Go vote for Barbie, PhD!
By way of "Isis, Mattel is taking a poll for what career the next Barbie should have. I voted for Computer Engineer.
Labels: career, funny, silly, toys, women in science
posted by Ms.PhD @ 11:03 AM
7 comments
7 Comments:
Looking forward to a nerdy overweight Barbie with greasy hair wearing a smelly black "My 192.168.0.1 is my castle" t-shirt while sitting in the dark, illuminated by the light of her screen only ...
Dear MsPhD -
Thank you for your blog. I have read it for a few years and I often feel as if I am reading something that I could have wrote. I appreciate you taking the time to write; you have made me feel less alone as a female STEM junior faculty.
- one of your readers
Schneefreundin,
I'm not sure whether you mean that in a good way or not.
Anon,
Wow, thanks! I'm glad you like it!
And here I am just wanting your job! Sigh.
What can I say? Keep fighting the good fight.
Dear Ms PhD
Just wanted to give you a heads up on a recent post over at DrugMonkey about Francis Collin's recent announcements on NIH funding rollbacks and warnings on the egregious numbers of soft-money positions.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on whether this works fer postdocs or agin postdocs trying to make TT when you have the time.
http://scienceblogs.com/drugmonkey/2010/01/collins_warns_universities_to.php#more
Recent article about (female) learned math aversion.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/01/14/0910967107.abstract?etoc
We won!
sweet! go team!
that's the first winning thing I've been associated with in quite a while...
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