A scientist and an engineer being the change we want to see
ScienceWoman is a first-year assistant professor in -ology. She blogs about the intersection of science and real life - primarily based on her first-hand experiences. Her older posts can be found here.
Alice Pawley is an assistant professor of engineering education at Purdue University. She blogs at the intersection of women's studies and engineering, a pretty empty space but with potential to grow. She wants to be a feminist-but-tenured professor when she grows up.
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September 30, 2007
Category: women in science
Hat-tip to a reader for bringing this to my attention. Should a breast-feeing woman be allowed extra long breaks during her nine-hour medical licensing exam? That's been the question in the case of an MD/PhD student and her four month...
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September 28, 2007
Category: academic adventures
I'm working on another grant proposal, this one about an order of magnitude larger than the last. But still I am running into the same problem: the cost of doing the science I want to do pushes right up against...
Posted by ScienceWoman at 7:32 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 26, 2007
Category: academic adventures
Back when I started my Ph.D., I thought I really needed a good mentor that would help me get solidly grounded in my field, get started on a good research project, and get funded. As I got farther along, I...
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September 25, 2007
Category: academic adventures
I've frantically been writing a grant proposal for a small internal grant competition, due later this week. Basically, I am proposing to update some work I was involved with ~10 years ago. This work was presented at a few meetings,...
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September 24, 2007
Category: personal
Notes for new readers: Mommy Monday is a regular feature on this blog, and Fish is my husband. This week I am responding to a request from amy, sara, and jenn to explain how I "find time for Fish on...
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September 22, 2007
Category: motherhood
The other brouhaha this week has been over Facebook banning breastfeeding pictures because they are "obscene" and then banning a Canadian mother who had posted such pictures. Tara did a great job summarizing the stink. Here's what I think about...
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September 21, 2007
Category: women in science
There's been a lot of fuss 'round here this week about the fact that The Scientist magazine picked five male science bloggers to identify their favorite science blogs, and what that says about the ways that women are excluded from...
Posted by ScienceWoman at 9:28 AM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 20, 2007
Category: personal
I'm the new mommy blogger here at ScienceBlogs. I don't write about the latest ground-breaking research in my field. I don't even publicly reveal what my field is. What I do write about are my experiences as an early career...
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