Linkfest
thusspakezuska | April 3, 2009Scads of stuff I don't have time to blog adequately...
Johns Hopkins Provost Kristina Johnson was nominated by President Obama to be under secretary of the Department of Energy in mid-March. From the email press release:
She is a distinguished researcher, best known for pioneering work -- with widespread scientific and commercial application -- in the field of "smart pixel arrays." Last year, she was awarded the John Fritz Medal, widely considered the highest award in engineering and previously given to Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, George Westinghouse and Orville Wright. She is an…
jstemwedel | March 29, 2009
Generating Ideas vs. Harshing Your Mellow « Off Our Pedestals
LiveJournal as many-to-many communication where "big blogs" are one-to-many (and what that does to the dynamics of the conversation).
(tags: blogosphere communication)
Social Science Research News: Guest Post Friday - Coercion in Research
Maybe requiring Psych 101 students to participate in research projects isn't such a red-hot idea after all.
(tags: ethical-research research-with-humans)
Unnatural (Or: On evo psych, gays, foods, and having too many atoms) « Volcanista: a magmalicious blog
"In defense of pedantry, I think…
jstemwedel | March 27, 2009
A Natural Scientist: In Which All's Well That Ends Well (At Work)
1. Get it in writing! 2. If you didn't get it in writing, be stubborn!
(tags: work lab-life women-in-science)
The Junction Potential: Electrophysiology isn't a technique you add to your CV; it's a state of being!
"Not a bad idea actually; screw those automated patch systems, gimme an army of squirrel monkeys and an old warehouse, and I'll screen your chemical library right quick! It'd be like the nut shelling squirrels in Willy Wonka."
(tags: lab-life)
Dr. Jekyll & Mrs. Hyde: New and used
Oh boy, I remember demoing…
jstemwedel | March 24, 2009
Protocol Breach Reported in Biederman Study of Preschoolers - Health Blog - WSJ
How big a protocol breach is "too big"? And what kind of "expectations" should a physician-scientist entertain before a clinical trial commences?
(tags: medicine research-with-humans ethics)
jfleck at inkstain » Elephant Diaries: Connecting the Dots on the George Will Affair
The traditional media still makes an impact in a world where most people are opportunistic (rather than directed) consumers of information.
(tags: communication media blogging)
Philosophers' Playground: The First Amendment and The…
thusspakezuska | March 20, 2009NSF ADVANCE Workshop For Women Transitioning to Academic Careers
The University of Washington's ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change received an award from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program to hold professional development workshops for Ph.D.-level women in industry, research labs, consulting, or national labs who are interested in transitioning to academic careers in STEM. The first workshop will be held October 18- 20, 2009.
This workshop will be very helpful to women interested in making the transition to academia. The workshop speakers will primarily be successful…
jstemwedel | March 15, 2009
Dr. Jekyll & Mrs. Hyde: Science would be so great, if it weren't for other people
Trying valiantly to avoid getting scooped.
(tags: science-communication tribe-of-science)
Need to Keep My Mouth Shut « Transient Reporter
The trouble you can get into by voicing enthusiasm.
(tags: science-communication academia)
Peer Review and Its Flaws « Blue Lab Coats
Considering the official criteria and the (apparently) actual criteria for successful grant proposals.
(tags: tribe-of-science peer-review science-communication)
To all the junior grad students out there « I Love Science, Really
A…
jstemwedel | March 13, 2009
Oh. Boo. Hoo. at Kindly Póg Mo Thóin
Babies through the lens of tort law, where the Last Clear Chance displays a gendered asymmetry.
(tags: law reproduction gender)
Anonymous Blogging Guide | Citizen Media Law Project
Includes section on legal protections for anonymous speech.
(tags: law blogging anonymity pseudonymity)
thusspakezuska | March 10, 2009I found Light-skinned-ed Girl via Acmegirl's blogroll. Lots of good stuff about the process of writing, quotes from writers, and the experience of being biracial. I like her idea about the Oscars for books. That is an awards ceremony I would definitely watch!
Black on Campus has a post about Lisa Jackson, chemical engineer, and head of the EPA, with links to several articles about her. Also check out the post on (Not So) Affirmative Action, wherein names are named of the selective admissions schools who admit Black students at a lower rate than other students. You don't hear the likes of…
jstemwedel | March 8, 2009
The Cincinnati Beacon - AMA prez hosts anti-animal testing group med forum: leading indicator or April Foolâs joke? - Cincinnati blog, Cincinnati news, Cincinnati politics
American Medical Association president Dr. Nancy Nielsen as featured guest in PCRM conference call? Really? Will she be calling shenanigans on their lies?
(tags: animal-rights animal-research medicine)
The LiveJournal of Deepa D. - White people, its not all about you, but for this post it is
If you want it to be all about you, maybe you need to LISTEN to honest answers to some hard questions.
(tags: race ally-work)…
thusspakezuska | June 30, 2008The comics rawked last week! Gracie signed off as the engineer on plans for the bike ramp she constructed for her brother Baldo and his friend. Gracie, you are awesome! Read the strips for June 24 and 25, too. I want more Gracie with my Baldo!
