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Archives for August, 2008
Sexual Metaphors at Hacker Camp
Posted by Zuska on August 5, 2008 In the past it’s not been my practice to read the business section of the newspaper but lately I’ve been paying more attention to it. Sunday, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s business section featured an article I just couldn’t resist: Hacker Camp: Computer programmers get to play attacker in order to learn how to do security better.…
It’s SO Not Fair For You Women To Hang Out Together!
Posted by Zuska on August 5, 2008 Jenny F. Scientist reports the following: Recently, three women joined my lab, more than doubling the female population. (Just in time for me to leave.) There was instant bonding, which I had only seen before among married postdocs or among single grad students. But it is lovely to have other women about. We go to…
An Easy Opportunity to Help Out Donors Choose
Posted by Zuska on August 4, 2008 For those of you who participated in last fall’s Donors Choose challenge – and those of you who didn’t! – here is a painless way to help out a really worthy cause. A media website Seed digs called BigThink is in the middle of a DonorsChoose drive, and Seed has agreed to help them out.…
ScienceBlogger Meetup Location Changed!!!
Posted by Zuska on August 4, 2008 Please note, if you were planning to attend the ScienceBlogger meetup in New York City this coming Saturday, the location has changed. Here are the details about the new location: The new spot will be at a bar on the west side called Social. Seed has reserved a room in the back, and it’s three…
New Blogroll, Sort Of
Posted by Zuska on August 4, 2008 During my time as a blogger, I have discovered that I am lousy at one of a blogger’s sacred chores: maintaining the blogroll. The ideal of what my blogroll would be is perhaps best exemplified by Janet’s at Adventures in Ethics and Science, or Peggy’s at Women in Science. The sad reality, of course, was…
Stereotype Threat in a Real-Life Setting
Posted by Zuska on August 4, 2008 A great post at eduwonkette looks at gender and stereotype threat in math performance. Stereotype threat has been well-documented in “laboratory” settings, but eduwonkette reports on a study in a real-life setting: These men and women were, by all accounts, in the pipeline for math and science careers. Students in the “gender nullifying” treatment read…
ScienceBlogger Meetup This Saturday
Posted by Zuska on August 3, 2008 I believe there was at least one of my readers who expressed an interest in attending this Saturday’s ScienceBlogger meetup in New York City – Falyne? Still planning to attend? Maybe there are more of you and you just didn’t speak up? I know there are many people who are primarily readers of other blogs…
Normative Heterosexuality In ScienceLand
Posted by Zuska on August 1, 2008 Female Science Professor has a great Q&A post, So They Had To Hire A Woman. Here’s a sample: Question: So you’re going to get a Ph.D.? Couldn’t you find anyone to marry you? Answer 1: Why would I want to get married when so many men are just like you? Answer 2: That’s right, and…