tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post3309271307916541159..comments2024-03-25T02:33:41.590-05:00Comments on FemaleScienceProfessor: Book PreviewFemale Science Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15288567883197987690noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-25850361566013394042009-01-26T12:35:00.000-06:002009-01-26T12:35:00.000-06:00I tried to talk to my PhD supervisor about my anxi...I tried to talk to my PhD supervisor about my anxiety about being evaluated. She just told me that people don't evaluate each other like that. That's a lie, or she just could not see it. On some level you will always think that someone is smarter, or someone is putting out more work, or that someone is giving so much better talks. With more experience I have been able to figure out that usually this does not get in the way of how people interact and think of each other socially. Anyway. Evaluated you will be, some way or another.Åkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09547046504097554789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-48682413660402467932008-08-21T19:32:00.000-05:002008-08-21T19:32:00.000-05:00what a great idea. definitely include it on your s...what a great idea. definitely include it on your service/outreach list!Pamela Ronaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905736049638342587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-14741831295491329192008-08-19T15:39:00.000-05:002008-08-19T15:39:00.000-05:00We're not top tier over here, more like a "wanna b...We're not top tier over here, more like a "wanna be". Our University is more interested in bean counting for their evaluations. The standard procedure is pubs/$$. The extension faculty get thumbs up because they get a lot of panflets with their little grants. And the upper administration does not understand why the multi-million genome grants lead to only a few papers...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-88192650673338890132008-08-19T14:03:00.000-05:002008-08-19T14:03:00.000-05:00How do those nanotoys people get taken seriously? ...How do those nanotoys people get taken seriously? I once spent a lot of time in grad school trying to replicate one of their nanotoys because I thought I could do some cool physics with it, and I kept getting nowhere. The group that I talked to wasn't much help, because the people involved had all moved on to other nanotoys that could generate a few quick papers before moving on to the next thing.<BR/><BR/>It turns out that the conditions just have to be right and then you get small regions of the sample that look cool under the SEM but the rest is crap. Hence they quickly move on to the next thing.<BR/><BR/>I'm sure there are some nanotoys people who aren't like that, but it seems like one of those things where you have to know which groups are worth trying to replicate. Well, now I'm a theorist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-24124577459536951342008-08-19T12:42:00.000-05:002008-08-19T12:42:00.000-05:00Funny, we get zero feedback as postdocs, and then ...Funny, we get zero feedback as postdocs, and then as faculty we can expect to be evaluated constantly??<BR/><BR/>Oh well, it shouldn't matter much if you have Tenure and Job Security. Criticism is much easier to take when you're not constantly picturing what it will be like to live out of a cardboard box on the street.Ms.PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06542602867472447035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-35222821303261106522008-08-19T11:10:00.000-05:002008-08-19T11:10:00.000-05:00My department too evaluates people compared to the...My department too evaluates people compared to the most productive ones, and it does it across ranks and disciplines. Thus, a FSP with two RO1s and one NSF is not at the top, because she's not publishing as much as the electrochemist. Never mind that she's a crystallographer.... It's a bit tougher to solve massive membrane complex structures... oh well.<BR/>You might imagine where this leaves the ast profs. Sometimes I wonder whether the Chair and Dean really would like to fire everybody and just hire clones of the two people he deems productive enough. We'll be renamed the Department of Nanotoys.chemcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00098595895344578873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-79159883018516371352008-08-19T10:29:00.000-05:002008-08-19T10:29:00.000-05:00As a new Assistant Professor in a large department...As a new Assistant Professor in a large department, I was in fact recently just wondering about service. I have the impression that the right amount of service might be "the amount that doesn't get your colleagues pissed off at you". <BR/><BR/>The department also seems to encourage new faculty to participate in discrete, small, service tasks like writing notes to incoming freshmen; such tasks seem easy to manage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-67382500002331632712008-08-19T09:36:00.000-05:002008-08-19T09:36:00.000-05:00Delightful surprise! I'll be sure to order a copy,...Delightful surprise! I'll be sure to order a copy, and who knows maybe it'll be the next New York Times bestseller.<BR/><BR/>Would it be possible to post a 1-page PDF of the inside. I'm curious how it <I>looks</I> like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-67496825067960980932008-08-19T08:19:00.000-05:002008-08-19T08:19:00.000-05:00Great job on the book FSP. The big question is .....Great job on the book FSP. The big question is ... are you going to include this book on your list of publications for the year?? Or would this be considered teaching? Or perhaps service???Professor in Traininghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10903558307394806532noreply@blogger.com