FemaleScienceProfessor

Have you been involved in moving a research lab/facility from one place to another within one institution, such as during a building renova...

Certainly I am not the first to realize that a proliferation of administrators at certain levels of academic institutions results in an inc...

Why can it be very great to be an administrator, at least certain kinds of administrator, such as department heads or program directors or ...

The tale of a rescinded-offer of a faculty position, owing to an email from the woman offered the job to the department re. the terms of ...

Agree or disagree? (see below) I happen to agree. Not to minimize anyone's stress in their academic job or to discount the anxieties ...

From a reader seeking your comments: "I am currently on my 4th postdoc position and still have a 4 years left on my current fellows...

It was not inevitable, but once it happened, no one was surprised. This is particularly strange because even just a few years ago it would ...

Not long ago, I spent some time with a very diverse group of academics: professors and administrators from the sciences, engineering, human...

While perusing some books and articles on academic administration, I tried to set myself a little challenge that would help me keep reading...

It is mid-March, and I feel compelled to write something about Spring Break. Last year , I was impressed to see that more than 80% of profe...

In Scientopia , a reader wonders whether to try to move from a Top-20ish graduate program to a Top-5 university to maximize chances on the ...

It seems that I have had this experience before: I am talking to an eminent, senior scientist in my field, and the conversation will be a...

There was a recent essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education titled "5 Big Secrets Your Staff Wishes You Knew". Great title! Cl...

Over in Scientopia , the topic of discussion today is whether it is bad to stay at the same institution for a postdoc after a PhD, and vari...

Like one of the commenters on yesterday's post, I too was interested in this part of Grafton's NYRB essay, and in fact had planned ...

Today in Scientopia , I reluctantly sort of give some advice about intra-department relationships, in response to a reader's e-mail abo...

Not long ago, I was talking about University Stuff with a cousin-in-law who has a computer tech job at the same university at which I am em...

Someone recently asked me if there is an age limit for getting one's first tenure track position. That is, if you follow a "non-tra...

From an essay in the The Chronicle of Higher Education , titled Academic English Is Not a Club I Want to Join . I can't use women as rol...

Today in Scientopia , I discuss a concern by someone who doesn't drink (beer, wine etc.) and who worries that this will affect her acade...