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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: Calling out Asshats
The other evening I was laying bed, watching the first season of NCIS on DVD as our technician ordered me too, and being generally hot when I got an email from one of my favorite bloggers in the universe -...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 9:52 PM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science Careers
A few weeks ago I was driving to Old Navy with Little Isis (I have no idea why that is relevant, but it is factually correct) when I heard a report on NPR about students who were paying for business...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 10:43 PM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Amazing, Incredible Young People
I <3 adorable kids and these guys melt my heart. Plus, there's science involved, which is even better!!! In the below viral video a woman reproduces Walter Mischel's famous experiment looking at a preschooler's ability to delay gratification in order...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 7:24 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science-y Sounding Meanderings
Dr. Isis does hot science. Hot, hot, caliente science. I feel like we have already established that, though. Learning to do hot science has not been a trivial thing, but learning to write in the scientific arena was orders of...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 11:39 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science-y Sounding Meanderings
Hmm...I wonder what DrugMonkey would have to say about this? This is from Wikipedia's page on addiction, but is based on a 2007 study from The Lancet in which experts classified the different drugs, and seems to put cannabis on...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 3:00 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science-y Sounding Meanderings
We have just finished our very first round of new experiments in the lab and I am excited to send the samples we collected off to a company for processing. These samples contain a series of metal-labeled reagents that we're...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 1:26 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: BMI TMI
Yesterday I received an email notification that new content from the American Heart Association's journal Circulation was available. Now available online in the journal is the AHA's new (and first ever) Scientific Statement on Dietary Sugar Intake. In their statement,...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 12:37 PM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Food Porn
I generally hate bloggers who appeal to authority, prefacing a post with a litany of degrees, qualifications, and certifications. I like the rogue nature of the pseudonymous blogosphere where you're left to determine someone's credibility based on the validity of...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 3:54 PM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science-y Sounding Meanderings
Before we begin, I think we need some adorable shoes. Adorable shoes make difficult topics slightly more palatable. Not easier. Just slightly more palatable. Figure 1: Franco Sarto Palm Loafer Pump. $101 at shoes.com. Dr. Isis is finding herself reflective...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 2:22 AM • 93 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science-y Sounding Meanderings
I mentioned yesterday that this week I have been in the deepest, hottest (literally and figuratively) part of the south visiting an MRU to study for the week. I was invited here to learn a particular technique used at this...
Posted by Isis the Scientist at 9:45 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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