A Natural Scientist

The latest Scientiae theme, is appropriately enough, 'transitions.' What, like moving? Oh, can I ever blather on about moving. I...

I spent several years in my lab feeling invisible. There would be two or three days in a row when literally all anyone said to me would be ...

Ten years ago I was just entering college. I wanted to study abroad, do chemistry, and go hiking and canoeing a lot. (I did.) Five years a...

Spring is my very favorite season. Even more than little green shoots pushing up through the mud, I love the colors and the sun. I love th...

A propos of the next Scientiae carnival - as usual, I'm just too late!- on inner voices: Here's a surprise for you: I talk to mysel...

Or: And this has what to do with mentoring? Part 1: Funding Part 2: Publishing and Grant Writing Part 3: Realism A few further cheering sta...

Or: Science Assessment and Publishing: Was It Perhaps Set Up By Monkeys? Part 1: Funding Part 2: Publishing and Grant Writing Part 3: Realis...

Or: How Science Funding (Doesn't) Really Work (What Your Mentor Should Tell You But Probably Hasn't) Part 1: Funding Part 2: Publish...

Scene : Dreaded Semi-Annual Meeting With Advisor [In Which Said Advisor (Historically Speaking) Inspires In Me Two Entire Weeks Of Looking F...

Mr. S was recently at a conference. His field has many famous female scientists- in part because back in the day, it was considered trivial...

My dear spouse wants to teach and do research: he wants it passionately. He loves it. He wants a job that also happens to be a career. His a...

I just finished reading The Price of Motherhood , which everyone should read. I am disturbed. I am the very most disturbed by the chapter ...

This is what I wear every day: jeans, knit shirt; khakis, polo shirt; knit shirt, denim knee-length skirt. Oxford shoes. Earrings. Lab coa...

The fourth Scientiae carnival is up at See Jane Compute . Some excellent writing, funny stories, not-so-funny stories... Read! Write! Co...

(Also known by a less polite name .) Scene: Belle is in the offices of her Department of Hermeneutic Predicative Poststructuralism.* Two mal...

Public Speaking, Or: How to be an assertive bitch and make people listen. Stand up for yourself verbally. If you're talking, you're ...

Or: Not That You Asked (But Bad Experiences Are So Educational) Personal Assertiveness: Common Traps to Avoid Assert your professional compe...

Or: Years of Anger Are Converted to Advice *** Now announcing a new feature: Friday Advice! My epic-proportioned frustration with students ...

And now for more of our regularly scheduled women-in-science programming. Themes: You Can Do It, We're Getting Better, and Keep Trying. ...

The first-ever Scientiae carnival is up at Skookumchick's place . Three cheers! Also: "The next Scientiae carnival... ... will b...