FemaleScienceProfessor

A friendly memo to tenure-track faculty who don't have as many publications as they think they might need for tenure and are getting str...

A reader wonders how to stop students from starting to leave class early, creating a cascading effect of rustling sounds that are distractin...

No, this is not about yet another retraction of a Journal article related to someone's irreproducible results involving high-stakes bio...

On this Thanksgiving Day, I am just thankful that I don't have a meeting today. Otherwise, 'tis the season for time-sucking, soul-de...

A group of parents from my daughter's school needed to work out a carpool schedule for some upcoming events involving our kids' trav...

Today's topic over at Scientopia : emeritus professors. The good, the bad, and the talkative.

Although many faculty survive the tenure review process with unanimous positive votes from their department on up, it is also not unusual fo...

As longtime readers know, every once in a while I venture out of Science World and interact with colleagues who inhabit different parts of t...

Here is what I have learned so far from the comments in my recent Scientopia post about What To Wear for an interview for a faculty positio...

Over in Scientopia , I attempt to acquire data on What to Wear for a faculty interview in various academic disciplines. What is considered ...

The topic of yesterday and today is: How much time do promotion & tenure committees (at the level above the department) spend on each ca...

Through various conversations in the past few months, I have tried to figure something out: How much time do tenure and promotion committees...

Below is a link to a survey from a sociologist who is researching the experiences of tenured/tenure-track faculty who have children born or ...

Here's my recent essay for The Chronicle of Higher Education . I must admit I was not too happy about the title, and in particular the ...

This post is not about being a parent and a professor. It is about something far far stranger. And it is also over at Scientopia .

A reader is troubled by the increasing use of impersonal online application systems for faculty positions, and finds the process disappointi...

A colleague and I typically teach each other's classes 1-3 times each term when the other is traveling. Although it can be strange to dr...

Presumably, if you are a professor in a small department, you know where your colleagues live. If you are in a medium-sized department (more...

At an international conference not so long ago, I saw a talk by a Distinguished Professor. The talk consisted of figures that he cut and pas...

Today I am over at Scientopia , with a post about 'passive sexism' that is actually not very passive.