enough ladies to fill the stage! Can't wait to see the numbers grow even more in 2024 🤩 #WomenInTech#LadiesOfSwiftLeeds#SwiftLeeds
"Women were disproportionately affected by those cuts, making up 69.2% of all tech layoffs, according to The Women Tech Network. And that's on top of the industry's ongoing gender imbalance. Women hold just 26% of jobs across all STEM occupations and even less — 24% — in computer fields, according to the latest available data from the U.S. Department of Labor."
The decisive influence of women on the development of #LispMachine processors and #Scheme in general is criminally under-discussed:
"We had heard that Lynn Conway from Xerox and Carver Mead from Caltech were making real progress on making it possible for people who were not at a chip-fab facility to specify chips for experimental designs. In the Spring of '78 we invited Lynn Conway to teach the class on #VLSI design that she was working on with Carver Mead. Just a few years earlier Guy L. Steele Jr., (then my graduate student) and I invented a simplified but elegant version of the #LISP family of languages that we called Scheme. Guy and I wrote a number of internal memos (Lambda the Ultimate...) that later became famous. Guy enrolled in Lynn's class. For his term project he designed and fabricated a direct interpreter for Scheme, called Scheme-78. It didn't quite work (because of three missing wires); it didn't have a garbage collector; and it was too small to do anything impressive; but it encouraged us to try again. Over the next few months Guy Steele, Jack Holloway, and I designed a new interpreter that we thought could actually be run on a real memory and tested with real programs. I designed the register array, Guy and I developed the microcode. Jack made a PLA generator that could hold the microcode, and we roped Alan Bell of #XeroxPARC into assembling the Scheme-79 Chip. We pulled this off in a few man-months of time and it worked! Scheme-79 had a mark-sweep #GarbageCollector with a Deutsch-Schorr-Waite mark algorithm and a two-finger compacting sweep. It also had a two-level microcode: The main PLA contained rather high-level microcode instructions that were further elaborated by a nanocode PLA that operated the register array.
Further encouraged, I started a new project to make a chip that was actually big enough and fast enough to be useful to run real research programs. This was the Scheme-81 chip. It was a 32-bit machine, with 6 bits of type code and 26 bits of address. It had microcode support for everything required to make a Scheme computer operating system, including a stop-and-copy garbage collector, a coprocessor bus, and an interrupt system. For Scheme-81 the microcode was written by Richard Stallman, Chris Hanson, and me. (Steele had graduated and moved on to CMU as faculty.)"
Our third announced keynoter is: Kaylea Champion @kaylea, Ph.D. student at the University of Washington researching many things related to free/libre/open source. She is an advocate for women in technology and past SeaGL presenter.
My name's Megan, originally from Minnesota but living in the UK which is now home. Always something in my mind and will post about it here. Hope you have a wonderful day!
July 18, 1992: The First Photo Uploaded to the Web, of CERN’s All-Girl Science Rock Band "Les Horribles Cernettes" ("The Horrible CERN Girls" in English)
The group sang love songs about colliders, quarks, liquid nitrogen, microwaves, and antimatter in ’60s-inspired outfits.
(the article contains the songs and funny lyrics, it's not that bad! 😀 )
Fun to participate in a panel on open source that was 100% women and had absolutely nothing to do with being a woman in open source. I hope one day this will be so commonplace I don't even notice it.
Joint event by R-Ladies Cologne (@cosima_meyer and
Gabe Winter) and R-Ladies Bergen (Jonelle and me): we're thrilled to be hosting Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel who will teach us about Quarto 🥳 👩💻
This is a kick-off event for a brand-new book club, where we'll be going through the book "Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R". Come, join us!
I'm Lily, a proud trans lesbian from Denver, a mom of a 12 year old, and am engayged to the love of my life!
I'm a neurodivergent woman in tech working as a Senior SRE at Writer and was previously the admin of outdoors.lgbt and firefish.lgbt
For fun I like to hang out with my kiddo, play guitar, snowboard, go camping, play videogames, hang out at the local lesbian bar, and see whatever kind of trouble my partner @deb and I can get into on the weekends.