reflection
I meant to post this days ago, but then I was interrupted, and then I had my doubts that I should share it at all. Somehow that seems very appropriate. There is a dull buzz in my head today. Its name is Anxiety. I am trying to tune it out
stem
Some discussion of my last post got me thinking about the supply side of STEM, so I made some more charts because I love charts. This time I'm calling it SHTEM:1 "Soft" (social) sciences, "Hard" (life & physical) sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
stem
A week or so ago, somebody on Twitter shared this post at the US Census Bureau blog1 on employment in STEM fields.2 It includes a chart showing the trends in the fields as a fraction of total STEM employment. It doesn't tell you about would-be STEM workers
A fun read by Hope Jahren: I love Science because it lets me be a teenager, to rebel and defy the university and demand to borrow its car keys on the same day. I love science for many of these same reasons too.
interactions
Lately I’ve read about rather different things that keep bumping into each other in my mind. The more I consider them, the more they seem connected. * The return of Bora Zivkovic to Twitter and the blogosphere * Mike Krahulik’s New Year resolution * Ways in which the graduate school system
2013 ended on a high note for me: great visits with family, laughs shared with my husband, good news on the writing front, and fun plans with friends. Looking ahead, 2014 is a little daunting. I don't know where we'll be living come September, nor do
The main explanation I've heard from readers for why women had higher rates of job seeking than men is that those women are mothers. I'm not really convinced. "Parenting" isn't a choice in the postgraduation status question, so I suspect it would
womenInScience
Chemjobber recently posted a link to the 2012 NSF statistics for physical science postgraduation work & study. Both Chemjobber and the Inside Higher Ed article he links to looked at the job prospects for new PhDs by field. That data table is also broken down by gender, though, and I
It's amazing to me how I can – sometimes – make more progress in 3 hours than in 3 days. I've spent a large part of this week slogging through some revisions. I had lot of trouble staying motivated and focused, but I kept pushing at it day
matlab
As I've mentioned before, I'm mentoring an undergrad and teaching him to use MATLAB. He's finishing his Honors Thesis this week, and so we've been cleaning up his figures to make comparisons easier for his readers. The Problem My undergrad has a
I wrote this almost three years ago, but it's back in my mind as I start looking for post-grad school jobs. I emailed my committee this afternoon to invite them to a talk I will soon give. One of the professors said he'd be glad to
education
Today I had (most of) my pre-defense data meeting.1 My committee has declared me ready to write my thesis, and on track for graduation by or before August of next year. I'd like to be done by May, but that means t's crossed, i'