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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.
Category: link love
While I'm immersed in writing, planning, and reflection and Alice is uncurling, other people are actually writing the sort of amazing posts that make the blogosphere such a valuable and powerful place to be. These are the sort of posts...
Posted by SciWo at 2:44 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: women in science
Remember Bill Nye the Science Guy, that television popularizer of science for kids? Maybe it's time to give him an update and a facelift. That's the goal of Susan the Scientist, a project of Dr. Susan Reslewic, who is launching...
Posted by SciWo at 7:13 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: link love
I don't have time to read blogs anymore. And yet, I still have over 211 RSS subscriptions in my Google Reader. To assuage my guilt at having many times the "1000+" posts I haven't read, I thought I would...
Posted by Alice at 12:52 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: environment
So every university has some kind of publication it uses to connect with alumni to say, "Look at all this cool stuff we're doing, don't you want to give us money in memory of the cool stuff we did when...
Posted by Alice at 4:17 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: link love
Ever since Erin and Hig walked through the village near our summer cabin in British Columbia, I've been reading their blog about walking from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands. Once they made it to their destination, over a year from...
Posted by Alice at 7:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: link love
I'm excited that Kim Hannula, a geologist from Colorado who guest blogged for us in January and who used to blog at All of My Faults are Stress Related has moved over to Scienceblogs! Welcome Kim, to the Madhouse. :-)...
Posted by Alice at 5:49 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: link love
So I meant to have a nice post today addressing Ecogeofemme's challenge of describing how we write papers/proposals, but I haven't actually managed to do any writing today like I was supposed to. Instead, I am going to point out...
Posted by SciWo at 4:35 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: mommy monday
I'm still processing Thursday's events, and I'm busy writing finals, grading papers, and hosting a prospective student...but that doesn't mean that other people aren't writing about things totally perfect for Mommy Monday. Here are some of my recent* favorites:...
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Category: link love
More linky goodness from my saved bloglines. Today's edition brought to you by the letters B, C, and D. But first a flashback to the A's: Ask a scientist: What's the deal with plastic baby bottles? at a Natural Scientist....
Posted by SciWo at 5:40 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: link love
I've got a massive backlog of saved posts in my bloglines. These are things new and (really really) old, things I've read and loved and things I've meant to read. They are posts I've wanted to share with you and...
Posted by SciWo at 9:53 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
