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attackeng.jpg 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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The place where I come from...is a small town. Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains

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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.

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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.

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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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August 31, 2007

Migraine Delays

Category: Announcements

Just a very short post to tell you all that I've had migraine all day, and am still headachy. Which means no Friday Bookshelf today (maybe tomorrow) and quite possible a delay in Scientiae. I doubt I will get it...

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August 30, 2007

The Caveman Mystique

Category: Manly Men

Alert reader Linda Carpenter has given me a heads-up about a forthcoming book that is a "take down of ev-psych style cave-masculinity". Ooh, that sounds tasty! The book is The Caveman Mystique: Pop-Darwinism and the Debates Over Sex, Violence, and...

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Post Full of Semi-Random Links

Category: What They're Saying

Perusing Google Reader tonight, and here are some items of note: Absinthe seems to be in a bad way, at least as regards blogging and the blogosphere. Doesn't seem to be much we can do to cheer her or change...

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Those Furious Women

Category: Naming Experience

As a graduate student at MIT, my daily commute took me past a construction site bordered by the sort of concrete dividers you see along highways. It was a pretty long stretch of concrete dividers, and on it someone had...

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August 29, 2007

NIH On Diversity & Child Care

Category: Announcements

By way of the Chronicle news blog: The National Institutes of Health has released new guidance about its policies on diversity and on child care. One set of guidelines, or "frequently asked questions," released Friday, concerns the NIH's efforts to...

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August 28, 2007

Comment Contest on ScienceBlogs

Category: Announcements

Maybe by now you've noticed the new box at the top of the comments, just below every post, asking you to enter the ScienceBlogs 500,000th comment contest. You have to submit your email address with your comment to be entered....

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August 25, 2007

Sweating in Gettysburg

Category: Friday Fare

I'm supposed to be enjoying the music at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival this afternoon. But it's a hundred and ten, hundred and ten in the shade. And I don't know if I can even drag my ass out there for...

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August 24, 2007

No Friday Bookshelf Again

Category: Announcements

There was no Friday Bookshelf last week because I was in NYC having a good time, I mean discussing science and such with the Scibling crew. This week I am in Gettysburg for the Bluegrass Festival, so no Bookshelf again....

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They're Younger Every Year...

Category: Friday Fare

Thanks to the Chronicle for pointing me to Beloit College's annual Mind-Set List, which reminds us just how out of touch we old fogies are with this year's crop of first-year students. As the Chronicle notes: The Mind-Set List draws...

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August 22, 2007

Has It Really Been A Year?

Category: Announcements

So, Happy Blogiversary to me! One year ago today I officially started blogging here at Science Blogs. Here's my incredibly dull first entry. Although I did use the word "penis" in it. By the way, this is also my 300th...

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The Importance of Leadership

Category: Daily Struggles

It isn't enough to merely abstain from attending the cock-fight, so to speak.

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The Biology of Pink

Category: Burns My Shorts

Perhaps you don't remember an entry I wrote about a year ago titled Pink Is For Boys, Blue Is For Girls. I linked to a Fairer Science post that was debunking a Times Online editorial suggesting girls had a biologically...

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Don't Forget Scientiae and Open Lab!

Category: Announcements

The end of the month is creeping up on you, faster than you think. So doggone it, get your post for the Sept. 1 Scientiae carnival written and submitted! Or at least start thinking about procrastinating writing it. Remember the...

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August 20, 2007

Female-Friendly Physics Departments

Category: Announcements

You must read what Pat has to say about APS's CSWP compiling a list of female-friendly physics departments.

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What Graduate Students Are For

Category: Ludicrous Language

The cannon fodder of science.

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Sciblings In NYC Bars: More Photo Evidence

Category: Friday Fare

You know, bad karaoke can happen to good Sciblings. But however distressing some people might find the proceedings, other people will always blend tastefully with the surroundings. Kevin and Karmen just sat back and took it all in. As Chris...

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So Just What Is Nature Doing???

Category: Burns My Shorts

This is puzzling...surely if Nature had already updated its mission statement, it would not need to write an editorial about updating its mission statement, right?

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August 19, 2007

Sciblings With Bogie

Category: Friday Fare

Sciblings in NYC....we came, we met, we ate and drank, we talked nonstop, thanks to Seed and Adam Bly. I did not puke on Adam Bly's shoes after all. He is a very nice guy. And has a beautiful home...

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Men [Sick]

Category: Apologists for the Oppressors

Scientist, you see , actually means "men of science".

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August 16, 2007

Nature Sticks One Toe In the Early 20th Century

Category: Burns My Shorts

...physicists are studying how Nature has managed to warp the space-time continuum...

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Title IX and Your Toilets

Category: Naming Experience

who knew???

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August 15, 2007

Female Science Professor's Scary Stories

Category: Daily Struggles

We learn our gender politics early and often, and in the strangest of places.

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August 14, 2007

Tell Me Your Barbie Story

Category: Naming Experience

G.I. Joe rampaged through the prom with his gun and took Barbie hostage.

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August 13, 2007

Alternative Pathways and Activist Scientists: Recommended Reading

Category: Why Aren't You Reading This?

Benjamin Cohen at The World's Fair has an excellent post up that should interest many readers of this blog. It is an interview with David Hess, author of Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry: Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in...

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Debbie Does Laundry

Category: Burns My Shorts

Yes, global warming be damned, no technology is too expensive for Debbie to get back to simpler times and fresher scents.

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August 11, 2007

Where Am I Supposed To Put This Bloody Thing?

Category: Daily Struggles

Where, indeed, did those women go to answer nature's call all those years when the buildings had few or no women's restrooms?

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August 10, 2007

Friday Bookshelf: Triangulating Women in Math

Category: Friday Bookshelf

Three for the price of one in this week's Friday Bookshelf! Which maybe makes up a little for the complete lack of a Friday Bookshelf last week. First up is Lynn M. Osen's classic, originally published in 1974 and simply...

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August 9, 2007

The Permafrost Is Releasing Methane Now?

Category: Totally Freaked

I read this article in the LA Times about Russians racing to claim the seabed under the Arctic ice as their territory, other nations fussing that it's really theirs, and everybody ignoring that the only way they can even have...

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Why Condoleezza Is More Electable Than Hillary Or Barack

Category: The Occasional Post on National Politics

It's not that people walk into the voting booth and say "no way I'm voting for a woman!"

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August 8, 2007

Thanks For The Banners

Category: Announcements

I just wanted to take a minute to explicitly thank the two readers who created the nifty new banners you've been seeing here at TSZ. The banner on the main page was created by Alexis and the banner on the...

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Women Swarm Nation's Technical Campuses

Category: Stereotypes We Know And Love

Why, wastecans all over campus will be full of used menstrual pads and tampons!

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August 6, 2007

Next Scientiae Will Be Here and the Topic Is...

Category: Announcements

Does something make you so angry you think it might just destroy the world if you let it out?

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August 3, 2007

August Scientiae Is Up!

Category: Why Aren't You Reading This?

The latest Scientiae is up over at Twice's place. Haven't browsed through it all yet, but it's always good reading, so go read!...

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A Bit of Feminist Humor

Category: Friday Fare

Oh, the mighty struggle of sperm to fertilize egg!

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