FemaleScienceProfessor

A longtime reader and sometime correspondent of mine recently posed some questions to share with FSP readers (if you are still out there). ...

Not long ago, I attended a workshop that included a presentation on mentoring. The presentation was given by someone who had a lot of exper...

Some very kind FSP readers contacted me about nominating me for an AAAS Mentoring Award, and even contacted AAAS to see if they would consi...

* with some exceptions At, in, on, under, and through Scientopia today, I meander from pseudo-answering a question about whether to expl...

Today in Scientopia : discussion of a recent comment that mentoring constitutes a "summer camp buddy-system" for those lacking th...

Today in Scientopia , I discuss issues related to the independence, or lack thereof, of graduate students, and whether the preferred amount...

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...

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 (or, more accurately stated: I raise questions) about what contributes to strong bonds between advisors and ...

Another aspect of a recent Careers Discussion with my research group involved talking about the elements of a Professorial Trading Card fro...

Today in Scientopia , I attempt to answer a question posed in the comments yesterday: Why are graduates of my research group so successful a...

The actual, real-life purpose of The Grad School Experience image that I posted on Friday was an attempt-at-humor introduction to a discuss...

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 .

A recent post about a colleague's postdoc who is disrespectful (in more than a casual way) to female postdocs, but not to female profes...

Most of the novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet , by David Mitchell, takes place circa 1800. One of the characters, a doctor named ...

Inspired by a tangent in yesterday's post/comments and feeling that I have not previously delved in sufficient detail into the topic of ...

One of the stunning findings of the NRC report on women scientists and engineers at 'critical transitions' in their careers as facu...

Thanks to all who sent email or made comments about postdoc mentoring . Here are some ideas for things to mention and discuss in a postdoc m...

When I was a postdoc, I was just happy to get through a day without being groped (by an emeritus professor), excluded from using the researc...

Recently a person who is somewhat prominent in a certain scientific/technical field asked me to "lean on" a young professor who sh...