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A scientist and an engineer being the change we want to see
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.
SciWo is an assistant professor of geosciences. She blogs about the intersection of science and real life - primarily based on her first-hand experiences. Her older posts can be found here.
January 31, 2009
I'm cleaning house, and trying to write half an exam, and making a dessert to take to a friend's house tonight, and trying to reset myself. So, while I am not blogging, here is a distracting video to amuse you....
Posted by Alice at 1:36 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 30, 2009
Category: conference chatter
So I've said over there on the sidebar that I blog at the intersection of women's studies and engineering. I confess I bet Science Woman was hoping I'd do more of that than I have so far, and I was...
Posted by Alice at 8:28 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 28, 2009
Category: Scientiae
Pat of FairerScience is hosting the February Scientiae, and has posted the theme to be about imagining a fairer, more equitable society (and maybe specifically about science). She's taking submissions (via this method) until January 30, so get fingers to...
Posted by Alice at 4:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 27, 2009
Category: teaching
I haven't talked much about my teaching yet this semester, and it's high time I did - at least a little, particularly to contribute a bit to the discussion about PWIs. To be clear: my institution will consider me for...
Posted by Alice at 7:36 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2009
Category: SciWo says...
Dearest Minnow, Happy Birthday! I am so proud of my "big girl" who knows her colors, can count to three, has seven word sentences, loves books to the point of memorization, solves puzzles repeatedly, pees on the potty regularly, cares...
Posted by SciWo at 8:11 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: let's talk about solutions
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD THE COOLEST THING CAME IN THE MAIL! LOOK LOOK LOOK! IT IS A THANK-YOU BOOK OF DRAWINGS FROM THE KIDS WHO GOT OUR DONORS CHOOSE DONATIONS!!!! I am SO TOTALLY excited. The book is...
Posted by Alice at 1:27 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 24, 2009
Category: conference chatter
Thanks so much to Propter Doc for helping me moderate the Transitions session at ScienceOnline09. Our goal for the session was to draft a list of "best practices" for handling your online presence as you move through personal and professional...
Posted by SciWo at 9:27 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: blogging
ScienceWoman and PropterDoc coordinated a session at ScienceOnline 09 that provided space for people to talk about different transitions they have blogged through, and how they navigated or negotiated those transitions. Both coordinators have gone through some job transitions which...
Posted by Alice at 7:48 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 23, 2009
Category: what did they say about "balance," again?
SW Notes: This post was begun a few weeks ago...you know, in the break between semesters. But I've been delayed and delayed in getting it done, and today is a day of metaphorical desk-clearing. So I'm just going to put...
Posted by SciWo at 7:27 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 21, 2009
Category: publish or perish
New blogger Mrs. Comet Hunter is in the latter stages of her Ph.D., and she's at the stage of trying to figure out how to break her work out into discrete publishable chunks. She recently wrote a post about the...
Posted by SciWo at 10:09 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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