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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.
...And behold, he raised the motherfucking Jameson on high as Isis bedecked her feet in glory, and the masses were sated. -- The Holy Gospel According to PhysioProf
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February 28, 2009
Here are some of the hilarious things that sent traffic my way this month: nematode vulva evolution (this was searched for twice!)havent those fools heard of the streisand effect?big bustie carnivorous sea squirts find a phuck.com i will fuck you...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 10:06 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ask Dr. Isis
Dr. Isis received the following email the other night. It really hit Isis in the tenders: Hello, most revered Goddess of life- and career-saving advice. I have a semi-urgent question for you, and I would really appreciate it if you could answer (either on the blog, or with a quick e-mail). I will bribe you with these. The perfect combination of two pleasures - chocolate cake and heels. Here is the deal. I am an undergrad in my senior year, and will graduate December 2009. I am looking to get into Huge Research University (HRU) in Cold North American country. For my undergrad thesis, I work in a good lab, and the prof was able to send me to present my poster at an HRU conference. Thing is, the PI hosting this yearly conference is my ex-boss from an internship I had at HRU. I did not do too well there (as a much younger and silly Labness), and will not get a good recommendation. I want to go to grad school at HRU, and would love to use the conference as a chance to look for potential advisors. Is that kosher? How can I just sashay over to some BigWig without an introduction, and ask her if she's looking for grad students? A complicating point is that I do not have the cut-off GPA for most HRU programs (again, the young silly Labness wreaks havoc). I am hoping if the profs can first meet me, see my sexy poster, learn about the large # of labs I've done research at throughout my internship program, and get interested, I would be able to work something out with them and the admissions people. Can I just come up and talk to profs at a conference? Should I talk to the students instead? Should I try to hide out from my previous boss to make sure she doesn't talk trash about young silly Labness, and change the potential advisors' minds? This conference starts in a week... Please help! -- Labness The concern that Labness shares in her letter is not uncommon -- that in order to attend graduate school and catch the eye of a faculty member/potential mentor one must have been a perfect undergraduate with a 4.0 GPA and >80th percentile GRE scores. I thought that, in order to put poor Labness's mind at ease, I would share with you all one of Dr. Isis's dirty little secrets.
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February 27, 2009
Category: Stuff You Send Me
This little gem came from the Not-The-Intern-Anymore of ScienceBlogs (that's right, she's got a big girl job at ScienceBlogs now). It absolutely rocks my universe:Video 1: I would like a pair of these, please....
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 8:51 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2009
Category: Science Careers
I am really intrigued by a discussion happening at Adventures in Ethics and Science over a DrugMonkey post that was a response to a Science Bear post. And the green grass grew all around and around and the green grass...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 7:20 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science-y Sounding Meanderings
Dr. Isis's lab group is collaborating with some other kick ass folks to put together an equipment grant for a brand new fancy-pants microscope. One of the tasks in putting together this grant has been to test drive some microscopes,...
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February 25, 2009
Category: Little Isis
In addition to being a totally hot science-doing prima donna, Dr. Isis is also the mother of a potty training two year old. This is leading to serious Isis-family shenanigans. Video 1: This video is watched 10-12 times a...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 10:26 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2009
Category: Dr. Isis Gets Politcal Up in this Piece
to Speaker of the House and general left-wing beacon, Nancy Pelosi. Dear Madame Speaker, I have recently been invited to give an international presentation and I am feeling a bit nervous about it. You see, like someone else we all know and love, I am kind of new to my job. I'm a little young and a little scrappy. I have some controversial data to lay out there and some pretty ambitious goals and future directions. I'm pretty charismatic myself, but I'm still not quite sure how this is all going to go down.
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The inaugural edition of the Diversity in Science carnival is up at DNLee's joint. Check it out here. I am now going to spend many hours reading said carnival. Figure 1: Yay!...
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Category: Ass Shaking Jams
This little gem comes from loyal reader and frequent hilarious commenter, Toaster Sunshine. Sweet Toaster writes: O Most Exalted and Venerated Shoe Goddess, There is a song by Kid 606 called "Phat with a PhD". Since you have previously posted...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 12:49 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2009
Dr. Isis participated in a new (well, new for her) blog carnival this month -- Skeptical Parent Crossing. The organizer of the blog, Blake Evans describes the carnival: Skeptical Parent Crossing is a blog carnival for free-thinking, rational parents. This...
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