Women In Technology - Friday Links - 03/05/2024

Hi everyone, 

This week we bring you some takeaways from our recent Climate Fresk event, reflections on International Workers’ Day, and a reminder about our new mentoring programme.  Keep scrolling for a selection of upcoming local and online events, including one happening this evening!

Have a great weekend!

Kate, for WIT SC

Climate Fresk

This week, we took part in a Climate Fresk, a game which raises scientific awareness about climate change in a playful and collaborative way.  Thanks again to our Fresker, Sonia, for facilitating this thought-provoking and inspiring evening!  

Sonia has kindly shared some resources to learn more about climate change: 

• Calculate your carbon footprint.  This will allow you to identify what you can change in your everyday life to reduce CO2 emissions.
• Education is empowerment!  Find the next Climate Fresk event near you.  
• Doing one’s good deed regarding climate change: what is the impact of individual actions? 
• Le monde sans fin / World Without End.  Graphic novel by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain (to be released in English in September 2024).  
• The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports can be found here.
• Chaleur Humaine, a podcast by the newspaper Le Monde. All the questions you may ask yourself, electric cars, aviation, biodiversity, democracy, forests, politics, energy... are probably already answered here.
• Have a play around the MIT online climate simulator to find out what’s needed to keep the world 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
• Nine propositions to decarbonise Europe by the Shift Project.
• Climate Primer: Climate Science, Risk & Solutions - Climate Knowledge for Everyone! Post Carbon Institute provides individuals and communities with the resources needed to understand and respond to the crises of the 21st century. (Watch the “300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds” video!)
• Carbon Pulse:  a website that gathers news and intelligence on carbon markets, greenhouse gas pricing and climate policy.
• CarbonBrief, a UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy. 
• Find all the information and resources regarding the Climate Fresk on their website.

May 1: International Workers’ Day

• A May Day reflection on the rights of women workers.  “...even as we celebrate the labour day holiday, or take to the streets with our banners in solidarity with workers’ movements, we need to be mindful of women workers whose work continues to remain invisible, whose rights as workers are unprotected, and for whom 'Eight hours’ labour, Eight hours’ recreation, Eight hours’ rest' is still a distant dream.”
• International Workers’ Day and the female workforce.  A history of the role of women in the American labour movement, including clips from the film "Within the Gates", which was created by the Women’s Bureau in 1930 with the purpose of asking for “equal opportunity, fair pay, reasonable hours, clean comfortable, safe workplaces” for women wage workers. By showing how integral women are to manufacturing in America, the film hopes to promote equitable working environments for them.  The full film can be found on YouTube.

Image from “Within the Gates” (US National Archives)

Mentoring@CERN

We are pleased to announce that the Women in Technology (WIT) and LHC Early Career Mentoring programmes have merged to form Mentoring@CERN!  Mentoring@CERN aims to match mentors and mentees with an existing afilliation to CERN, irrespective of their age, career level or geographical location.  Registrations for the pilot round for our merged programme are open until Wednesday, 15 May.  Learn more and register at https://indico.cern.ch/event/1403179/overview. 

An information session was held on 25 April, where we explained a bit more about what to expect in the pilot round.  In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording at https://indico.cern.ch/event/1403801/. 

In the meantime please feel free to get in touch with the organisers at [email protected] if you have any questions!

Upcoming events

“Willis de Tunis”, Nadia Khiari

• May 3: Geneva celebrates freedom of the press and women cartoonists  with Nobel Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, journalist Christiane Amanpour, and cartoonists Nadia Khiari, Rachita Taneja, and Ann Telnaes.  (The event is sold out, but a web stream will be provided.)  In addition to this discussion, an exhibition of press cartoons, “Dessins pour la liberté”, can be seen on the Quai Wilson until June 1. 
• May 28: Menstrutopies (Cinéma de l’Empire, Geneva).  A screening of the documentary “They See Red”, followed by a discussion on menstrual equity.  
• May 29-30: AI for Good (Geneva / online).  The AI for Good Global Summit is the leading action-oriented United Nations platform promoting AI to advance health, climate, gender, inclusive prosperity, sustainable infrastructure, and other global development priorities. AI for Good is organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – the UN specialized agency for information and communication technology – in partnership with 40 UN sister agencies and co-convened with the government of Switzerland.
• May 30: CERN Alumni Swiss Romandie networking event (byLuigia, Geneva).