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Has Stephen Hawking Friended You?

By drorzel on November 14, 2006.

The Female Science Professor (whose pseudonym I find unwieldy, but I'm not going to make a TLA out of it...) raises an interesting question in describing a language class experience:

By far the strangest experience was when we had to show and talk about photographs of our family and friends. Many of the other students got out their laptops and opened their Facebook pages. It was just like what I've read about -- endless flash photos of drunken parties with people hanging off each other whilst holding alcoholic beverages. This might have presented opportunities for learning some words and phrases that are not in our textbook, but the instructor didn't seem to want to linger much on these photos.

I have a webpage with photos of my family (husband, daughter, cats), but these photos must seem boring to my fellow students, who are all at least half my age. What would a Facebook for science professors look like? Perhaps I should start bringing a camera to conferences so I can take crazy photos of people clustered around a poster display.

So, what would a Facebook for science professors contain, other than zany poster-session photos? I'm guessing that gloating about links from members of Queen would probably work its way in there somewhere, but it's hard to really say...

(I'm a little afraid that I may be jumping the gun on the next Ask a ScienceBlogger question, given this week's topic...)

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My CHEM professor has a facebook page. It's only a bland shit and tie thing.

It should have a picture of him blowing something up, or him running of the molten CuF/F/UF mixture.

That would be cool.

My CHEM professor has a facebook page. It's only a bland shit and tie thing.

There's the typo of the week.

You are soooooo jealous.

Only a little.

One of our molecular beam epitaxy machines has a facebook page. I've never seen it myself.