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A colleague from industry is co-organizing a fairly major conference in his field. He invited me to give a talk in the session he’s in charge of. I said sure, mostly as a favor to him. But, it turns out that I am responsible for all the expenses, including registration, and it’s not a conference I would…
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Grading and despairing… The following comes to mind, as I look at all the instances of the abomination that is the axis with two arrows:
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Yesterday, I looked up a former classmate of mine, B. We were in high school together; I haven’t really thought about her since we graduated. She is now a pediatrician back in my home country. When we were in high school, she was what we used to call (loosely translated) a “crammer.” A crammer would be someone…
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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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