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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.
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Category: Blogospheric science
In what is surely a contender for the photo next to the "business as usual in the blogosphere" entry in the Wiktionary, a (male) blogger has posted a list of the sexiest (all-but-one female) scientists (using photos of those scientists...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:48 AM • 31 Comments •
Category: Academia
In the midst of the ongoing conversation about managing career and housework and who knows what else (happening here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and likely some places I've missed), ScientistMother wondered about one of the blogospheric voices...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:28 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Women and science
It's hard to speak of experiences making work-life balance decisions without someone feeling as if my "is" is intended to have the force of an "ought".
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:10 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
DrugMonkey has a poll up asking for reader reports of the science career advice they have gotten firsthand. Here's the framing of the poll: It boils down to what I see as traditional scientific career counselling to the effect that...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:46 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Yesterday in my "Ethics in Science" class, we were discussing mentoring. Near the end of the class meeting, I noted that scientists in training have a resource nowadays that just wasn't available during my misspent scientific youth (back in the...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:57 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
In recent days, there have been discussions of conditions for postdoctoral fellows, and about the ways that these conditions might make it challenging to tackle the problem of the "leaky pipeline" for women in science. For example, in comments at...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:56 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospheric science
Back in January, at ScienceOnline2010, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Dr. Isis, and I led a session called "Online Civility and Its (Muppethugging) Discontents". Shortly after the session, I posted my first thoughts on how it went and on the lessons I was...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:26 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospheric science
Here are some of the thoughts and questions that stayed with me from this session. (Here are my tweets from the session and the session's wiki page.) One of the things I found interesting about this session was that the...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:06 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospheric science
There was one session at ScienceOnline2010 which I did not Tweet as it was going on -- the session I led with Sheril Kirshenbaum and Dr. Isis. Here's how that session was described in the conference program: Online Civility...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:11 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Session description: The conference timing may keep some attendees away in their hometowns participating in local MLK activities. Therefore, we are introducing a session to promote the principles of Dr King in the context of online science communication: promoting social...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:34 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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