What I'm Reading This Week

I'm reading two books at the moment (in addition to the five or so others I've started and gotten halfway through and not finished...well, they'll always be waiting for me to come back...someday...). The first is Sisters in Science: Conversations With Black Women Scientists on Race, Gender, and Their Passion for Science, by Diann Jordan, Purdue University Press.

The second is Exposing Men: The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction by Cynthia R. Daniels, Oxford University Press.

Just from the introductions, both books promise an exceptionally good read. I promise you a review of each.

I'll also be attending the Frontiers in Education conference this coming weekend in San Diego. Mr. Zuska is coming along, for the golf, not the conference. It's the ideal vacation for the two of us. We'll spend a few days doing some stuff together, too. I hope to do a bit of blogging from the conference. The schedule looks quite meaty. Or quite vegetably, if you are a vegan. If any of you are heading out there, do look me up at the conference! Unless you are a crabby person. Then don't look me up.

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I will mirror this post on the Science Blogging Conference homepage. Let me know if I missed you (i.e., if you ever mentioned or intend to mention the conference on your blog). This will be updated until everyone is exhausted!
John Wilkins is in Arizona attending a Philosophy of Biology conference (another one of those "I wish I could be there" things) and liveblogging the whole thing:
You can follow the conversation about the Conference by checking in, every now and then, the Blog and Media Coverage page on the wiki.
I couldn't agree more with Bonnie Swoger's sentiment that academic librarians need to stop going to library conferences, although I perhaps might not go