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I have to stop reviewing other people’s stuff. Raining criticism on people really bums me out. I am in the middle of a panel (yes, again) and just feeling desperate. (It doesn’t help that I am a double token: token woman and token theorist on an experimental panel). Of the batch of the proposals I reviewed, most
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As I mentioned before, I am in a subfield with very, very few women. My general field seems not to be quite so bad (even though it’s overall well under 20% women); I have female colleagues in the department whose subfields seem to have more women and be generally supportive of women. Mine seems to be really,
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Dear readers, I have a question for you. But first, a bit of information. This week, I am substituting for a colleague who’s away at a conference and teaching his own large undergrad course. I teach this course often, so lecturing is no big deal. I subbed for the same colleague in the same course a
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I declined to review a paper for a Glam Mag after having already accepted, because they’d been bugging me every two days to submit my report. “OMG if you don’t do it in 24 hours we will have to find someone else”!!! So go find someone else and stop annoying me. FFS. As if we are
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The past few weeks have been challenging; the difficulties have had to do with dealing with people. I haven’t wronged anyone, but I have been unable to keep quiet after someone has wronged me, my family, or a professional group I am affiliated with. Predictably, conflict ensued. In this society, and especially if you are female,
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I have newfound appreciation for anyone who has been in a leadership or administrative role for a significant amount of time. They must have gonads made of steel… Because people are the freakin’ worst. *** I hate people who want to meet in person without letting me know at least roughly what it is that they
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I just found a lovely review of Academaze in The Gazette, the newsletter of the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP) & the Committee on Minorities of the American Physical Society, which was written by the CSWP Chair, Ashley DaSilva. Thank you for the kind words, Ashley! This review cheered me up tremendously. Here
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Today, I received 156 non-junk, directed, relevant-to-me work emails. I composed and sent out 102 distinct emails. I booked three trips for myself (panel, invited talk, program review), made itineraries for two visitors coming in the next couple of weeks (which included herding faculty cats to meet, as well as booking restaurants for meals and rooms
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Annorlunda Books has a new release — the novella Caresaway! Go check it out! From Rebecca Schuman, the contemporary American university in seven emails (here, also here). I have been reading “The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your PhD Into a Job” by Karen Kelsky. It’s interesting and very engaging, and I believe
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Welcome to 2017! Sadly, this year WordPress won’t be producing the lovely annual report we have come to expect from them (see last year’s and the one before), as it is apparently too demanding of their resources. They promised to come back in 2017 with an equivalent that requires less manpower. So I have assembled my own
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