AMS GGD #9 video
Check out this great video of Girl Geek Dinner #9 that Tom Verstraat made!
Check out this great video of Girl Geek Dinner #9 that Tom Verstraat made!
On the 28th of March 2011 behavioral geneticist Danielle Posthuma gave an excellent talk at the Girl Geek Dinner titled “Genetics of the mind – from supercomputers to schizophrenia”. Danielle was first attracted to the field of genetics by her interest in the differences and similarities between individuals – a topic which we think interests…
After an extended winter break, GGD is returning next month with our first dinner of 2011 in the city. Danielle Posthuma, a medical gene statistician from the VU University Amsterdam and KNAW (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) will be revealing her trawls through the human genome with a fistful of statistics and medical insight. For…
With one of the “top 10 dirtiest jobs in science”, Jane Chadwick gave an entertaining account of life as a volcanologist and an insight into her ongoing research at the 8th GGD in Amsterdam. To the (wo)man on the street, our knowledge of volcanoes is usually restricted to vague memories from high school geography lessons…
Vijfendertig girl (en enkele boy) geeks schuiven dinsdag 22 juni bij Setup aan tafel tijdens Utrechts eerste Girl Geek Dinner. Op het menu geen feministisch betoog over vrouwen die achterstanden moeten inhalen; spreker Marianne van den Boomen, bezig met een proefschrift over internetmetaforen, wil het vooral ‘leuk houden’. Dus laat ze zien hoe mannen met…
Dinsdag het eerste Utrecht Girl Geek Dinner! Aanmelden kan nog tot maandagavond. Voor de mensen die niet komen: er is ook een live stream!
Our 7th Girl Geek Dinner was taken in the reign by the Queen of Sciences – Mathematics. As all participants could discover themselves during that evening, Mathematics is not an old rigid woman talking in Greek symbols, pressing her complicated formulas wherever she can and using theorems as her strongest argument. It turned out, she…
It was great seeing you all at the Women Inc festival. Here are some photos. All photos can be found here.
On the 18th of February Karin Spaink was our guest. And we were very happy to have her! By the month our privacy becomes more endangered. So many things are happening right now that constrain or violate our privacy, but the general public and the politicians don’t seem to care much. Karin shed some light…
On the 6th of March the third Women Inc Festival will take place. And the Girl Geeks will be there! We are part of the market place and will share a stand with Femtech and Genderchangers. Check out our page on the Women Inc website, more will be revealed there later. And…… if you attend…