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Continuing fallout
Still trying to process ongoing sexual harassment allegations of the last few weeks. At the time I wrote my last post, I don’t believe that this post from Kathleen Raven had been posted. Kathleen...
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Stay within the lines. The lines are your friends.
Starting this post by saying: 1. I stand with DNLee. Everyone who has been watching the science blogosphere in the last week knows what that means. Everything that happened to Dr. Lee from Ofek to how...
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Overwhelmed
Don’t you ever just sit at your desk mentally counting the virtual mountain of tasks that have to be completed and feel totally overwhelmed? I’m totally there. Yes, this post is going to be a...
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Cell, Science, Nature…. and… eLife?
My better half returned from his travels yesterday with some interesting nuggets of information he learned on his trip. Among those was this: eLife Wow. Consider me informed. As the new guy in the OA...
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Impact Factor Warz… again.
I’ve not been blogging or reading too much blog recently. Late last week, in what started as an attempt at cleaning up my blogroll, I rambled on over to Isis place, electronically of course. Seems that...
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Working hours
My kids are in school, DrMrA is out knocking everybody’s socks off at a conference, and I’ll be working in my office working on a response to a grant review. Which brings me to something I’m mulling...
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Victory Dance
Sometimes you have to do one. Right now, as the academic science world is undergoing its own little armageddon…..grant getting is just shit as the funding line is in free fall, people are dropping from...
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On representation at meetings…CSHL Microbial Pathogenesis 2013
To take a page from Jonathan Eisen’s book….I started looking at some of the top meetings in my own field to gauge the representation of women on the invited speaker list…. Let’s start with some of the...
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#Reviewdouchery
What is #reviewdouchery? The short answer is that reviewdouchery are the comments and habits of reviewers that we love to hate. A few random examples (not in order of douchiness): 1. “It would be...
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Adding to the Indirect Cost Chatter
Mike the Mad has a post up this morning in response to a post by Proflikesubstance regarding overhead... aka ‘indirect costs’. In this time of shrinking budgets I think that this is an important...
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#Impactfactorwarz (updated)
This morning I was multitasking during a seminar and came across some tweets from my esteemed colleague Dr. Isis with the hashtag #Impactfactorwarz, and I started reading the associated conversation...
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Pink Sheets
Yeah, I got mine yesterday. I’m allowing myself to be frustrated for 24 hours- and writing in frustration is often very cleansing. So, first the good news. We got a score and thus got discussed on the...
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Link of the day… Aetiology
I just ran across this post at Aetiology …. An open letter to my dad… in which Tara explains to her dad why perpetuating the anti-vax talking points is a bad, bad, bad idea…. I’ll just quote a wee bit…...
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I’m not one of the guys.
It will come as a surprise to no one that my work universe is very male dominated. I frequently find myself in meetings or business type dinners where I’m the only girl. I generally do fine with that,...
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Unsolicited Advice: Mind Reading
A word on interpersonal interactions. If I ask and I am told that there is no problem, I will conclude that there is no problem. If there is indeed a problem, the person or persons with the problem...
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How many seminars… and emails announcing those seminars is enough…?
I’m overwhelmed by the plethora of seminars and journal clubs available to attend in departments or programs that I’m closely affiliated with on this campus. We have a Monday afternoon seminar, two...
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Grants strategy for the newly minted PI
I’d like to solicit the collective science blogosphere’s opinion on strategy for first grant proposals for the newly minted faculty member. I learned, back in the day… (ha ha- it cracks me up that I...
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Dusting off ye ol’ blog
I’m sure you’ve noticed that I’ve taken three steps back from the blogging business for a while now. Although I don’t want to provide an exhaustive list of reasons for why I did this, I do want to...
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Proper business language. NOT.
I feel free writing about this on my blog because it won’t come as news to anyone that I work with. I confess I have a problem with cursing. I curse. A Lot. Could make a sailor blush. I think of it...
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Grad students these days…
One of my newly appointed duties post-tenure, is to serve as an advisor to graduate students (other than those in my own lab) in one of the many programs that I am affiliated with. This is my first...
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