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January 7, 2008
There. Now I've contributed to the clogging of the internet with another pointless youtube video. Don't I feel special.
But I thought that readers of this blog might enjoy seeing Minnow's newfound ability to walk. She was starting to take tentative steps in mid-December, but the fluid in her ears…
January 4, 2008
for three reasons.
The January Scientiae party is up at Jokerine's. Check out all the awesome writing and witty conversation.
Open Lab, the best science blogging of 2007 has been announced. I'm looking forward to buying my copy.
There's a new blog around these parts, and it's got a really amusing…
January 3, 2008
I "worked" at home this morning and finally made it into the office around 2 pm. When I arrived, I discovered that:
The syllabus for my new course that I had started before leaving for holiday has disappeared off my computer. It will not be quick to reconstruct.
I was rejected for a grant that…
January 3, 2008
We all know examples of successful women scientists. They are constantly held up as examples to us, used to say: "see, it can be done." Some of those successful women scientists are single, some are married, some are married with children. But are any of those women single mothers? Are any of them…
January 3, 2008
Scene: In mid to late December, in a nearly deserted building on a nearly deserted campus (finals over, grades in), a young assistant professor and a department chair pass in the hallway. Chair asks something generic along the lines of "How's it going?". Young assistant professor replies "I'm…
December 30, 2007
Another from the archives (originally published February 6, 2006).
Let it not be said that I don't respond to readers' comments. A few posts ago, I was moaning about my inability to read journal articles in an efficient and non-fattening way. Yami requested that I share my system for organizing…
December 28, 2007
Here's a post from the archives (originally published February 20, 2006).
Here's an email I recently received:
Dear Science Woman,
I am meeting with several of my committee members tomorrow to discuss my data. the data is not totally analyzed and is not looking too pretty so far. The problem I…
December 26, 2007
Here's my take on the top 10 women in science stories of 2007. It's highly biased toward blogospheric developments. Many thanks to skookumchick, Tara, Pat, and Karen for helping me compile items for inclusion on this list.
10. Microbiologist Rita Colwell received the National Medal of Science. Tara…
December 22, 2007
Brilliance as seen at Clastic Detritus...
Happy Solstice, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and everything else...
December 22, 2007
I think I've been tagged at least seven times for the meme where you are supposed to reveal seven unknown facts about yourself. But since I've been baring my soul on this blog for 2.5 years, I'm not sure I can come up with seven things I've never revealed before. Here's my best shot.
I have a case…
December 20, 2007
Yesterday as I was leaving my office I gathered together materials so that I could work at home today. Being at work when no one else is around is kind of depressing, even though I know it's only because I am taking my vacation later than some. So I thought I'd change the scenery for a day and see…
December 19, 2007
I did this last year, and apparently it is to be another year-end tradition. Here are the first sentences to each month's first post. January - September will take you to the old site, but don't forget to come back here eventually.
January: While many people went on holiday over the past two weeks…
December 19, 2007
I think my entry for this month's Scientiae carnival is going to be a top 10 list of women in science news from 2007. This seems like a perfect excuse to kill a few hours web browsing. But I know that whatever ideas I come up with, I will miss some of the best things out there. So if you have a…
December 18, 2007
It is becoming an annual tradition to post my open letter to the Coca-Cola Corporation. Maybe one of these year's Coke will listen.
Dear Coca-Cola Company,
While I have been known to enjoy your products, and never those of your competitor, I am saddened by the misinformation you are spreading in…
December 17, 2007
Out the door - meaning one
I just submitted a revised version of a paper. Yay! Too bad that doesn't actually mean anything for my CV. But maybe I'll get an acceptance before I have to turn in my CV update for our annual review. This also means that I'll eventually take down my InaDWriMo badge. I…
December 17, 2007
The call for the next Scientiae carnival is out. The next edition will be ably hosted New Years day at hreidoplus.de by Jokerine. She'll need your posts by December 31st and is open to lots of ideas: "the last year in review...new years resoltuions....(woman in science) party trivia...how…
December 17, 2007
Mommy Monday is on holiday until January 7th.
Note that this is very different than Mommy being on vacation until January 7th. I don't think that Mommies actually get vacations. We will however be taking about 10 days to visit our parents.
Other posting will continue pretty much as usual at least…
December 14, 2007
Step 1. Spend all of your start-up money. Or not.
Step 2. Who needs lots of lab renovations? Just use a space last used by another department. Cabinets are cabinets after all. But be sure to call Health and Safety to dispose of any left-behind chemicals you find.
Step 3. Buy one large piece of…
December 14, 2007
Via BitchPh.D. comes this story of a 7 year old who jumped in front of her mother's murderous ex-boyfriend to save her mother's life. The little girl was shot six times (and her mother twice) before the police finally showed up. Child and mama both miraculously survived, but they are going to need…
December 13, 2007
Dear Administrator,
I know that everyone in this building lacks blinds on their office windows, and I realize that you have requested that blinds be installed. However, I have a particular need for blinds in my office and I hope you can forward my request to Facilities Services with some urgency.…
December 12, 2007
If I had the chance to do one thing over again in the whole job search process, I wouldn't hesitate a minute before making my decision of what to change.
I did a miserable job negotiating my start-up package. Actually, miserable may be too nice a word.
(Let's pause for a moment and put things in…
December 11, 2007
Sheril Kirschenbaum and Chris Mooney at The Intersection are spearheading a push to get the candidates running for president to address issues of science and public policy. Their goal:
Given the many urgent scientific and technological challenges facing America and the rest of the world, the…
December 11, 2007
I've got lots of posts planned in my head, waiting to be typed when I turn in my grades. The three hours of sleep I got last night are unfortunately hindering my ability to think straight and I made a bunch of errors on the scantron key, which is slowing down the whole process. I guess the good…
December 10, 2007
I recently met with the chair of my department to discuss my course load and how to set things up so that I wasn't prepping 2 new courses every semester from here to infinity. The problem stems from the small size of our major and graduate programs, which means that a lot of courses will only…
December 10, 2007
I think my colleagues are sometimes incredulous that I have lived in Mystery State for almost 5 months now and still have seen nothing of its natural environment.I haven't been to the Mountains or the Water. I haven't even been to State Just to the South, despite it being a mere 30 minutes away.
I…
December 8, 2007
doing just about anything than writing multiple choice questions and grading a last set of assignments. Especially, because there's been a number of intriguing articles that have come across my virtual desk in the past week or so, and I'd really like to blog about some of them.
So I just will. But…
December 6, 2007
I'm all about tricking myself into productivity and rewarding myself when things get done. One way I've done that in the past was to reward myself with $10 guilt-free on iTunes when I got a paper submitted.
I haven't gotten any papers submitted (or resubmitted) yet this fall, but I did write two…
December 5, 2007
Congratulations to Isha Jain, Janelle Schlossberger, and Amanda Marinoff, this year's prize winners at the prestigious Siemens competitions for high school science research. Jain won the individual competition and was awarded a $100,000 scholarship. Schlossberger and Marinoff will share another $…
December 5, 2007
I just caught my first piece of plagiarism. On a throw-away 10 point assignment that required students to write only 2 sentences. That the student in question copied directly from Wikipedia. How dare they!
December 4, 2007
Despite determination and actual effort, I didn't meet my InaDWriMo goal, but I suspect that I am a lot farther along than I would have been without the embarrasment of the little ticker over to the left. As for my other goals, while effort was exerted on those fronts as well, I can't honestly say…