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Alas, I speak not of the fun kind, the province of randy college youth… Nay… My tale goes far back, all the way to the last millenium… And it is a dark one. Every year, come October, the pearly gates windows for NSF unsolicited proposals swing open. As if in a trance, thousands of pilgrim scientists gather to worship at
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I drafted this post a while ago, but never published it. Perhaps it’s time, as ASBMB’s publication of “A Good Little Girl” (original post here) reminded me of it. This post will likely go *poof* in a few days. —– We voted for the promotion of a faculty member to full professor. The colleague’s record is quite strong. He commands massive
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Quote from “Peak Performance,” a 1989 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation: [Kolrami has criticized Riker’s inappropriate joviality and lack of seriousness for a commanding officer.] Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Don’t confuse style with intent. Only a fool would question Commander Riker’s dedication to Starfleet and the men and women under his command. He is
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Based on my experiences with women-in-science panels, as a member of the audience as well as a panelist, these events tend to be a nearly complete waste of time. I don’t think these panels achieve very much and have left me wanting every single time, regardless of the role I played. Recently, I have been thinking about why that is
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Happy New Academic Year!
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h/t to Melanie Nelson of Annorlunda Books, who suggested that I make a comic based on this line from the “Academaze” manuscript: “[I]t is fundamentally impossible to have the right amount of preliminary data.”
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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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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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Here are a few sketches that I made as illustrations for the collection I am working on. These might be used in addition to some of the already published xykademiqz cartoons.
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