FemaleScienceProfessor

[Note: the title is a subtle reference to the book "My Year of Meats" by Ruth Ozeki, but not for any particular reason, though I ...

This is a repeat topic , but it's something that keeps happening, so here it is again. There is a conference that is of some interest...

To the young couple snuggling in the meeting room during the afternoon session on Awesome Science at the X Conference : ick You w...

Speaking of talks, I am reminded of an invited talk that was given by an early-career scientist at a conference in the past year or so. I w...

Do you practice your conference presentations before giving them? What is your career stage? In my case, I used to practice my conferenc...

What do you do when you are giving a talk at a conference and you have a lot more to say but not enough time to say it all as you had hoped...

Same as it ever was, or at least how it has been for the past 3.5 months, I am going to be spending a lot of time up at 10,668 meters this ...

A colleague of mine was recently asked to help organize part of the program of a conference, and was asked to recruit someone to work with h...

A surreal experience, of the conference kind: A colleague, with whom I used to work, many years ago, but with whom I stopped working because...

Imagine this scenario: You are organizing a conference session and thinking about possible invited speakers. You want a mix of old(er) super...

At an international conference not so long ago, I saw a talk by a Distinguished Professor. The talk consisted of figures that he cut and pas...

At various times in this blog, I have described professional events such as conference sessions, workshops, and speaker series in which ther...

A reader sent me this link and wonders if there is a (reasonable) explanation for the last item in this alphabetical list of categories for...

At a conference earlier this year, I went to some talks on a research topic that is only sort of related to what I do. That is, I am not dir...

If you know well in advance that your conference/workshop/seminar talk will be recorded and distributed widely, does this influence the con...

On a few occasions in recent years, talks I gave at a conference or workshop were recorded . I would have preferred not to be recorde...

Not long ago I listened to a Famous Scientist give the exact same talk that I had heard him give at a conference a few years ago. The talk ...

My mother, who is not a scientist and not an academic and who therefore understandably doesn't really know what my professor job entails...

How much has Skype /teleconferencing etc. reduced the need for professional academic travel? For me, not at all. These things have reduced t...

From the comments on a conference-themed post last week, it is clear that there are various opinions, some of them fierce, about the use of ...