Not the Only One

The book isn’t all numbers. Besides copious amounts of data, the book provides revealing vignettes of the experiences of women in science, along with telling examples of institutional practices, both past and present. Nature, for instance, used the phrase ‘men of science’ in its mission statement until the year 2000, and did not have a female editor-in-chief until 2018. My favourite example, also from 2018, concerns Donna Strickland, physicist at the University of Waterloo in Canada, who rece...

Queensland abandoned several SDM tools in 2022, after researchers from Griffith University found racial bias and risk factors that were more likely to affect Aboriginal families facing historic disadvantage and discrimination.

Learning how to work within a system that you can’t escape from does not entail recognizing that system as legitimate.

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Things I did not expect to need to put in Merge Request approval comment: "Do not use this term, even in code comments.", with link to wiki article about why it is an offensive term. #ableism

It’s been a good day - had some great conversations and have some interesting volunteering work lined up. Also had an enquiry to teach #Braille to some #Deafblind learners in my local area who’re struggling to find anyone. I’ve no specific experience but would like to help if I possibly can as I do teach blind / partially sighted learners, so I’m now off down an internet rabbit hole to see if I can find some useful resources. Any advise from those in the know gratefully received!

Lucy Salani (12 August 1924 - 22 March 2023) was an Italian activist and the only known Italian transgender person to have survived the Nazi concentration camps.Born in Fossano and raised in Bologna, Salani was understood to be a homosexual man before undergoing gender reassignment surgery later in her life. An anti-fascist, she deserted both the fascist Italian and the Nazi German armies during World War II, before getting caught and deported to the Dachau concentration camp in 1944, where s...