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Why I Turned Down a Q-and-A in Nature Magazine
Today is not the first day that I’ve woken up to realize that my name will not appear in Nature magazine. I send them my scientific breakthroughs quite regularly. One of them even broke through...
View ArticleHow I Fell In Love with Becky Sharp
I always wanted to be a writer, but I became a scientist instead because it is a lot easier. Here’s the story of exactly how I made that choice. I was a sophomore in college at the University of...
View ArticleWhat I Say When My Colleagues Ask Me If They Should Be On Twitter
Quite frequently nowadays, other professors ask me if they should be on Twitter. “This is kind of sad,” I think to myself, “How did we get to the point where I’m giving computer advice?” I’ve decided...
View ArticleMy 2-page Comic Book on “The Five Stages of Post-Graduate Academia”
Here’s some deep wisdom for ya! My 2-page comic book on The Five Stages of Post-Graduate Academia (1.5 Mb) Can you print it? Yes you can! I bought all the photos from Dreamstime with my own allowance...
View ArticleHow to Turn A “Good” Proposal Into An “Excellent” Proposal in Eight...
I’ve reviewed a lot of proposals lately and it has made me cranky, so here I am trying to teach the Hungry Man how to Fish and thus Eat for a Lifetime. I’ll be blunt: Have you been getting evaluations...
View ArticleSix Things you Can Do when People Say Stupid Sexist Shit To You
Part of being a woman in Science is having your male (and, more rarely, female) colleagues bolt off-leash and say crazy shit to you on a regular basis. When I was seventeen I told my Calculus professor...
View ArticleThursday Night Dear Colleague Letter
Here’s a blog about something that happened today that’s kind of about me but also kind of not about me. It’s hard to tell sometimes. Dear Colleague, Good evening! We’ve worked together for a few...
View ArticleMy 1-page Comic Book on “Having The Talk With Your Student”
It’s Back-To-School Time! Have you had The Talk with your student yet? Not sure how? Here’s a handy guide you can Download at the low, low cost of absolutely nothing! It comes to you in the form of a...
View ArticleAn Open Letter from Your Kid’s College Professor
It’s Finals Week and academia’s annual Festival-of-Regret has officially begun! I am celebrating this year by finally writing the letter to my students’ parents that I wish I had written a long time...
View Articlewhy re-post the old stuff?
Just because! I started this site in 2013 as a blog about interactions between women and men and Academia. Then I started writing a book, and after that I wrote another book, and I was all like...
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