If you’re a women in science, you probably have times when you become very sick of thinking, reading, hearing, or talking about anything specifically related to women in science. You cry to yourself, “When, when, when will it end?”, while wailing and gnashing your teeth. Well, we can’t tell you when it will end. But we [...]
This weekend we came across an intriguing New York Times article by Alina Tugend about the psychology of mistakes. The main point is that we’re too scared of making mistakes because we fear looking stupid. In fact, mistakes can be important learning experiences — and we could benefit from deliberately trying to make mistakes. The [...]
We could use some feedback. Although this blog is new, we apparently do have some readers. We find this a bit surprising. But those log programs do say that people are visiting our site. We would like to hear from you. In particular, when is the right time to turn on comments for this blog? This isn’t [...]
This year’s Nobel prize announcements just happened. And, as usual, no women received any of the science prizes. We became curious about the history of Nobel prize awards to women. We looked at the awards for the Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology/Medicine. As you might expect, physics is the worst. Only 2 women have been awarded the [...]
Yesterday’s post about perceptions of women in the workplace got us thinking about moments when we have not been recognized as the famous Dr. Medusa. One such moment happened earlier this fall, near the start of the semester. We happened to be in the department office with a male graduate student who works with us. [...]