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raveneyeart · 5 months

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Diversity win! For the first time in science it’s actually the woman taking credit for a man’s work!

#referring to Liv #she should do it more #I was trying to find the text that said that she took credit #it’s really funny that he thought up the collider #I love them both so much #olivia octavius #spiderverse #doc ock #across the spiderverse #into the spiderverse #jonathan ohnn #the spot #woman in stem

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code-es · 1 year

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The women who laid the foundation of tech

EDIT: I noticed that this post ended up being reblogged by terfs. If you're transphobic this post is not for you to reblog. I want to celebrate everyone who is not a cis man in this industry, including trans women and nonbinary people in tech, and it was my mistake to only include cis women in this post when there are so many trans women and nonbinary people who have done great things in tech as well. Trans women are women and just as important.

Here you can read about trans ppl in tech, and please do:

https://www.thecodingspace.com/blog/2022-03-01-six-trans-programmers-who-shattered-the-lavender-ceiling/

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/transgender-tech-visibility-obstacles-remain/story?id=76374628

The morning of women's day i attended a super inspiring seminar about being a woman in tech at a large tech company in my city, and now I'm inspired to share what I learned with all of you!

I didn't have time to finish this post on women's day, but it's not too late to post now: every day is a day to celebrate women!

Women actually laid the foundation for a lot of the tech industry.

For example, the first computer, ENIAC, was programmed completely by women! While men were the behind the scenes engineers, it was women who did all the actual programming of ENIAC.

The women who made up the team responsible for programming it were called Jean Bartik, Kay McNulty, Betty Holberton, Marlyn Wescoff, Frances V. Spence and Ruth Teitelbaum.

I think one woman who is finally getting her overdue recognition is Ada Lovelace. She was a mathematician (also often referred to as the first programmer) who created the first algorithm in 1842, which wasn't recognized until 1953! However, since none of her machines were ever completed it was never tested in practice during her time.

She has since been celebrated by giants such as google, and she has given name to a programming language (Ada). She was also the first person to write about what is today known as AI. Back when she was practicing, computers were simply thought of as calculators. But she had an idea that if computers can understand numbers, then that can be translated to letters, and in turn that can lead to computers being able to handle words, and eventually even write, draw and create music.

Hedy Lamarr was a famous Hollywood actress in the 40's, but she was also an inventor who laid ground for what we use today for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS services.

During WW2 she wanted to contribute positviely to the military efforts against the Nazis, and she tried to figure out how to radio control torpedoes. In 1942 she patented her technology "Secret Communications System", also known as frequency hopping, which laid the foundation for the technology we use today for Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth. It wasn't until 1962 that it was first used for its intended purpose, during the cuban missile crisis.

Grace Hopper invented the first compiler, called A-0, in 1955, and was also part of the Univac team, which was the company also responsible for building ENIAC. She also initiated work on the COBOL programming language.

She was also the one to coin the term "bug" in 1947. Computers back then had lights to visualize their working process (which was also a womans idea to implement btw) and bugs would be attracted to the lights, but usually that was no issue - until a bug made its way into a tube which caused the computer to stop working. Hopper taped the bug to a piece of paper and logged what caused the crash - a bug.

Dorothy Vaughan (left), alongside colleagues such as Katherine Johnson (middle) and Mary Jackson (right), was a mathematician at NASA (called NACA when she started) who worked on the orbit for the first ever manned spaceflight and later also on Apollo 11 that would take humanity to the moon!

When Vaughan started at what was then called NACA, segregation was still prevalent in the US and she was not allowed in the same areas in the office as her white colleagues. Another department was formed for the black staff, and when the director of said department unexpectedly died, she was appointed as the new director and thus became the first ever black woman at that position at NACA/NASA. In 1958 when NACA becomes NASA segregation is forbidden, and that is when Vaughan and her colleagues Johnson and Jackson started working on programming the orbit and later also Apollo 11.

Continuing on the same track of NASA and space, Margaret Hamilton was the Apollo project's first actual programmer. Hamilton became the director of software engineering at NASA in 1965, and she was also the person to first coin the term !

In the image above, she stands next to all the handwritten code that was used to send humanity to the moon. During the early stages of the project when she would speak of "sofware engineering", software development was not taken as seriously as other forms of engineering, and it wasn't regarded as a science, either. She wanted to legitimize software development as an engineering discipline, and overtime the term "software engineering" gained the same respect as any other technical discipline.

And lastly, if you're a woman in STEM, I want to highlight and celebrate you! Being a woman in a male dominated industry is not easy, we often suffer from sterotype threat and are not seen as our own individuals, but rather "the woman" in a room full of men. But just as these women, I'm sure you will achieve greatness!!

