"Many of the world’s best athletes are women. And many of the world’s sporting records are held by women. But due to human bias, our search engines have learnt to prioritise sportsmen in our search results, even when the facts put sportswomen first."

This is a great project and something I can easily do while sitting and watching TV! #correcttheinternet #womeninsport #womeninsports

H/T to the excellent #InvisibleWomen newsletter for the pointer

Is anyone making Bookish resolutions for the New Year?

I never make resolutions but I am making an intention (a much softer and more pliable thing) to try not to buy any new books but to read the books I have.

On that note one of my final book purchases of 2022 is the #WhiteHorseBookgroup book for January #InvisibleWomen by Caroline Oriado Perez. I hope you will consider joining me from 15th January for the read.

#BookResolutions #Intentions #2023 #Bookstodon #BookGroup #BooClub #AmReading

The poll to select the next read for the #WhiteHorseBookgroup has closed. The group will read Invisible Women by Caroline Oriado Perez starting 15th January.

Thanks to all who voted.

Why not read along with us! I will hopefully be posting additional material as we read along.

If you have a suggestion for a future #NonFictionBook toot me!

#WHBookgroup #InvisibleWomen #Bookstodon #AmReading #NonFiction #NonFictionBooks #NonFictionBookClub #NonFictionBookgroup

Caroline Criado Perez, who wrote the book Invisible Women, about how our world is designed for men, has a newsletter. It's funny and snarky, but also interesting and at times infuriating. This week's newsletter is mainly about research into (remedies against) Alzheimer's.

Did you know that women are more likely than men to suffer from Alzheimer's? Now guess where the bulk of the research is aimed at...

https://open.substack.com/pub/carolinecriadoperez/p/invisible-women-default-male-miracles

#InvisibleWomen #books #CarolineCriadoPerez #MedicalResearch

I read Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez some time ago. Trying to use voice to text when I couldn't type in the earliest days after my broken wrist reminded me that gender bias is built into that system + so many others.

"AI systems misrecognize women’s voices and faces more often than men’s, which makes it more difficult for women to use these technologies and enjoy their benefits." ‐Rosalie Waelen and Michał Wieczorek
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-022-00548-w
#InvisibleWomen #GenderBias #accessibility

今天跟云五老师聊到天气问题，我想到去年底 PNW 的大雪，虽然我人不在躲过一劫，但对朋友们和公寓物业反映出来的整个城市瘫痪景象记忆犹新，公寓过了一周还在发邮件说大家别扔垃圾 City 还没派垃圾车来。作为对比前两天去波士顿撞上多少年一遇大暴雪毕竟有经验感觉应对井井有条，第二天就恢复秩序了，而且肉眼可见优先级很明确每天清出来多一点各个位置。（此处 cue #InvisibleWomen 里提到的 Is snow cleaning gender biased？感觉波士顿还不错清理人行道很快）

不过我和瓜片也很勇，下雪第一天还清不及的时候踩着及膝的雪跑出去吃早茶（……），瓜片一调皮（怀疑是蓄谋已久）还把我俩拉倒在路边的大雪堆里了，本来装备足并没有多冷结果俩人浑身冰雪浸湿寒风瑟瑟发抖去吃 dim sum 这么度蜜月还蛮特别的哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈

#出游 感觉是不是还可以开一个 #四海为家 tag 探讨居住地