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Send GrrlScientist to Antarctica!

Posted on: June 25, 2009 2:26 PM, by PZ Myers

I'm really not being mean and trying to banish a fellow science blogger to some barren, frigid desolation — hey, that's where I live! — but she's volunteering to leave New York for a month to live in Antarctica. All you have to do is vote for her essay, and presto, maybe they'll ship her off to somewhere near the south pole. Cool.

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Posted by: Cokehead | June 25, 2009 2:44 PM

I do actually read her blog on occasion, so I wouldn't mind reading a "GrrlScientist goes to Antarctica" post...Plus, it sounds like a movie title, so I just can't resist.

Posted by: Felix | June 25, 2009 2:57 PM

Stay away from the mountains. Don't store frozen specimens that are larger than a sled dog.

Posted by: Newfie | June 25, 2009 3:04 PM

done
wow... her real name is odd too *runs*

Posted by: Sili | June 25, 2009 3:06 PM

Awesome!

Envious!

Never gonna get the chance. (Unfit, history of depression and SAD, no fucking useful skills.)

Posted by: Pascalle | June 25, 2009 3:32 PM

A friend of mine is competing for that as well.. so i voted for her.. sorry :)

Posted by: Steve | June 25, 2009 3:34 PM

I wish I could go with her. I'd love to be somewhere that's actually cold, right now.

Posted by: Felix | June 25, 2009 4:00 PM

Heads up: Ken Ham live with chat questions tonight, beginning 7:30-8:00 PM Eastern, 2:00 AM CET
at
http://creationmuseum.org/live/

Posted by: Jafafa Hots | June 25, 2009 4:02 PM

Aw man, I wanna go!
Why don't they every have contests for those of us who suck at everything?

Posted by: daveau | June 25, 2009 4:28 PM

Yes, we like to see PZ and all his friends win all the interweb contests.

#10

Posted by: dr_igloo | June 25, 2009 4:34 PM

I dunno, I looked at a small number of the other entries, and I've gotta say, the competition is good -- I voted for someone else, ultimately. I hope the Pharyngulites consider some of the other options before automatically voting for PZ endorsed candidate!

#11

Posted by: dr_igloo | June 25, 2009 4:36 PM

There are lots of other great entries as well...poke around the site before automatically voting for PZ's anointed candidate! ;)

#12

Posted by: Brownian, OM | June 25, 2009 5:04 PM

Sorry, but I cannot in good conscience vote for anybody crazy enough to want to go to Antarctica. Lemme know when the "Blog Your Way to a Shady Hammock Nestled Between Two Coconut Palms on Kauai" contest begins.

#13

Posted by: maddogdelta | June 25, 2009 5:10 PM

Read her essay, voted for her.

// I'm a sucker for people who crawled out of bad circumstances..

#14

Posted by: Jim Lippard | June 25, 2009 5:41 PM

Wesley Elsberry of The Panda's Thumb is also in the running:

http://www.blogyourwaytoantarctica.com/blogs/view/163

#15

Posted by: NYCMike | June 25, 2009 6:14 PM

Brownian, OM, if you go during their summer it's actually very nice.

#16

Posted by: noodles | June 25, 2009 6:43 PM

// I'm a sucker for people who crawled out of bad circumstances..

Honestly, I didn't read anything in her essay 'bout crawling out of bad circumstances; a childhood filled camping, hiking, and horseback riding sounds rather idyllic to me. I was also under the impression we had officially reserved the term "homelessness" to serve as a euphemism for violet meth addicts who harass people for money, shout incoherently, and randomly shove people walking on the sidewalk. Rather than say, a young girl sleeping on a friend's couch because she's too "independent" to ask her 'rents for more money.

Anyway, I'm going to read through all the essays and pick someone I feel would benefit from this trip, from a research and study perspective. Pretty sure PZed (aka, Doctor Evil) would be fine with that.

#17

Posted by: "GrrlScientist" | June 25, 2009 7:20 PM

actually, i was made a ward of the state, which means my parents gave me up. anyway, whatevs.

