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The Egyptian goddess Isis was celebrated as the ideal wife and mother. The blogger known as Dr. Isis has some fancy-sounding degrees and is a physiologist at a major research university working on some terribly impressive stuff. She blogs about balancing her research career with the demands of raising small children, how to succeed as a woman in academia, and anything else she finds interesting. Also, she blogs about shoes. In fact, she blogs a lot about shoes.
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Posted on: November 11, 2008 11:33 PM, by Isis the Scientist
Dr. Isis was finally convinced by a student that she needed a Facebook if she hoped to be cool in addition to being totally hot. Wanna be Dr. Isis's total internet bff? You'll find me there as "Scientist Isis."
I did, however, draw the line when one of my students suggested I learn to "Twitter." I told him that a lady doesn't do that in polite company but reserves such activities for the privacy of her own bedroom.,
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Comments
Dr. Isis is intrinsically cool, in addition to personifying total hottness. However, her student made an excellent suggestion.
Posted by: becca | November 11, 2008 11:50 PM
I would love to be your facebook friend Dr. Isis. However, that would necessitate the creation of a whole new facebook profile (I currently have one as my real self), because much of the pseudonymous blogfodder that appears on AA's site makes it onto the facebook page in a different format.
You get too much traffic for me to risk having someone figure out who AA really is via real-self who is friends with Dr. Isis.
If create anymore avatars on the interwebs I might develop a multiple personality disorder -- not good!
But I wish you luck on your facebook venture...you will undoubtedly be the most popular goddess on the interwebs!
Posted by: ambivalent academic | November 12, 2008 12:17 AM
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As the kids say ... or someone must say: meh.
Have fun with it though.
...tom...
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Posted by: ...tom... | November 12, 2008 12:49 AM
I second AA. I would love to be your facebook friend too, but my personal information is ALL OVER my facebook page. Not that I would mind you having it, but connections through you to other bloggers and professionals that I may not be aware of is most decidedly not a good possibility.
Posted by: JLK | November 12, 2008 1:19 AM
I third AA.
Posted by: hairy chest | November 12, 2008 1:52 AM
I'm a bit unclear on why one would want to have a pseudonymous Facebook page, because the whole point of Facebook is to allow one to share personal information. That said, I have no doubt that Dr. Isis has more friends than I do, and I am confident that in time her friend count will surpass even that of my token sorority-girl friend.
Perhaps a better Facebook presence for Dr. Isis would be a Group or fan Page. My understanding is that these mechanisms will not grant anyone additional access to anyone else's personal information. An authorized representative of Dr. Isis can create a Page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
Posted by: Charles | November 12, 2008 2:35 AM
I also ditto AA's comment.
I've bumped into the problem of professors from my school friending me... ("to accept or not to accept that is the question...") especially when I'll be taking a class with him next semester....
When I first got the facebook account it was a college-only deal, I honestly don't like this "hey everyone! lets join in!"
And finding out exactly how old some of them actually are (one birthdate confirmed my hypothesis that he dyed his hair....) and other personal info I find it very weird.
But does that seem weird to you to friend your students on facebook? Or am I being an over-paranoid undergrad?
Posted by: Eugenie | November 12, 2008 9:55 AM
Oh, and I just tried searching "Scientist Isis" in facebook... the top hit was a group titled "CHURCH OF CHRIST" (yes, in all caps)....
I am slightly amused.
Posted by: Eugenie | November 12, 2008 10:03 AM
@Eugenie --
It certainly can be weird. My graduate program director (a woman who has completely screwed me over on many occasions, the worst of them being my scholarship...and who also thinks it's OK to call me on my personal cell phone to ask me about how other grad student -- my ex -- is doing [I don't know bc we don't talk]) has sent me a friend request. She has also friended several other students in my program. I am ignoring said friend request bc she has already WAY overstepped the boundaries of personal/professional interactions on several occasions and I refuse to give her any more latitude to do so. She probably knows that my page is active bc I leave comments on other grad students' pages to which she has access, but I am hoping that this sends the message that I would prefer a strictly professional relationship with the biggest gossip in the department, thankyouverymuch.
I'm sure that Dr. Isis is much more discreet than to pull such crap. But Isis, you should ask yourself, once you are friends with your students, and you have seen the photos from their drunken escapades or worse...will you still be able to treat them the same way? Will this change your interaction with them? Isn't this the same conundrum you blogged about regarding getting to know your students better thru their writing? Do you really want to know?
Posted by: ambivalent academic | November 12, 2008 10:32 AM
I have no shame. I just totally friended you.
