Hello, ScienceBlogs readers!
I am so thrilled to be joining this little corner of cyberspace. Allow me to introduce myself and tell you a little bit about why I'm here.
I'm Jane. I'm a computer scientist, an assistant professor, and a new mom. Trying to juggle those three identities is, shall we say, challenging at times, but never dull.
I started blogging in late December of 2004. (Geez, has it been that long?!) When I started my original blog (over at See Jane Compute), there weren't that many women science bloggers out there. So my blog started as a way to add a new voice to the voices of women academic bloggers, one that spoke to the isolation and feelings of incompetence and being "other" that women in STEM often feel. Now, of course, there are many more women scientists out in the blogosphere, many of whom are represented here on these pages. It has been so neat to see such a community spring up where none existed before, and in a relatively short time, too.
I sometimes blog specifically about technology, and about computer science as a field. Most of the time, though, I blog about the intersection of the personal and professional. You'll find me talking a lot about my job---teaching, research, service, my relationships with my colleagues---and about my "other job", parenting, that seems to be sucking up a lot of my time lately. :) But you'll also find me blogging about the culture of computer science---the ways in which it's exclusionary and harmful, the ways in which it could be changed. And I seem to blog a lot about work-life balance, so you'll probably be seeing a fair bit of that as well.
Over the next week or so, I'll be providing links to some of my older posts, so you can get a sense of who I am and what I'm about. And of course, I'll be posting brand spanking new content as well. But to get started, here are a few links from the old blog to some of my favorite posts:
Succeeding in a "man's world"
Women in CS: the dance remix version
Computer science and creativity
Thanks for reading, and I look forward to sharing this space with you!
Education & Careers
Comments
Jane, let me be the first to officially welcome you! Yay! I'm so glad you're here, especially because of course I'm a big fan. :-)
Posted by: Alice | March 6, 2008 11:00 AM
Yay! Great news and a hearty congratulations.
Posted by: John Dupuis | March 6, 2008 11:04 AM
Hi!
Good for you! but your RSS isn't working *panics*
Paula.
Posted by: Jokerine | March 6, 2008 11:17 AM
Welcome Jane! Yay, more faculty blogging!
Jokerine, et al, settle down. it always seems to take a few days for the feed to get working after assimilation...
Posted by: DrugMonkey | March 6, 2008 11:24 AM
Welcome to The Family!
Posted by: Coturnix | March 6, 2008 11:25 AM
Excited to see you in the new space!
P.S. How old is Baby Jane now?
Posted by: ScienceMama | March 6, 2008 11:32 AM
Thanks, everyone!
Alice, I'm flattered that you're a fan. The t-shirts for the Jane Fan Club will be out any day now. :)
ScienceMama, Baby Jane is ~10 months old (very close in age to your Bean!).
Posted by: Jane | March 6, 2008 11:55 AM
♥ I like both women and computing. ♥
I don't like the lack of Unicode support on ScienceBlogs.
Posted by: brtkrbzhnv | March 6, 2008 12:09 PM
Hi Jane,
The Scienceblogs RSS doesn't offer a feed, I can't get you in my Netvibes page. Maybe you have to enable something?
Posted by: HappyForYou | March 6, 2008 12:35 PM
How exciting! Congrats on the new digs Jane!
Posted by: Kate | March 6, 2008 12:51 PM
Please please add RSS! Thanks!
Posted by: Liz | March 6, 2008 2:36 PM
Yay Jane! I'm happy to see you here. Yours was one of the first blogs I discovered, and I've been a fan ever since.
Posted by: ScienceWoman | March 6, 2008 3:18 PM
Why does ScienceBlogs have such a problem with RSS feeds for new blogs? A lot of readers must be lost who see a new blog and then never come back because there's no RSS feed.
Posted by: Ben Wraith | March 6, 2008 3:39 PM
I'm not sure what's up with the RSS feed, but I'm pretty sure I have no control over it. And I'm pretty sure it will be fixed soon. So just hang tight, everyone, and thanks for your patience! (Until it gets fixed, I'll post links on the old blog to this blog, so you should still be able to see that new content is up.)
Posted by: Jane | March 6, 2008 4:05 PM
W00T! So glad to see you over here.
Posted by: Laura | March 6, 2008 6:46 PM
Awesome, awesome, awesome!
Welcome!
Posted by: Abel Pharmboy | March 6, 2008 8:49 PM
Congrats on the new gig! :-)
Posted by: New Kid on the Hallway | March 6, 2008 9:12 PM
Always good to see more women blogging here, but even better to see more computer types. Scienceblogs is definitely over-populated with squishy life-sciencey people :-)
Posted by: csrster | March 7, 2008 4:45 AM
Great to see you here!
Posted by: MissPrism | March 7, 2008 6:01 AM
Congrats on the new digs! Feeds are working now ... at least Google Reader thinks so. Yay!
Posted by: Stephanie Willen Brown | March 7, 2008 8:24 AM
Glad to see you here - I've been reading your old blog for quite some time!
Posted by: sciencegirl | March 7, 2008 1:32 PM
There are some women physical scientists blogging - it's not just the squishy sorts ;-)!
Enjoy the new space!!
Posted by: Michelle | March 7, 2008 9:20 PM
Yay! More techno-geeky goodness. :-)
Posted by: Cherish | March 7, 2008 11:21 PM
Indeed, the RSS feed seems to be working now. Huzzah!
thanks for the welcomes, everyone, and glad to see some of you following me over here from the old place! :)
Posted by: Jane | March 7, 2008 11:35 PM