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It starts from a young age. It starts by encouraging girls when they’re very young that it’s okay to be explorers, it’s okay to get your hands dirty, asking questions doesn’t make you weird… I think that’s a pressure that’s put on girls a lot more than it is boys.

Emily Graslie of thebrainscoop, on how to get girls interested in the sciences from a young age. (via sciencefriday)

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GOLDIEBLOX is looking for interns!!

The amazing pro-STEM toy company Goldieblox is looking for interns and they want to know if any Women Rock Science readers are interested. This is a paid internship and a fantastic opportunity to support Goldieblox in their mission “to help every little girl to understand that her potential isn’t limited by what she sees in the pink aisle.”

Click here to apply

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In high school I got all this guidance, like ‘Why do you want to take calculus? You’re just going to get married and have babies.’ Or 'What do you mean you want to take a physics course? You’re just going to be a housewife.’

Jill Tarter, astronomer and retired director of SETI Institute. She the inspiration for the main character in the Carl Sagan novel (and later movie) Contact, and was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in 2004. (via sciencefriday)

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- Cristina Yang, Grey’s Anatomy

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Women @ NASA

NASA currently employs 35 percent female workers, a number significantly below the national average. To combat this shortage, they’ve started their “Women @ NASA” campaign. It profiles the women currently working for NASA and targets new women by relating their stories – how they’ve overcome obstacles to be in prestigious positions today. Moving and inspirational, they hope to reach women who may otherwise have looked for work elsewhere. It’s worth noting that in addition to increased recruitment, NASA has programs to help retain current women employees. Flexible work schedules, telework, childcare centers, scholarship programs and wellness programs are among the many benefits that keep women at NASA and make it such an appealing prospect for women in the future. There has never been a better time to join the ranks of history-making women in the space industry.

To learn more about NASA’s Women of STEM website.

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“20-year-old Brittany Wenger of Sarasota, Florida, the ingenious Mighty Girl who won the 2012 Google Science Fair’s Grand Prize for her innovative breast cancer research, has been honored as one of Time’s "30 People Under 30 Changing the World.” As a high school student, Brittany built an artificial neural network to detect patterns in a large database of breast tissue samples, creating a low-cost and highly accurate method for diagnosing breast cancer.

She tested her computer program, Cloud4Cancer, in 7.6 million trials and found that it successfully helped doctors detect more than 99% of malignant tumors using a minimally-invasive procedure. Brittany was inspired to begin working on this research in the 10th grade after her cousin was diagnosed with the disease. Since receiving Google’s Grand Prize Award, this innovative young researcher has continued her efforts to make diagnosing cancer easier, cheaper, and more accurate. She built a custom, cloud-based “artificial neural network” to help diagnose patients with an aggressive form of leukemia called mixed-lineage leukemia or MLL. Brittany, who wants to be a pediatric oncologist, is now a student at Duke University where she continues to improve her Cloud4Cancer program through beta testing at hospitals. To watch Brittany’s TED talk on building a neural network in your bedroom, visit http://bit.ly/1CJjWaF – or read a recent essay by Brittany on HuffPost at http://huff.to/1rTgIlV“

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20+ TED Talks by Women in Computer Science

Here’s a YouTube playlist of 20+ TED talks by women in computer science.

Enjoy!

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#273 Because of women in science - part 6.

In an attempt to learn more about sexism in science, U.S Huffington Post Science asked women to share their experiences on the secret-sharing app Whisper. They were flooded with responses. Here are some of them:

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What was going on in 1984 that made so many women give up on computer science? This week’s Planet Money tries to unravel the mystery.

Data source: National Science Foundation, American Bar Association, American Association of Medical Colleges

Graph credit: Quoctrung Bui/NPR

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It starts from a young age. It starts by encouraging girls when they’re very young that it’s okay to be explorers, it’s okay to get your hands dirty, asking questions doesn’t make you weird… I think that’s a pressure that’s put on girls a lot more than it is boys.

Emily Graslie of thebrainscoop, on how to get girls interested in the sciences from a young age. (via sciencefriday)

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Women In Science by meganleestudio // meganlee.etsy.com

• Mary Anning - fossil collector and paleontologist whose discovreies made fundamental changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth. • Ada Lovelace - mathematician considered to be the world’s first computer programmer. • Marie Curie - pioneer in the field of radioactivity, as well as the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes in both physics and chemistry. • Lise Meitner - nuclear physicist who was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission. • Emmy Noether - mathematician known for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. • Cecelia Payne - astronomer and astrophysicist who discovered that the universe is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. • Barbara McClintock - cytogeneticist best known for her discovery of transposition which she used to demonstrate that genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on and off. • Grace Hopper - computer scientist who developed the COBOL computer programming language. • Rachel Carson - marine biologist, conservationist, and author known for advancing the environmental movement. • Dorothy Hodgkin - biochemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography, a method used to determine the three-dimensional structures of biomolecules. • Hedy Lamarr - both a popular Hollywood actress and an inventor who contributed to an early technique for frequency-hopping spread spectrum communications which paved the way for today’s wireless communications. • Rosalind Franklin - biophysicist whose work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA led to her discovery of DNA double helix and her data was used to formulate Crick and Watson’s 1953 hypothesis. • Esther Lederberg - microbiologist who devised the first successful implementation of replica plating and helped discover and understand the genetic mechanisms of specialized transduction. • Jane Goodall - anthropologist and primatologist known for her extraordinary study of the interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. • Jocelyn Bell Burnell - astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars (signals coming from rapidly rotating neutron stars). • Mae Jemison - engineer, physician, professor, and former NASA astronaut who became the first African American woman to travel to space.