skookumchick
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February 20, 2008
Putting the cool back in stargazing. Although, strictly, it was moongazing.
Okay, I admit it's a little jiggly. But I had the zoom all the way out, AND I was using a tripod, and it was fricking 3 degrees outside. I think it ain't bad.
Did you see the eclipse where you were?
I also saw 3 stars…
February 20, 2008
Okay, so I've been coblogging with ScienceWoman for a little over a week so far. Which means I've been blogging as me, with no pseudonym to hide behind for the same time. What do I think about it so far?
It's terrifying. I haven't told many colleagues about this blog yet, and haven't had the…
February 19, 2008
I realized this morning that I had no meetings scheduled for today. HOORAY!!! In addition, my department (recently renamed a School) is all in an uproar because our academic advisory council is arriving tomorrow, and our open house to the university is Friday. So I decided that I could take the…
February 16, 2008
Some of the comments to this post brought up the topic of implicit gender bias, and I thought the time might be ripe for a couple of pointers on the subject. Although I'm changing the context a little (from ethics training to search committees), the comments on reducing bias remain the same.
The…
February 15, 2008
And quick on the heels of my posts on living in two places comes one of those weekends when it is particularly challenging. As you know, I drove home yesterday evening, and in addition to hearing about the NIU shooting (which, at the time, people weren't reporting anything other than the number of…
February 15, 2008
I'm going through the training that Purdue requires before I submit any research protocols to the Institutional Review Board. It's good to care about your faculty doing ethical research, but I confess it is taking FOREVER.
So I'm reading the part on the problems with peer review, and I come…
February 14, 2008
I just got back home after driving from West Lafayette. I heard on the radio about YET ANOTHER HORRENDOUS SHOOTING on a university campus.
My breath caught in my throat as I heard the NPR news staff interview the faculty advisor for the student newspaper at Northern Illinois University. I couldn'…
February 14, 2008
Guess who we've been invited to have dinner with on Tuesday night? Think super famous American scientist who the administration tried to muzzle...
The answer below the fold... tee hee!
It's James Hansen! Yeah, that James Hansen, the top scientist at NASA who the Bush II administration tried to…
February 14, 2008
We've met, we've gotten educated, we've gotten married, and almost all in two different cities. Now I've quit my job so I can finish my dissertation, and we live together, what a concept.
Okay, year together, blah blah blah. Gardening, working, eating locally, helping each other, all good things…
February 13, 2008
Has anyone else noticed a preponderance of Macs populating coffeeshops? The one I am in has 6 Macs out of 7 computers at the moment - and my school is full of engineers who supposedly only use Windoze machines! Is it just that Mac people are cool and hang out at coffeeshops, or that they lack…
February 13, 2008
My husband and I will have been "together" for 10 years this July. Of those 10 years, we have lived about 3.5 in the same city. It's a hard gig.
We met when I was an undergrad and Steve was a grad student (scandalous!) over the summer when I was home from college, working in a water chemistry lab…
February 12, 2008
ScienceWoman and I are looking for punny and descriptive names for our new collaborative blog effort. Got any ideas?
So far, these are our lame attempts:
Scientist and Engineers ... and Women, too
Science/Engineering Women
Staying afloat
this is what a scientist/engineer looks like (blatantly…
February 11, 2008
I'm still trying to figure out this blogging publicly thing, and am writing a bigger post about it for later in the week. In the meantime, here are a couple of great-sounding conference coming up, and you still have time to get your abstracts in!
Engineering, Social Justice and Peace: Grounded in…
February 9, 2008
I had been agonizing over what would be my first "substantive" post for this new venue. My husband (who will be properly introduced in another post) suggested I make a list of a bunch I'd like to write so I have fodder for the fire when I feel otherwise tapped out.
Ah, me of little faith. I made…
February 9, 2008
Hello? - ello - ello - lo... Wow, this is a big sandbox. Can I come play?
My name is Alice. As in Wonderland. I'm a newbie faculty member in the super-cool School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. I've also been blogging 2 months shy of 2 years, but pseudonymously - that's the…