FemaleScienceProfessor

My daughter is involved in a particular extra-curricular activity that has an incredible number of special terms, abbreviations, acronyms, a...

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 ...

The Chronicle Review (the magazine-like part of The Chronicle of Higher Education ) recently asked a group of "scholars and experts...

My daughter's class is learning about Jobs People Do. The class has created an imaginary city and, after being presented with a list of ...

News articles and editorials about Obama's possible Supreme Court justice candidates show how much has changed for women lawyers and jud...

It seems like it has been a while since I wrote about my adventures taking an undergraduate language course, perhaps because, after three ye...

It will come as no surprise to some readers that I am rather fond of strange and possibly even humorous literary contests, such as those tha...

Some scientists need Science Stuff (equipment) in order to do their research and train their graduate students in the techniques they may ne...

An essay titled Want to Engineer Real Change? Don't Ask a Scientist appeared in the Washington Post on 25 January, but I just saw it t...

The current graduate education system that requires long hours over many uninterrupted years works well for some students (and their advisor...

A conference being held next year in a certain country is making an effort to attract scientists from around the world to participate and th...

Next week I may pursue further the topic of Who Should Organize Department Seminars: Faculty or Students? but today is Friday and I want to...

Every once in a while, a commenter remarks that this blog is not a Science Blog but is instead an Academic Culture Blog. Some commenters po...

Earlier this summer I read the excellent essay by Martin A. Schwartz in The Journal of Cell Science ( May 20, 2008 , doi: 10.1242/10.1242/j...

Yesterday's post and some of the comments reminded me of an incident I had completely forgotten about until now: Many years ago when I w...

Earlier this year, I made a compelling case for how science professors are like rock stars . I was reminded of this today as I walked near c...

Last year, I wrote about a team of Chemistry professors and students who did a show at my daughter's school. This year it was a group o...

In the 20 June Chronicle of Higher Education , Jerome Neu , a scholar of insults, was asked how academics insult each other. The (vague) ans...

There are surely untold numbers of excellent scientists who are sexist, but I know of at least one example in which sexism is resulting in B...

A proposal deadline is looming, and I'm submitting two proposals. One is for equipment, and that proposal is straightforward to write, a...