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I usually get a few hundred views per day, and I am happy with that. But it seems that “A Good Little Girl” really hit a nerve, and has been shared like crazy via Facebook (over 3k shares) and on Twitter. So I have had several days with thousands of views and it’s been quite exciting watching my WordPress
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By Psykadamnit Xykademiqz wrote a very important post on how vital it is to learn to say “no” to service requests. I want to temper that with some notes on when you really ought to say “yes”. You should say “yes” if you’re the person who stood up in department meeting and said “The department
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When you are a woman in a male-dominated STEM field, weird things happen to you. People say weird shit or give you weird looks or write weird letters of recommendation for you. And this is just the good guys, the male colleagues who are at the core respectful and supportive of you. A few years ago, there was some paperwork
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I am not dead. Well, at least not literally. Another insight from Stephen King’s “On Writing”: He wrote the least when he worked as an English prof at a college. All that interaction with language while teaching, and especially grading student essays, left him completely drained. He wrote much more when he worked poorly paid,
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This one is for nicoleandmaggie and undine (of Not of General Interest), my zombie brethren.
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By psykadamnit I’m a tenured faculty member in a physical science discipline at a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI). These means that my institution has very few graduate students, my department has no graduate students, and my primary duties are teaching undergraduate classes and conducting research that involves undergraduates. That doesn’t mean we don’t do good research–I’ve
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They are 20 oz each, and they are both for me.
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It’s that time in the evening when a) I have so much work to do, but I am b) too tired to work and c) it’s objectively a good time to go to sleep so tomorrow wouldn’t suck, yet d) I don’t want to go to work because I am very busy all the time and I start telling
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The collection is nearly done and the blog will be returning to its irregularly scheduled programming next week. The book is nice and tight, at circa 83k words. It will soon be off to graze on greener pastures , with editor Melanie R. Nelson of Annorlunda Books. If all goes well, we might be looking at an April release date! Here’s a tentative high-level
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