Picnic by the river

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.

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

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

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...

Love my nephews 🎂 🎁

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

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!

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

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

And now cake.

It's time for the prizewinners megathread!

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).

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.

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.

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

"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.

Another very good and clear message from Sharon!🐈🦁

Sharon gave many excellent suggestions to the Lovelace audience.

18! Here we go

Ready to greet you all!

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

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

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.

The @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social colloquium finally comes to Glasgow! www.linkedin.com/posts/matthe...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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!

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

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!

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

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...

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

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!

How can we encourage staff and students to use AI in ways that do not threaten an institution’s ethics or academic integrity? www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/promo...

12 Days of AI 2024 starts on Weds. 27th Nov. all welcome! totallyrewired.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/1...

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.

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

#HappyInternationalStudentsDay to all our #ComputerScience students at #LSBU