FemaleScienceProfessor

There is always something exciting going on in Academia World, and this time of year is no exception: among other things, it is Decision Tim...

Today I heard an amazing thing. A tenured professor in another department hid the fact that he and his wife had had a baby because he though...

There is no question that parenting a healthy, happy 10 ± 2 year old kid is easier than parenting an infant, but one thing that has surprise...

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

Most professors who advise graduate students have had one or more students who did not do well, for whatever reason. I use the vague phrase ...

During a meeting today with a diverse group of 8 other Science professors, we found that our disagreement about a particular issue stemmed ...

Recently someone in my general field of the physical sciences called me and asked if I would be willing to share information about my fundin...

Although I have a continuous supply of my own experiences involving women-in-science issues and phenomena, I also have a group of friends wh...

It is always a very strange feeling for me to read about my blog elsewhere on the web, especially if, as in this example , I don't recog...

Last month I wrote about the phenomenon of deadwood tenured faculty at research universities -- that is, those (mostly senior) faculty who ...

When I was recently serving on an interdisciplinary committee that had to read dozens of CV's, the inevitable topic of authorship order ...

Not long ago, I sat next to a Business Man on a plane and we started chatting about random things. We went through the basics of what we do ...

For various reasons, I have found myself co-convening sessions for some conferences later this year. One of these sessions has so far been a...

In previous posts, I have discussed issues related to working with the extremely non-confident, but today the central question is: Can a lif...

In January, I wrote about how even 'famous' professors aren't famous in a side-of-the-bus kind of way. In that particular anecd...

The other day I sat next to someone with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) for several hours, and it was a fascinating experience. I mean tha...

Not long ago, the department chair asked me to look at the teaching evaluations and grades for a class taught last year by a less experience...

Yesterday I worked on a manuscript with a long-time colleague. We work together pretty well, although I stress her out from time to time (wh...

My daughter is at a tweeny age when she is thinking more about her appearance than she did when she was younger. Her friends are also quite ...

One of my senior grad students is under pressure from his parents to finish his thesis in time to participate in the spring graduation cerem...