FemaleScienceProfessor

A colleague and I were talking about this and that recently and he said that at some point he needs to find a new research topic, as the on...

Something that I have been seeing more and more in grant proposal reviews (my own and those of colleagues who have shared theirs with me) i...

A colleague recently shared a review of his (rejected) proposal. The most negative review contained this statement: There were a number o...

Although taking an exam is most certainly more stressful than giving an exam, giving an exam can be quite stressful. I am not asking for sy...

This is a poll I have done before (4 years ago), and I am interested to see if the results will be different now. I am curious about how of...

More than 3 years ago, I wrote a post about hiring postdocs . This post seems to have been linked to a site that diverts some traffic to my...

Among the 17* surveys that I had the opportunity to take this week, there was one that involved questions apparently designed to examine ho...

The tale of a rescinded-offer of a faculty position, owing to an email from the woman offered the job to the department re. the terms of ...

A recent post over here reminded me that I have been meaning to write about the sabbatical I took a few years ago. I blogged the entire ti...

Some recent e-mails from grad-student readers have concerned the issue of time management and being a teaching assistant (TA) vs. a researc...

A reader e-mailed with an interesting question: If you are on the job market and interviewing for jobs, how can you find out whether a part...

Several times in the past year or so I have had to combat the suggestion that faculty, postdocs, and grad students "of today", no...

In a correspondence published in Nature not long ago, the associate editor of a journal grappled with the fact that some prolific autho...

To those who read applications for academic positions of various sorts: Have you seen a recent increase in supplementary statements expla...

Dear applicant: I just read the supplementary statement that you attached to your application. I am sorry that there are some aspects of ...

Memo to applicants for any job, position, whatever: Do not try to convince the reviewers of your application of your tenacity and determi...

Let's say there is a US University that has a long history of (1) not hiring many women faculty, particularly in some fields; (2) not t...

Today's post refers to recent posts involving the so-called Fake Review Contest, even though most of the reviews ended up being not-s...

Is it time to vote on your favorite (define that however you want) entry in the Fake Review Contest, even though many of the entries turne...

21.  PI (another real review, alas) This work disagrees with several unpublished results, and in its current form, ...