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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…
An Example of On-The-Spot Networking/Mentoring
Posted by Zuska on February 26, 2009 Over at Sciencewomen, Alice has a post up on the topic of colleagiality that includes the story of a casual encounter with a very nice outcome:
Seed’s “Rightful Place” Project
Posted by Zuska on January 28, 2009 Perhaps you have noticed our newly redesigned front page, and on that page, a link to the Rightful Place Project. In his inaugural address, President Obama promised to restore science to its “rightful place”. Seed Media Group is starting a dialog in response, asking the question “What is science’s rightful place?”, through Seed Magazine and…
Good Topics for Future Research – And How You Find Them
Posted by Zuska on December 27, 2008 It drives me nuts that there are so many great articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education – behind a paywall, where you can’t see them unless you have a subscription. The December 19th issue had a great essay, In Search of New Frontiers: How Scholars Generate Ideas. If you have a subscription, that link…
Earth Science, With Kids
Posted by Zuska on November 11, 2008 Late last month the Chronicle ran a neat piece in its Careers section, titled Mothers in the Field. It’s not behind a paywall – yay! Joan Ramage Macdonald, assistant professor of geology at Lehigh University, and Maura E. Sullivan, PhD candidate in ecology at the same university, write about their experiences taking their young children…
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,…
2008 ScienceBlogs DonorsChoose Challenge: Support Teacher Proposals, Help the Kids!
Posted by Zuska on October 1, 2008 It’s October, and that means it’s DonorsChoose time again! ScienceBlogs bloggers are, once again, participating in the DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge. Basically, we ask you, our readers, to help public school teachers across the U.S. fund proposals for classroom supplies, activities, and field trips. It’s a shame we have to ask at all, but our nation’s…
Guide to Tenure for Black Academics
Posted by Zuska on August 14, 2008 Via the AWIS Washington Wire, this news of interest to young black academics: In The Black-American’s Guide for Winning Tenure – Without Losing Your Soul, authors Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy provide dos, don’ts, advice and support. One of the tips in the Q&A with Rockquemore includes being proactive rather than reactive in creating…
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.…
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…