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Not-so Ordinary Minds

Not-so Ordinary Minds

By: Not-so Ordinary Minds Team
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Welcome to Not-so Ordinary! We are a group of students raising awareness and advocating for people with disabilities in STEM fields and academia. Join us every week as we discuss insights, news, and updates on the state of diversity in our current world with the world’s current “not-so-ordinary” but very much extraordinary minds.Not-so Ordinary Minds Team Science
Episodes
  • Elon Musk.... We need to talk
    Feb 17 2023

    Over the past couple of days we have been receiving quite a few requests to talk about our favourite neurodivergent renegade - Elon Musk (heavy sarcasm here).

    So let's talk about it!  

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    15 mins
  • Neurodivergent Role Models
    Jan 29 2023

    Role models - do you have one?

    It seems like in this age, gaining access to people's stories is easier than ever - some of those people we may even begin to idolise.

    Today we decided to talk about one role model in for people on the spectrum.
    James Cody is an Autistic Engineer from the UK who works at The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE - they work on the Trident - uk's Nukes!)

    We talk about an article in published on the Institute of mathematic's website - where he details his life and some interesting insights into how being on the spectrum may have really helped him in his career!

    Here's the link to the website - (It's really worth the read - trust us!):
    https://ima.org.uk/10049/being-an-autistic-engineer/


    Twitter:
    https://twitter.com/Notso_OrdMind


    Youtube:
    https://www.youtube.com/@Notso_OrdMind

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    11 mins
  • Neurodivergent women recruited into Defense Companies?
    Jan 14 2023

    Here we dip our toes a little bit into the topic of neurodivergent women in the workplace - starting with an article which details how some UK companies are seeking to hire them 


    (one of them being in cybersecurity defense?)


    Here's the article for ref.

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/16/neurodiverse-women-sought-for-jobs-at-gchq-and-bae-systems


    (Not-so Ordinary Minds Quick Bites Edition)

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    7 mins

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