Announcements:
Planning to be in/around/near New York City on August 9, 2008? There's a reader-Scienceblogger meet-up event in the works, being planned even as you read this, probably for around 3 pm. We'd like to know whether you think you'll be...
Posted on July 22, 2008 2:16 PM • 3 Comments •
Hello, dear readers...if there are any of you left...I've been away for a week taking care of mom, plus the usual migraine breaks...back home now, and hoping to get back in the blogging groove asap. Meanwhile, Physioprof is off guest-blogging...
Posted on July 16, 2008 10:11 PM • 9 Comments •
What, if anything, holds you back from a full-on sprawl?
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Posted on May 19, 2008 5:03 PM • 2 Comments •
This is a bit of a late announcement, but I thought some of you might like to play. See full announcement here. For the next issue, Seed editors want to see the typical or not-so-typical places where Scienceblogs readers do...
Posted on May 11, 2008 7:01 PM • 2 Comments •
Greetings, Gentle Readers. I just rescued a number of comments from hang-up in moderation. No idea why most of them got moderated - they didn't even have links in them. Some of them were made many days ago. I want...
Posted on April 25, 2008 8:05 PM • 4 Comments •
From my email inbox: information about AWIS coaching seminars. Two dates, four times, 45 minutes in length, details after the jump....
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Posted on April 8, 2008 3:12 PM • 1 Comments •
...talking about gender and science is also not up for negotiation.
Posted on April 7, 2008 5:44 PM • 21 Comments •
I've mentioned Kay Weber and her lawsuit against Fermilab on this blog before. Sherry Towers forwarded an email to me that gives an update on Kay's situation:...
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Posted on April 3, 2008 6:00 PM • 4 Comments •
Lucky for Scienceblogs - Jane of See Jane Compute has just moved in with us! Scienceblogs has really needed someone from a computer science/engineering perspective. I am thrilled to pieces that she has signed on....
Posted on March 6, 2008 5:26 PM • 0 Comments •
Bora has posted an interview with me at A Blog Around the Clock. See here for all the interviews in the series. He keeps adding new ones so check back now and then. Via the Chronicle news blog, I found...
Posted on March 6, 2008 3:03 PM • 2 Comments •
Maria told me about WOC PhD. A link in this post led me to the Feminist Studies Collections: Women of Color & Women Worldwide pages, from which I hopped to the Women of Color page from the Wisconsin Women's Studies...
Posted on March 5, 2008 6:41 PM • 0 Comments •
Abel Pharmboy reports on inaccuracies in breast cancer websites: So it was no surprise to me and actually quite alarming to read a recent report suggesting that while only 1 in 20 breast cancer websites offer incorrect information, CAM-focused [CAM...
Posted on February 14, 2008 6:59 PM • 2 Comments •
Here's the word, from Sheril at The Intersection - and the word is exciting! For months everyone has been asking us, when will there be an invitation sent to candidates...a date... a venue... Well it's finally happened! It's official. Hillary...
Posted on February 11, 2008 8:42 PM • 2 Comments •
It has been difficult to get back into a regular rhythm of blogging after all the time off when I was dealing with stuff for my mom. I think all that took more of a toll on me than I...
Posted on February 11, 2008 3:49 PM • 2 Comments •
February is turning out to be quite a great month at Scienceblogs! Welcome, welcome, welcome, Alice Pawley, now co-blogging with Sciencewoman! Alice "wants to be a feminist-but-tenured professor when she grows up". I say, why grow up? except for the...
Posted on February 11, 2008 3:35 PM • 1 Comments •
Hooray! Hooray! Green Gabbro joins Scienceblogs today! Welcome, Maria!...
Posted on February 1, 2008 3:02 PM • 0 Comments •
Hooray! I have some new Sciblings! Drugmonkey and Physioprof are now co-blogging at Scienceblogs. Visit them here and tell them how happy you are they joined Sb. Check out this excellent post Science Pays: This brings today's discussion around to...
Posted on January 27, 2008 1:57 AM • 2 Comments •
Karen Ventii has posted information about how to join our session online at the conference wiki. Here's the details: [The Gender and Race in Science Blogging] session will be broadcast LIVE on Saturday January 19 at 11am on Ustream.tv. Please...
Posted on January 17, 2008 4:33 PM • 0 Comments •
I finally had a chance to check in and I discovered three comments languishing in the junk folder, waiting for me to promote them to publication. A few were weeks old. I'm really sorry about that. I'm involved in a...
Posted on December 2, 2007 8:23 PM • 8 Comments •
Hi folks. Just wanted to say that blogging's going to be a bit thin in the next few weeks. Got some family health issues I have to deal with. I don't know how long this will take to sort out,...
Posted on November 8, 2007 2:13 PM • 1 Comments •
October has come and gone, and the Scienceblogs Donors Choose Challenge is over. You helped TSZ raise $1500 of a total $54,335 from all Scienceblogs challenges. That plus the $15,000 matching funds from Seed brings the total amount raised for...
Posted on November 4, 2007 10:08 PM • 0 Comments •
Yes, it's November 1, and that means Scientiae time! Over at Yami's place, Green Gabbro. I begged and begged my fellow male Sciblings to take up Yami's challenge and participate in this Scientiae, and two - count 'em, two! -...
Posted on November 1, 2007 2:24 PM • 0 Comments •
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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Posted on October 29, 2007 12:38 PM • 0 Comments •
Go forth and photograph, and send us the fruit of your digital labors!
