women in STEM
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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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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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One of these days, I will have to have a talk with a colleague, who has an administrative role in a physical science field. His heart is in the right place and he is one of the men who really support women and their advancement in the physical sciences, as evidenced by him propelling his female
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After this post, some commenters have been wondering about my origins. There are many countries in Europe that would fit the description of tiny and inconsequential (whether or not their citizens are willing to admit it). Knowing which one specifically I am from would probably not bring much excitement or illumination to most of my readership.
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(I am unusually grouchy today, so calibrate accordingly.) Many speakers are really not very good. Most, in fact. No matter how cool your slides are, nothing helps if you are an anemic speaker, boring as hell and unable to make a point. This one guy was speaking very, very slowly, ending every sentence with lowered intonation,
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A reader — PhD Student — has recently written to me, asking for advice about the situation with her PhD advisor, which has become very difficult: I’ll start off with some background about myself. I’m a 25 year old female PhD student. I left just shy of my master’s degree at another university so that I could switch fields
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Apparently, a septuagenarian Nobel laureate thinks women are a distraction in the lab and cry a lot; calls for gender-segregated labs. The Internet erupts. Whatever. I am actually relieved every time something like this happens. I am relieved that occasionally someone is actually stupid enough to say out loud what many think and act according to anyway.
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