FemaleScienceProfessor

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...