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Posted on October 18, 2007 6:35 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted on October 14, 2007 9:44 AM • 0 Comments •
Yami includes this very reasonable request to all you dude bloggers:
Posted on October 11, 2007 6:40 PM • 0 Comments •
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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Posted on October 11, 2007 5:04 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted on October 9, 2007 2:01 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted on October 9, 2007 1:40 PM • 0 Comments •
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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Posted on October 8, 2007 6:25 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted on October 8, 2007 5:29 PM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted on October 5, 2007 2:36 PM • 0 Comments •
Skookumchick offers up a devastating dissection of a mentoring workshop she was required to attend...
Posted on October 4, 2007 2:23 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted on October 1, 2007 7:20 PM • 2 Comments •
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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Posted on October 1, 2007 6:46 PM • 6 Comments •
From the Chronicle News Blog... ...it will be 25 years ago tomorrow that Mr. Fahlman, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, invented the digital smiley face. After a colleague joked about a contaminated elevator on an electronic...
Posted on September 19, 2007 10:52 AM • 0 Comments •
There's a wonderful three-part interview with Shobita Parthasarathy, author of Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care , over at The World's Fair. The interview is broken up into three parts: Part 1, Part...
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Posted on September 12, 2007 3:20 PM • 0 Comments •
I saw this advertised in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Color and Money: How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War Over College Affirmative Action, by Peter Schmidt. Schmidt is a deputy editor at the Chronicle. I don't have a...
Posted on September 10, 2007 4:42 PM • 0 Comments •
You may notice I've modified the blog so that comments are now numbered. This may be helpful in responding to various comments in a thread, especially if the threads get long. Thanks to PZ Myers for sharing his nifty code!...
Posted on September 10, 2007 3:31 PM • 1 Comments •
The 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference (organized by ScienceBlog's very own Bora Zivkovic) is fast approaching. Karen Ventii and I will be co-chairing a 1 hour session tentatively called "Exploring Women in Science Blogging". (This announcement also appears on...
Posted on September 7, 2007 12:33 AM • 3 Comments •
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...
Posted on August 31, 2007 4:58 PM • 2 Comments •
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...
Posted on August 29, 2007 4:25 PM • 1 Comments •
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....
Posted on August 28, 2007 6:11 PM • 4 Comments •
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....
Posted on August 24, 2007 2:03 PM • 0 Comments •
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....
Posted on August 24, 2007 2:03 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted on August 22, 2007 3:32 PM • 7 Comments •
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...
Posted on August 22, 2007 2:47 PM • 2 Comments •
You must read what Pat has to say about APS's CSWP compiling a list of female-friendly physics departments.
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Posted on August 20, 2007 7:41 PM • 6 Comments •
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...
Posted on August 8, 2007 5:32 PM • 2 Comments •
Does something make you so angry you think it might just destroy the world if you let it out?
Posted on August 6, 2007 3:59 PM • 0 Comments •
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!...
Posted on August 3, 2007 12:28 PM • 0 Comments •
Oh god, let us never forget the men and their problems.
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Posted on July 31, 2007 9:14 AM • 9 Comments •
You may notice over the next few days some changes in the banner head. Two readers sent me their creations for a new TSZ banner and I am going to be trying them out to see how I like them...
Posted on July 24, 2007 2:18 PM • 0 Comments •
...young girls especially want to know the ways in which a scientist or engineer has a "normal" life...
Posted on July 19, 2007 3:41 PM • 4 Comments •
Now why didn't I order a copy from some nefarious online site?????
Posted on July 18, 2007 11:50 PM • 6 Comments •
Well, the White House finally got around to naming the winners of the 2006 National Medals of Science. Of the 11 winners named, two - count 'em, two! - are actually women! Rita Colwell and Nina Federoff made the cut....
Posted on July 18, 2007 2:32 PM • 6 Comments •
Study results will help guide efforts to increase the number of women entering the IT field.
Posted on July 18, 2007 12:15 PM • 1 Comments •
Here's something very cool: an award in physics that went to the groups, not to just the bigwigs who lead the group. It's call the Gruber Prize in Cosmology. Rob Knop writes about it: What to me is coolest about...
Posted on July 17, 2007 6:02 PM • 0 Comments •
Ah, one last announcement for the day. We have a new blogger in Scienceblogs-land. Moheb Costandi joined us July 1 and is blogging at Neurophilosophy. And apparently he has 5 different nifty rotating banners on his blog header. Ah, if...
Posted on July 9, 2007 7:35 PM • 12 Comments •
I think this is the last announcement for the day. Do yinz know about Seed magazine? No? You're not reading it? Well, if you subscribe right now you get a totally cool Scienceblogs mug for FREE! If you're seeing a...
Posted on July 9, 2007 12:44 PM • 1 Comments •
Perhaps you've noticed something new on the sidebar at right... ScienceBlogs is conducting its first-ever reader survey. One lucky respondent will win an iPod nano. But the real winner will be, well, ScienceBlogs, since we're going to use what we...
Posted on July 9, 2007 12:24 PM • 0 Comments •
Bora at A Blog Around the Clock managed to land an interview with presidential candidate Senator John Edwards! You can read it over at his pad here. Eight questions on the senator's views on science and science policy issues -...
Posted on July 9, 2007 12:02 PM • 0 Comments •
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.
