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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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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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Isn't It Ironic?:
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 •
I just had to share this very recent comment with you all: I would actually very much like to avoid this blog (and a few others), but the ScienceBlogs channels - which I prefer to having to subscribe to each...
Posted on April 8, 2008 4:41 PM • 68 Comments •
Warning: May increase blood pressure.
Posted on March 11, 2008 4:07 PM • 4 Comments •
If you are, you may want to read this article over at ScienceCareers. It's very informative, with a link or two to some resources, and what's even cooler, it features quotes from Mrs. Whatsit (named "Abigail" in the article) and...
Posted on February 15, 2008 12:28 PM • 5 Comments •
Raise your hand if you've been to diversity camp! You know - sometime during the academic year, your department head or dean announces there's going to be a diversity meeting/seminar/retreat. People grudgingly attend, they do some exercises to maybe show...
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Posted on January 31, 2008 3:23 PM • 5 Comments •
Boys will be boys, with their technological toys, and girls will take care of the relationships at work.
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Posted on January 28, 2008 9:33 PM • 4 Comments •
Just yesterday I posted information about a new resource on recruiting women and girls into information technology. Ironically, the same day American Public Media ran this story about Jean Bartik, one of the original "computers". Yesterday in San Francisco, Apple...
Posted on January 17, 2008 4:48 PM • 2 Comments •
Ask a Scienceblogger asks: " What's the deal with "virgin birth" (parthenogenesis)?" Many people, when they hear "virgin birth", think of the Virgin Mary. But all good Catholics know that Mary, Queen of Heaven, is not a true example...
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Posted on December 3, 2007 9:00 AM • 30 Comments •
Ladies, all these years you've been using blenders and understood them as belonging to the category "kitchen gadget". But when he uses the manly new stainless steel RPM blender, it's not a kitchen gadget, it's a tool! Or so the...
Posted on November 4, 2007 3:51 PM • 22 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 •
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, Home-Schooled Students Rise in Supply and Demand: "Home schooling often really allows students to develop a passion," says Sabena Moretz, associate director of admissions at Richmond. "With a traditional high school, most of the...
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Posted on October 10, 2007 2:44 PM • 18 Comments •
It's enough to make one weep.
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Posted on September 11, 2007 4:23 PM • 15 Comments •
As a graduate student at MIT, my daily commute took me past a construction site bordered by the sort of concrete dividers you see along highways. It was a pretty long stretch of concrete dividers, and on it someone had...
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Posted on August 30, 2007 5:31 PM • 12 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 •
Yes, global warming be damned, no technology is too expensive for Debbie to get back to simpler times and fresher scents.
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Posted on August 13, 2007 4:34 PM • 16 Comments •
It's not that people walk into the voting booth and say "no way I'm voting for a woman!"
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Posted on August 9, 2007 3:15 PM • 10 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 •
Remember that fascinating study that almost certainly applied to females? Jake at Pure Pedantry has a very interesting analysis to offer on it. I do like the way he deconstructs the statistics and delineates the difference between statistically significant and...
Posted on July 9, 2007 7:23 PM • 0 Comments •
I am so not making this up.
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Posted on July 9, 2007 2:41 PM • 21 Comments •
If it's good enough for Richard Dawkins and the atheists, it's good enough for Zuska.
Posted on June 29, 2007 2:30 PM • 104 Comments •
It seems all the Science Bloggers are doing it... ...submitting their blogs for rating at this site. I am so proud to say TSZ came up with an R rating. Mingle2 - Online Dating Bora has an NC-17 but he's...
Posted on June 25, 2007 7:19 PM • 5 Comments •
The most important publications in 70 years!
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Posted on June 22, 2007 3:12 PM • 13 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 •
But will there be equal opportunity chastisement?
Posted on June 3, 2007 6:24 PM • 4 Comments •
Just don't mention diversity...
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Posted on May 31, 2007 3:01 PM • 1 Comments •
It's not what I would wish to read about women's studies doing.
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Posted on May 18, 2007 1:28 PM • 20 Comments •
Bora notes that some people are wondering why there aren't more Indian (or Serbian) science bloggers. Bora links to an interesting post from Selva on this topic. This is all very ironic to me because just two days ago I...
Posted on May 4, 2007 7:25 PM • 1 Comments •
"female chimpanzees hunting with spears..."
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Posted on February 22, 2007 6:39 PM • 2 Comments •
So, I have insomnia. I'm catching up on some blog reading. I come across this courtesy of Asymptotia. It's one of those quizzes; this one is "Which Science Fiction Writer Are you?" It's fun, it's harmless, more or less; I...
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Posted on January 29, 2007 7:42 AM • 6 Comments •