FemaleScienceProfessor

A colleague recently told me that he was "taking" his wife on a vacation. [He also mentioned that it was her idea and he'd rat...

For those who know me, the title of this post is a clear signal that I am gearing up for a visit with my family, in which the men are specia...

I don't know if this story will inspire or depress.. Many years ago when I was a graduate student, I got interested in a certain 'si...

This week's installment of " Dear Prudence: Advice on manners and morals " at slate.com has the sad tale of an academic couple...

At a recent medical check-up, I was asked if my job or hobbies involve any 'hazards'. I said no, though of course my job involves ha...

The topic o' the day is Citations, as in one's personal citation record. The topic was inspired by a conversation with a colleague e...

Part of the job of being a professor involves writing a few letters each year as part of the tenure and promotion reviews of assistant and a...

In my continuing efforts to learn a new language that will be useful for my research, I have found that watching movies in this language to ...

Not long ago, I realized that not everyone sees letters and numbers in color, and that this phenomenon of seeing colors has a name: synesthe...

Some recent airplane reading turned up yet another unflattering description of a professor (art history, in this case): ".. a mild, rat...

During summer weeks when we are not traveling or otherwise having unstructured time at home, my daughter attends various week-long day camps...

Recently, I met for the first time an International Researcher (IR) in a field similar to mine. Our fields of research are just different en...

A colleague of mine likes to quote: "You can't succeed by the quality of your excuses", and it is unfortunate that this quotat...

If you had a choice, and all other factors were equal, would you rather be a professor at: 1. A university that is located in a city/region ...

Grad students who didn't quite finish their dissertations in the academic year but who have postdocs or other positions lined up for the...

I like it when reviewers send me (as an editor) their reviews in the form of annotated pdf documents, as it is easy and efficient for author...

Today I was looking over the program and participant list for an upcoming international conference. It's not a huge conference, as it is...

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...

A colleague at another university recently told me a long sad story about his department's numerous failed searches owing to the high ho...

In my recent travels, I had occasion to meet for the first time another scientist who has been working on something very similar to one of m...