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Aberystwyth Uni Computer Science @abercompsci.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Llongyfarchiadau i'r myfyrwyr AberCompSci a gyflwynodd bosteri yn y @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social yng Nghaerfaddon y mis hwn! Congratulations to the AberCompSci students who presented posters at the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium in Bath this month!

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

One day to go to the BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium 2026 in Bath. Check out the full schedule!

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Aberystwyth Uni Computer Science @abercompsci.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Amanda, with students and colleagues, will be going to @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social in Bath today. The BCSWomen Lovelace colloquium is the UK's leading conference for women and non-binary STEM students.

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Amanda Clare @amandaclare.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I’ve set off from Aberystwyth with a poster tube full of @aberuni.bsky.social @abercompsci.bsky.social posters for the Lovelace Colloquium @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social in Bath. Looking forward to hearing some great keynote speakers: Sarah Winmill and Edafe Onerhime.

Amanda on a train with a tube of posters. Aberystwyth train station can be seen through the window.

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Thanking Last Year’s Partners & Calling New Partners for 2026 🌟

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

⏳ 12 days to go until the abstract submission deadline! If you’ve been working on a project, research idea or innovative concept within the computing field, and you identify as female or non-binary and are studying at undergraduate or master’s level, this is your opportunity to share your work!

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

BCSWomenLovelace is live on Instagram and TikTok! 🎉 Connect with us and stay tuned for exciting content: 📸 Instagram: @bcswomenlovelace 🎵 TikTok: @BCSWomenLovelace 🔗 All socials: linktr.ee/BCSWomenLove...

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

🔔 Your Abstract Awaits Submit by 6 February 2026 Entries for BCS Women Lovelace 2026 are coming in from across the UK. 👀 Is your university on the list? 📩 Submission link: forms.office.com/e/avvaJ0kZPw ❓ FAQ bcswomenlovelace.bcs.org?page_id=99

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Join the BCSWomen Lovelace Webinar! 📅 22 Jan 2026 (Online & Free) ⏱️18:30–19:30 (UK) ✨ Register: bcswomen_22012026.eventbrite.co.uk Speakers: 🎙️ Dr Safia Barikzai 🎙️ Hannah Griffin 🎙️ Saxon Partridge-Smith Hear about the Colloquium’s journey, sponsorship, and personal experiences!

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Great site visit to Bath this week. It's going to be awesome!

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Edinburgh Napier SCEBE @enuscebe.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Lovely people, inspiring speakers, and great ideas. Our students share their experience of this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium. blogs.napier.ac.uk/womenintotec...

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BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium 2025 - Women into Tech

I strongly recommend to any women or gender minorities in computing or related at university to take advantage of this opportunity!

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We are at LSBU wrapping up 2025 and planning for Lovelace 2026 - Bath, April 9-10.

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Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk · 07/05/2025

Excellent article on this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social in the latest issue of the BCS @wearebcs.bsky.social IT NOW magazine: www.bcs.org/articles-opi... Lovely to hear from Joanna Jardine, one of our @uofgcompsci.bsky.social Graduate Apprentices!

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Dare, always dare: Lovelace Colloquium 2025

On 16 April 2025 the BCS Lovelace Colloquium celebrated its 18th birthday at the University of Glasgow Student’s Union (GUU), a building which forbade women until 1980. Georgia Smith reports.

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Our chair, @safiabarikzai.bsky.social has been shortlisted in the SheCanCode STEM Educator awards. shecancode.io/stem-educato... If you want to vote for her please do! She's not only chair of our brilliant women-in-tech conference, she's a school governor, senior lecturer and an all-round superstar

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STEM Educator Awards Shortlist 2025

Discover the 2025 shortlist for SheCanCode's STEM Educator Awards, celebrating the outstanding educators shaping the future of women in STEM.

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The organising team are already excitedly making draft plans for next year’s Lovelace Colloquium (the 19th!) while on their journey home. It’ll be at Bath University, 9-10 April 2026 and we’re looking forward to it.

Safia, Hannah and Amanda planning the Lovelace Colloquium timetable on a laptop on a train.

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UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

New technology developed by @ilyena.bsky.social of @uofgcompsci.bsky.social in partnership with Blair Drummond Safari Park which allows zoo animals and their human visitors to share experiences could have positive benefits for both. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Red-ruffed lemurs at Blair Drummond Safari Park interact with the SensorySafari system

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

We’d like to thank all our sponsors this year, starting with our Gold sponsor Ocado Technology, and their excellent speaker Bala Tirumalasetti and panel member Mariana Fonseca. Ocado have sponsored the Lovelace attendees for four years now and we’re so pleased they support diversity in computing.

Ocado’s stall at the Lovelace Colloquium with four members of staff including Bala and Mariana, and a lot of pens.

