The Madame Curie of Machine Tools
Category: Role Models
Women like Kate Gleason can remind you that women have always loved technology
Posted by Zuska at 6:08 PM • 6 Comments •
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Zuska is the kick-ass alter-ego of Suzanne E Franks. When not dispensing Zuska's wisdom, Suzanne can often be found gardening, reading, or having one of her thrice-weekly migraines.
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November 29, 2006
Perfusing the Magnet
Category: Ask a Science Blogger
Don actually kept a flood-the-magnet scoreboard up in the magnet room
Posted by Zuska at 3:17 PM • 11 Comments •
Training Your Department Chairs
Category: Positive Actions
From the WEPAN listserv: The University of Washington has received a grant from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program (grant SBE-0619159) to offer a series of national leadership workshops for science, engineering, and mathematics department chairs and emerging faculty leaders....
Posted by Zuska at 2:16 PM • 1 Comments •
November 21, 2006
Rebutting Rachel
Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
perhaps she has not yet had a lot of experience with complicated graphics.
Posted by Zuska at 2:11 PM • 5 Comments •
Toadygawa Translated
Category: Why There Are No Women in Science
It is too, too good to pass up
Posted by Zuska at 1:56 PM • 2 Comments •
What's Wrong With This Statement?
Category: Moron Management
People ought to know their place and keep to it.
Posted by Zuska at 9:30 AM • 1 Comments •
November 20, 2006
Methods of Prohibition
Category: Sex Offenders
you wouldn't expect that dogturd of a man to be sexually abusing her
Posted by Zuska at 4:18 PM • 2 Comments •
How To Suppress Women's Science and Engineering
Category: Why There Are No Women in Science
She didn't do science. (But if it's clear she did the deed...)
Posted by Zuska at 2:05 PM • 8 Comments •
Tonegawa Steps Down!
Category: Sex Discrimination
Toadygawa is history! At least at Picower. The Chronicle's news blog reports that Susumu Tonegawa is stepping down as head of Picower after an university investigation found he "behaved inappropriately when he tried to discourage a young female scholar from...
Posted by Zuska at 9:39 AM • 2 Comments •
The Montreal Massacre and Gendercide In Iraq
Category: Manifestoes
This post grew out of an exchange with Benjamin Franz on my post This Is The Patriarchy: When Talking To The Master, Speak In A Civil Tone. I felt the exchange itself was worth promoting to a post, with some...
Posted by Zuska at 9:30 AM • 5 Comments •
November 17, 2006
Let Her Eat The Oppressor's Cake
Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
Normally I think one should be a bit gentle with the young un's, as they are still not fully formed and their thinking has not developed much complexity. They haven't had a lot of experience; you have to give them...
Posted by Zuska at 4:35 PM • 27 Comments •
The Play's The Thing
Category: Conference Report
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King
Posted by Zuska at 3:33 PM • 1 Comments •
Using Their Powers For Your Good
Category: Moron Management
..most clever examples of moron management I have ever heard of.
Posted by Zuska at 1:29 PM • 2 Comments •
New Science Think Tank
Category: Ministry of Science and Culture
Yay! Finally! The good guys - that's us - are finally getting their/our own Discovery Institute! Only ours will actually promote real science and science policy as opposed to God-told-me-so science and science policy. Ed Brayton over at Dispatches From...
Posted by Zuska at 9:30 AM • 3 Comments •
Professor of the Year Donna C. Boyd
Category: Role Models
"The dead are speaking to us."
Posted by Zuska at 9:10 AM • 0 Comments •
November 15, 2006
Shake Off The Dust...
Category: Moron Management
Go not into the way of the misogynists, and into any city of the Resistants enter ye not.
Posted by Zuska at 12:53 PM • 18 Comments •
November 12, 2006
The Tender Sensibilities of Men
Category: Moron Management
The mere thought of all those panel members up there, sans penis, is enough to make any man quake in his shoes.
Posted by Zuska at 10:30 AM • 6 Comments •
November 10, 2006
Dr. Sexy Tells All
Category: Ask a Science Blogger
Geek boys also understood that they could use homework to hit on geek girls. I didn't recognize this form of courtship at first.
Posted by Zuska at 1:21 PM • 7 Comments •
November 8, 2006
Because We Don't Have To
Category: Conference Report
It doesn't matter how nicely we speak, how nuanced our arguments and discussions, how sweetly we invite.
Posted by Zuska at 7:22 PM • 18 Comments •
Central Florida's Mujeres Universitarias Asociadas
Category: Positive Actions
Belonging to a group like MUA just might reduce your daily need to puke on somebody's shoes.
Posted by Zuska at 5:38 PM • 0 Comments •
The Life of a Postdoc
Category: Daily Struggles
I remember my postdoc years as a particularly exhilirating, wonderfully terrible form of hell wherein I worked like a dog for love of discovery and less pay than a coal miner.
Posted by Zuska at 9:30 AM • 6 Comments •
November 7, 2006
She's Such a Geek Blog
Category: The Real Geek Goddesses
You have not lived until you've seen a bra with a voltmeter-ammeter panel.
Posted by Zuska at 9:42 PM • 0 Comments •
You Need to Know the X-Gals
Category: Positive Actions
Every woman in science or engineering should have some sort of support network of fabulous interesting women.
Posted by Zuska at 6:44 PM • 1 Comments •
Your Brain on God
Category: Science Follies
File this under: I have an imaging tool and I need something to do with it that will garner grant support. Hey, let's study people speaking in tongues! Because we will learn....something! That will be of use for....whatever!...
Posted by Zuska at 6:05 PM • 6 Comments •
November 3, 2006
Defeat Rick Santorum!
Category: Ask a Science Blogger
I want a representative, responsive, and responsible government. Rick Santorum can only prevent our government from operating in that manner.
Posted by Zuska at 11:44 AM • 5 Comments •
It's Time to Plant Bulbs and Deal With Deer!
Category: Friday Fare
...the deer, ashamed of the havoc and destruction their increasing numbers have wreaked upon the globe...
Posted by Zuska at 9:30 AM • 6 Comments •
November 2, 2006
Michael Issues a Gender Equity Challenge!
Category: Sex Discrimination
Regular reader and blogger Michael Anes wrote to tell me: I haven't heard any Scienceblogging on the gender equity report issued this morning and profiled on the Chronicle? Did you check it out?...My post and challenge is here -- I'd...
Posted by Zuska at 4:05 PM • 5 Comments •
Not Even On the Radar Screen
Category: Manly Men
To ask real, serious, difficult questions about male reproductive health requires challenging ingrained assumptions about what it means to be a man.
Posted by Zuska at 1:29 PM • 11 Comments •
