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Mary is a women in tech activist, a programmer, a writer, and a sometime computational linguist. She writes at puzzling.org. Her previous projects include co-founding the Ada Initiative and major contributions to the Geek Feminism blog. She's @me_gardiner on Twitter.

• Friday Hoyden: Marita Cheng, Young Australian of the Year

  By Mary on 2012-01-27 • ( 6 )

  

  Marita Cheng is the Young Australian of the Year winner this year. In 2008, early in her undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne, she founded Robogals, which is an engineering and computing outreach group.

• Friday Hoydens: Ellyse Perry and Suzie Bates

  By Mary on 2012-01-13 • ( 2 )

  

  There’s something about women cricketers… they just can’t confine themselves to one sport, dammit!

• BFTP — Endangered Sunday: grey nurse shark

  By Mary on 2012-01-08

  

  I’ve been in the water with a lot of sharks: leopard sharks, wobbegongs, Port Jackson sharks, grey and white tipped reef sharks and grey nurse sharks. What’s a scary thing I’ve encountered diving? That dreaded apex predatory homo sapiens. Homo sapiens is of course the big threat to today’s Endangered Sunday species, the grey nurse shark or carcharias taurus.

• Mary’s helpful guide to soliciting research participation on the ‘net

  By Mary on 2012-01-08 • ( 5 )

  

  In my years on the ‘net, I’ve seen any number of people want to interview others or get them to take surveys for everything from a short high school or undergraduate paper through to graduate research projects and books. And they so seldom manage to meet basic ethical guidelines for making sure they aren’t wasting their participants’ time at best or endangering them at worst.

• Reminder: submit now for the 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  By Mary on 2011-12-30

  

  Reminder: submit now (by Jan 2 at the latest) for the 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  Submissions must be of posts of feminist interest by writers from Australia and New Zealand that were published in December. Submissions are due on 2 January at the latest, but the earlier the better!

• Thursday Internet Tradition: Status Cats

  By Mary on 2011-12-29 • ( 2 )

  

  Hoydens are aware of all Internet traditions! But we share our hard-won cultural knowledge! This week, we introduce you to the tradition of the Status Cat.

• Now entering the Xmas zone: open thread

  By Mary on 2011-12-25 • ( 7 )

  

  This is the yearly bonus open thread for Christmas chat, for Hoydens and Hoydenizens who are interested. Feel free to talk services, observances, decorations, gifts, surprises, feasting and family traditions heart-warming and otherwise. All observers of Christmas welcome if you… Read More ›

• Thursday Internet Tradition: a softer world

  By Mary on 2011-12-22 • ( 4 )

  

  Hoydens are aware of all Internet traditions! But we share our hard-won cultural knowledge! This week, we introduce you to the tradition of a softer world, a web comic running since February 2003

• Sydney Summery Femmosphere Meetup: Sunday December 18 in Manly, come one, come all

  By Mary on 2011-12-12 • ( 17 )

  

  There will be a Hoyden and Femmosphere meetup in Manly on Sunday December 18 at 11:00am. See you there!

• Thursday Internet Tradition: Linguist Llama

  By Mary on 2011-12-08 • ( 3 )

  

  Hoydens are aware of all Internet traditions! But we share our hard-won cultural knowledge! This week, we introduce you to the tradition of the Linguist Llama.