Mastodon is only a decent community because we actively maintain it. If you see harassment, especially men targeting women, don't just scroll past. Call it out and report it. Let's keep the space clean. Take out the trash.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #FediTips #CommunityStandards #Safety #StopHarassment #WomenInTech #HumanRights

Mastodon is only a decent community because we actively maintain it. If you see harassment, especially men targeting women, don't just scroll past. Call it out and report it. Let's keep the space clean. Take out the trash.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #FediTips #CommunityStandards #Safety #StopHarassment #WomenInTech #HumanRights

I love and appreciate community events such as #Fosdem, but it makes me sad to see the gender imbalance in #foss tech. I'm aware of the issue, but being at such a large-scale event makes it very tangible and visible.

#deib #dei #diversity #opensource #womenintech #womeninSTEM

I love and appreciate community events such as #Fosdem, but it makes me sad to see the gender imbalance in #foss tech. I'm aware of the issue, but being at such a large-scale event makes it very tangible and visible.

#deib #dei #diversity #opensource #womenintech #womeninSTEM

And in all the excitement, I also forgot to mention that I've now been officially announced as a speaker for the local International Women's Day event in Groningen.

The marketing team made up a nice intro, so here's the quote from LinkedIn:

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🗣 Talk title: “Wandering the Man’s Plane: Remaining true to yourself as the only woman in the team.”

💡 What to expect: A reflection on what it means to build a career as a woman in a male-dominated tech industry, and how to navigate, challenge, and reshape that space.

#Groningen #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM

And in all the excitement, I also forgot to mention that I've now been officially announced as a speaker for the local International Women's Day event in Groningen.

The marketing team made up a nice intro, so here's the quote from LinkedIn:

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🗣 Talk title: “Wandering the Man’s Plane: Remaining true to yourself as the only woman in the team.”

💡 What to expect: A reflection on what it means to build a career as a woman in a male-dominated tech industry, and how to navigate, challenge, and reshape that space.

#Groningen #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM

@punissuer

But don't #menintech talk to #womenintech ?

Clearly not.

No one leads with this for obvious reasons, but every woman I know well enough to have a real conversation with (in tech or not) has plenty of stories to tell about harassment, marginalization and many out right assault before we even get to the complicated things like micro aggressions and structural/institutional misogyny.

@stepheneb @Em0nM4stodon

@punissuer

But don't #menintech talk to #womenintech ?

Clearly not.

No one leads with this for obvious reasons, but every woman I know well enough to have a real conversation with (in tech or not) has plenty of stories to tell about harassment, marginalization and many out right assault before we even get to the complicated things like micro aggressions and structural/institutional misogyny.

@stepheneb @Em0nM4stodon

"Before GPS became an everyday utility, it was a hard mathematical problem.
In the 1950s–70s, Gladys West, a mathematician at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia, worked on one of the most difficult challenges in satellite navigation: accurately modeling the Earth itself.
Modern GPS accuracy depends on:
• Precise satellite ephemerides
• Accurate gravitational field modeling
• Correct Earth reference frames
West’s work directly advanced all three.
Her contributions weren’t widely recognized at the time. In fact, it wasn’t until 2018 that she was inducted into the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame—decades after GPS reshaped global navigation, logistics, finance, defense, and mobile computing...
Before GPS could tell us where we are, someone had to define what the Earth actually looks like—mathematically…”
#Engineering #GPS #Geodesy #STEM #TechHistory #WomenInTech #DataScience #Infrastructure #WomenInGeoSpatial
H/T Evan Kirstel