Posts tagged ‘research’

I agree that having multiple “identities” is a huge asset to my work and creative abilities, bu I feel like… why are they making such a big deal about this, as if it’s some hugely abnormal thing. Why do people insist on compartmentalizing people into single skill sets?

Angela Zhang of Cupertino won a $100,000 scholarship for her cancer fighting research. In her project, Zhang aimed to design a targeted gold and iron oxide-based nanoparticle with the potential to eradicate cancer stem cells ...

Doesn’t this dance video for the Goodman Cancer Research Centre at McGill University kinda make you feel like it’d be an awesome place to work? Has your organization done anything fun and unusual that you’d ...

There’s been lots of links around the results of Nadya A. Fouad and Romila Singh (2011) Stemming the Tide: Why Women Leave Engineering. Since it’s freely available, I thought I’d encourage people to go directly ...

IBM Extreme Blue Case Study Competition-4264 by Terriko. I don’t get what the bit about Obama and Desperate Housewives at the start of this article from Slate entitled “Pscyh-out sexism” is trying to say, but ...

From The Advantage Of Dual-Identities (A Case Study of Nabokov), I bring you this quote: It’s also important to note that the advantage of having a “dual-identity” – being both a novelist and a scientist, ...

I’m nearing the end of my PhD and starting to seek jobs, and I’ve been asked over and over again whether I’ll be staying on academia or I’ll be moving to industry. I haven’t signed ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! Some tense and time markers have been updated. Some anti-oppressive thinkers distrust powerful institutions, and end up distrusting the scientific institution and even scientific knowledge itself. However, scientific ...

Females Are Equal to Males in Math Skills, Large Study Shows These studies, all published in English between 1990 and 2007, looked at people from grade school to college and beyond. A second portion of ...

You might think if you put together a lot of smart people, you’d get a smart group, but new research into group intelligence shows that’s not always the case. (For those of you who don’t ...

Courtney is an MA student studying Victorian science fiction at Texas A&M University. She blogs about feminism, geekery, and academia at From Austin to A&M. This post originally appeared at From Austin to A&M. My ...

This Ask a Geek Feminist question is about stereotype threat: What can I do when stereotype threat is playing games with my head? To give an example, I once had to take an IQ test ...

This is part of “Ask a Geek Feminist” series! Questions are still being taken at the Ask A Geek Feminist post – so ask away! I’ve got some general questions regarding dress code… I’ve never ...

From the subverting stereotypes file: In an interview with Sherry Turkle, Christine Alvarado credits playing with My Little Pony for fostering her love for mathematics… (edit: was Christine, not Sherry as I originally published. oops, ...

Girls may learn math anxiety from female teachers. Not a new theory, just updated research. One of the researchers says, “It’s actually surprising in a way, and not. People have had a hunch that teachers ...

Yesterday at ApacheCon I met Yeliz Eseryel, a researcher from Groningen University who’s looking into leadership in open source projects. If you’re involved in any open source project and have a few minutes to spare, ...