FemaleScienceProfessor

Mandatory retirement for professors at age 70 was eliminated in US university systems because it discriminated against people based on their...

It is always interesting -- and in some cases disturbing -- to read a rant by a professor about the current (apparently awful) condition of ...

A year or two ago, one of my grad students became distraught while giving a talk at a meeting. He looked out at the audience and thought tha...

From the comments on a conference-themed post last week, it is clear that there are various opinions, some of them fierce, about the use of ...

Semi-regular readers may have noticed that I saved up a lot of conference-related issues to discuss in the last couple of weeks. During the ...

When someone puts me on call-waiting while they take another call, I hang up. Not long ago, I did the equivalent of this in person when inte...

The end of the academic year is sort of getting close(r), and so it is time to Review Things. Yesterday we reviewed my progress, such as it ...

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

Overheard at an airport gate: Mom to 9 year old son: You're going to be a teenager in 4 years. If you ever start doing weird things when...

A trend has been detected: people taking digital photos of projected images during a talk at a conference or departmental seminar. I have so...

At the same conference at which dangerous ideas were presented, I couldn't help but notice that 92.5% of the talks were given by men. D...

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve. Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White...

Years ago at a conference, someone told a colleague and me that our ideas were "dangerous". A danger how? And to whom? He didn...

This may sound strange, but I was recently very relieved to get a negative review of a manuscript. Although it is quite possible that I have...

A post over at See Jane Compute about Things That Make Us Feel Old reminded me of a phenomenon I wanted to write about: when students see ...

This little anecdote is still making me laugh, hours after my husband told it to me: He was walking near our house and decided to cut throug...

Here's a weird little trendlet I have observed over the years: the tendency for a student to blame their mother for various problems a...

There are many professional situations in which I am comfortable being the spouse of another professor in a similar field of Science. For ex...

Even in economically less troubled times, there is great tension, misunderstanding, and resentment between the academic and athletic compone...

This blog post is in honor of the birthday of the best colleague on the planet. Everyone should have a colleague such as this one. If everyo...