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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.
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Of course you want to read great women-and-science related blogs. Where to find them? Try the great blogrolls at:
- Sciencewomen
- Scientiae
- Women in Science
At Women in Science, the blogs are categorized by background of the blogger and/or blog topic. You'll also want to read the Scientiae carnivals - you'll frequently discover new and interesting blogs that way. You could check outLet's All Have A Party! for a list of birthdays of notable women in science and engineering - additions courtesy of Penny! Thanks, Penny! Or, you could visit Women in Science and check the nifty calendar widget there, courtesy of the Google calendar created by Miss Prism!
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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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Apologists for the Oppressors:
The National Association of Scholars, in its tireless quest to have the little-noted perspective of the white man represented in our nation's colleges and universities, has succeeded in getting a pet project funded via the Higher Education Act reauthorization. As...
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Posted on August 6, 2008 2:36 PM • 5 Comments •
Reasons why I should not blog (or at least, why no one should pay attention to me):
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Posted on June 19, 2008 2:10 PM • 24 Comments •
New Boss should be deeply ashamed of being such a retrograde defender of the patriarchy.
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Posted on May 12, 2008 2:25 PM • 24 Comments •
In the face of that, I have to seriously ask myself if I should stick with Scienceblogs.
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Posted on February 12, 2008 12:46 PM • 24 Comments •
Here we are in 2007, and you can be an associate dean at a prestigious institution of higher education, and still be completely clueless about campus sexual harassment policy and its legal implications.
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Posted on November 1, 2007 3:15 PM • 9 Comments •
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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Posted on October 24, 2007 9:04 PM • 11 Comments •
Academic freedom doesn't exist to benefit people who twist or ignore science to serve lies.
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Posted on October 19, 2007 6:53 PM • 37 Comments •
Fertility is not a disease, but it's a health issue.
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Posted on October 17, 2007 5:45 PM • 7 Comments •
Scientist, you see , actually means "men of science".
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Posted on August 19, 2007 8:36 PM • 14 Comments •
...physicists are studying how
Nature has managed to warp the space-time continuum...
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Posted on August 16, 2007 7:54 PM • 22 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 •
Maybe this is why there's such a strong myth that hot women don't do science.
Posted on June 29, 2007 5:18 PM • 5 Comments •
Do girly-girl names doom her to a life without math and science?
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Posted on June 19, 2007 8:11 PM • 15 Comments •
It's either this, or all gardening and no blogging.
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Go right ahead, discriminate your hearts out.
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Posted on June 11, 2007 6:38 PM • 63 Comments •
Everything can be blamed on the kids!
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Posted on June 6, 2007 8:55 PM • 73 Comments •
Hah hah hah, "big bang", get it? like the theory, and like, "bang" a chick?
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Posted on May 22, 2007 5:52 PM • 52 Comments •
Bora pointed me to a post at The Phineas Gage Fan Club about an undergraduate student in Sweden who has been rather severely punished by her university for appearing naked in the pages of a "lad mag". The department demanded...
Posted on May 22, 2007 3:52 PM • 7 Comments •
It sucks to see the press doing gender bias work for the physicists.
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Posted on May 7, 2007 11:01 PM • 15 Comments •
This is evil in so many ways I can't even begin to describe it.
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Posted on April 24, 2007 5:22 PM • 27 Comments •
I find all of this incredibly appalling - but not surprising.
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Posted on February 26, 2007 4:44 PM • 8 Comments •
She has great tits! And she's an engineer.
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Posted on February 11, 2007 10:59 AM • 8 Comments •
Writing about the intimate and personal lives of women geeks, and putting that writing into the hands of young girls, is a political act
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Posted on January 16, 2007 4:55 PM • 24 Comments •
There were nine
penises on the Iraq Study Group, so bias clearly isn't an issue here.
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Posted on December 12, 2006 7:09 PM • 7 Comments •
You may know him now as the jerk-ass who allegedly sexually harassed his secretary
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Posted on December 4, 2006 11:04 AM • 7 Comments •
perhaps she has not yet had a lot of experience with complicated graphics.
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Posted on November 21, 2006 2:11 PM • 5 Comments •
Normally I think one should be a bit gentle with the young un's, as they are still not fully formed and their thinking has not developed much complexity. They haven't had a lot of experience; you have to give them...
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Posted on November 17, 2006 4:35 PM • 27 Comments •
