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
womenInScience
Geoff Marcy recently resigned from Berkeley after word got out that he’d been a serial sexual harasser of women in astronomy, that a Berkeley investigation concluded he had violated campus conduct policies, that the university had barely even slapped his wrist for it, and that the women in astrophysics
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
chemophobia
Back in January, @realscientists (I believe it was @upulie at the time) was talking about nanotechnology and mentioned the growing knowledge about hazards: For example, it was only some time after we started working with carbon nanotubes that it became apparent that we should introduce protocols for working with them.