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Media Training… need it… or not?
Sometimes, at the request of my institution and very occasionally for other reasons, I agree to be interviewed by reporters. I do not like to talk to reporters. I do not like to talk to reporters,...
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An open thank-you note…
Dear Universe- Are you fucking with me? A couple of weeks ago when I was on my way out to lunch complaining out loud to my better half how I was tired of doing all the little shitty shit I have to do...
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Bad Mood
I don’t think you guys will really want to hear from me right now. I’m in a bad mood. Really bad. I spend a bunch of time in meetings. Some are useful, some are not. Most are benign. Some are not....
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American Girls SWEEP First at Google Science Fair. Whoot!!!
This is a good day. The New York Times has the story. Go Read.
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My personal hero for the day, the week, and possibly the year: Dr. Paul...
I interrupt my blogging hiatus to bring to your attention something that I totally missed- for like 8 years. A story in the Huffington Post today by Nell Scovell entitled “The man who loves women who...
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So you’ve got tenure…that changes things.
Anyone who has taken a casual glance at my posts, can see that I have written quite a lot about the academic job search, and all kinds of fun things that happen leading up to tenure time. I wrote about...
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Mama said there’d be days like this…
When I don’t reach my desk until 12:30…. 8:30 Breakfast with seminar speaker. 9:30 Deliver seminar speaker to airport. 9:31 On leaving airport get call from husband, relating that BigA’s got a migraine...
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From ‘Acceptable Parity’ via a friend…
THIS, I loved. All people in positions of power, mentors etc…. listen up. Esp. Dudes. The Harvard Business Review blog post that was parodied…. is here.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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#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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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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#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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