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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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Support the Mautner Project for Lesbians With Cancer! "The Mautner Project improves the health of lesbians, bisexual, and transgender women who partner with women, and their families, through advocacy, education, research, and direct service. [The Mautner Project envisions] a healthcare system that is guided by social justice and responsive to the needs of all people."

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October 29, 2007

Thank You For Your Generosity

Category: Donors Choose

Wow! I asked, and you responded. Thanks! My challenge is funded at 100%. That's $1500 (actually, a little more) impacting 345 schoolkids! You can still donate if you want to, even though my initial goal has been reached. There are...

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It Helps To Speak The Language When You're Thinking About Gender

Category: Daily Struggles

It's maddening that something as simple as how I wear my hair can be fraught with gender connotations.

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Just In Case You Can...

Category: Donors Choose

...the deadline for the end of the Donors Choose fund drive is rapidly approaching. I'm bummed that it looks like TSZ will not reach 100% of its funding goal. That means some potential matching funds will go unclaimed. I realize...

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How to Find Blogging on Peer-Reviewed Research

Category: Announcements

Dave Munger at Cognitive Daily introduced today a new set of icons that will help readers identify blogging on peer-reviewed research. You can find the full announcement below the fold, including info on where to find the icons, how to...

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October 27, 2007

Stuff I Read and Thought You'd Like

Category: Stereotypes We Know And Love

Some great posts on other blogs you may have missed reading: Language Log has a great critique of the new PBS show WordGirl, which I found via Fairer Science. If that's not enough to make you grind your teeth, then...

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Applying Interdisciplinary Meanings of Race

Category: Race Matters

Since Jim Watson's recent self-destruction, there's been a lot of talk about pseudo-scientific racism versus actual "scientific" studies of race. Earlier this summer, Lennard J. Davis had an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled A Grand Unified Theory...

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October 26, 2007

What A Non-Scientist Thinks About James Watson

Category: Race Matters

By now everyone knows that Jim Watson has resigned his position at CSHL. But the damage he's done will live on long afterwards. Consider this comment from a reader (emphasis added): As a non-scientist, I'd like to point out an...

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October 25, 2007

What You Need To Know About Community Colleges

Category: Resources

In case you are thinking of community colleges as your "safety" academic career, you might want to do some reading up on them to develop your understanding of their unique mission.

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October 24, 2007

When I Was Young, We Had To Compute Uphill, In The Snow....

Category: Geekalicious

Didn't you get something like this from your parents when you were younger? "You kids don't know how easy you have it. When I was young, I had to walk to school! In the snow! Uphill! Both ways!" Well, a...

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PZ, You've Seriously Disappointed Me

Category: Apologists for the Oppressors

PZ Myers is a really nice person and I love Pharyngula - I just spent a nice half hour reading it, and among other good stuff I encountered there was a link in this post to Robert Hooke's notebooks online....

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October 19, 2007

Parsing the Reactions to the Watson Imbroglio

Category: Apologists for the Oppressors

Academic freedom doesn't exist to benefit people who twist or ignore science to serve lies.

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Friday Bookshelf: "On Her Own Terms"

Category: Friday Bookshelf

This week's Friday Bookshelf is actually a repeat of a blog post from the old blog site. It begins with a question: Who was Annie Montague Alexander?...

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October 18, 2007

Your Photos Here...

Category: Announcements

Go forth and photograph, and send us the fruit of your digital labors!

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Science Museum Cancels Watson Visit

Category: Positive Actions

From the BBC News: The Science Museum has cancelled a talk by American DNA pioneer Dr James Watson after he claimed black people were less intelligent than white people...saying his views went "beyond the point of acceptable debate". Skills Minister...

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October 17, 2007

Pharyngula's Mutating Genre Meme Lands Here

Category: Geekalicious

The best high-carb food in Slavic cooking is the potato pierogie.

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Bush Administration Decides Birth Control Not a Health Care Issue

Category: Burns My Shorts

Fertility is not a disease, but it's a health issue.

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Watson to Africa: You're All Dumb

Category: Burns My Shorts

Jim Watson is a consummate ass. I don't care if he discovered the secret of life, the universe, and everything, he's still a misogynistic racist miserable S.O.B.

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October 16, 2007

Using Second LIfe for Something Other Than Virtual Sex

Category: Geekalicious

By way of the Chronicle News Blog...researchers are using a brain-computer interface to allow physically-impaired people move an avatar around in Second Life. The system consists of a headpiece equipped with electrodes that monitor activity in three areas of the...

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Watson Stoops to New Lows in Calling Franklin Autistic

Category: Burns My Shorts

Not, of course, that how he sees it bears any relationship to reality.

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October 15, 2007

Plant Anyway

Category: Daily Struggles

So, it's Blog Action Day, and we're all supposed to post something related to the environment. Science Woman has a very hopeful post about how "having a daughter has brought the idea of intergenerational responsibility into much sharper focus" for...

