FemaleScienceProfessor

Here are a few more "fake reviews" for the Fake Review Writing Contest: 9. ER Dear Editor, In ...

Here are a few more 'fake' reviews (even though some are apparently word-for-word or only slightly modified from real reviews): ...

The first entries in the reviewing writing-fest are fascinating because they are all apparently based on real reviews. In some cases, I thi...

It has taken me a while to have 6.2 minutes of spare time to put together a post about an end-of-year FSP academic writing contest, but he...

[Note: the title is a subtle reference to the book "My Year of Meats" by Ruth Ozeki, but not for any particular reason, though I ...

It seems like it has been a long time since I have done a poll in this blog. Perhaps that is because I am tired of doing surveys, including...

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...