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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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Category: Get Some Damned Money
In the United States, a substantial portion of biomedical research is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH currently provides more than $30.5 billion to researchers at universities and medical schools. Today President Obama announced an additional...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 3:37 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Feminist Stylings
Earlier, the notorious and elusive Roman Polanski was finally arrested in Switzerland for the 1977 drugging and rape of then 13 year old Samantha Gailey. Polanski has been hidden deep underground in the caves of Southern France for more than...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 1:14 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Dr. Isis Gets Politcal Up in this Piece
Before swine flu hit La Casa de Isis, Dr. Isis wrote a post about House Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during Obama's address to Congress.Mr.lsis and I had quite a discussion in the car on the way to pick Little Isis up...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 7:52 AM • 48 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Dr. Isis Gets Politcal Up in this Piece
I have some thoughts on civility to bring to you, hopefully tomorrow if I can get 30 minutes to sit down and blog, regarding Rep. Joe Wilson's recent outburst. For those of you who, like me, have been living in...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 12:16 AM • 45 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Calling out Asshats
There is a hilarious little nutter leaving comments on my thread about Paddington Bear. I now realize that in my criticism of the portrayal of this apparently beloved South American bear I have actually levied a great mortal insult against...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 11:27 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Diversity in Science
Sandy at Discovering Biology has a great post up right now on the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM) Act. Under this initiative, immigrant children in the country illegally would be eligible to apply for permanent residency...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 9:57 PM • 72 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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.
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 9:48 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Dr. Isis Gets Politcal Up in this Piece
You'd think Dr. Isis could go 24 hours without scrapping with someone in the blogosphere. Dr. Isis usually tried to avoid taking on PZ Myers because Dr. Isis's mackerel snapping ways usually stand in sharp contrast to those of...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 2:11 PM • 58 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Dr. Isis Gets Politcal Up in this Piece
The debate over whether Jill Biden should use the title "Dr." continues on the Drugmonkey blog and here on my own. At Drugmonkey, commenter Becca says the following: I hate the subtle implication that people without degrees can't be experts....
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 9:00 PM • 69 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Dr. Isis Gets Politcal Up in this Piece
A few weeks ago I wrote about why women might defend the right to be called "Dr." when they've earned a terminal doctorate degree here. That being said, I think anyone who has earned one of these degrees has earned...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 2:08 PM • 49 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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