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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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A couple of weeks ago I got this email from a faithful reader. She writes: Hello, I'm passing on this wonderful news about a change in NSF's Earth Science postdoc policy on parental leave. I have not seen this in...
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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...
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Today Isis submitted her grant. Then PhysioProf posted this over at the DrugMonkey blog. ARGGHHHHH!!!!! You should go over and read it. Seriously. Now. Apparently one of the Drugmonkey readers has received a letter demanding a copy of an already...
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Earlier today The American Physiological Society's Director of Government Relations and Science Policy (and generally awesome woman) Alice Ra'anan sent me this email: Dear Dr. Isis, I was wondering whether this request for donations is the kind of thing you...
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The American Physiological Society has another award available. This one is for undergraduates interested in doing summer research in the lab of an established (ie, hot shot) investigator. The research award provides $4000 for 10 weeks of support and a...
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