The 6th Scientiae Carnival is up over at Sciencewoman's pad. The topic is "mothers and others, those who influenced us along the way" but the collected posts are not limited to this topic. Scienceowoman has put together a very interesting mix of some truly thought-provoking posts. As always, the richness of writing by women scientists and engineers continues to delight me.
This post by Female Science Professor on a new professorship for a woman in engineering in Switzerland sparked a lively discussion in the comments. And I very much liked this post by Jokerine on gender coding in talk about bonds in chemistry.
There's more where that came from; do go read!
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