Glasgow Women in Computing Science @GlasgowCS provides monthly meet ups and talks from leaders in academia and industry. Open to all.

Joined November 2019
Getting involved in journal reviewing and editing can be invaluable! Come find out how at the Glasgow Women in Computing Science workshop on Wed 25th 1pm in SAWB 422. The session is guided by Senior Publishing and Associate Editors from Royal Society Open Science!
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Save the date! The next GWiCS seminar takes place at 2pm, Wed February 4th. Lina Mohjazi will provide advice and assurance for researchers considering a postgraduate path, then Fani Deligianni will lead a discussion on the mission of GWiCS and its future!
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The GWiCS seminar returns! Join us on Wed 22nd at 3 pm for a double billing. Despoina Sampatakou and Effie Koursari, both of whom made the jump from industry to academia, will share their experiences and learnings!
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Our first GWiCS event of the term is here! We will host the #IamRemarkable workshop, ran by Michelle McPhie from @MorganStanley , which discusses the importance of self promotion! The workshop takes place Wed 10th 3pm in SAWB 422, sign up here: tinyurl.com/yndzht9s
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Our last GWiCS event of the academic year is today!! At 5pm we will be live-watching an upcoming ACM Tech Talk by Felienne Herman on how the history of programming languages, gender, feminism and CS came to be so male dominated. Snacks and drinks included!
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Another GWiCS event is coming up next Monday! Dr Sara Jabbari from the University of Birmingham School of Mathematics is here to share their efforts improving the experiences of minority staff and students in their institution! Join on Mon 16th 11am in SAWB 423, or on Teams!
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The next GWiCS event is tomorrow at 3pm in the Sir Alwyn Williams Building. See you there for an excellent talk, snacks and discussion!
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UPDATE: This seminar is now on June 4th! We are hosting a watch party of a fantastic plenary talk by Dr Anne Cori. `SIR or MADAM' is a thorough and highly digestible dive into the ways that privilege and demographic factors shape academic careers. There will also be snacks!
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Thanks so much to our two speakers for an excellent seminar about starting new research groups. Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas and Sharon Ding provided fantastic advice and introspective reflections on their experiences.
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Seminar is tomorrow, see you there!
Exciting times, the next GWiCS Seminar is coming soon! Next week on Wednesday at 3pm Dr @Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas and Dr Xianghua Sharon) Ding will talk to us about their experiences establishing new groups as research leaders. Come join us in SAWB room 423 or on Zoom!
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Exciting times, the next GWiCS Seminar is coming soon! Next week on Wednesday at 3pm Dr @Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas and Dr Xianghua Sharon) Ding will talk to us about their experiences establishing new groups as research leaders. Come join us in SAWB room 423 or on Zoom!
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Exciting times, the next GWiCS Seminar is coming soon! Next week on Wednesday at 3pm Dr @Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas and Dr Xianghua Sharon) Ding will talk to us about their experiences establishing new groups as research leaders. Come join us in SAWB room 423 or on Zoom!
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We would like to celebrate International Women’s Day by using this opportunity to thank all the women who have shared their advice, expertise and stories with the GWiCS community over the last year! More news to follow soon regarding our next seminar!
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Another fantastic seminar, with lots of great learnings and very lively discussion. Thanks to our wonderful speakers Simone Stumpf and @hatii_matt and to the attendees. See you in the new year!
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⭐ The WiML Workshop 2024 program is live at tinyurl.com/wimlprogram! ⭐ Join us at NeurIPS for inspiring talks, engaging mentorship roundtables, networking sessions, and amazing food! If you plan to attend, fill out the participation form here!: docs.google.com/forms/d/1olp….
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Reminder! Our next GWiCS Seminar is tomorrow at 1pm, see you all there!
Coming soon! The first GWiCS seminar in collaboration with the @UofGComputing Upwards program! Come along on Nov 27th 1pm in SAWB 423 to learn how Prof Simone Stumpf and Dr Matthew Barr manage time, people and projects in the hectic world of academia!
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Coming soon! The first GWiCS seminar in collaboration with the @UofGComputing Upwards program! Come along on Nov 27th 1pm in SAWB 423 to learn how Prof Simone Stumpf and Dr Matthew Barr manage time, people and projects in the hectic world of academia!
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PhD position opportunity to work an interdisciplinary team at the @UofGlasgow in AI tools to uncover critical host-virus interactions... Exciting 🙌. If not for you, please share with anyone you think might be interested 👌. Thanks 👍
📣 Interested in AI and biology? PhD position at @robertson_lab on predicting virus-host interactions using protein language models. An exciting collab w/ @david_l_robertson, @ir_glasgow (myself), @keyuan1 and @AlfredoCast Apply 👉 gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvls/grad…
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Why AI is W.E.I.R.D.(Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic—a concept from psychology) and why it shouldn’t be.🌍🌎🌏 Very proud of our new paper outlining challenges & opportunities in developing AI for everyone, with everyone, by everyone. arxiv.org/pdf/2410.16315
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