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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: Academia
Since being tenured, I've tried to shift to a pattern of only coming in to campus three days a week, working from home on Mondays and Wednesdays (and giving the earth a little break by not doing my freeway commute...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:28 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Passing thoughts
After my last class today, I participated in a Future Faculty Seminar at Stanford. I was on a panel about negotiating faculty jobs, dealing with the two-body problem while on the academic job market, balancing work and life once you...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:05 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Oh joy, it's time to grade more papers! At the moment, in fact, I have two batches of papers (approximately 400 words each, approximately 100 papers per batch) to grade, since I hadn't finished marking the earlier ones before the...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:35 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kids and science
At Uncertain Principles, Chad is motivating his readers to donate to his DonorsChoose challenge by offering a big reward: Last year, I famously got $6,000 in contributions by offering to dance like a monkey, but I'm not sure what would...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:43 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospheric science
You already know that we're working with DonorsChoose to raise some money for public school teachers who are trying to give their students the engaging educational experiences they deserve (and who, owing to dismal state and local budgets, need our...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:13 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communication
At the end of last week, I made a quick trip to UCLA to visit with some researchers who, despite having been targets of violence and intimidation, are looking for ways to engage with the public about research with animals....
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:34 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethics 101
I don't know if what I had was H1N1. Should I still get the H1N1 vaccine?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:58 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Imagine you are looking ahead to a furlough day and taking seriously the piece of the agreement that specifies that you won't actually do any work on that furlough day. To prevent yourself from backsliding by doing work to pass...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:40 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Curricular issues
Dr. Free-Ride's better half went to the Free-Ride offspring's school for Back to School Night earlier this week. (I stayed at home with the sprogs to oversee dinner and baths.) Dr. Free-Ride's better half reported back that the younger Free-Ride...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:30 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
First off, I moderate all my comments. Mostly it's to eliminate comment spam, but it also means the rare death threat is not going to post without me approving it. Second of all, why would you think you have the...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:11 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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