Here are some additional resources if you'd like to learn more:

https://www.history.com/news/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-job-so-it-was-paid-less-and-undervalued

https://digitalfuturesociety.com/programming-when-did-womens-work-become-a-mans-world/

And this was mainly my source for this post, but it's unfortunately only available in Swedish:

Thank you for reading ✨

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sock-ness-monster · 1 year

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My soil texture triangle post has become popular beyond my wildest dreams so sorry not sorry to report that soil texture triangle is old news in this new year its all about

✨️Anura Limb Length and their Adaptions✨️

#soil texture triangle #anura limb length and their adaptations #anura #frogs #toads #graphs #animal science #herpetology #wildlife science #fisheries and wildlife science #woman in stem #science #biology #zoology

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violecov · 5 months

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Emmy Noether!

One of the greatest mathematicians in history

#amazing commission #emmy noether #maths #mathematics #rings #mathematical rings #woman in stem #personal fav

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spicyspell · 10 months

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Dinner time! (Ludmilla edition)

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stringeddoll · 6 months

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studying for a midterm i have on system analysis tomorrow !! :3

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zzzzzestforlife · 1 month

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Software Engineer Diaries: Project Completion Day 🎊👩‍💻🎊

after much struggle, my second project ever coordinated in my short career is now complete!! 🚀 (give or take a few items, but i need to think of this as finished NOW or else i will lose all the sanity i have left)

❤️ breathwork meditation

👩‍💻👩‍💻 fight with the same last two lines of code for basically the whole day until it finally deploys successfully + document all the struggles so that it will be easier for others in the future

👩‍💻 send success metrics for my manager to report to the Big Boss Manager

👩‍💻 got our mascot intern to represent the team at company-wide meeting and demo the project

👩‍💻 internal testing meeting

👩‍💻 organize + plan remaining tasks to officially close out the project for good

🥰🥰🥰 physiotherapy exercises + leg day pt. 3 + went for a walk

🧠 lo-fi + study!!

❤️ journal

📝📝 Chinese lessons

🦷 the reward for my hard work today is a visit to my dentist, lol

💌: i skipped two meals today because i was so frustrated and rushing to meet our deadlines, but from now on (or at least until my next project) i want to remind myself that i do not code for life or death situations like these engineers do 💀

bonus: how to code in Korean (a totally unserious step-by-step guide with pictures)

step 1 (left): whisper 제발 (please) under your breath while it runs, step 2 (right): whisper 좆됐어 (it's fucked) under your breath when it fails, step 3: repeat until step 2 no longer occurs 🐰

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xpc-web-dev · 1 year

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No, you are not alone. I also start things, give up, procrastinate, live the future and not the present and complain about my life not moving forward while I spend time looking at other people's lives.

Hello everyone, how are you?

I hope well.

I was thinking of giving up this tumblr and just as I started everything from scratch to study programming (github, linkedin, notion and I even created another google account) start a new tumblr.

I even commented briefly a few weeks ago with @lostlibrariangirl who supported me to just continue on this one and see my evolution. And today I was thinking that this could be cool not only for me, but for other dropouts, who are frustrated that they think they'll never get to where they want to go and et cetera.

If you've been following me since the beginning of this year, you've already seen that I never completed any course and I assume that I gave up on the most difficult parts, besides the constant anxiety of getting a job in technology and thinking that I would never get it and that made me procrastinate, suffer and not live the present studying.

I gave up on one of the scholarships I got and now I'm catching up on the delay (it's until the 7/30th)

Nowadays my mental health has improved a lot, thanks to my elders.

And also thanks to them I understood that I was going around in circles, being lazy, not trying 100%, being stubborn in a stupid way (for me stubbornness is a quality, if you know how to use it) and spending too much time on other people's lives and not mine.

Also, today it's easier for me not to feel so much anxiety because I no longer have the goal of getting a job registered as a dev this year, so I'm starting to learn from scratch EVERYTHING AGAIN only this time better and really trying hard.

In my case I wasn't doing my best, trying hard and that's why I fell so many times. I don't like the word failure/failure, as I learned from an older, mistake it's study/learning and not failure.

Now in May, for example, I started studying Linux from scratch (my system that I'm confused to understand), git and github. I was all this time without really understanding these 3 tools, just doing it without understanding / in a lazy way and that didn't give me confidence.

And I don't think we need to memorize it, but it's nice to understand and practice.

This print from above is me studying after writing and repeating to myself that I WILL ONLY START a new cycle after ending the old one.

And I hope to share this journey here.

I have a lot to study, whether in back-end or front-end, but I'm not in a hurry and that's why I'm progressing.

So if you're reading this far and you're going through the same thing I was, I wanted to give you some unsolicited advice.

Spend your energy, do physical exercises. Because anxiety can only be resolved with a psychiatrist, but exercises help.

Understand why you procastine, what is making you feel frustrated or afraid? Did you find out? How can you solve this?

If you don't finish something to start another and it HURTS you (if it doesn't hurt, that's fine), try to understand why you give up? Where is making you insecure / afraid? And after you understand this, strive to finish everything you start (I know it's hard, but we need this)

Get off social media for a bit. For me tumblr is what I spend the least time on, but it's very easy to lose hours on instagram and tiktok.

And guess what, that time we spend doesn't come back and unless you work with these networks that ALSO won't give you any money / jobs.