The Chronicle News Blog reports that India will now have quotas for faculty positions at its prestigious engineering universities, for members of the so-called lower castes and classes. You can tell we really are living in a global society; the same whiny rhetoric about how the entry of those unmeritorious Others will destroy all we hold sacred you…
thusspakezuska | June 16, 2008Some time ago Penny called my attention to this post by Liz Henry regarding the erasure of women from the tech community via language. I loved it, not least because her most excellent rant includes one of my own pet peeves:
All of this just yanks my chain big time, like when people say in talks and demos, "It's so easy, my MOM can do it." (And then everyone in the audience laughs knowingly.) Like moms are the dumbest people ever. My pet peeve at technical conferences. I am a mom!
Preach it, sister.
If you've been wanting a guide to help you parse Christian right anti-gay rhetoric and what it…
thusspakezuska | April 3, 2008Physioprof weighs in on the issue of pseudonymous blogging and "blogging while female" phenomenon. It's a good read.
Peter Sagal, who hosts NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" has a piece on gender inequity in Whoville. It's awesome. An excerpt:
And there's this -- not only does the movie [Horton Hears a Who] end with father and son embracing, while the 96 daughters are, I guess, playing in a well, somewhere, but the son earns his father's love by saving the world. Boys get to save the world, and girls get to stand there and say, I knew you could do it. How did they know he could do it?…
thusspakezuska | March 31, 2008Pseudonymous blogging - and commenting - is common. Some like it, some don't; some see the need for it, some don't. Whatever side you're on, you might be interested in these two recent columns from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Against pseudonymous writing
For pseudonymous writing
thusspakezuska | March 17, 2008Good stuff from the AWIS Washington Wire:
A new website on reducing stereotype threat.
The engineering of ice cream, from Yale's first female dean of engineering.
"More than half the women in the world live in countries that have made no progress in gender equity in recent years. " See the Gender Equity Index website for more information.
"Women in Europe earn about 43% of doctoral degrees in science, but hold only 15% of senior academic positions." More info in this report.
thusspakezuska | March 17, 2008You just have to read Non Sequitur today. It's a great strip in general but I really liked today's comic for reasons that will be obvious to you.
Lab Cat has announced a Fortnight-long Food Fest.
In fact I am so excited about food and my "F" that I am having a food fest for the next two weeks. I am not going to promise that I will only post about food*, but I am going to try to center my blog around food science, food, molecular gastronomy. If you want to join in my Fortnight-long Food Fest, post a link in the comments.
That's Lab Cat's comments, not mine, of course.
The Science Debate…
jstemwedel | March 13, 2008They're both by men, but sometimes it happens that way.
Mark Chu-Carroll ridicules Vox Day's ridiculous claim that women are too dumb to do long division, let alone program computers. While Day's claim was silly from the get-go, Mark's take-down in really nice.
A friend from the three-dimensional world (specifically math camp), Jonathan Kulick, who cannot hide from the blogosphere even in Tbilisi, examines claims that women are underrepresented in science for reasons other than bias. Will it surprise you to hear that Christina Hoff Sommers may be dismissing research she doesn't like out of…
thusspakezuska | March 6, 2008Bora has posted an interview with me at A Blog Around the Clock. See here for all the interviews in the series. He keeps adding new ones so check back now and then.
Via the Chronicle news blog, I found this wonderful site with all of Audobon's paintings of North American birds. Bird lovers, rejoice! Thank you, University of Pittsburgh!
Again via the CNB, The Scientist has named names - the best places for postdocs to work. The Chronicle advises:
Read the fine print: Only 17 international institutions (and 82 in the United States) received five or more survey responses; the magazine…
thusspakezuska | March 5, 2008Maria told me about WOC PhD. A link in this post led me to the Feminist Studies Collections: Women of Color & Women Worldwide pages, from which I hopped to the Women of Color page from the Wisconsin Women's Studies Librarian, which in turn took me to Joan Korenman's Women of Color websites list. Joan's excellent list includes Black Women in Mathematics, Digital Sisters, summaries of a few studies, and Sister Mentors, among others.
Abel pointed me to Urban Science Adventures! - which, by the way, has a nice post on women's history month up. Also, Diary of a PhD Student, Education and…
thusspakezuska | March 4, 2008Janet Stemwedel has a lengthy, informative, interesting post on that eternally troublesome question: When in my graduate career should I have a baby? After reading it, I am put in mind of that New Yorker cartoon with the guy on the phone, looking at a datebook on his desk, saying "How about never? Is never good for you?"
The Chronicle news blog reports on a former professor at U. of Georgia with a "long record of sexual harassment." What's a university to do when one of its professors is found to be in violation of the sexual harassment policy? Why, pass him along to another university…
jstemwedel | February 12, 2008
Creek Running North » Am Spayed
Lapin noir.
(tags: rabbit)
Hope for Pandora: An Election Spoiler
The natural progression of primary season. (*Something* is rotten ...)
(tags: art science politics)