FemaleScienceProfessor

When I was young, I hated saying goodbye. For example, when it was time for friends or relatives to leave, I would hide if I could. It wasn...

It came to my attention yet again recently that many grad students don't know that professors at many universities in the US are not pa...

The topic for today is whether/how much some of us academics change our research focus over the years. Some of you are too young to have su...

* with some exceptions At, in, on, under, and through Scientopia today, I meander from pseudo-answering a question about whether to expl...

This post is a continuation/follow-up on a post from last September . Before I rip into what I consider the incompetent and corrupt pract...

The title really should be: How to reject when you're rejecting. Lately there has been a deluge of email in my inbox with questions ab...

Yesterday I described two different views of an undergraduate student I mostly only know from classroom interactions. Here is another (evol...

The other day, less than hour after I had provided a recommendation for an undergraduate, saying in the recommendation (essentially) that t...

In Scientopia , I use a reader's question about whether to serve as guest-editor of their advisor's and other close colleagues'...

The result of Wednesday's poll was a big surprise to me: nearly 40% of those who voted went for the new-agey balanced-rock image as a s...

One of my most-read posts of all time is a rather ancient one, from 2006, on a non-academic topic: my husband's and my decision to hyph...

On occasion, I seek out images of Work-Life Balance (WLB), and today I decided that it was time to share some of my image-research resul...

The title of this post is also from song lyrics; in fact, by the same artistes who provided the title of yesterday's post. Their lyrics...

The title of this post is from some song lyrics, in case you are wondering, and I will be semi-impressed if you know the reference without ...

Explanatory note/caution: It's Friday, it's mid-May, and this post is no more substantial than yesterday's. If you have read ...

Does anyone else like jet lag? I must admit that I kind of enjoy it, but I have not met m/any others who do. It isn't so great if I arr...

As an editor of a journal, the feedback that I give to authors of publishable papers varies from: optional advice , along the lines of ...

In Scientopia today, I pose a question from a reader who previously went through a retention process (years ago) and is considering doing ...

Over the years, various colleagues have explained to me their personal beliefs about what they consider the optimal number of PIs involved...

Quite often, I get a comment or e-mail along the lines of "Why do women need special treatment?" (to get a job), "Men have t...