So, if possible, start to regulate your period in these environments. At first it's difficult because your brain is addicted, but after a while it works out and your version of the future (if you invest that time studying and working) will thank you.

I wish you all to be well and not sabotage yourself to achieve your goals.

#codeblr #woman in stem #software development #womanintech #studyblog #coding #software engineering #code #studyblr #algorithms #study community #discipline #I'm bac #i'm back #Finish what you start to start another #computerscience

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sleeplessant · 19 days

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After much suffering, I can finally say I'm pretty fucking stupid for someone with a PhD.

#phd life #physics #science girlie #woman in stem #finally phDone #i feel like the biggest imposter but that won't stop me getting a postdoc salary

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cursemyexistences · 3 months

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born a tortured artist, forced to be a woman in stem

#i’m just good at math #it’s no one’s fault really #study girl #girl blogging #girlblogging #coquette #light acadamia aesthetic #it girl #dark acadamia aesthetic #dollette #classic academia #romantic academia aesthetic #girlhood #this is a girlblog #just girly thoughts #i’m just a girl #just girly things #silly girl #woman in stem

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falloutnewnobody · 3 months

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old world blues is exactly how it feels to be a research assistant in academia.

like the whole plot is going somewhere to learn more about a cool mystery and being essentially held hostage by a team of petty egomanics (PIs/professors) that force you to bust your ass 25/8 with litle to no assistance along the way, just so they can one up their equally petty narcissist of a rival

the only difference is that the sink is twice the size of the average grad student's apartment.

#source: trust me bro #fallout #fallout new vegas #fnv #woman in stem #academic weapon #fnv dlc #old world blues

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vivixxenart · 30 days

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OC Brianna 🔧⚙️🔨

#art #artwork #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital commisions #digital fanart #my art #illustration #oc #oc art #original character #femalecharacters #woman in stem #2d character #photoshop #fanart #character design #character art

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just-beinghuman · 9 months

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Day 12/13

I’m combining yesterday and today because exam revisions consumed my life and I’m just now finding a moment to take a breath and post. I spent my day writing a lab report about aspirin synthesis for my lab tomorrow. The lab part itself was actually really cool and I learned a lot, but the 10 page lab report was definitely a bit excessive for a summer course that is condensed into 5 weeks. I’m slowly getting a grove and figuring out my professors exam vibe so I’m hoping my exam score will reflect how hard I’ve been working. For whatever reason I’m struggling to pick up content but I’m hoping that my hard work pays off.

#pre med #pre-med #100 days of productivity #psychology #100 days of studying #studyspo #college life #student life #chemistry #college #summer classes #university #new studyblr #study tips #studyblr #woman in stem

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physicist-in-training · 1 year

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Friday 14 April

I haven't been enjoying studying as much lately, but I have a lot of exams to study for. This is my last round of exams before finals! This semester has really flown by for me.

Good news! I'm going to do research this summer at CERN! I'm really excited, but also quite scared because I've never even been on a plane by myself. It'll be scary because I'm not great at adapting to change, but I think it'll be really good for me. I think after showing myself that I can do something so scary, I'll feel more confident in my abilities and feel more prepared to write my grad school statements this fall.

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sapphicacademic · 8 months

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i am a woman in stem pSychology is liTerally a sciEnce, Motherfucker

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zzzzzestforlife · 4 months

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Software Engineer Diaries: Holiday Horror Story 🙀💀

a series of unfortunate events, but i won't be defeated 😤

how my morning went 👁️👄👁️

*checks my messages, expecting a pretty uneventful day*

my senior colleague in gc: 👋

me: huh? 👀

my other colleague: huh?? 👀👀

me: oh my god. he's been let go. (we've had so many layoffs at this point)

my other colleague: oh sh— 💣

our manager: yeah, he's been let go.

everyone: ....

"there's too much work, we need to shuffle things around"

it's like a bad Uno game where i put down one card (a.k.a. Jira ticket) and pick up 3 🃏

how my afternoon went 🏎��🏇🏃‍♀️

*rushing to get my newly assigned work done so that it's ready for demonstration at the company-wide meeting*

my manager: hey zesty, here's the project that fired colleague was working on, please get up to speed and take over

me: 😶

*starts messaging a bunch of people who were also working on the project to try to piece it together*

my other manager was super helpful in answering all my questions and figuring out the beginnings of a solution together 🙏🙏🙏

*firing off more messages to annoy everyone and their team mascot intern*

demo at the company-wide meeting and i am shitting myself 💩

because it's all on my local dev environment and so, so, so much of a work in progress and also someone interrupted me while i was talking but whatever 🙄

how my evening went ❤️‍🩹

meet with engineering department-head who liked my demo 🥰

*more coding noises* 👩‍💻

internal testing meeting for the thing i demo-ed and spent so long stressing over working on 😮‍💨

it's still so broken 💔

but at least it looks pretty ✨

*ignore my continuous stream of incoming messages as i write this post because that is a tomorrow problem* 😴

i can't wait for my vacation 😅

❤️ like to save a piece of zesty's sanity, lol

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