Geekalicious
thusspakezuska | March 2, 2007I missed posting on this the day it went up because of my stupid health issues, but the first Scientiae carnival is up thanks to Skookumchick over at Rants of a Feminist Engineer! Go forth and read!
Also note that calls for the second carnival are already posted. Propter Doc of Post Doc Ergo Propter Doc will host.
Now I must get off the computer again before the stupid neck and shoulder seizes up on me. Y'all will have to wait a bit longer for the third installment of discussion of Week 2 of Joy of Science. I hope you are enjoying discussion posts one and two.
thusspakezuska | February 26, 2007Thanks to Skookumchick, there's a new blog carnival in town called Scientiae!
This is a blog carnival that compiles posts written about the broad topic of "women in STEM," (STEM=science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and may include posts:
stories about being a woman in STEM
exploring gender and STEM academia
living the scientific academic life as well as the rest of life
discussing how race, sexuality, age, nationality and other social categories intersect with the experience of being a woman in STEM
sharing feminist perspectives on science and technology
exploring feminist…
thusspakezuska | February 22, 2007There's a new feed available on Science Blogs, and it's called ScienceBlogs Select. Basically, what you get if you subscribe to this feed is the very best of all of Science Blogs. Each of us flags two or three posts per week to go into this feed, something that we consider to be exceptionally witty or funny or one of our more thought-provoking posts, or something that's very newsy. If you subscribe to this feed you'll be getting the cream of the crop from the whole range of science, from some of the best science writers around.
I'm telling you, it's good stuff!
thusspakezuska | February 22, 2007Perhaps you will recall a somewhat controversial post awhile back delicately titled The Origin of "Puke On His Shoes". In that post I described the persistent, annoying, unwanted attentions of a male passenger on an Amtrak train, despite my (what should have been obvious) signal that I was completely uninterested in him: I was reading a book, and continued reading it as he yammered away, hitting on me.
Women commenters more or less completely understood my tactic, whereas some male commenters felt this was unfair and I should have been more straightforward. I suppose they were suggesting…
thusspakezuska | February 15, 2007I have a friend who is always making up the most wonderful names for his female friends by adding the syllable "stress" to unusual words. My favorite was one he gave me after a nefarious piece of business: underminestress. Believe me, the person deserved it. Anyway, I say all this by way of explaining the word "geekstress" in my post title there. It's meant proudly and campily, the way my friend uses the modifier.
So: what does a true geekstress look like? We are in the process of finding out!
Kristin just posted this link to a contest on Inkling magazine:
In honor of all girl-geeks…
thusspakezuska | February 15, 2007It's Girl Scout cookie season, and maybe that's why this appeals to me even more than I thought it would. Scouts, badges - what's not to love?
Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique
Read the launch announcement over at the World's Fair.
It's open to anybody who considers themselves to be any sort of a science communicator, broadly defined:
For the propogation of an ideal where science communicators can meet firstly, for drinks; secondly, for communicating; and ultimately, for networking.
It's not yet clear how "Above Average Physique" is to be…
thusspakezuska | February 10, 2007I saw a commercial on t.v. the other night for something called the "Gender Knee" so I looked for it on the web and voila!
The First and Only Knee Replacement Shaped to Fit a Woman's Anatomy
Now, I'm not sure I love all the rhetoric on their website:
From the cells in their bodies to their taste in clothes, it's no surprise that women are different from men.
Uh, I'm pretty sure that a lot of the cells in our bodies function in much the same manner. I'm always a little wary when people start waxing eloquent about our innate womanly natures...usually they end up making pronouncements about…
thusspakezuska | February 6, 2007I like to scan the New Scholarly Books section of the Chronicle of Higher Education; every so often, something interesting in History of Science or Women's Studies pops up. Recently I saw a little blurb under history of science that read
Science in Latin America: A History, edited by Juan José Saldaña...Translation of writings by Latin American historians on the role of science in the region's societies since the colonial era.
That piqued my interest so I poked around on the web. You can order the book on Amazon. The summary below is from this site, where you'll also find the table of…