FemaleScienceProfessor

One of my uncles recently told me that one of his daughters had discovered that a newly-hired man at her workplace (a state institution) was...

As you may have seen, there is a new poll in the sidebar to the right. The poll will be live for a week. I suppose I can add to it if any ne...

Let's do away with the existing adjectives used to describe the professorial ranks. These terms are inaccurate, somewhat annoying, and t...

Recently I returned briefly to my ancestral home and spent time with various relatives. I’ve described these experiences before. The women c...

Note: Comment moderation/posting may be intermittent this week. Those of us who teach at large universities typically teach the 'lecture...

There is a nudity analogy that describes why some people have trouble writing manuscripts and proposals, hate the entire process of writing...

At the recent workshop I attended, one of my colleagues remarked that all the members (past and present; male and female) of a particular re...

Letter to FSP: You are an anomaly. Why be so bitchy about that? Give it up. Men AREN'T trying to "hold you down." You are a wo...

If you look at the preview option of the FSP Book on lulu.com, you don't see much, if anything, past the table of contents, so, as req...

Part of what I have done with my summer vacation is compile some FSP blog essays into a book-like object. I have long had requests to do som...

From time to time, I find myself giving advice or making strong suggestions via this blog, although I am not much of an advice-giver in real...

In the summer, some faculty spend a lot of time in the department, some come and go, and some disappear for the entire summer. I am in the m...

August is typically a bit of a feeding frenzy for the forming and filling of committees with participants. I've received numerous reques...

In the midst of an otherwise bland Chronicle of Higher Education essay by Peter Wood (8 August issue) about why there are more foreign-born...

There are some clear Conflicts of Interest (COI) that exclude one from reviewing proposals (and, though not enforced to the same extent, pap...

When I arrived at my small but fashionable International Hotel yesterday, I was dropped off by two of the European Professors who were at my...

The workshop I have been attending is over. I am in a nice quiet hotel room in a metropolitan area filled with wireless internet connections...

At the end of each day this week, in the approximately 20 minutes between finishing my day's tasks and falling into a deep workshop-indu...

At the international workshop I have been attending, I am the only American person, and as usual, I am somewhat exotic in other respects as ...

When I asked the organizer of the workshop I have been attending in a somewhat remote non-US location about internet access, he said that w...