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sciencewoman | August 12, 2009A. Non Mouse, who blogs over at NaCl and hv, has just written a great series of posts about her strategies for successfully bringing a baby to a conference. Check out her how-to posts on childcare, transportation, gear, and accommodations.
This is a subject that is close to my heart, and one that I've written about before (here, here, and here on a trip when Minnow was 9 months old, here at 18 months, and here's a manifesto on the subject that was featured in last year's Open Lab ).
And it's funny timing too that A. Non Mouse writes about motherhood and conference travel now, when I am…
sciencewoman | May 21, 2009While I'm immersed in writing, planning, and reflection and Alice is uncurling, other people are actually writing the sort of amazing posts that make the blogosphere such a valuable and powerful place to be. These are the sort of posts that make you look at the world a different way or that validate and crystallize the ideas that have been floating around in your head for days, months, or years.
Please go at least one of the following posts, and please add your own suggestions of the best of the blogosphere in the comment thread.
Historiann's inspired series on Lessons for Girls. I…
sciencewoman | May 7, 2009Remember Bill Nye the Science Guy, that television popularizer of science for kids? Maybe it's time to give him an update and a facelift. That's the goal of Susan the Scientist, a project of Dr. Susan Reslewic, who is launching a new blog, myspace, and youtube presence to (in her words):
teach 'citizen science' to kids and curious adults using music and objects in our local households to conduct simple experiments online. The idea is to make science both hip, simple, and most importantly fun. We hope to build this project and message making this available, free online this coming year.
Here's…
skookumchick | April 17, 2009 I don't have time to read blogs anymore. And yet, I still have over 211 RSS subscriptions in my Google Reader. To assuage my guilt at having many times the "1000+" posts I haven't read, I thought I would share some cool sites I've come across. Somehow it makes me feel better. Details below the fold, and apologies for not acknowledging where I came across these because I've forgotten. ;-)
Mapping the Marvellous: just the most marvelous collection of curiosities and interesting things, written by Marion Endt. She writes, "Books, articles, quotes, images, concepts, theories and thoughts…
skookumchick | April 3, 2009So every university has some kind of publication it uses to connect with alumni to say, "Look at all this cool stuff we're doing, don't you want to give us money in memory of the cool stuff we did when you were here?" My alma mater keeps sending me such publications; I'm starting to find the publications that Purdue puts out for similar purposes.
However. This seems to be actually a pretty cool thing: Purdue Engineering has a magazine called Engineering Impact, where, while we could make jokes about making bombs hit their target better, they are instead using impact to point out engineers…
skookumchick | March 30, 2009Ever since Erin and Hig walked through the village near our summer cabin in British Columbia, I've been reading their blog about walking from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands. Once they made it to their destination, over a year from when they started, they set up a yurt and started writing up a book -- as well as having a kid. (If you want a glimpse of what it's like to take babies on 3 hr snowshoe hikes, including diaper changes, read Katmai's blog.)
Well it turns out they're in eyeshot of Mt. Redoubt and have some incredible photos of the eruption, particularly with lightning at night.…
skookumchick | March 3, 2009I'm excited that Kim Hannula, a geologist from Colorado who guest blogged for us in January and who used to blog at All of My Faults are Stress Related has moved over to Scienceblogs! Welcome Kim, to the Madhouse. :-)
In other news, as ScienceWoman has mentioned, Liberal Arts Lady has crafted a marvelous March Scientiae, which, should be noted, is also the 2nd anniversary of the Carnival. Woo hoo! Thanks, LAL for a great carnival, and the next one will be hosted by Candid Engineer -- the call for posts should be up soon.
sciencewoman | May 29, 2008So I meant to have a nice post today addressing Ecogeofemme's challenge of describing how we write papers/proposals, but I haven't actually managed to do any writing today like I was supposed to.
Instead, I am going to point out the at times thoughtful, at times heated discussion going on around the blogosphere about whether academics with kids really have it harder than the rest of working adults. The discussion originated from an IHE piece about new studies that found that academics had lower birth rates than doctors or lawyers.
From there, Dean Dad wrote a post with his observations on…
sciencewoman | May 5, 2008I'm still processing Thursday's events, and I'm busy writing finals, grading papers, and hosting a prospective student...but that doesn't mean that other people aren't writing about things totally perfect for Mommy Monday.
Here are some of my recent* favorites:
Jenny F. Scientist discovers that biological clocks have a way of dinging when they want to.
Am I a Woman Scientist flew transatlantic for a job interview with a newborn...and got the job. (Hmm...sounds familiar.) Huge congratulations to Am I a Woman Scientist!
Janus Professor reminds us that while some of us may be able to stop the…
sciencewoman | March 3, 2008More linky goodness from my saved bloglines. Today's edition brought to you by the letters B, C, and D.
But first a flashback to the A's:Ask a scientist: What's the deal with plastic baby bottles? at a Natural Scientist.
Jenny's post is timely for me because I recently found out that after trying to avoid bisphenol A in my bottles, I'd accidentally bought one of the few Gerber sippy cups that did contain it. Here's a pretty comprehensive list of BPA free baby products.
And now on to the B's.Mama delivers a good scolding by Bitch Ph.D.
Bitch offers wonderful insightful and irreverent analysis…
sciencewoman | February 26, 2008I've got a massive backlog of saved posts in my bloglines. These are things new and (really really) old, things I've read and loved and things I've meant to read. They are posts I've wanted to share with you and posts that have touched me deeply. But the post backlog is nearing a threshold point and if I don't start to do a link dump soon, I'll never dig myself out. So while all of these posts deserve some description, you'll have to just click the link and figure out for yourselves why I've saved them.
I'll be doling out the link love in small batches as time allows.
Here we go. We'll…