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Trump has vehemently denied that he is a racist,
pointing to a modest increase in supportamong African American voters in last year’s election, when his opponent was a Black woman.
But critics suggest that his effort to oust Lisa Cook fits a pattern of purging diverse voices from the higher ranks of leadership.
“He chose to fire her out of all the governors because she’s a Black woman,”
said LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the organisation Black Voters Matter.
“H…

Cornell Women's Soccer tries to contain Brown's Nº 20 Naomi Nnewihe in the first soccer game of the day, which Brown won 2-0
#photo #photography #soccer

Dynamics of Gender Bias in Software Engineering
Thomas J. Misa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21050 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21050

Dynamics of Gender Bias in Software Engineering
The field of software engineering is embedded in both engineering and computer science, and may embody gender biases endemic to both. This paper surveys software engineering's origins and its long-running attention to engineering professionalism, profiling five leaders; it then examines the field's recent attention to gender issues and gender bias. It next quantitatively analyzes women's participation as research authors in the field's leading International Conference of Software Engineering (1…

"Women hold 32% of full-time jobs in the renewable energy sector, IRENA report finds"
#Women #Energy #Renewables

Women hold 32% of full-time jobs in the renewable energy sector, IRENA report finds
New data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) shows women account for only 19% of renewable energy senior leadership positions globally and almost half of the women surveyed report some form of gender-based discrimination in the workplace.

Three women become choked up as they deliver news in a video posted to social media.
“We did it, everybody,”
says Leslie Manookian,
the woman in the middle.
She is a driving force in a campaign that has chipped away at the foundations of modern public health in Idaho.
Her group had just gotten lawmakers to pass what she called the first true “medical freedom” bill in the nation.
With Manookian in the video are
two of her allies, the leaders of H…

Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.

I was really having trouble giving a shit about either of the two candidates in the Labour Deputy Leadership election, and I had to scroll quite a long way down the wikipedia page, but I found something in the end.

Started watching this on Hulu and it's precisely my kind of dark humor.
Creator Kat Sadler described the show as “a family sitcom about trauma, but it’s more about us being narcissistic losers who are pathetically obsessed with what people think about us.”
#streaming #tvshows

That's № 14 Anne Keneally of the William Smith Statesmen with the ball guarded by № 34 Annabella Yorio of the Ithaca College Bombers in a game that IC won 60-45 this Jan 31 at the intimate Ben Light Gymnasium; Annabella scored 5 points and got 6 rebounds
#photo #photography

Extraordinary surface critical behavior induced by a topological dimer phase in a two-dimensional Heisenberg quantum magnet
Zhe Wang, Longye Lu, Shang-Qiang Ning, Zenan Liu, Yan-Cheng Wang, Zheng Yan, Wenan Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04973

Extraordinary surface critical behavior induced by a topological dimer phase in a two-dimensional Heisenberg quantum magnet
Using quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we study the dimerized spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on a square lattice, focusing on the paramagnetic dimer phase and its edge states, and associated surface criticality behavior. The model can also be viewed as two-dimensional antiferromagnetically (AF) coupled usual ladders with AF rungs. We demonstrate that the dimer phase of the model, previously considered topologically trivial, is actually a quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) Haldane phase belonging to a symme…

Happy runner at the Thom B Trail Race at Hammond Hill State Forest
#photo #photography #running #sports