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Everything Old Is New Again: ZOMFG!!! Ads Influence Our Media!
Posted by Zuska on July 7, 2010 By now, perhaps, you are aware of the uproar about the ScienceBlogs corner of the bloggysphere. PepsiCo has bought started a blog here, called Food Frontiers. Many are unhappy, bloggers and commenters alike. Read PalMD’s take, and commenters there, for one perspective. One of the potential disadvantages [of a blog network] is advertising and sponsorship.…
Work-Life Balance 3: Less Navel-Gazing, More Scholarly And Institutional Structure Analysis!
Posted by Zuska on June 23, 2010 First post in this series can be found here. Second post in this series can be found here. In my second post in this series, I gave the men a cookie, and commenter rpf accused me of…gasp!…being too nice! I believe this is the first time this has ever happened.
Work-Life Balance 2: On Stepping Up To The Plate
Posted by Zuska on June 18, 2010 First post in this series can be found here. The third and final post in this series can be found here. ScientistMother really wants DrugMonkey to step up to the plate already. She says that DM laid out his own responsibility to deal, on-blog, with work-life balance issues and to share the details of how…
An Explanatory Note
Posted by Zuska on June 4, 2010 I have put in (literally) decades of work acting on the assumption that folks are reasonable and well-intentioned, and trying to be effective and get messages across. Part of that time I was even paid to do so. IRL, for the most part, I try to interact with people like that. However, I’m sick to…
Give the “Witch Hunt” Whine a Rest Already, Please
Posted by Zuska on June 2, 2010 Jeebus, people, you have GOT to get some new whiney whines, you Whiney McWhinersons. I’m talking about you, you whiney whiners. Those of you who get all whiney and defensive whenever anyone dares to point out that you have stepped in the dogshit. Stepping in dogshit is an accident and it is something that all…
Whatever Happened To “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar”?????
Posted by Zuska on April 6, 2010 I was catching up on reading at Female Science Professor’s place and came across her post: Women Girls. FSP, as far as I can tell, seems to be saying that the young ones these days are all hip with the term “girl” for women even into their 30′s because…I don’t know why, it’s a peer…
You Femsplainers Just See Sexism Everywhere
Posted by Zuska on March 14, 2010 Over at the mansplaining thread, you can read literally hundreds of hilarious, annoying, frustrating, heartbreaking stories of how women are constantly subjected to intrusive, incessant, insensitive, inane mansplaining. Interspersed you will also find comments from d00dly d00ds whinging away about how awful it is that women are talking so MEAN about men, and their mansplanations…
Things You Just Shouldn’t Say Even If You Mean Well
Posted by Zuska on January 12, 2010 I’m speaking from experience, people, having had most of these lobbed at me one time or another. Please feel free to add to the list in the comments section. 1. “When is the baby due?” I’m not pregnant, you douchebag. I’m fat. If I were pregnant, I’d probably be prancing around telling everyone and her…
Thinking Again About The Production of Genius
Posted by Zuska on August 15, 2009 I am a fan of Oliver Sacks, and will read just about anything he has written – though, interestingly enough, I find myself so far unable to make my way through Migraine. Perhaps this has something to do with the cover illustration of a mosaic aura, which twice induced an aura (scintillating fortification) and subsequent…
The Problem of the Problem of Motherhood in Science
Posted by Zuska on March 21, 2009 Over at Fairer Science, at the end of an excellent rant about the uselessness of one-shot workshops, Pat Campbell writes: One other thing, if I see one more article about why there aren’t more women in science that concludes “it’s the children” I am going to run amuck. This one says “Women don’t choose careers…