I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Seems quiet here lately. I sometimes think I am on here too much. Hmmm. well, truth of it is I have been avoiding some of the news. For some reason it really seems sooo much so lately that the media keeps the pressure on. One day the Democrats are well into a lead and the next day not. Some days people like Walker are deemed total idiots for their views which go against all normalcy and then the next day -- oops, they are neck and neck. It is hard to define knowing where you are when there seems no agreement. No wonder we cling to party choice most of all.
Likely I will once again just go straight ticket again. At least I do know which side works for the people and which is just for itself and the enrichment of same.
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Just wish something like this helped, but the people who should never see it and if they do, don't care.
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Hmmm, will it hold or what will we hear tomorrow.
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I can only watch so much of the news right now myself.
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I have no idea what he’s talking about but it must make him feel important.
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She's made 1,750 Wikipedia bios for female scientists who haven't gotten their due
'Not only do we not have enough women in science, but we aren't doing enough to celebrate the ones we have,' said physicist Jess Wade.
Sydney Page Oct. 17, 2022 - Washington Post
Jess Wade, 33, a British physicist, spends her spare time writing Wikipedia biographies for women and minority scientists. (Courtesy of Jess Wade)On a whim, Jess Wade typed out her first Wikipedia page five years ago. It was a biography of Kim Cobb, an American climatologist who — despite earning several scientific accolades — had never been written about on the popular online encyclopedia.
"I met her at a science event, and I was massively impressed," said Wade, 33, a British physicist, who, after a quick search online, was stunned to see that Cobb had no profile on the public platform.
Wade had stumbled into something she found troubling: Cobb was one of countless deserving women whose names — and lengthy list of achievements — had yet to be chronicled on Wikipedia, the go-to site for an estimated 2 billion people a month who are seeking information about individuals, ideas and topics large and small.
Wikipedia is "used by pretty much everyone," Wade said. She realized that "despite it being this incredibly important resource, it was suffering from a lack of content, particularly about women, but also about people of color."
She decided to take matters into her own hands.
Since 2017, Wade has written more than 1,750 Wikipedia pages for female and minority scientists and engineers whose accomplishments were not documented on the site. Wade said there's still much work to be done. Currently, just 19 percent of English Wikipedia biographies are of women, according to WikiProject Women in Red, a group dedicated to addressing Wikipedia's gender gap.
"Having people know who you are means you get more opportunities," Wade said, adding that she wants to "make sure people's stories were on there and in the public domain."
Wade, a research fellow at Imperial College London, centers her work on Raman spectroscopy, a technique often employed in chemistry to identify molecules, among other uses. She has received several awards for her scientific contributions, and her own Wikipedia page is robust with her many achievements.
Wade has made it her mission to correct gender and racial biases in the science community, and advocate for women in STEM, who make up only 28 percent of the workforce. Her activity on Wikipedia has been chronicled in the press, and she has written about her work in various publications, including The Washington Post.
"Wikipedia is a really powerful way to give credit to people who, for a long time, have been written out of history," she said. "Not only do we not have enough women in science, but we aren't doing enough to celebrate the ones we have. We do an awful lot of talking about underrepresentation," Wade added, "but not enough acting on it."
Most evenings, Wade sits at her desk for several hours, looking online for inspiring lesser-known scientists. There is no shortage of potential subjects, she said. "I've never sat down and not had someone to write about," said Wade, who scours archived documents, scientific papers, journals and social media in search of notable people without a Wikipedia page.
She'll often have 20 internet tabs open at one time, sifting through library archives and institutional sites to scrape together as much information as possible. Each profile takes a few hours to produce.
Since Wikipedia is intended to be an unbiased resource, Wade refrains from writing about anyone she knows personally, and she does not contact her subjects to collect further information.
While it can be a tedious task, it's also uniquely fulfilling — and educational. "In the process, I actually learn so much science," she said. "It's a fun journey."
About 15 biographies Wade has written have been deleted, including one on Clarice Phelps, a nuclear chemist who is recognized as the first Black woman to be involved with the discovery of a chemical element. Wade took to social media to vent her frustrations, writing on Twitter: "thanks to the @Wikipedia editor who spent their wednesday night tagging the recent biographies i've started for #WomenInSTEM as not notable enough to be included in the encyclopaedia. it's really constructive and helpful work."
Wade fought to get Phelps's page restored, and ultimately succeeded. "It's really hard to get a public profile unless you have a big shiny award," Wade said.
On Wikipedia, which is written collaboratively by self-appointed volunteers around the world, edits are approved or denied by volunteer administrators, who use a set of notability criteria to determine which articles deserve to be published.
"You're stuck in a spiral where you have to be double exceptional as a woman or person of color to fulfill these requirements," Wade said.
Wade is not alone in her work to make Wikipedia more equitable. Emily Temple-Wood, 28, has also become known for writing Wikipedia pages about female scientists. Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, has taken note of their activism. "Jess and Emily are among a fantastic group of women having a big impact on the quality of content of Wikipedia," Wales told The Washington Post. "We are very eager to have a more diverse community and the people who are making that happen are heroes to me."
Anusha Alikhan, vice president of communications at the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation — which hosts Wikipedia — wrote in an email to The Washington Post that the number of biographies about women is growing, a trend the company favors. "Through the efforts of Dr. Jess Wade and other volunteer contributors, real progress is being made," Alikhan said. "In the past three years the percentage of biographies on English Wikipedia that are about women has increased from 15 to 19 percent. That may seem like a small change, yet it represents more than 75,000 new biographies about women."
