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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.
The place where I come from...is a small town. Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains
You will be wanting to read my excellent essay, 'Suzy the Computer' vs. 'Dr. Sexy': What's a Geek Girl to Do When She Wants to Get Laid? in She's Such a Geek! Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff.
If you have not yet figured out why you shoud not be using terms like "hard science" and "soft skills", then you absolutely need to read Telling Stories About Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity in NWSA Journal v. 16 No. 1, 2004 (Re)Gendering Science Fields.
You should also read They Blinded Me With Science: Misuse and Misunderstanding of Biological Theory, an excellent critique of Thornhill and Palmer's nonsense about rape as an evolutionary strategy. You can find it in Burack and Josephson's must-read tome, Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives.
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December 20, 2006
Category: Why Aren't You Reading This?
The 29th Carnival of Feminists is up at The Imponderabilia of Actual Life, and here's one of the categories: Sexism: In which we look at examples of sexism from all over the world - sometimes blatant, occasionally subtle, often insidious....
Posted by Zuska at 1:33 PM • 1 Comments •
December 19, 2006
Category: Why Aren't You Reading This?
If you enjoy reading Inky Circus, then you are probably going to enjoy the latest endeavor from the women who bring you that blog. That is, Inkling Magazine - subtitled, "On the Hunch That Science Rocks!" I particular like this...
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Category: Manifestoes
The text is almost always more than just the text.
Posted by Zuska at 12:34 PM • 60 Comments •
December 18, 2006
Category: Friday Fare
Check out the Scienceblogger group portrait! It's clickable and it's cool! It also appears in the December/January issue of Seed Magazine, which you can get for free if you subscribe to Seed (thus getting 7 issues for the price of...
Posted by Zuska at 7:33 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Memes
It's the year in review, by taking the first sentence of the first blog post of each month.
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December 15, 2006
Category: Friday Fare
The weekend's entertainment slate is All-Darwin, All Weekend. Just in from Netflix is Inherit the Wind, which Mr. Zuska and I will view either this evening or Sunday evening. Saturday afternoon we are planning to visit the Darwin exhibit at...
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Category: Daily Struggles
razib has his head so far up his ass he can see his stomach.
Posted by Zuska at 12:33 AM • 63 Comments •
December 13, 2006
Category: Ministry of Science and Culture
...in the Right world, global warming does not exist.
Posted by Zuska at 11:15 AM • 13 Comments •
December 12, 2006
Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
There were nine penises on the Iraq Study Group, so bias clearly isn't an issue here.
Posted by Zuska at 7:09 PM • 7 Comments •
December 11, 2006
Category: Friday Fare
The Chronicle of Higher Education published a little tongue-in-cheek holiday gift guide in the December 8 issue. I really liked this item: the Scientific Integrity Calendar, published by the Union of Concerned Scientists and available at their website....
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Category: Role Models
today is Annie Jump Cannon's birthday
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December 10, 2006
Category: Friday Fare
Negative geekhood stereotypes abound - geek boys have no social skills. Geek girls are ugly. But The Onion has recently put forth a new, semi-positive geek stereotype. It seems that now, geekhood is a protection against addiction. Thanks to my...
Posted by Zuska at 4:19 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Conference Report
White papers from the WEPAN 2006 National Conference are now available on the web here. Papers available are: But, Engineering IS Cool - Effective Messaging for Pre-college Students Dump the Slump: Retaining Engineering Women into the 3rd Year Facilitating Success...
Posted by Zuska at 3:59 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Role Models
I'm one day late getting to this, but... ...Penny posted this comment on Let's All Have a Party! Posting this on the centenary of Grace Murray Hopper, born 9 December 1906. Math PhD from Yale in 1934, taught at Vassar...
Posted by Zuska at 3:32 PM • 0 Comments •
December 7, 2006
Category: Montreal Massacre
Others before me have noted that whenever the Montreal massacre is discussed, the shooter's name is always mentioned but the names of the murdered women rarely are ever mentioned. Let's take a minute just to recount their names and ages...
Posted by Zuska at 6:32 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Montreal Massacre
This is an "engineering disaster" that should be taught, just as the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse or the Challenger accident have become part of the engineering canon.
Posted by Zuska at 1:37 PM • 6 Comments •
December 6, 2006
Category: Report Roundup
The 28th Carnival of the Feminists is up at Diary of a Freak Magnet, and it's a tasty one. Yours truly has made the Carnival! Yay! That's fun. Go check it out. Lots and lots and lots of good stuff....
Posted by Zuska at 2:21 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Why There Are No Women in Science
The link is not between productivity and having children. It's between productivity and child care.
Posted by Zuska at 10:43 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Positive Actions
just like that - shazam! - blog traffic here tripled. Oh Mighty PZ, Zuska salutes you!
Posted by Zuska at 9:40 AM • 2 Comments •
December 4, 2006
Category: Daily Struggles
I curse him, as I curse every sexual harrasser, in the following manner:
Posted by Zuska at 9:25 PM • 39 Comments •
Category: Role Models
She would have been awarded its first doctoral degree, but MIT balked at granting this distinction to a woman
Posted by Zuska at 2:00 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Positive Actions
Yes, Zuska looks upon this idea and pronounces: Make it so.
Posted by Zuska at 1:36 PM • 73 Comments •
Category: Moron Management
It was a beautiful thing.
Posted by Zuska at 11:51 AM • 28 Comments •
Category: Sexual Harassment
You may know him now as the jerk-ass who allegedly sexually harassed his secretary
Posted by Zuska at 11:04 AM • 7 Comments •
