FemaleScienceProfessor

Student comments on my teaching of a particular course: Great professor! I have enjoyed this class! I liked the readings. This course ...

The topic for today is whether/how much some of us academics change our research focus over the years. Some of you are too young to have su...

Every once in a while, someone makes a statement in a comment about how their advisor "doesn't do anything". In some cases, t...

Today in Scientopia : On creeps and their effect on the work of others

Let's say you heard a rumor that another group of researchers was working on a possibly identical, or at least very similar, project to ...

Have you ever had an idea for a research project that, as far as you knew, no one else was doing, only to find later that other people had t...

Someone -- a scientist -- recently told me to be careful about how and when I use the word "research" because this word has negati...

Today in Scientopia , I discuss the question of what to do if you provide information (e.g., data) to a colleague for a publication but you ...

Today let's revisit the topic of From Whence We Derive Our Job Satisfaction , assuming that there is job satisfaction being derived. So,...

In September 2008, I wrote a Labor-themed post (well, sort of ) in honor of the US holiday, Labor Day . Last year I seem to have ignored Lab...

Have you ever voluntarily given away a good idea? I just did. I didn't do it out of altruism, although it's OK with me if the recipi...

Let's consider scenarios similar to those posed by Alex in a comment to yesterday's post: Assistant Professor #1 at a major research...

Not long ago, I got an award for my research accomplishments, and was surprised, when the award was announced in my department, when a numb...

Paranoia has been such a great inspiration for Art, including of course memorable song lyrics like these: Girl, I want you here with me But...

In a post last winter , I discussed whether papers that receive few or no citations are worthwhile anyway. I came up with a few reasons why ...

Not long ago, a colleague of mine spilled an acid mixture on his clothes. He knew what to do: He immediately removed his lab coat, pants, so...

The case of a disgruntled Michigan Tech professor who mailed his teaching awards back to the university (along with angry letters) raises an...

At some point during my early years as an Assistant Professor, the university at which I was employed started making sounds about how the in...

A comment on yesterday's post got me thinking about something: If a non-recent journal article gets a low number of citations (say, 0-2)...

When discussing issues about teaching and teaching evaluations, there are always comments along the lines of: - Why would a tenured full pro...