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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.
May 31, 2009
Category: SciWo says...
Dearest Blog-friends, Have I ever mentioned how much I love all my readers and my Sciblings? This blogging community means so much to me, I just don't even know how to express it. The amount of support I get...
Posted by SciWo at 10:07 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 30, 2009
Category: SciWo says...
Despite being the one to pick the topic for the upcoming Scientiae, I have struggled and struggled to come up with anything to post for this month's Carnival. As Alice alluded to earlier, I'm having a particularly tough month, feeling...
Posted by SciWo at 7:56 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 29, 2009
Category: publish or perish
In the past few weeks, Scienceblogs has quietly debuted two fantastic new bloggers and a new channel (off the main page) related to information and library science, including open access and open science; digital and print publishing; information property and...
Posted by SciWo at 9:56 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 28, 2009
Category: Scientiae
Just a quick reminder that the June Scientiae theme is "moving forward" and we're looking for posts about the how and why your science, work, and life are moving forward. Of course, other topics are welcome as well. Write your...
Posted by SciWo at 1:51 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 27, 2009
Category: blogging
I just spent 2 hours writing a blog post for you that I completely can't post. My husband says it is really not about being a chicken but deciding what battles to fight. And this post would name names and...
Posted by Alice at 10:08 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: let's talk about solutions
A while back I sent the following letter to my dear friend Dr. Isis at On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess, because we all know who wears the hot shoes around ScienceBlogs. Dearest Isis, Though we may not always...
Posted by SciWo at 7:55 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 26, 2009
Category: Alice's rants
Isis and Sheril are having a discussion about some of Sheril's email. She recently got a question from a reader, who queries: Hi Sheril, I read with interest your article on 'women and science' in the Discover website. Can I...
Posted by Alice at 8:04 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: academic adventures
Another PSA from the good folks at Rice University's ADVANCE program. Please help them out if this applies to you. Dear Colleague: I'm writing to ask you if you would be willing to participate in a study that I am...
Posted by SciWo at 9:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: ADVANCE
The email below announces this year's "Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position" workshop run by Rice University's ADVANCE program. I've heard great things about this workshop and they've run it for several years. In fact, I applied two years running and...
Posted by SciWo at 9:43 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 24, 2009
Category: goal setting
Now that the semester is over, I have no excuse not to do a lot of home-maintenance-y things, like: installing a rainbarrel in my backyardinstalling a dual-flush mechanism on our upstairs toiletsetting up the other dehumidifier in the basement (we...
Posted by Alice at 3:31 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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