In the bad old days when I was a sourpuss, a “Women in Open Source Award” would have prompted me to wonder “What would happen if someone kicked off a White Men in Open Source Award?” But today I am all about diversity and inclusion because the incomparable Avni Khatri has been nominated.
Via this posting I am begging readers to visit KidsOnComputers.org (what Avni does with open source software when she’s not at work doing stuff with open source software) and then, if you like what you see, vote for Avni! (takes about 30 seconds)
Thanks in advance.
Related:
- Black Girls Code (from my sourpuss 2016 days)
Thank you, Philip!!!
Best wishes to Avni!
On a slightly related note, here is another case for your science career opportunities files from the recent Boston Rally for Science:
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/5vjin2/boston_rallyforscience_chem_phd_guy_contact_us/de3881d/
To be clear, she uses the software but doesn’t program.
Good work! I put in my vote.
@Scientist: good lord! that guy has a first author PNAS paper and he can’t get a job? talk about bad luck… I wish I had published in PNAS!
@GermanL
Unemployability among science graduates is not at all uncommon. It is covered up by worthless post-doctoral stints, visiting professorships, volatile contract work at companies, adjunct positions, etc. Until a person finally wises up and learns some business skills, goes to law school, and otherwise retrains for something actually useful.
I am a scientist that actually does research. I am a passionate but poorly paid scientist that has to watch a lot of misinformed, untalented and otherwise ill fitting people in this profession struggle with a terrible decision they made at 22, eventually taking a job that is barely relevant to whatever they spent 10+ years studying. Not to mention all the divorce stories I get to listen to at my reunions. I know too much about retainers and court appointed psychologists I may just stay single.
Don’t do it.