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Looking for recommendations of tech podcasts hosted or co-hosted by women.
And . . . GO!
@maxleibman well there is this one by yours truly, and subtitled “news from the frontiers of the data revolution”
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The Verge podcast, co-hosted by Alex Krantz and often with other female reporters as guests.
What prompted this? I was reflecting today about how two of my favorite tech podcasts lost their women cohosts in the last two years—Windows Weekly’s Mary Jo Foley and Downstream’s Julia Alexander both took new roles that led them to leave their respective shows.
That inspired me to count up how many tech podcast I regularly listen to (13) and how many women are among the hosts (1 out of . . . 21).
Time to do better.
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@maxleibman @andypiper Hidden Figures of Python ( @mariatta, @cheukting_ho): https://rss.com/podcasts/pypodcats/
Human Side of Dev ( @lindsaykwardell): https://humansideof.dev/
Sad Python Girls Club ( @sadpythongirlsclub): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sad-python-girls-club
STEAM Powered ( @steampoweredshow): https://steampoweredshow.com/
@maxleibman I love Ship It podcast co-hosted by Autumn Nash
https://changelog.com/shipit/
@maxleibman When she isn’t co-hosting or appearing on tech podcasts herself, @Verso often promotes other podcasts featuring women. I’m sure she has some recommendations.
@maxleibman Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/afternoon-cyber-tea
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Mozilla's IRL podcast was most recently hosted by Bridget Todd. Previous seasons were hosted by Manoush Zomorodi (now of TED Radio Hour) and Veronica Belmont.
@maxleibman brand new one called “Change, Technically” hosted by @grimalkina and @analog_ashley https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-technically/id1764552830?i=1000666378500
@maxleibman Quality Bits by @linazubyte covers a range of topics related to building high quality software
@maxleibman @grimalkina I was just on ship it and Autumn the cohost is great
@maxleibman science, not tech, but worth boosting: Ologies
https://www.alieward.com/ologies/
@molly0xfff hosts _Citation Needed_ which is about cryptocurrency (scams): https://www.citationneeded.news/
@maxleibman trash tuesday, this podcast will kill you, my favorite murder
@maxleibman 'Security Cryptography Whatever' hosted by @durumcrustulum , @tqbf and David Adrian.
@maxleibman Jen Costillo, for UNRE, the UnNamed Reverse Engineering podcast.
@maxleibman My boss, Jean Yang, has been hosting Postman's current season of Breaking Changes: https://www.postman.com/events/breaking-changes/ https://open.spotify.com/show/5ig80ZlBLiC2iXxql0s1q2
@maxleibman sadly it’s now finished its run, but I’d still 100% recommend Rocket, which was hosted by Simone de Rochfort, @film_girl and @briannawu
Absolutely awesome, and defo worth a listen - great mix of tech, popular culture, some politics and … #ScamTown
Gofer it ….. #RocketRules
@maxleibman Lady Paragons' "Women in STEM" podcast! https://ladyparagons.com/
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Command Line Heroes
@maxleibman Smashing Security with Carole Theriault https://www.smashingsecurity.com/ and Click here with Dina Temple-Raston https://therecord.media/podcast
@maxleibman maybe very special interest, but Juliana is one of my fav peers in my industry https://juliana-jackson.com/standard-deviation-podcast/
@maxleibman dev stories by @vsoch : https://rseng.github.io/devstories/
@maxleibman Lena Reinhard's Leadership Confidential https://www.lenareinhard.com/leadership-confidential
@maxleibman @essjax of course I have to mention the NosillaCast. It's only been going for 19 years or so.
@maxleibman Linux Weekly Daily Wednesday:
https://linuxgamecast.com/lwdwsubscribe/
https://www.radicalai.org/ is amazing. It's finished, but if you haven't listened yet, it's all new to you :)
@maxleibman Accidental Gods with Amanda Scott
And, even though it’s not a tech podcast, I think all techies would benefit from listening to On Being with Krista Tippett.
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Molly Wood's doing one about climate change solutions.
Everybody in the Pool
@maxleibman I recommend Command Line Heroes, it has a high production value rarely seen in podcasts too
@maxleibman I can contribute https://www.expandingbeyond.it/
@maxleibman Developer Stories by the inestimable Vanessa Sochat just hit its 100th episode: https://rseng.github.io/devstories/
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@maxleibman My votes for these two, then:
- https://dailytechnewsshow.com/about/ co-hosted by @acedtect and @sarahlane
- https://www.podfeet.com/blog/about/ hosted by Allison @podfeet Sheridan
@maxleibman https://pizzadedados.com/en the first Brazilian podcast about data science. Most episodes are in Portuguese but some are in English and on YouTube ☺️
Fully maintained by Brazilian women - hosting, editing, admin and so on…
@maxleibman Tech-adjacent, science and history podcast: Lost Women of Science, produced with Scientific American.
https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/
Season 2, for example, is about Klára Dán von Neumann, John von Neumann's wife. She was the first person to write and execute modern software. It was part of the Manhattan Project.
