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Female Scientists Use #DistractinglySexy Campaign to Protest Nobel Winner’s...

Nothing like a sample tube full of cheetah poop to make you #distractinglysexy pic.twitter.com/tdBTLRos4p — Sarah Durant (@SarahMDurant) June 11, 2015 72-year-old British Nobel laureate Sir Tim “don’t...

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Intel’s $125 Million Diversity Equity Fund Invests in Minority and Female...

Intel’s 300 million diversity initiative is in action! Intel announced their goal to increase diversity both at Intel and in tech significantly by 2020 a while back, and it seem like they’re keeping...

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The Mary Sue Interview: Dr. Natasha Jackson-Booth on Rockets and Samarium...

October, 1955, a group of physicists examine a prototype for a baby jet that will propel itself using monoatomic oxygen in the atmosphere… indefinitely. February, 2015, Michael Heiland awakens on an...

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New Marie Curie Film Will Highlight the Bias Against Women in Science

We’ve had some great biopics recently about scientists like Alan Turing and Stephen Hawking, so I’m very excited to see a Marie Curie film in the works! It’s a French, German, and Polish co-production...

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Things We Saw Today: Cat Socks For Table Legs Protect Your Floor - Unlike...

These “Nekoashi,” or “cat feet,” will cover your chair legs and make them adorable! They also come in various designs so you can match them with your cat. High-five!  (via Fashionably Geek) Sony and...

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NASA Online Summer Mentoring Program Aims to Teach Young Girls About STEM -...

For the third consecutive year, NASA’s Girls and Boys program is looking to connect middle schoolers with NASA employees for a 5-week online summer program. The class is open to students grades 5...

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iBesties Use Gendered Toy Marketing Powers for Good to Get Girls Into STEM -...

Sisters Jenae and Gina Heitkamp are “disrupting the doll aisle” with iBesties, a series of dolls, books, and “edutainment” that promote entrepreneurship and technology to young girls. iBesties’ goal...

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Things We Saw Today: Batman v Superman Has Never Looked as Adorable as It...

  In more SDCC Exclusive news, Funko will be bringing this awesome(ly adorable) Batman v Superman two-pack with them to Comic-Con! (via Comic Book Resources) “Angel 8 is a cult science fiction TV...

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LEGO Adds Even More Female STEM Minifigs, & You Can Vote for Lovelace, Curie,...

We feel that showing kids you can aspire to any career, regardless of gender, is important. That’s why we’re always excited when we see LEGO sets depicting female minifigs in a variety of careers,...

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Girl Dismantles Boys-Only Robotics Program At Local Library - YES disassemble.

  When Cash Cayen, who spends lots of time at the Timmins Public Library in Timmins, Ontario saw a summer robotics program, she went to sign up only to be met with a big, bolded “special boys program.”...

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Subtle Facebook Redesign Puts Women First. Literally. - Fine, literally a...

Facebook’s people icons have long suffered from the sneaky sexism of assuming male is default. Just look at the friend request button at the top of your browser: a silhouette of a man with a smaller...

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Know a Girl Who Loves STEM? Jewelbots Programmable Friendship Bracelets...

Is there a girl in your life (or are you a girl) aged 9-14 who loves coding, technology, and cute accessories? Well, you’re in luck, because today is the launch of Jewelbots, programmable friendship...

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Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Resigns, Will Be Replaced by Site Co-Founder Steve Huffman

After a week of unrest on Reddit following the firing of AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor last Friday, the company’s interim CEO Ellen Pao has left the site in what The New York Times reports that the...

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Things We Saw Today: Firefly Online Brings Big Damn Heroes to SDCC - Can't...

Browncoats at San Diego Comic-Con take note! The Big Damn Heroes behind the awesome Firefly Online RPG are doing a panel at SDCC tonight! Room 6DE at 6:45PM PDT. Check them out! The Attack on Titan...

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Earth Celebrates New Horizons’ MOM, Mission Operations Manager Alice Bowman -...

Alice Bowman, APL: team “a mix of nervous and proud” as @NASANewHorizons continues historic journey #PlutoFlyby pic.twitter.com/lOP3ZEm3Ea — Johns Hopkins APL (@JHUAPL) July 14, 2015 New Horizons’...

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Six Hundred Scientists Come Together to Call Out Journal for Reinforcing...

You may remember a few weeks ago when the “Science Careers” section of Science‘s website quickly pulled down an advice column that suggested a postdoctoral researcher should “put up” with a pervy male...

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Netflix Creating Tween Series Featuring STEM-Skilled Spy Girls

A not-so-small part of Netflix’s plan for world domination capitalizing on entertainment has been its original series. While you and I have been busy watching back-to-back episodes of BoJack Horseman...

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13-Year-Old Coder/Gamer/Former Cheerleader/Keynote Speaker On Being...

Keila Banks was a keynote speaker at OSCON 2015 in Portland. Her speech was called “Undefinable Me: The story of a 13-year-old girl from the inner city who codes.” At the beginning of her speech,...

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Reddit Head of Community Jessica Moreno Becomes Fourth Senior Female Employee...

Two weeks after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman outlined a new set of guidelines for moderating content on the site, Reddit’s head of community, Jessica Moreno, has announced that she’s leaving the company....

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Black Girls CODE Helps Young Women of Color Get Into Tech

This past Sunday, the latest weekend session of Black Girls CODE came to an end. In case you don’t know, Black Girls CODE is an organization that is dedicated to increasing the number of women of...

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