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October 1, 2007
When I lived in Utopia, I was pretty mainstream. I drove to work, but shopped at the cooperative grocery. I liked to hike and get outdoors, support local businesses, and compost. So naturally when I was pregnant, I consulted my instincts and my mommy-friends and made some decisions about how I was…
September 30, 2007
Hat-tip to a reader for bringing this to my attention.
Should a breast-feeing woman be allowed extra long breaks during her nine-hour medical licensing exam?
That's been the question in the case of an MD/PhD student and her four month old baby.
The medical student, Sophie Currier, requested extra…
September 28, 2007
I'm working on another grant proposal, this one about an order of magnitude larger than the last. But still I am running into the same problem: the cost of doing the science I want to do pushes right up against the limit of the funding.
In the case of this particular grant, I have three main…
September 26, 2007
Back when I started my Ph.D., I thought I really needed a good mentor that would help me get solidly grounded in my field, get started on a good research project, and get funded. As I got farther along, I didn't want a mentor - I just wanted to do my work and be left alone. Then when I was ready to…
September 25, 2007
I've frantically been writing a grant proposal for a small internal grant competition, due later this week. Basically, I am proposing to update some work I was involved with ~10 years ago. This work was presented at a few meetings, but never published.*
When we were doing the work 10 years ago, it…
September 24, 2007
Notes for new readers: Mommy Monday is a regular feature on this blog, and Fish is my husband. This week I am responding to a request from amy, sara, and jenn to explain how I "find time for Fish on top of being a scientist and a mommy"
The short answer is "I don't do it very well." It's probably…
September 22, 2007
The other brouhaha this week has been over Facebook banning breastfeeding pictures because they are "obscene" and then banning a Canadian mother who had posted such pictures. Tara did a great job summarizing the stink.
Here's what I think about this:
I mean, honestly, my flabby, white, stretched…
September 21, 2007
There's been a lot of fuss 'round here this week about the fact that The Scientist magazine picked five male science bloggers to identify their favorite science blogs, and what that says about the ways that women are excluded from the conversation even when they're not badly under-represented (…
September 20, 2007
I'm the new mommy blogger here at ScienceBlogs.
I don't write about the latest ground-breaking research in my field. I don't even publicly reveal what my field is.
What I do write about are my experiences as an early career scientist who also happens to be a woman.
I share my life as the mother…