FemaleScienceProfessor

Imagine that you have been making one particular not-very-complicated point for many years in various faculty meetings, individual discussio...

A reader sent me this link to a blog post by someone who thinks that every employee on a state university campus should be well trained in ...

A few years ago, I posed the question: What do you do if someone you know to be a long-time sexist jerk is selected for a position of respon...

Quite often, I get e-mail that goes something like this: "A female professor/supervisor was really mean and unfair to me. What's up...

Yesterday I described how a Great Man of Science sat in my office and explained to me some exciting research done by one of my recent PhD st...

Not long ago, a Great Man of Science came to my department, gave some talks, and met with faculty, students, and researchers. I have met him...

Imagine that there is one research group that doesn’t like or respect another. It is perhaps not so difficult to imagine such a scenario. In...

It is so gratifying to know that other professors ( Angry Professor , for example) also get exciting offers of international travel. Here is...

A few weeks ago I pondered ways in which professors try to insult each other . Today I feel like adding to the list. A particular comment t...

In the comments on yesterday’s post, a number of people said that I shouldn’t bother working with a particular obnoxious person. This made m...

This post is sort of inspired by yesterday's post by Dr. Shellie . It occasionally happens that students will apply to a graduate progra...

Lest anyone wonder if my previously mentioned most trollish colleague ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) confines his denigrating, patronizing, and rude comments...

Today a random grad student stopped by my office to ask what he described as a random question. He said he was going around asking various p...

This weekend as I was contemplating some home improvement projects, I remembered an incident from when I first moved here. I arrived at my p...

At least several times each year, I host a scientific visitor who gives a talk or two and who spends time with my research group and others....

A few months ago I wrote about a strange man who had been wandering into my office and acting in a disturbing way. He continued to appear at...

In the not-so-distant past, I wrote about a hostile reviewer who afflicted one of my students with anonymous rude comments that, without bas...

Now that the academic year is over, it seems that reviewers and editors (including FSP) are getting caught up with their tasks. Yesterday I ...

Years ago, a certain senior professor in my field slammed my nomination for an award, saying that I published 'too much' and therefo...

This has been one of those academic 'perfect storm' weeks in terms of having a huge number of events occur in the same week, sometim...