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sciencewoman | August 1, 2008August Scientiae is here! Yay! Cherish at Faraday's Cage is where you put Schroedinger's Cat has done a phenomenal job of pulling together great posts on the topic of transitions.
Perfect reading for transitioning for work to weekend, me thinks.
Thanks Cherish and all of the Scientiae contributors.
skookumchick | July 28, 2008Remember that Cherish of Faraday's Cage is Where You Put Schroedinger's Cat is hosting Scientiae for August and that posts on your transitions are due to her by tomorrow.
Me? I'm tapped out. I suck. But hopefully you don't and will write something really great. Or submit a past post that is relevant. Pleeese? Thanks!
skookumchick | July 16, 2008One of the risks of traveling (two more days left! :-( ) is that you miss things like Scientiae. Podblack has posted the July Scientiae here on "a voice in the crowd" and Cherish has posted the call for posts for August's Scientiae here on transitions. Go read Podblack's post, and submit something fabulous for Cherish's carnival. And thanks to both for hosting!
skookumchick | June 9, 2008Okay, I lied, one more thing. Zuska has put together a really smashing Scientiae this month, on the theme of "Adding Weight: Taking Up Space." She also wrote a really great post on how she has to let go of her family's home.
Go show her some love, will you? Thanks for both posts, Zuska.
sciencewoman | June 3, 2008I've blogged before about my difficulties in getting adequate and unrestricted start-up funds from my university. Where we left the story, I'd been awarded about 2/3 the start-up funds I needed, with an oral promise that I would be "first in line" for money when I arrived. I also had to spend every cent of my start-up funds before I ever arrived on campus, leaving me literally penniless as I tried to get my lab set-up. The net result of all this is that I bought a big fancy piece of equipment (BFPE) and didn't have enough to buy the doojab to actually make the equipment run.
As soon as I…
jane | May 7, 2008* Baby Jane is walking. I'm thrilled. And panicking. Luckily, she's still slow, but given how fast she can crawl....well, let's just say I fear for my future.
* I'm working on Part 3 in the series Is Computer Science a Science? (parts 1, 1a, and 2 here). Part 3 will cover computer science's relationship to engineering. At the very least, it will serve as a welcome break from my bitching and moaning about the state of children's clothing.
* Also brewing in the "future posts" category: reflections on my first year of motherhood and the school year, and the whole adjustment to the working…
skookumchick | May 7, 2008The newest Scientiae Carnival has been posted by Flicka Mawa at her blog, A Cat Nap. Flicka has been going through some trials at the same time as getting Scientiae together, so her carnival is doubly-fabulous. Thanks for the great reading, Flicka, and good luck with your next steps!
sciencewoman | April 28, 2008When I started my PhD, professors and fellow students would ask me what I was planning to do with my degree. I had a ready answer: "I'll either focus on teaching or on research, but I don't want a job where I have to be good at both." I felt confident in my answer, I'd done my research. I knew I wanted to be a mom, and having spent enough time in academia, I just seemed impossible to be a good mother, a productive researcher, and a committed teacher. I didn't want to do the impossible, so I was going to use the time during my PhD to figure out whether I wanted to go into teaching or whether I…
skookumchick | April 1, 2008... over at Peggy Kolm's magnificent Women in Science blog. Go check it out. Well done, Peggy!
skookumchick | March 29, 2008Remember tonight is Earth Hour to highlight our increasing global warming crisis. Join millions of other people in turning off your lights for an hour starting at 8 pm in your time zone.
Here on the western edge of the Eastern Time zone, it's still light at 8. So my husband and I might go for a walk, or just sit out on our front porch and watch the world go by for a little bit. Other ideas are here.
Remember also that Scientiae posts are due in the next day or so - on fools and foolishness, or anything else you care to contribute. See here for submission instructions. And if you haven't…
sciencewoman | March 25, 2008Don't be a fool and forget to submit something for the April edition of Scientiae, the blog carnival by, for, and/or about women in STEM. The theme for the month is fools and foolishness, and the carnival is being hosted by Peggy at Women in Science on or about April 1st (hence the theme). For details, see here.
skookumchick | March 1, 2008The first anniversary of Scientiae is now posted over at Rants of a Feminist Engineer. Pick up your coffee or tea mug, settle down with your down comforter, and prepare for a good read.
Also, speaking of birthdays, our very own ScienceWoman had a birthday last week. Sorry we missed it, SW, and hope you had a lovely day!
greengabbro | February 29, 2008This post from Female Science Professor, about watching a colleague with ADD work, has been stuck in my head for the past couple of days:
So now he just lives with it and, although he hates his inability to focus, if he keeps going back to his original activity, even if he can't sustain that activity for more than a few minutes, he gets things done. In fact, he gets a lot done. He published 10 papers last year and wrote at least 2 successful grant proposals. And he is very well informed about the news and weather.
I don't have ADD, but I identify with many of the symptoms. I think this is a…
sciencewoman | February 28, 2008It's the end of another teaching week. My mom has left town. My head is filled with mucous. And my motivation to do anything substantive has entirely left the building. It's taking a huge amount of effort just to write this blog post. I blame the cold, but I also blame being burnt out by the pace of my life.
Fortunately, next week is spring break at Mystery U. Ah, a chance to wind down, catch up, grade papers, write a paper, take care of some service obligations, do some lab work, plan a field trip, go the doctor, get a haircut, do my taxes, play with Minnow, take long walks with the dog,…
skookumchick | February 27, 2008The Scientiae theme for the anniversary edition is "renewal." I've been in a crabby mood for a couple of days, and haven't wanted to write anything about it because it would be crabby. But as the clock has ticked down, I realized that renewal is perhaps what I need to write about to help pull me out of my crabbiness.
The crabbiness arrived from a frustrating morning yesterday of wasting time trying to convince various folks that it was worth bothering to figure out who is on what listserv (our postdocs are regularly left out of the loop because they're not on any listserv, and our grad…