It's #SIGCIS2017 this weekend. Be there, or be... watchin' the talks later on youtube. meetings.sigcis.org

Sarah Bell on how Hello Barbie's designers steer/center user's affective state...promotes certain normative model of childhood #SIGCIS2017

"Even solitary programming is collaborative--it is always a collaboration with the people who built the system you're using" _ #sigcis2017

"English is the only language of software programming"--support for other cultures seen as "oh yeah we'll get to that" _ #SIGCIS2017

There are 22 superfund sites in Silicon Valley, 19 of which are related to electronics industry, notes Ingrid Burrington #SIGCIS2017

Instead of the leveling effects of tech that were promised, what we see is class and gender divisions reified says Sreela Sarkar #SIGCIS2017

With no fast electronic computer, Sekiko Yoshida did her cosmic ray analysis for US space program with an ABACUS Eileen Clancy #SIGCIS2017

Ahhhh! x.com/ubiquity75/sta…

Read about why these women paleontologists are wearing beards in the field for Bearded Lady Project (hint: it's sexism) qz.com/938158/sexism-…

Poster for #Maintainers II. Made by the inimitable Alex Wellerstein.

Important, depressing thread on structural discrimination #womenintech #womeninSTEM #computing x.com/realscientists…

Looking forward to "Race After the Genome" Discussion w/ Alondra Nelson & Ruha Benjamin tomorrow Georgia Tech Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience @ GT Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

On her 80th birthday, Jane Goodall discusses her legacy- and what's next: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/1…

Technological meritocracy is a fiction. Read the full intro (then the whole thing) to Mar Hicks's book to see why: mitpress.mit.edu/books/programm…

We're looking to grow our team! We're searching for a Managing Editor and Contributing Editors! All the info here: docs.google.com/document/d/1pI…

Hooray! x.com/SIGCIS/status/…