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Alice Pawley 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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Explaining a non-traditional career timeline without invoking family?

Category: ask sciencewomen

While I'm loving @nparmalee, I thought I'd repost a short series of tweets where she asks a really good question, and one that I don't have an answer to. There's a lot of talk re: women in science and accepting...

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Going paperless in academia?

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A reader recently sent in the following question: Hi Ladies -- I've been reading your blog for most of my graduate career, and am currently beginning my first post-doc position. I've got a question for your readers, and I'm dying...

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Help for connecting women hoping to re-enter science?

Category: career development

Another letter from my inbox: Dear Sciencewoman, I am a mom of 3 just starting my own lab. I have been thinking hard about how to recruit good postdoc talent despite the fact that I have no track record as...

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Ask Sciencewomen: What sort of mentoring to do first year faculty need?

Category: ask sciencewomen

Time to move hairy Ethan off the top of the page. Fortunately, there's a couple of great questions from readers qued up in my email account. And maybe by the time they get posted, I'll be ready to get back...

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Ask Sciencewomen: How much to reveal during start-up negotiations?

Category: academic adventures

Reader science newbie poses a great question to me and asks for the collective wisdom of our readers: Dear Sciencewoman, I have been reading & loving you blog for some time now. Thanks! You rock! Ok, I have a question.......

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Ask Sciencewomen: what should I look for in a graduate school?

Category: earning that PhD

I recently got this email from Nikitha Sambamurthy, blogger at Diff-EQ (tweeting here) and undergrad at Purdue who regularly attends my department's seminar series. Nikitha is looking for some advice, and agreed to let me ask her question to teh...

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Ask Sciencewomen revisited: Not giving up this "silly scientist stuff" just because I'm going to have a baby.

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In January 2008, a reader (Serious Scientist) sent me a query about dealing with inlaws who thought she should give up on her scientific career when her baby arrived. They wanted her to go to a baby shower across the...

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Ask Sciencewomen: What name should I publish under?

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The following email appeared in my inbox yesterday, and I thought some of you might have some more thoughts to share. Dear ScienceWoman, I recently discovered your blog, and have a question regarding academic publishing. I am just now entering...

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Ask Sciencewomen: Are there really more dead grandmothers?

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This is not a belated April Fool's joke, though I'll admit to having sat on this since Wednesday so that my readers wouldn't think I was making this up. Here is the correspondence I found in my email account on...

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Optimizing publications for a Ph.D. student

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...

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