Here's a curriculum developed around the TV series "Halt and Catch Fire" for discussion groups for talking about working in tech during the 1980s-1990s when the industry was not destroying the world
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My MIL passed away in August. She was about to turn 105 and participated in many of the No Kings events in Mt. Kisco, NY. She was a plasma physicist, grew up with Einstein as a family friend and is the reason why NY water is clean and frakking is banned. Her obituary is frankly, amazing. #STEM #science #activism #climatechange https://www.therecorder.org/post/marian-rose-104-bedford-resident-scientist-and-longtime-activist
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If you're in STEM, at what level did you first get taught ethics (in general, and as specifically relevant in your field)?
Mastodon only allows 4 poll choices so please write in the comments if these choices don't cover you.
#Ethics #Science #AcademicChatter #STEM
Options: (choose one)
Not sure anyone is still watching the #NASA feed, but the interview with the head of the Landing & Recovery team recounting how a visit to Kennedy Space Center when she was seven years old sparked her desire to work in space exploration and spurred her to study #STEM when her family immigrated here is inspiring. Immigrants get it done.
🚀 The new GurgleApps Shop is live!
Hands-on STEM kits for makers, tinkerers & curious learners.
Build & learn by doing 👉 https://gurgleapps.com/
#Makers #STEM #DIY #Education
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West
"Before GPS became an everyday utility, it was a hard mathematical problem.
In 1950s–70s, Gladys West - mathematician @ U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, VA - 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; it wasn’t until 2018 that she was inducted into the USAF Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame - decades after GPS reshaped global navigation, logistics, finance, defense & 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 [despite their puerile AI-generated image of Ms. West]
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🖥️ **Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World’s First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I.**
_Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could “induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people”_
#History #Histodons #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #Psychology #Technology #Tech #STEM
Remodel Small-town Historic Building & Support Kids in STEM
A nearly 100-year-old building in Darrouzett is being restored by Rachel and Ryan Jett into a community space for kids and families.
Help them finish this amazing project by donating or sharing their story! Together, we can inspire the next generation. 💡
For a #trans person to finish #undergrad, we have to earn our #PhD several times over. And even then the department won't give us the time of fucking day.
#TransInAcademia #Academia #Astrophysics #Physics #Science #STEM
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Free training course! 📣
Learn about the 3 STEP approach - developed by experts at UCL's Making Spaces project -for #STEM educators working to promote social justice and equity,
Join Django Girls' first cohort! We'll show you tools to challenge systemic barriers, so you can help more underrepresented communities engage with STEM 🥳
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#technology #training #socialjustice #equality
Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive.
Link: https://www.planetary.org/press-releases/nasa-science-chiefs-letter-press-release
Every issue of Byte magazine is now online. Old code. Old dreams. Still useful. The archive is a time machine. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09 #tech #history #STEM
We’re going live in 1 hour.
Join Lauren Sgro and Franck Marchis for a live demonstration of SkyMapper, a newly launched global network connecting telescopes, observatories, and citizen scientists.
This session will explore how decentralized, real-time access to astronomical data is opening new pathways for research, education, and public engagement.
🔴 5pm PDT
WATCH LIVE: https://youtube.com/live/czTy4wDGpFg
RE: https://mastodon.social/@FluentInFinance/116575326620964772
but #LiberalArts degrees are a waste of time!!! #STEM is the future of job security, and you won't even need #labor #unions because you’ll have real good jobs.
―every asshole #GOP #Republican #neoliberal looking to close universities all across the land since the 1980s because they were graduating people with “useless” diplomas
RE: https://mastodon.social/@climatenewsnow/116688186377550000
i need y’all to take a bat at every #techbro and anybody who said there should be no funding for #liberalArts degrees, that the future of college education is #STEM as in SCIENCE, technology, ENGINEERING and maths.
the biggest con was that T: there is no #technology without #arts, #crafts and #maths first. science and engineering are more specialized aspects of the other three. computers are a technology, not #tech.
#SiliconValley is a wasteland that should be nuked into oblivion.
It sounds like the plot of the Duffer Brothers' next series. After 139 years, scientists have finally discovered why wounds of Civil War soldiers at the Battle of Shiloh began to glow, Angel's Glow. Sorry, not scientists, two high school students