Women In Technology - Friday Links - 30/01/2026
Dear WIT friends,
here are some exciting upcoming events and interesting reads to explore🙂
· WIT Annual Review. Join us on 5 February at 12:00 PM for our annual review. Indico page
· Mentoring@CERN. This collaborative effort brings together the WIT mentoring programme (launched in 2018) and the LHC Early Career Mentoring Programme (started in 2020) to offer inclusive mentorship opportunities to the entire CERN community. Registration Period: 1 February – 28 February 2026. Indico page
· UKatCERN | Call for contributions. The UK Mission in Geneva would like to prepare some content for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science(11 February) featuring members of the #UKatCERN community. If you’re happy to take part, please send a portrait (vertical) photo of you in your working environment (e.g. lab, workshop, underground, giving a tour) and answer the following questions as briefly as you can:
- What do you love about your job?
- What or who inspired you to pursue a STEM career?
- One piece of advice for a young girl considering a career in STEM.
Due to tight timelines, please send your contribution to Giulia [email protected] by today.
· A WIT ATLAS underground visit took place on 21 January and was a great experience. Thanks to everyone who joined! 🙂 Here’s a photo from the visit:
· Eiffel Tower to honor 72 women scientists for posterity. On Monday, a multidisciplinary commission presented the mayor of Paris with a list of 72 names of women who will join the exclusively male scientists whose names are inscribed on the frieze of the 'Iron Lady.' Read more
· A ‘feminised workplace’ doesn’t mean what you think it means. The point is not to reiterate gender stereotypes, write Emilu J Hogg, Dr Charlotte J Fabricius and Dr Ida Aaskov Dolmer, but to make visible the ways that contemporary capitalism exploits our ideas about gender. Learn more
· Nearly all women in STEM secretly feel like impostors. A striking 97.5% of women pursuing graduate degrees in STEM report moderate or higher levels of impostorism. Explore more
· Ethics at CERN aims to present the CERN ethics framework regarding individual conduct in the workplace and address the different aspects of ethics framework (see full details). Here's the link to the relevant recorded wit roundtable along with the latest CERN Ombus report. The ETHICS @ CERN e-learning module will soon become mandatory for all personnel. Access it now in the Learning Hub: link .
Wishing you all a very nice weekend,
Emanuela
on behalf of WIT Communications
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