FemaleScienceProfessor

Musings of a science professor at a large research university.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

I'll Go First

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Earlier this year, I participated in a workshop about diversity in hiring and retention, with all the usual discussion of implicit bias and...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Tour de Forced

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Lately I have been looking at those little roving clusters in campus tours with a new perspective. Over the years, I have been amused and i...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

Price Check : You

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A former PhD student of one of my colleagues recently added up the cost to their advisor/institution of their graduate education: salary, t...
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Friday, November 01, 2013

Heads or Chairs?

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Whenever administrators at the department level (or moral equivalent) gather to discuss their experiences, a very common topic is whether o...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Medieval Mind

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Not long ago, I sat next to Distinguished BioMedSciProf at a luncheon meeting. We introduced ourselves (name, department, institution) and ...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Dealing with Disrespect

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A reader wrote with a quandry about teaching students who are openly disrespectful. I have modified the e-mail message to remove some possi...
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Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Academic Life is Good

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Agree or disagree? (see below) I happen to agree. Not to minimize anyone's stress in their academic job or to discount the anxieties ...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2013

She Would Not Wish This On Her Nieces

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From e-mail from a reader (text modified to remove possibly-identifying details): I had traveled to a conference with some colleagues, in...
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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Hawking, Dawkins, and me

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It is not every day that Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, and I appear in the same essay in Nature (11 September 2013). In fact, it was...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Irrelevant Dislikes

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Although college is still quite a ways (years) away for my daughter, the onslaught of Collegiate Propaganda has begun. We get mail every da...
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Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Room With A Table

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To state the obvious: not all classrooms are created equal. Students may have strong feelings about their classrooms (types and arrangement...
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Friday, August 09, 2013

Imported Talent

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The topic of a recent email to me involved a male science professor who wanted to find a female science professor to talk to his female stu...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Tell All

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From a reader seeking your comments: "I am currently on my 4th postdoc position and still have a 4 years left on my current fellows...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Not A First Class Guy

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Owing to my frequent travels with a certain airline, I have a certain 'status' that has some nice features that make travel possibl...
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Monday, July 01, 2013

Prospective Grad Student Fail

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Earlier this summer I met an undergraduate from another institution. The meeting was arranged by one of the student's mentors, who wrot...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

This Seems Like a Good Time to Mention That I Hate Your Work

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Have you ever been attacked in a rather impolite way while giving a professional talk? OK, so "attacked" is a bit of hyperbole....
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Monday, June 03, 2013

Professor Babysitter

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Earlier this year, I got a panicked call from a younger relative who was about to give birth to her second child. The baby was about 10 day...
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Monday, May 13, 2013

Not The End of Men Quite Yet

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Not long ago, a colleague discussed with me the recently-concluded faculty search in his department. His department decided to hire a male ...
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Friday, May 03, 2013

Some Of Them Are Very Bright

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As happens from time to time, a science-man having a conversation with me about science, or whatever, will feel the need to establish his I...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

Of Course It's True That Professors Grade Easier Than TAs

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Last week when I was in a cafe waiting for my mediumskimicedmocha, I overhead one student say to another, "Of course it's true tha...
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I am a full professor in a physical sciences field at a large research university. I am married and have a teenaged daughter. I have the greatest job in the world, but this will not stop me from noting some of the more puzzling and stressful aspects of my career as a science professor. E-mail (can't promise to reply): femalescienceprofessor@gmail.com
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