International celebration of women in science, tech, engineering & maths. Join us on Tues 8 Oct at the Royal Institution! https://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mru5zanlos2zCan empathy levels predict whether someone goes into the physical sciences more accurately than gender? And what implications does this have for the tech industry? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ald-report-can-empathy-levels-predict-whether-someone-jdw9e/ If you're on LI, please share!30 Jul 2026 09:49 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mru5zanlos2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mrcpx5kdl22aI was delighted to be awarded an honorary doctorate from @royalholloway.bsky.social on Tuesday, in recognition of my advocacy for women in STEM. You can now watch the ceremony and my speech to the Dept of Comp Sci grads, or read the text on my blog: https://findingada.com/blog/2026/07/23/ald-news-suw-receives-honorary-doctorate-from-royal-holloway/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4qSzIbRPdo23 Jul 2026 11:22 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcpx5kdl22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mp4kfatu6s2sMaybe, after spending decades trying to fix gender inequity by changing women, we should give changing men a go? Read more: • https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/ald-report-what-gender-equity-interventions • https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ald-report-what-gender-equity-interventions-focus-why-kv4oe/ • https://findingada.com/blog/2026/06/25/ald-report-what-gender-equity-interventions-focus-on-and-why-its-the-wrong-thing/25 Jun 2026 13:37 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4kfatu6s2shttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mnz2r64m3c2uHave we done ourselves a huge wrong by focusing on the 'return on investment' of gender equity? In today's newsletter, I've focused on the four categories of argument for gender equity and where/how they can fail. All reading options at the end of the thread. When I started thinking... https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/ald-report-what-is-the-case-for-gender11 Jun 2026 10:54 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnz2r64m3c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mmw7yyh5qc2uOoh, look! I did a newsletter again! This time: How do male professors explain the gender disparity in academia? Even though the Nordics are considered leaders in gender equality, only 26% of full profs in Danish social sciences are women. This skew is so obvious it's hard to imagine...28 May 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmw7yyh5qc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mmw7yyh5qc2uOoh, look! I did a newsletter again! This time: How do male professors explain the gender disparity in academia? Even though the Nordics are considered leaders in gender equality, only 26% of full profs in Danish social sciences are women. This skew is so obvious it's hard to imagine...28 May 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmw7yyh5qc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mmr4pbub4k2uThe Ada Lovelace Day website at findingada.com is currently under attack, so is only intermittently available. Trying to find a fix, but it might take a while.26 May 2026 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmr4pbub4k2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mmbponyass2jI'm compiling a list of real or suggested gender equity interventions across a set of eight categories, and it strikes me that we have an awful lot of them to choose from. I've got 40 so far, and I'm not done yet. With so many suggestions for how to change things, why isn't change happening?20 May 2026 10:39 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmbponyass2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mluzteyk5k2jLast week, I read four systematic reviews of the research on interventions to promote gender equity in the workplace and elsewhere. The results were... not good. All four reviews are new – 2022 or newer – but they all had problems finding relevant published work. One found only 22...15 May 2026 09:36 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mluzteyk5k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mks2r46lmc2dHow big is the problem of women leaving STEM? And how do we fix it? Today I look at the findings of the 2025 Lovelace Report (no relation) which details the UK's tech industry financial losses due to the loss of female talent, and outlines solutions. https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/ald-report-how-big-is-the-problem01 May 2026 11:49 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mks2r46lmc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mks2r46lmc2dHow big is the problem of women leaving STEM? And how do we fix it? Today I look at the findings of the 2025 Lovelace Report (no relation) which details the UK's tech industry financial losses due to the loss of female talent, and outlines solutions. https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/ald-report-how-big-is-the-problem01 May 2026 11:49 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mks2r46lmc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mkhs2u7xwk2uOh, would you look at that: Men are perceived as more creative than women even when competency is controlled for, and more deserving of rewards. Five studies shows men are routinely seen having more 'out of the box' creativity. But not only are women... https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/gender-stereotypes-result-in-women27 Apr 2026 09:47 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhs2u7xwk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mk5onjnkm22uToday is the last day for Brits to respond to the gov't's call for evidence on the "impact of emerging technologies on women’s participation, progression, and leadership in tech". They obviously mean AI, but it's worth answering more broadly imho. www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ZNQMV1/ https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ZNQMV1/23 Apr 2026 09:19 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5onjnkm22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mjyo2yo5kk24I've stopped the automatic posts for a bit, because I haven't had time to update the pool of posts it draws from and I'm sure we'll all seen them way too many times already. So this account will be a bit quieter for a while. I will try to post more stuff about the report instead.21 Apr 2026 09:26 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyo2yo5kk24https://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mjmj5rbaqc2qThe glass ceiling is made of small biases frequently applied. That's the conclusion of a team of researchers who modelled how six biases against women would cumulatively affect their chances of promotion over time. They found that it wasn't... https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/ald-report-the-glass-ceiling-is-made16 Apr 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmj5rbaqc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mjlkj7i54i2gMaria Vasilievna Pavlova, Мария Павлова, was a palaeontologist who discovered several hoofed mammals & proved Hipparion was not the direct ancestor of modern horses, changing our understanding Eurasian horse ancestry. https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/professor-maria-pavlova-palaeontologist16 Apr 2026 04:18 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjlkj7i54i2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mjk6whoiho2vRita Levi-Montalcini was a neurobiologist who co-discovered nerve growth factor with Stanley Cohen. They both won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986. She was only the 4th woman to receive it. https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-rita-levi-montalcini-neurobiologist15 Apr 2026 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjk6whoiho2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mjjhduuaoa2jBiologist Danielle N Lee studies the connections between ecology, evolution and animal behaviour. She studies the African giant pouched rat's behavioural syndromes and the potential role of genetics in these behaviours. https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-danielle-n-lee-behavioural-ecologist15 Apr 2026 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjhduuaoa2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mji3updf4722Irene C Peden is an electrical engineer & was the first woman scientist to live and work in the interior of the Antarctic, developing techniques for studying deep glacial ice using radio waves. https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/professor-irene-c-peden-electrical14 Apr 2026 19:18 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mji3updf4722https://bsky.app/profile/adalovelaceday.bsky.social/post/3mjh2c2tfxp2vSarah Al Amiri is the Chair of the UAE Space Agency and the UAE Council of Scientists. She played a key role in the Emirates Mars Mission and is currently overseeing a Venus flyby. https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/sarah-al-amiri-engineer14 Apr 2026 09:17 +0000at://did:plc:iax3vt7ankxqmi677bh5o7d2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjh2c2tfxp2v