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YoungFemaleScientist: July 2005
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Thursday, July 28, 2005. Today is Big Machine Science Day: Aka, waiting for my cells to do something interesting under the microscope. It's going to be a slow day. I knew this, and I almost brought Harry Potter with me, but then felt guilty. What was I thinking? Lately, I'd rather work in a coffee shop. And the micro- the day to day, okay I just spent a week on this experiment and will it work or was it a total waste of time and effort? Ha ha ha, it's those last two things that really get you in the end.
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YoungFemaleScientist: On publishing
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Monday, December 02, 2013. A comment on the previous post asked how much I published. Let me start by saying, a lot more people have read this blog than ever read the scientific papers I published, if that tells you anything. I can't give you exact numbers, but I did publish well enough to get fellowships. (for all the good it did me, since I never had sufficient financial support from my PIs.). I could have, should have, would have published more if it had been entirely up to me. As I've mentioned repea...
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YoungFemaleScientist: Response to old comments on "Dear PI, it's your fault I'm depressed"
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Response to old comments on "Dear PI, it's your fault I'm depressed". One of my previous posts. Is still getting comments, but blogger won't let me write a long reply all at once. So here are some replies. I realized this is really late to reply, but why not, I have time. It's too bad so many labs are one-trick pony houses. Personally, I think it makes more sense to interview students to see how they think. What they worked on before is just a vehicle for discussing that. That's ...
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YoungFemaleScientist: Nightmares as flashbacks: perils of mentoring
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Monday, November 18, 2013. Nightmares as flashbacks: perils of mentoring. Greetings, readers. I'm not planning to come back to blogging regularly, but have a few stories to share. Sometimes when they pile up like a traffic jam in my head, I think it's better to get them written. 1 The bad graduate advisor. We'll call his boss Derek (and hopefully I won't confuse myself writing with fictitious names here). Derek is a rich, relatively well-known dude. Without describing any details here, it's a typical sto...
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YoungFemaleScientist: April 2005
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Friday, April 29, 2005. Science is all crap. Well, it has been a few days and I have no new data. I forgot what this was like: as a postdoc, stuff has generally worked for me. I've had some dry spells, but I usually always have something cooking. A few days of solid failure brings me back to grad school. ahh, grad school. What a miserable time that was! Hard to want to come in for more punishment on the weekend. Posted by Ms.PhD @ 10:35 AM. Links to this post. Tuesday, April 26, 2005. Anyway, long story ...
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Ladies in the Laboratory. Science isn't just for Dead White Guys Anymore! History of Feminist Activism in Science, Math and Healthcare. Asymp; Leave a comment. Found here: http:/ www.psmag.com/news/a-new-view-of-why-women-shun-science-careers-19392/. A number of women scientists had grown disaffected and had become radical feminist, but these women had not left the profession. They remained self-described scientists whose passion was now political rather than scientific (Gornick 130). Another form of act...
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YoungFemaleScientist: February 2005
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Monday, February 28, 2005. My horrorscope said to "give myself credit", so here goes:. My paper got in today. I am SO relieved. And regarding a previous blog, I don't think I said this outright, but I think that it ultimately hurts everybody to recruit students on false pretenses. They just end up quitting anyway, somewhere down the line, or they end up miserable and make everyone around them miserable, too. Science is bad enough, even when you're pretty sure you want to be in it! Links to this post.
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YoungFemaleScientist: Ego-depletion, dishonesty and bad career decisions?
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012. Ego-depletion, dishonesty and bad career decisions? Check out this article. Which talks about stress in terms of "ego-depletion", and what that does to both decision-making and the tendency to take short-cuts in general. Stress morphed into the grunge era and emerged looking like cigarette-smoking, burned-out depression in the early '90s. But I think this article and the idea that we might make poor decisions under stress is worth considering seriously. Well, yes. I think so.
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YoungFemaleScientist: Color and size: still controversial topics
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Tuesday, February 04, 2014. Color and size: still controversial topics. This week, a friend asked whether I had an opinion on the infighting among feminists on the internet. I said, what? Which got me thinking about how I'm so tired of controversy. Why can't we all just get along? For example, I was just reading this surprisingly controversial post. By a somewhat clueless writer, and I just wanted to say that I think (? I thought the post was well-intentioned, especially if we assume the author is new to...
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YoungFemaleScientist: March 2005
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Thursday, March 31, 2005. Why all the negativity? So I haven't written much lately because I've been pretty busy in the lab. Something came up this week that I thought would be worth discussing, though. So he thinks it's all crap. I was astounded that anyone my age, but especially a scientist, would be a) so ignorant of computers and b) so paranoid about them as to say some of the stuff this guy said. I mean, if you're 30 and you already closed your mind for business? I mean, there are plenty of gung-ho ...