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**********************************************************************Hello Psci-commers,
Apologies for cross-posting, I'm aware this is a plug so I will keep it brief!
Many of you have already heard about Ada Lovelace Day next Tuesday, an international celebration of women in STEM with grass-roots events around the UK and all over the world. On the day itself, there's a tradition of writing a post online about a woman in STEM you admire, and several Wikipedia edit-a-thons this month to add detail to online biographies of under-represented women - so geography is not a barrier to taking part!
I'm hosting the London event at Imperial College on the night of 15th October, with comedy, science demos and talks from Fran Scott, Sophie Scott, Leila Johnston, Chi Onwurah MP, Bernadette Byrne, Hazel Gibson and Molly Stevens: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/7499436015?ref=ebtnebtckt
Tickets are £10 if you use the code "XRAY", or just £5 for students, concessions and Imperial College-related people.
Other events, exhibitions, meet-ups in the UK and worldwide are here: http://findingada.com/events-2013/worldwide-events-2013/
There's also a really wonderful e-book, with contributions from writers both male and female: http://findingada.com/book/
It's only available from the 15th but you can read extracts by Suw Charman-Anderson, Helen Scales, Helen Czerski and Sue Nelson on that link.
Finally, if you're thinking "Why haven't I heard about this? We should do something for Ada Lovelace Day next year..." I'd very much encouraged you to put 14th October 2014 in your diary. Also please do sign up the ALD mailing list and you'll get a few email nudges about it next year, just when you're starting to think about Autumn events.
http://findingada.com/get-involved/ald-newsletter/
If you're on Twitter, the hashtag is #ALD13 - it's already being used and there's some great stores and links online already.
Thanks for reading all this! I'm sure you'll be seeing Ada everywhere in the next 7 days… I hope you can spare a moment to join in.
helen
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