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October 14, 2007

A Reminder to Send Me a Copy of Your Donors Choose Receipt

Category: Announcements

I just want to remind those of you who have donated and those of you who might be thinking of donating to Donors Choose, that if you want to receive your nifty Women in Math and Science magnet AND have...

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October 12, 2007

Eight Generous Readers

Category: Donors Choose

So eight of you, besides me, so far, think that Donors Choose is a worthy cause. The generous eight have had an impact on 305 students! (See the Leaderboard for details.) Anybody else? Also, remember the cool prizes available if...

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"Study Finds Men, Women Pretty Much The Same"

Category: Why Aren't You Reading This?

I love it. You must read this book review in the TimesOnline (found via Arts & Letters Daily) of Deborah Cameron's The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages? Commenting on Cameron's take on...

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Kudos to the Al - and the Nobel Committee

Category: Geekalicious

By now you've no doubt heard that Al Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I must confess that this announcement gives me no small degree of schadenfreude when I think...

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October 11, 2007

Note to Self: Remember Next Scientiae (And That Includes The Guys)

Category: Announcements

Yami includes this very reasonable request to all you dude bloggers:

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Seed Offers Fab Prizes If You Cough Up $$ For Donors Choose!!!

Category: Announcements

Apparently the shabby prizes I am offering are not enough to entice very many of you to donate to Donors Choose. But perhaps you will perk up and open your wallets when you see what Seed is giving away to...

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October 10, 2007

Scholarships for "Special" People, Redux

Category: Isn't It Ironic?

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, Home-Schooled Students Rise in Supply and Demand: "Home schooling often really allows students to develop a passion," says Sabena Moretz, associate director of admissions at Richmond. "With a traditional high school, most of the...

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October 9, 2007

Would You Like To Stretch Your Donors Choose Dollars?

Category: Announcements

I know I would. So how do you do that? Well, Seed Media Group will help you by matching your donation. The first $15,000 in donations made through the Scienceblogs Challenge will be matched by Seed Media Group through its...

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MentorNet Has A New Blog

Category: Announcements

MentorNet, the premier e-mentoring organization, has recently launched the MentorNet Blog. Mary Fernandez tells us in the inaugural entry: In this blog, I plan to explore the inspiring, unexpected, and exciting reasons to choose a STEM career, and I am...

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October 8, 2007

How Do You Find Part-Time Work In Science?

Category: Daily Struggles

How do you maintain a career in science when you can't work full-time?

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Some New Proposals On My Donors Choose Challenge

Category: Announcements

Thanks to those of you who have donated so far! You've helped get the TSZ challenge to 39% of fulfillment! The way Donors Choose works, more than one person can add a proposal to a challenge, and/or individuals could choose...

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Vote For Shelley For the 2007 Blogging Scholarship!

Category: Announcements

So it seems there's a $10,000 blogging scholarship, and ScienceBlog's own Shelley Batts has made the cut! (Second year in a row!) She's one of 20 finalists and, I believe, the only science blogger among the 20. And she could...

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October 5, 2007

Friday Bookshelf: The Best American Science Writing 2007

Category: Friday Bookshelf

What does it take to be included in The Best Science Writing 2007? Well, it helps if you write for the New Yorker or the New York Times. Eleven of 20 contributions selected for this volume originally appeared in the...

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All the Soda Pop You Can Drink - But Don't Tell Anyone

Category: Friday Fare

I spent a lot of time on airplanes in the last few weeks, and so I spent a lot of time reading in-flight magazines. Southwest's Spirit is not so bad. In the pages of the September edition I learned about...

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Can You Believe They Gave That Much Already?!?!

Category: Announcements

Dr. Free-Ride has provided a nice summary of how the Science Bloggers' Challenge for Donors Choose is going so far. And can you believe those readers over at Mike Dunford's blog? They've already maxed out his challenge! And you all...

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October 4, 2007

October Scientiae is Here !

Category: Announcements

Skookumchick offers up a devastating dissection of a mentoring workshop she was required to attend...

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October 1, 2007

Welcome, Sciencewoman!

Category: Announcements

Probably you've already noticed that Sciencewoman has joined the gang here at ScienceBlogs! Her first post here was on Sept. 20th, which was while I was off traveling with my mom. Helping my mom navigate through her vacation absorbed nearly...

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How can I bribe you to contribute to Donors Choose?

Category: Donors Choose

So, I see that sly Dr. Free-Ride is bribing her readers with promises of poems and original artwork from the sprogs and writing blog entries on the topic of their choice if only they will contribute to Donors Choose. Very...

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You can help teachers create a more scientifically literate society by participating in Donors Choose!

Category: Donors Choose

I wasn't a part of ScienceBlogs yet last June for the first Donors Choose fund-raiser, but I sure am glad to be able to participate this year. If you haven't heard of Donors Choose, here's a quick description: DonorsChoose.org is...

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