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It’s Difficult To Talk About Diversity When You Feel Ignorant And Are Afraid To Give Offense
Posted by Zuska on March 1, 2009 Well, February has come and gone, Black History Month is over for another year, and we’ve had the first round of the Diversity in Science carnival. I am sure some of you who blog may have thought about contributing to this carnival but didn’t for a variety of reasons. Maybe, like me, you had family…
Big Ideas: Understanding Versus Explaining
Posted by Zuska on December 18, 2008 Over at Adventures in Ethics and Science, Janet Stemwedel has written a fabulously complex post about ethics and population, which I highly recommend for your reading pleasure and contemplation. It was inspired by a post by Martin on the ethics of overpopulation, in which he offered a grand and simple three-point manifesto:
The Proper Way To Be A Woman In Science
Posted by Zuska on November 14, 2008 Though university administrators seem to be widely reviled among faculty members, one of the best jobs I ever had was in administration. Many wonderful opportunities came my way; possibly the most mind-stretching, exhilarating, and rewarding of these was the chance to spend four weeks attending the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, held…
What’s Wrong With These Scholarships?
Posted by Zuska on October 14, 2008 Janet at Adventures in Ethics and Science writes about prizes for women: 2008 is the tenth year of the L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science awards to remarkable female scientists from around the world. Indeed, our sister-site, ScienceBlogs.de, covered this year’s award ceremony and is celebrating women in science more generally with a For Women in…
Kadath’s Sound Advice To The Lovelorn
Posted by Zuska on October 3, 2008 When this first came up, I thought it was really outside the scope of my blog. But then I thought about all those stories you hear about women on tech campuses getting “glommed” by clueless nerd boys. I remembered dating catastrophes and tragicomedies from my own undergraduate days, a hundred years ago. And I thought,…
A Reply to Dr. Isis
Posted by Zuska on September 24, 2008 A warning: if you are a survivor of sexual assault you may just want to skip this post and the ensuing ugly comment thread it is sure to engender. A week or so ago the redoubtable Dr. Isis wrote an open letter to me. In part she wrote: The pragmatic part of me wants to…
Women and Their Sexy Hawt Bodies: Reprise
Posted by Zuska on September 10, 2008 So, to recap: A couple of women are having a conversation, and the topic turns to tit-ogling. “No one should be staring at my tits in the workplace,” they all agree. “That makes me uncomfortable, creates a hostile work environment, and constitutes sexual harassment! How difficult is it to look at my eyes? Staring and…
Talking Back to Conservatives About Title IX and Science
Posted by Zuska on July 29, 2008 You all may be aware of the moronically stupid column by John Tierney that ran in the NY Times recently, an opinion piece disguised as reporting. I haven’t had a chance yet to give my own response to this piece of tripe, or to show you how it is but one more piece in Christina…
Know Thine Enemy
Posted by Zuska on June 30, 2008 Kylie at Podblack asks, for the next Scientiae, “A voice in the crowd” – are you heard? How are you heard? Are you one of a team that works as a choir or does discordance rule the roost?…who really has control of the megaphone? Heh. How am I heard? Depends greatly upon the listener, and…
Why I Do Blog
Posted by Zuska on June 23, 2008 After my last post, Magetoo asks why do I blog? Poor Alison does not understand why I blog at all, being as I am so very bitter and angry, which I suppose we can classify under #8 in my newly numbered list of reasons why I shouldn’t blog, with a dollop of #7 and #9.…