soapbox
I renewed my ACS membership today, and, as I have done every year for several years in a row, I tried to update my title through the ACS Membership My Account page. No luck. Only a link to contact customer service. In previous years I have decided that emailing customer
culture
"The last student who went to graduate school after working with me was hit by a bus," my research advisor said to me as I began to figure out what I'd do after graduation with a Bachelor's degree and a desire to work in
conferences
I went to the ACS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM) at the beginning of June, and, since she’s still nursing and refuses to take a bottle, Sweet Pea came along. My husband did not. The conference was Sunday to Tuesday, and he wasn’t able to take Monday and Tuesday
culture
When I got married, I changed my last name. I was very attached to my maiden name, and couldn’t bear to let go of it completely, so I dropped what had been my middle name, took my maiden name for my new middle name, and finished off my new
education
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="800"] "Inserting a contact lens" photo by Flickr user suanie [https://www.bethhaas.me/caption] I have pretty terrible vision. Without corrective lenses, I can barely see past the end of my nose. I am also susceptible
soapbox
I listened to some of the inaugural episode of Late Night with Chemjobber & Friends last night. As a whole1, I think it was a decent start. There were some technical issues (the audio cut out several times), some glitches (at one point Chemjobber accidentally hung up on the callers)
safety
Whenever I'm going to teach in a new classroom, I like to scout it out ahead of time. I want to know if it has a chalkboard or a whiteboard so I can bring the right writing implements. I want to make sure it has enough seats for
culture
Back in February when I posted some thoughts from the fall about clothes and professionalism, someone left an anonymous comment that I chewed on for several weeks. I think it's worth replying to in full, but I didn't take the opportunity before. Now that the semester&
scientists
Reset your "days since a sexism-in-science incident" counters to zero. A Nobel laureate dug himself a pretty deep and boggy hole when, among other things, he explained why he thought men and women shouldn't be in labs together. Apparently, the womenz are just too irresistible and
culture
I want to tell you a story about pipettes, specifically micropipette tips, and how a few boxes of pipette tips made me feel like an outsider. This story begins more than a decade ago, in a grocery store. It’s an odd place to start a story about pipette tips,
culture
I wrote this in October and somehow didn't manage to post it then. I know a professor – a youngish white guy who looks older than he is – who wears a suit an tie to every class because, he says, he wants to command authority in the classroom. He
scientists
This is your weekly reminder that science isn't sexist. In other news, we have always been at war with Eastasia and these are not the droids you are looking for.