women in science
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Feminism
The Confidence Gap May Not Predict the Gender Pay Gap: Indignant Thoughts on That PNAS Paper
Why is everyone in the world over-interpreting their data this week and coming for women in science? How can authors get all the way through graduate school and still not understand how not to over-interpret their data? Perhaps in an effort to cause hypertension and make the blood vessels in my head explode, a reader of the blog sent me…
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Activism
Do Not Fall Prey to Nature’s Trap Without Changing Your Behavior
Yesterday I wrote about a problematic new paper from Nature Communications suggesting that trainees are disadvantaged by being mentored by women mentors. This morning, as I try to engage with my laboratory, home school my children, clean the house and do laundry because my physician husband has clinic, and try to eek out some small amount of time for myself,…
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Quickies
Quickies: Perspective on Iran, Presidential primaries, and lots of science…
This week, the headlines were dominated by military action between the United States and Iran. I am in no way qualified to begin to comment on these matters, but I do recommend an early episode of the NPR podcast Throughline on the history of US-Iranian relations. I have found Throughline’s deep dives into the history behind current events to be…
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Meta Stuff
It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Slicing Through Fake News, Fighting for Truth in the Age of Trump, Toys Dressed for Lab Work, and more!
Sunday Funny: The Math Professor’s Lemma. (via SMBC) Mad Art Lab Fake News? Take a Razor to It. Amy’s art reminds us that the simplest explanation for something is often the best explanation. Astronomy Cast Podcraft and Review Ryan makes a replica of the golden record on board the Voyager space probes. Science is Not the Enemy Important reminder: Despite…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! Making America Great, Architecture Metaphor, and the Women of Neutrino Research
Sunday Funny: How to unsettle settled science. (via SMBC) Mad Art Lab Art Inquisition: Are We Making America Great? We want your opinion on a billboard sponsored by an artists-run super-PAC that popped up outside Jackson, MS. Rotten Underneath Celia has been dealing with the stress of the election season with an architecture metaphor. Generations: The Story of Women in…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! The Woman Who Cured Rickets, Male Suffrage, and Happy Birthday, You’re Going to Hell
Sunday Funny: Freaking out is hard work. (PHD Comics) Teen Skepchick In Which I am Threatened with Foolishness and the Ruin of Soul Every year, Elizabeth’s family attempts to bring her back to Christianity. Here is their 2016 attempt. Mad Art Lab Milk and Blood: Icie Macy Hoobler and the Science of Infant-Mother Nutrition Dr. Hoobler made major advances in…
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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Complex Cephalopods, Election Cake, and Why You Need to Do More than “Just Vote”
Sunday Funny: Why math confuses people. (via SMBC) Mad Art Lab Octopuses at Work and Play: Jennifer Mather and Cephalopod Cognition Jennifer Mather unveiled the complexity of cephalopods. Mad Art Cast Episode #73 — The Death of Jack Chick and Chicks Who Vote! The gang talk about Jack Chick and the women who have waited almost a century to vote…
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It’s the Skepchick Sundaylies! Nasty Women, Science of the Sideshow, 5 Year Old vs. Ouija Board, and more!
Sunday Funny: Patriotism vs. Nationalism: An Important Distinction (via SMBC) Mad Art Lab Such a Nasty Woman Beth and Amy made art after Trump made his “nasty woman” comment. Gone, Fission: How Lise Meitner was Written Out of the Nuclear Age You need to forget everything you know about atoms to fully appreciate the astounding scientific career of Lise Meitner.…
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