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Dr Safia Barikzai @safiabarikzai.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Wonderful to have Coding Black Females ‘code and chill’ event at LSBU - I get to chill whilst others are busy coding. Not a bad deal.

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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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Dr Safia Barikzai @safiabarikzai.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Visiting the glorious city of Bath. Planning for the 19th BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium is in full swing. @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social #WomenInComputing #WomenInTech

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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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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

And now cake.

A lot of cake. Imagine cake for 200 people.

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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

You can catch Bala during the rest of the day on the Ocado employer stand.

The Ocado stand where students can ask about careers with Ocado and chat to Bala and her team.

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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

Another very good and clear message from Sharon!🐈🦁

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

Sharon gave many excellent suggestions to the Lovelace audience.

Sharon at the lecturn and a slide with the outline for her talk which finished with “a few suggestions”.

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

18! Here we go

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

Ready to greet you all!

Welcoming helpers handing out conference bags at the entrance to the building

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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

Stay on the same side of the road, keep going across the river and uphill till you get to Bank Street. Coopers is on the corner - it's a big pub, look out for the clock tower.

picture of great western road, clocktower in distance

coopers pub, with distinctive clocktower

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

When you get to the road (Lilybank Gardens) turn right and follow the side of the green. The road curves around and then you find yourself at the Computer Science (Sir Alwyn Williams) building. Go past this...

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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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Professor Calvin Moorley @calvinmoorley.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

@safiabarikzai.bsky.social I see you & celebrate you for all that you do

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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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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore Playful Learning with @kiusum.bsky.social and @sfaulknerpando.bsky.social on Wednesday 8-9pm GMT. Blog post to follow soon!

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Dr Safia Barikzai @safiabarikzai.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thank you @matthewbarr.co.uk for an excellent talk on the positive effects of playing video games - the link between employability skills and playing video games is certainly something I need to explore with our students.

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Dr Safia Barikzai @safiabarikzai.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Great catching up with the fabulous EDI and Athena SWAN leads from the School of Built Environment and Architecture.

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