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In German:
Female Tech Talk (stories of women working in tech & IT business)
haecksenwerk
The diner (focus on data privacy topics)
English:
Melissa Perri, Product Thinking (not only tech / dev-related)
Radical AI podcast (unfortunately discontinued)
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thanks for the great thread! (cc @viennawriter )
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@maxleibman Articles of Interest, hosted by Avery Truffleman. https://99percentinvisible.org/aoi/
Broadly speaking, I don’t care much about fashion - but AoI is a deep dive into the history and social consequences of the clothes we wear. This includes a 5 part series about the history of US college “prep” fashion that is amongst the best podcast series I’ve ever heard.
Sarah Lane and Tom Merrit have been talking tech in my ears for a decade now. Smart, funny and lot's of tech journalism experience.
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@maxleibman Shift by Jennifer Strong https://pca.st/podcast/db511980-2e36-013c-f67d-0acc26574db2 - also worth checking out her previous podcast In Machines We Trust
@maxleibman Techish is half women, all black and very British https://pca.st/podcast/9ea2c9d0-fb28-0135-c260-7d73a919276a
@maxleibman There Are. No Girls On The Internet by Bridget Todd (she also did a series for Mozilla's IRL podcast) https://pca.st/podcast/54984e90-9bc3-0138-e645-0acc26574db2
@maxleibman Candid Contributions https://pca.st/podcast/8899beb0-18fa-0138-9fa5-0acc26574db2
@maxleibman and Tech Adjacent but definitely worth a listen : Kim Scott's Radical Candor podcast (as she is a former manager at a few big tech companies her leadership lessons are very relevant) https://pca.st/podcast/d4d872e0-aa33-0134-1060-25324e2a541d
@maxleibman half-woman team, mostly about the mechanics of writing software and teams, but sometimes a deep dive into ruby specifics. The Bike Shed from Thoughtworks
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@maxleibman if indie videogames can be considered "tech" I'll recommend Indieventure https://indieventurepodcast.co.uk/
@maxleibman The Automators or other podcasts by @rosemary https://www.relay.fm/automators/162
@maxleibman @psb_dc Steph Foster & I - One Vision Fintech Fuse https://shows.acast.com/one-vision
Sue Britton - The Fintech Effect https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-fintech-effect-with-host-sue-britton/id1708652567
Maia Bittner & Sam Maile - Artificially Intelligent https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/artificially-intelligent-with-sam-maule-and-maia-bittner/id1741803957
Clara Duriodié - Decoding AI™️ https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/decoding-ai/id1648743851
Nicole Casperson - Humans of Fintech https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/humans-of-fintech/id1600731457
@emilymbender & @alex@alex@dair-community.social - Mystery AI Hype Theatre 3000 https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/mystery-ai-hype-theater-3000/id1690426042
@maxleibman Astronomy Cast co-host @starstryder
Dr. Pamela Gay
@maxleibman Paging @katherined to a white courtesy phone.... https://openatintel.podbean.com/ and https://www.reality2cast.com/
@maxleibman This Week In Google (TWIG, hosted by @leo, which is really more of a general online news review show, not just Google news) is co-hosted by the Information's Paris Martineau.
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Sorry for being late to the party, but also thanks for making this thread.
My personal favourite is "Purple Code" 💜
https://purplecode.org/?feed=mp3
Which might not be so known in the American Podcast Bubble
The hosts Sana Ahmad, Bianca Herlo and Lena Ulbricht look at digital society from an interdisciplinary and intersectional perspective, topics so far include:
Content moderation, digital (labor) rights, entrepreneurship in Tech, AI Design and Ethics and more!
A podcast about everything that happens after git push
Hosted by:
Justin Garrison
Autumn Nash
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@maxleibman check out the excellent #GadgetLabPodcast co-hosted by @laurengoode (and @snackfight) with lots of great guests!
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@maxleibman @durumcrustulum's crypto podcast, although it is over my head often because I am not a cryptographer
@maxleibman I thought of another one, the co hosts rotate so not always. But the Hackaday Podcast is excellent! @hackaday
@maxleibman the 404 media podcast https://www.404media.co/the-404-media-podcast/