This is in part because of Wade writing them, and also in part to her teaching other people how to write and edit them.
She holds Wikipedia training workshops and "editathons" at conferences, schools and colleges, and has published papers on inequality in academia, including a recent article on Black physicists and engineers, which she co-authored with a group of scientists. She has also partnered with 500 Women Scientists, a grass-roots organization that promotes inclusivity and accessibility in science.
Farah Qaiser is a member of 500 Women Scientists and a participant in what the organization calls the "Wiki Wolfpack." She got involved after reading an op-ed by Wade and fellow scientist Maryam Zaringhalam. "It just blew my mind that Wikipedia is something that I use often, and I never noticed this glaring gender bias," said Qaiser, who is a Toronto-based scientist.
Wade has found other ways to advocate for more STEM accessibility, including publishing a children's book last year, titled "Nano," in the hope of getting young people excited about science. "We need to do more to make the process more transparent and equitable for people," she said.
What gives her the most joy, she said, is seeing a person's name whose profile she created go on to earn a fellowship or award. She called it her "happiest thing." "I truly love seeing people being recognized and honored," which, Wade said, is "made more possible by having a public profile on something like Wikipedia."
With every biography she writes, she hopes to tighten the gap a little more. "I'm a tiny fish in a massive sea," she said. "But I'll keep doing everything I can to make science a more accessible and inclusive place to be."
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We definitely could use a lot more Jess Wades around. I hope a lot of people see her story and help to change/right things that informationally could be much, much better. Hats off to her.ETA: and thanks to you Divine for sharing.
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I can't watch the news at all. I am reading the paper thoroughly every day and also a couple of news magazines. That way I can just 'tut tut' when there are crazy things or put the papers down before I get sick - which happens regularly. The see-saw or who's ahead any given minute is frightening.
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"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lots of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." - Robert F. Kennedy
One correction I'd make in the above quote, rather than use only masculine terminology, is to use more inclusive words and pronouns not specific to men only.
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I must steer clear of most of the political news, too, since so much of it causes me anxiety.
I’d love to see John Fetterman win the PA Senate seat. I know it is close. I was very surprised that he was on my husband’s radar from the beginning, because he doesn’t follow politics much. But Fetterman is dh’s kind of man. First, he’s from Braddock PA which is where dh’s mother is from; dh’s grandfather worked in the steel mill there. Fetterman is no nonsense, doesn’t dress fancy, down to earth. A very large man. Dh has worked with men like Fetterman his whole life in the steel mill and power plant. He is hoping Fetterman wins. Dr. Oz has always given us the creeps.
My liberal niece in Atlanta Georgia voted this week and said that record numbers of early voters showed up at the polls in Georgia on Monday.
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The tapestry of life continues to be woven. Occasionally a chance arises to repair an older, tattered piece of the weave. Something happens to jolt our awareness back in time to an event that resulted in tears and rips. With new, more mature vision, we see the circumstances in present time and have compassion for the unclear events of the past. While the new experience is being woven into the design, the old rip is simultaneously being repaired. All is well.
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My page flipped here so hoping I can remember what I wanted to address. First of -- Oz is creepy, and I picked up on that adjective immediately w/o having to think about it. I think I mentioned here (no longer recall obviously) that I was taken at first when he was on Oprah and followed him for a while when he launched his own program. Bought a couple of his books and discovered that he was using the same structure and language for different problems. Just inserting some "fix" that sounded reasonable but frankly rational people wouldn't bother. Charlatan came to my mind right away and that was enough for me. I'm glad that I got two books because it front and centered the issue that likely would have taken a lot more time for me had I just continued to watch the shows. There was always a lot of reason interjected and a few audience members to testify for it.
Mainly watching morning news and less at night. It does seem as if there has been really blow-out voting in GA. From what I read, that almost always portends to be heavy on Democratic voting. As well, I read a piece on Pelosi who settled Andrea Mitchell's jets who during her interview with Pelosi was using a lot of Reps. talking points. Pelosi didn't let her get away with it and pointed out that our issue is Roe v Wade and women are fed up and not going to stand for it and will vote accordingly. Women are NOT staying home and likely to get rid of as many Reps. as they possibly can. I think the part of the idea is that women had gotten a little complacent and that allowed men and at this juncture, especially the SC to take away. The other problems are serious, like jobs, economy, crime and any other thing Reps. men want to press forward. It is just that soooooo many women are going forward from Roe v Wade that anything the Reps men want to put out there as 'the real issue' is going to be swamped under the stampeding feet of the women who are enraged STILL about Roe v Wade.
I'm holding my breath about these mid-terms, but I do think we could be coming out okay. I'm wishing for an avalanche of female votes and that we can in fact rid ourselves of a lot of the 'brain infected' Reps. There would still be yrs. of work and other elections to get through but being rid of the Reps. who most emapthize with Trumpism and lies and conspiracies will be such a huge help.
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Saying a MOUTHFUL today for sure.
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Smart enough to know that it works for her though. The very reason we need to be rid of this trash.
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Here is another 'TRUMP' effort through Bill Barr going up in all its flaming glory and proving once more, when you hook up with the orange creep you just might destroy yourself. Listening to the Loon is a form of suicide to your abilities to be rational. Are you happy now John Durham. You had to produce for the Loon and so you did.
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So hope she is right.
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So very true.
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He just keeps doing it, but it is a really bad time now w/o WH cover. He is so deluded he thinks he has WH deniability, I guess. How else could you do/say such a stupid thing.
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