A Natural Scientist

Yesterday, I accepted a job offer with a tech company I'd never heard of a month ago.  (Look, sometimes those LinkedIn 'you should a...

 As you have doubtless heard by now, public schools have just- six days before school was to start!- decided to go all-online for nine weeks...

Right now I am teaching a very intense lecture in my speciality, as in I would say "I am a surfboard design specialist" and the wh...

This summer, my work partner and I redesigned, set up, tested, and then piloted a series of new (teaching) labs. They are not perfect, but t...

As I may have mentioned, I have a new job starting in one month. I'm teaching classes in my speciality, BUT the whole curriculum already...

I have, in fact, a full-time job.  For the next five years, probably. At my other job, we got a grant, so I have to do that job next year...

I just quit one of my three jobs.*  This is the convenient, lucrative, but extremely boring one where I am paid $$$$ to babysit lab.  Howeve...

I quit one of my jobs this week. I'm finishing the semester and I'm out. Hurrah! I'm interviewing for another job, which would...

I don't even know what to say, so I haven't been. I applied for a job!  I was very well qualified for this job!  The college had d...

So I have a cunning plan , and I'm working through it, and it's fine, mostly.  (Right now I'm still feeling residually quite ill...

My work life so far looks like this: 2002-2008: Grad school 2008-2010: Bicycle Company 2010-2014: Extremely Bored Housewifery 2014-2018...

I recently learned that Ben Barres died at the end of the year . When his article about gender came out in 2006, I was in grad school at ...

For.... reasons.  (I may continue to complain , privately, elsewhere; but...) Here is a series of updates: I taught bio again I got si...

With respect to the previously mentioned diagram : I don't think one's job necessarily can or should fulfil all the desirable qualit...

I recently applied for a job Assessing Things. I was quite well qualified, but they didn't bother to interview me. (I guess that they ha...

Here . And a sincere FUCK YOU VERY MUCH to all (edit: that is, the subset of) the white dudes and straight white Christian ladies who are co...

WORK:  Hey, my job is... boring.  Easy, but also boring .  By the third time around with the same lab, I am really a little tired of it. ...

There aren't a lot of job openings around here.  But even so, whenever I see something, I ask myself: is this better than nothing?  I do...

Dear Readers, there have been THINGS going on. (I have three small children.  There are always THINGS, frankly.) I weaned Sweetpea two m...

Dear Readers, my course is over for the year and I am bored . You know what?  I don't really  value  stay-at-home-parenting.  It's...