#18

Posted by: Alan Kellogg | June 25, 2009 10:32 PM

For those who didn't get the memo, Major Depression can be a fatal disease, and you end up killing yourself.

Devorah (there's a story behind that name), I voted for you cuz I want to see your photos of penguins on your blog. I hope the Pharyngulation of the contest on your behalf works.

#19

Posted by: Frank Lovell | June 25, 2009 11:14 PM

So many good applicants, so few votes (namely, 1) to cast per voter -- Wesley Elsberry got my vote -- please give Wesley some due consideration, those who haven't voted yet but plan to, THANKS!

#20

Posted by: David Utidjian | June 25, 2009 11:34 PM

Devorah,

Only two people on that list that I vaguely know, you and Wesley. So I had to choose. I really liked your essay better than Wes's. It was as if I was already along for the adventure.

I would have voted for you but something seems screwy in their registration process. So until that email comes from the registration I can't vote for anyone.

-DU-

#21

Posted by: Mark A. Siefert | June 26, 2009 12:04 AM

Tell her to stay clear of mysterious stray sled dogs and anything that goes "Tekeli-li."

#22

Posted by: Monado | June 26, 2009 12:34 AM

Speaking of Antarctica, the doctor who had to treat her own breast cancer there in 1999 has died. It's an interesting story. But it sounded too much like life imitating a "question" on the Klugetran Programmer Aptitude Test:

"12. In your desk you will find a razor blade, some gauze, and a bottle of rubbing alcohol. Remove your own appendix. Do not suture until your work has been inspected."

#23

Posted by: Monado | June 26, 2009 12:41 AM

I didn't get it exactly right, of course, just the flavor. Here's the only copy I could find on the Web: Klugetran P.A.T. It's probably my favorite piece of nerd humor.

#24

Posted by: genegeek | June 26, 2009 2:13 AM

I hope she gets to go. I spent Januay 2009 in Antarctica and it is fantastic!

#25

Posted by: Mobius | June 26, 2009 5:45 AM

Really, really cool...in more ways than one.

#26

Posted by: Alan | June 27, 2009 12:46 AM

I vaguely recall someone I respect linking to this blog some time ago, and I liked Devorah's essay . . . so I voted for her. We need more grrls down here anyway.

Winterover, McMurdo, 2009.

#27

Posted by: Greg Laden | August 28, 2009 7:13 PM

A good friend and regular reader of my blog is there now, and has been all winter. I just heard that they are starting to see things in the sky indicating spring is near! (They are on the pole, a NASA expedition).

#28

Posted by: Greg Laden | September 6, 2009 10:17 PM

Grrll remains in third place literaly a couple of hundred votes behind some Mormon guy named Don Osmand. No kidding.

#29

Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | September 6, 2009 11:21 PM

Just so Laden is not the only one bumping this...

GrrlScientist needs you to vote
So she gets to go somewhere remote
The Pharyngula minions
Can cast their opinions
And grab this poor poll by the throat!

#30

Posted by: Greg Laden | September 7, 2009 12:08 AM

That's a pretty good poem for a squid! Or even for not a squid!

#31

Posted by: llewelly | September 7, 2009 12:49 AM

(Chiming in with Greg and Cuttlefish.)
Of all the contestants, Wes Elsberry is as qualified as Devorah (really, more qualified). But Wes is so far behind he can't hope to win.
The readers of pharyngula are numerous enough to send an experienced science blogger, Devorah, to Antarctica, and it's high time we did something about it. 5000 votes would do it easily, and that's not a lot by the standards of this horde.

#32

Posted by: Change your vote to mean something! | September 7, 2009 3:54 AM

You can change your votes, remember!

If you're currently voting for someone that's going to lose anyway, why on earth wouldn't you change your vote?? It takes less time than signing up!

'cmon, people, don't you want your vote to matter? It only matters if it helps someone win.

Also, remember she doesn't have to come in first to win- the quark interviewing process might choose her over Luise.