Posted by: longsmith | November 12, 2008 11:16 AM
I'm guessing that Dr. Isis has no intention of using her facebook page for her students. I'm also guessing that her students have absolutely no idea that the professor they worship is really the Goddess Isis in disguise. Though if she wore the sparkly shoes to work, they could certainly put two and two together.
I have only befriended one professor, on myspace not facebook, and I trusted him not to judge anything on my page as reflecting on how I am in the classroom. And he never did.
Maybe once I get through the doctoral admissions process I will friend Dr. Isis on facebook. But seeing as any grad admissions committee can already google me and find all sorts of stuff out about me, I don't think I want to add to it by adding a networking component. My pages also have info about the schools I'm applying to. I can just imagine a professor from one of those schools seeing my facebook through Dr. Isis, calling over to the department I'm applying to and saying, "This chick uses the F-word a lot. She's also a drinker and smoker, and has spent a lot of time bitching about the college she's getting her degree from."
Posted by: JLK | November 12, 2008 1:29 PM
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JLK: "Though if she wore the sparkly shoes to work, they could certainly put two and two together."
..?? I thought Dr. I. was seeking to empower every woman scientist to dress as they like, as hot as they like. ( If only so she would not 'stand out'. Though she would surely still 'stand out'. )
Hmmm. I better go find that mission statement and read it again...
...tom...
' who counted not one 'F-word' in JLK's post. I am certain another denizen of Dr. I.'s comment pages record number is safe... '
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Posted by: ...tom... | November 12, 2008 2:06 PM
Oh, my facebook is totally PC partly because the NCAA would be all over me if I had something inapropriate there. I'm more afraid about the idiotic things my friends post on my wall (i.e. inapropriate comments relating to immature inside jokes) would portray a different image from what the professor first thought of me.
I did have to draw the line when my own mother tried to friend me! (She's even threatened to "punish" me for rejecting her friend request). My life, in general, is one long awkward story. sigh
Posted by: Eugenie | November 12, 2008 2:49 PM
Let's be sure we are very clear. My students may have told me I needed a page, but I created one as Dr. Isis. I have no intention of making one so they can friend me, but I did think to myself, "I wonder if my readers would want a Dr. Isis Facebook." Clearly, some of you did!
Posted by: Isis the Scientist | November 12, 2008 3:31 PM
How could I resist an invitation like that?
Posted by: Stephanie Z | November 12, 2008 3:37 PM
Somewhere along the line, probably drunk or on the way, I signed up for Twitter. I've now been getting a large number of e-mails saying that people are following me on Twitter. How can they follow me on Twitter if I do not Twitter?
Posted by: Abel Pharmboy | November 12, 2008 9:12 PM
I am with AA - I don't want to risk blowing my cover! ;)
On a totally different note, I would be very very grateful if I could get Dr. Isis's expert opinion on a post I wrote the other day about how to mentor someone who needs a lot of work...I am looking for input from bona fide hot professors. Thanks muchly!
Posted by: PhizzleDizzle | November 13, 2008 12:26 PM
I am with AA - I don't want to risk blowing my cover! ;)
On a totally different note, I would be very very grateful if I could get Dr. Isis's expert opinion on a post I wrote the other day about how to mentor someone who needs a lot of work...I am looking for input from bona fide hot professors. Thanks muchly!
PhizzleDizzle, I read your post on your site and found it quite interesting. What you describe is a huge question, and I am humble enough to know when I don't have the answer to it. To be honest, I think the best place for this question is the DrugMonkey blog. I think those guys (especially one in particular) would have a much better answer to this question than I could give.
Posted by: Isis the Scientist | November 13, 2008 9:50 PM
Just to be clear, what I meant about the shoes was that they are incredibly unique and not something you see every day on a professor. Also not something you see at the mall on someone either, but if you did - you'd notice.
They're like Dorothy's ruby slippers. On halloween, we recognize a Dorothy costume because of the red shoes. Without them, you're just another chick with pigtails.
If I was walking around campus and saw those shoes on a super-hot female professor, I would be absolutely convinced that she WAS Dr. Isis. I would imagine that if any of her students read this blog, they would be too.
That's all I meant by that. They are too hot and unique to go unnoticed.
Posted by: JLK | November 13, 2008 9:56 PM
This is what Facebook Pages (as opposed to personal profiles) are for. Charles is absolutely right. (I'm pretty close to someone who actually works for Facebook, and they assure me that Fans of Goddess Dr. Iris can "fan" her "page" without revealing all the private stuff they share with their "friends".) So, please, create a Page so that your fans can give you the adulation of your fans you crave and deserve.
Posted by: idlemind | November 16, 2008 11:23 PM