So excited to let everyone know that I’ll be coming to NYC in December to give a Story Collider! It’s a story I have never told in public before…and I’m pretty nervous, especially since I’m going to be in some great company! If you’re in the area, come on by and give me some moral […]
“My fingers,” said Elizabeth, “do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women’s do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault — because I would not take the trouble […]
I’ve often been surprised and impressed by the things that people have going on behind the scenes. Say, someone’s been working on a book, and no one knows, and all of a sudden POOF. And then you understand why they never seemed to want to get together for drinks. And now it’s my turn! I’m […]
The other week the internet was abuzz with the Science Twitter List, The Top 50 Science Stars of Twitter. The post raised some hackles due to its low inclusion of women and minorities, as well as some of the criteria as to who is considered a “scientist” and what it means to be a star […]
My grandfather got me my first subscription to National Geographic. I’m not sure exactly when, but I think I may have been 10 or 11, around 1992 or 1993. I do have complete sets from those years, but I have some from 1991 as well. Heck, I have a 1989. Grandpa wasn’t a gift-giving man. […]
Third race down! Today was the DC Rock and Roll Half (and full, and 5K). It was a beautiful morning for a run and DC was out to support! The free beer offers from the all male houses (which…were not frat boy houses? I don’t think we ran through GW…) were amusing. I saw one […]
It’s now been a week since ScienceOnline Together 2014 (and I don’t know about you guys, but I’m still down with the hideous #scioplague. I’m really ready to be done with feeling like I am swallowing a sword all the time). It was, despite some difficulties that I hope we all move forward together to […]
This year, I’m the facilitator for a Scio14 session on comments. The idea was originally Ivan Oransky’s, so I asked him what he thought about the session. Based on his feedback and ideas of my own, I came up with the following: Some might say “Don’t read the comments!” Lack of moderation and free reign […]
Blame Bashir for this one. In a previous post, I talked about how I wasn’t yet free of academia. How it’s still got hooks in me, in the form of papers that need to be published, and that won’t get published until I get them out. Bashir noted that it was like Borg. […]
Deciding to leave academia can be a wrenching experience. Sometimes, people who decide to leave are bitter and angry to their core. Other times, they are sad, with constant feelings of failure. And many, many times, they feel lost. When I first really seriously thought of getting out of academia, I remembered an ‘alternative careers’ […]