FemaleScienceProfessor

Yes, I know that Acceptance is Stage 5 in the evolution of grief, but in the academic context of graduate admissions, it is Stage 2(ish), i...

If you are (or were) a graduate student and your advisor suggests that you do something that you think is incorrect or stupid, what do you ...

Perhaps you have heard the expression, "If you want something done, ask a busy person." Some people are able to get a lot done, a...

Today in Scientopia , I open discussion of a grad student's question about how authorship is decided on a paper, and whether a research ...

Sorry.. Blogger ate this post, along with all of your comments.. but here is the restored post (without the comments) . There have been many...

Yesterday's post in Scientopia resulted in a wide range of responses in answer to the question of whether a female professor should agr...

Several times in recent months, academic persons at different institutions have described completely unrelated problems with different gradu...

As an introductory image to show my research group as part of a general discussion about grad school, careers etc., I decided to see if I co...

For a continuation of the discussion of the general topic of mobile (or potentially mobile) academics, see this post at Scientopia for a fo...

As long as universities continue to avoid taking the lead on making policies about family leave for graduate students and postdocs, it's...

As longtime readers know, every once in a while I venture out of Science World and interact with colleagues who inhabit different parts of t...

This post is not about being a parent and a professor. It is about something far far stranger. And it is also over at Scientopia .

Sometimes it seems like I could write a blog post about how much I like pistachio ice cream, and I would get comments like "Why do you ...

If you ask me (as someone did in the comments on yesterday's post) how many female grad students I am advising, I could tell you the exa...

A colleague of mine is in an academic system in which he, as Big Professor, directly selects a few graduate students who will work with him....

There has been much angsty press in recent years about how kids don't have much free time to kick around and just be kids anymore. Thos...

Thanks to Wendy P for bringing up an important issue: How much institutional service should graduate students do? (and who should decide thi...

When I was a grad student, I participated in the usual seminars and journal clubs at which a group of students +/- faculty read and discusse...

A strange question from a reader, with some background information: I'm a nearly-done PhD student in engineering. I am a woman. My Mas...

It is with some reluctance that I am diving yet again into the fraught topic of Professorial Use of Summer Time . Yesterday's theme was ...