FemaleScienceProfessor

By request, I contributed a post to the Science Online/Spot On event that took place in London recently. The formatting turned out a bit ...

When I was young, I hated saying goodbye. For example, when it was time for friends or relatives to leave, I would hide if I could. It wasn...

Yes, I know I have a very lame blogroll. I don't mean that any of the blogs listed are lame, of course, just that the list is short and...

For some reason that I don't understand but that I really appreciate, I've recently received a number of extremely nice e-mails fro...

Dear Female Science Professor, In your blog, you describe many of your bad experiences during grad school and through the tenure track. ...

This recently appeared in my e-mail inbox: I have a conspiracy theory that you are not a single entity, but rather some kind of collection o...

The occasion for this and other recent FSP-centric metablogging solipsistic me me me posts is the 5th anniversary of this blog. At such temp...

It recently dawned on me that a lot of time had passed since I had surveyed the general categories of my blog posts. I last did this in Janu...

Not so long ago, I co-organized a Science Workshop on a particular topic. At some point after the workshop, I saw - by chance - a link to a ...

Although I continue to be quite content here on Blogspot as FSP, every once in a while (once a week? I haven't decided), I will also be ...

At various times in the past month or so, I have been adding labels to old posts to make searching for particular topics easier. Yes, I shou...

As many of you know, I am not good at labeling/tagging my posts, and this makes searches a bit difficult. I have therefore been slowly organ...

Sorry for the self-absorbed metablogpost today, but I was thinking about Blog Things during my week-long blog break last week and wanted to ...

If you are having a difficult time in your particular part of the academic ecosystem and are maybe even wondering if it is worth it to cont...

As I have done once in the past, I rummaged through the FSP archives to see how often I discuss particular general topics. The last time I ...

Years ago I remember seeing a Far Side cartoon that started with a panel titled "What we say to dogs", in which a man is telling h...

Something that I find very funny but kind of bizarre is when someone sends me a link to FSP or a copy of a post or even part of The FSP Book...

First, a blanket apology to all those who email me and do not get a reply. If I didn't have various important real life things to do (jo...

It has not escaped my attention that for most people my age, blogging is seen as a rather absurd activity practiced by self-absorbed young p...

As my anonymity erodes away -- fortunately at a relatively slow rate so far -- I have been wondering whether it changes my blog-voice. When ...