Opening speaker for the #CogSci2018 session on women in cognitive science is @o_guest!
Growing up in Cyprus, she remembers gender was not assumed in STEM classes. Only learned "girls can't code" when she came to study in U.K. 
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Next up Eliana Colunga! What happened to women in STEM? She is annotating this chart with her personal experiences (summer camp; programming a mainframe; commodore64s; starting college)... The crash is coming...pic.twitter.com/7JIp5Z9F8g
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Each class photo from Eliana Colunga has progressively less and less women in it
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Oh hey! Those baby labs have way more women in them. Eliana Colunga shares her experience of how moving to psychology was a good intersection between Cognitive Science and Women-friendly workplaces
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Eliana Colunga ends with an important note about diversity in AI - neural nets have trouble classifying faces of women of colour. Need more diverse Cog Scientists to a) notice and b) address these problems.
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We're into the chat session with Eliana Colunga, and she's sharing about how she remembers a cog sci department where all the men had sexy pinups on their work stations. Hands up if you've seen it too?
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People are asking, what did you do about it (hostile workplaces for women)? Implied: what *could* one do about it? Current answers include... "leave?"
Hands up if you (like me) left?
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@o_guest has suggested that more young female students in cog sci won't solve the toxic work environment if they are simply set up to leave anyway. Elissa Newport adds the
idea that women in *leadership* can make a difference.
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And more male allies?
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Men who are allies are so important.
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