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Professor Sue Black OBE @drblack.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

What an amazing day we had at the @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social Colloquium yesterday! Massive congratulations to Rose Gowen from @durhamuniversity.bsky.social who came first in the poster competition 💜🙌🏽🥳

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Professor Sue Black OBE @drblack.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It was so good to catch up with @safiabarikzai.bsky.social at the @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social social evening last night 🤩

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It's time for the prizewinners megathread!

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

In the afternoon we had a great talk from Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas about using technology to enable animals to communicate remotely (her dog can video call her, and parrots can call other parrots).

Ilyena speaking at Lovelace. She is showing a video of parrots preening over a video call.

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Carole Rennie Logan was our third and final speaker of the morning session. She described her progress from graduate to community organiser and conference speaker.

Carole Logan speaking at the Lovelace Colloquium. The slide has a picture of a girl/woman with a speech bubble nearby that says “But you don’t look like a programmer”.

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Our next speaker was Bala Tirumalasetti from our Gold Sponsor Ocado Technology. Bala spoke about improving processes at Ocado, and having the right structures and frameworks to do that.

Bala Tirumalasetti speaking at the Lovelace Colloquium, with a slide describing project management principles.

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"All those people who look like they've got it sorted? They don't." We are all still inventing ourselves. Great start to the keynote from Sharon Moore.

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It's Lovelace day! See everyone here in Glasgow University Union later 😀

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

And this evening we had a social for those staying the night before, with human bingo and a quiz.

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Today we’ve been doing all the preparations for tomorrow: lots of bag packing and moving of boxes into our beautiful venue ready for the morning.

Safia with all the boxes we need to move to the venue.

The hall is ready at Glasgow University Union.

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Our conference tomorrow - no tickets left, sorry, we're full - is in GUU. Attendees coming by public transport should go to KELVINBRIDGE subway and head up the Great Western Road, then turn left on to Bank Street. Detailed directions + pics follow...

a map showing the route from Kelvinbridge subway to the Glasgow University Union

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Our social this evening - for poster presenters and helpers only - is in QMU. This is a thread to help them find it... First, get the SUBWAY to HILLHEAD.

picture of map from hillhead subway to QMU with route marked in pink

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Dr Safia Barikzai @safiabarikzai.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

On route to Glasgow for the 18th annual @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social Colloquium. Now stuck at Preston due to massive train delays. Not complaining as I’ve got plenty of chocolate to keep me happy - thank you Dr Hannah Dee MBE!

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We now have an abstract book! bcswomenlovelace.bcs.org/wp-content/u... Doesn't it look great?

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Ada Scotland Festival @adascot.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Hello Bluesky! Work is already underway on the 2025 Ada Scotland Festival, which will run from 29 September to 10 October. Stay tuned! ada.scot

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Ada Scotland Festival

Gender diversity in computing and tech

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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Finally pinned down some time to reflect and then write a PFHEA application. So very happy to receive my official @advancehe.bsky.social certificate today.

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It's that time of year when we spend our afternoons off making Ada Lovelace pronoun badges in advance of the colloquium. Spoiler alert: most of them are she/her (we have some they/them for nb participants, obviously, and some he/him for helpers and friends).

A photo of about 100 Ada Lovelace pronoun badges, not all finished, mostly saying "she/her"

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

General registration is now open! If you would like to join us in Glasgow, please sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bcswomen-l... Student tickets are £1 Non-student £30 Supporter tickets (if you want to help us out ) £60

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BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2025

The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium is an annual one day conference for women and non-binary students of Computing and related subjects.

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

We've entered a phase of the conference organisation where externally, it probably looks like we're being quiet. Behind the scenes we are filtering and reading 265 student abstracts, answering queries about rules and regulations, travel and accommodation, and engaging with supporters and sponsors.

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Today, I emailed all submitters to the Lovelace (266, once we'd taken out doubles and test posts). Now the team gets down to reviewing and feedback. Our aim is to release decisions before the end of Feb!

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Due to a hiccup in my electronic world I didn't send student acknowledgement emails yesterday. I am planning to get them out today even if it means learning how to mail merge in outlook😅

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Submissions closed just after midnight last night and we have 271 - some of these are not real (I'm filtering now) but that's a record. I hope to get back to everyone today, sometime!

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It's the deadline day and now we have abstracts from 50 different unis. We will accept abstracts submitted up until midnight.

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It's just gone 1pm on the day before the deadline, and we've just had our 100th submission. Usually our submission numbers double on the last day. Students are not renowned for handing things in early...

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Now more than 50 submissions from more than 28 different universities inc: Bournemouth, Cardiff, Glasgow Caledonian, Lancaster, London South Bank, Loughborough, Manchester Metropolitan, Nottingham Trent, Open, Sheffield Hallam, Southampton Solent, Swansea, Bath... bcswomenlovelace.bcs.org?page_id=92

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Call for Abstracts

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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The 2025 BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium will be on April 16th at the University of Glasgow! And our call for poster abstracts is open until Monday 3rd February. Find out more at bcswomenlovelace.bcs.org

Flyer advertising the 18th BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium. To enter see the details at https://bcswomenlovelace.bcs.org/

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