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Ask Sciencewomen: Are there really more dead grandmothers?

sciencewoman | April 3, 2009

This is not a belated April Fool's joke, though I'll admit to having sat on this since Wednesday so that my readers wouldn't think I was making this up. Here is the correspondence I found in my email account on Wednesday morning: Hi! I've been reading your blog now for the past 18 months- and love it. Thanks so much for sharing! I'd just like to say how much it really helped me, as I'm at the same stage as you. Last July, I went from being a post-doc to a faculty member. Your comments about applying for jobs, how the process worked were of great assistance... And it's great reading how you…