Neither gone nor forgotten

I know it's been months since I posted here, but the blog hasn't been forgotten.

I've been working on some needed updates to the web site's theme. It's still a work in progress so the blog (and site) may be down occasionally.

I'm also going to start updating the too-long-neglected list of women science bloggers. I'll be making the updates gradually over the next month or so, but feel free to drop me a note here if you'd like me to consider including your blog.

And if you are a blogger yourself, consider contributing to the March Scientiae Women in Science blog carnival, hosted this month by Amanda at A Lady Scientist. The theme is "continuity".

Diversity in Science Blog Carnival: African-American Innovators

Danielle Lee @ Urban Science Adventures has started a new blog carnival: Diversity in Science.

Blogs of every genre are invited to write a special feature post about a person who is a pioneer and/or innovator in any of the amazing fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).
Tell us all about him/her?
How has this person impacted field of STEM and/or inspired you?
Or why is his/her story interesting?

February being Black History Month, the first carnival will be about African-American Innovators. The deadline is today, so if you want to be included, you'll have to dash something off. If you already have a blog post to submit, you can either follow the Blog Carnival Submission Link or leave a link in the comments to this thread.

I won't have time to post anything new in time to be included in the carnival, but you might be interested in some of my earlier posts featuring African-American and African women scientists and engineers:

• Olufunmilayo Olopade: Breast Cancer Genetics and Race
• Joan E. Higginbotham wins Black Rose Award
• Marjorie Lee Browne: mathematician and educator
• Oprah Magazine Honors Women Promoting Science to Girls
• Science Careers: Why Did You Become a Scientist?: Pamela Clark
• Rocket Scientists
• 2009 L'Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Awards: Tebello Nyokong
• Dorcas Muthoni: Anita Borg Change Agent Award Winner
• Women in Science: News from Africa
• Sisters in Science

Tags: Black History Month, women in science, Diversity in Science Blog Carnival

Take the Pledge: Write about a woman in technology on Ada Lovelace Day

Journalist, tech writer and blogging consultant Suw Charman-Anderson has started a new project to draw attention to women who excel in technology. She's asking bloggers to take the Ada Lovelace Day pledge:

"I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same."

As I write this post, 524 people have joined up, including me.

On the official Ada Lovelace Day blog Suw explains what inspired the project:

I’ve mainly stayed away from the discussion of gender issues in technology. I didn’t think that I had any real expertise to share. But over the last six months, after many conversations, it has become clear that many of my female friends in tech really do feel disempowered. They feel invisible, lacking in confidence, and unsure how to compete for attention with the men around them.

Then I see the stupid puerile misogynistic manner with which some of the more powerful voices in the tech community - some of them repeat offenders - treat women, and it makes me very cross indeed. The objectification of women is bad enough when it’s done by the media, but when it’s done by a conference organiser or tech commentator or famous tech publication, what message does it send? Nothing but “You will never be taken seriously, but we might take notice of you if you’re hot.”

On March 24th (hopefully) the 1000+ posts will end up highlighting the great contributions that women have made to technology, beyond providing eye candy for their male colleagues. Learn more at FindingAda.com and take the pledge.

(Of the posts Suw links to, I'd recommend starting at BitchBuzz Tech's "Two Big Reasons Why it's So Hard to Be a Woman in Tech")

You can see the latest pledge total on the image above.

Tags: Ada Lovelace Day, women in technology

End of the Year Stats

Here's what visits and visitors to Women in Science looked like in 2008:

Most Visited Posts

1. Pardis Sabeti: Cool Super-Scientist
2. First Korean Astronaut Yi So-Yeon
3. Scientiae Carnival: Fools and Foolishness
4. Virologist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
5. Invisible Computers
6. Jennifer Hooper McCarty on Colbert
7. 2008 L'Oreal UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
8. Interviews with Australian Scientists
9. Carla Schatz to Head Stanford Bio-X Program
10. New US Postage Stamp Honoring Scientist Gerty Cori

Top Search Terms

1. yi so-yeon/yi so yeon/so-yeon yi
2. http://sciencewomen.blogspot.com/
(there were a lot of these searches when Women in Science was made a Blogger Blog of Note)
3. pardis sabeti
4. women in science
5. jennifer hooper mccarty
6. françoise barré-sinoussi/francoise barre-sinoussi
7. carla schatz
8. kiss my math
9. women in science blog
10. elizabeth sulzman

Top referring Sites
(excluding Google, Stumbleupon, BlogCatalog and the like)

1. Blogger Blogs of Note
2. Female Science Professor
3. ScienceWomen
4. Scientiae Carnival
5. Shakesville
6. Blog Around The Clock
7. Thus Spake Zuska
8. Am I a woman scientist?
9. Khandaniha
10. Rants of a Feminist Engineer

Thanks for the links!

Top 10 Countries
Visits from the US outnumbered visits from Canada and the UK by a factor of ten.

1. United States
2. Canada
3. United Kingdom
4. India
5. Australia
6. Germany
7. Philippines
8. France
9. Netherlands
10. Malaysia

Top 10 Cities
Some of the cities were listed twice by Google Analytics. I've combined their numbers.

1. London, UK
2. New York, NY
3. Chicago, IL
4. Washington, DC
7. Sydney, Australia
5. San Francisco, CA
10. Seattle, WA
6. Cambridge, MA
8. Vancouver, Canada
9. Houston, TX

Brooklyn (NY), Champaign (IL), and Philadelphia (PA) were close behind.

Browser and OS

46% Internet Explorer
43% Firefox
8% Safari

79% Windows
18% Mac
3% Linux

Thanks to everyone who stopped by in 2008!

Open Laboratory 2008 Submissions

Bora at A Blog Around the Clock has links to all the submissions for the Open Laboratory 2008 science blogging anthology. The post entries will be judged and the top 50 will make it into the published anthology.

There are a number of women science bloggers who have entries, including:

• Samia at 49 percent
• Heather Etchevers at A Developing Passion
• Kate at A K8, A Cat, A Mission
• Mad Hatter at A Mad Tea-Party
• a poem by MissPrism at A Somewhat Old and Capacious Handbag
• Rebecca at Adventures in Applied Math
• Janet Stemwedel at Adventures in Ethics and Science
• Tara Smith at Aetiology
• Kim Hannula at All of My Faults are Stress-Related
• Bee at Back Reaction
• Erika Cule at Blogging the PhD
• Corie Lok at Boston blog
• Bug Girl's Blog
• Heather McDougal at Cabinet of Wonders
• Jennifer Ouellette at Cocktail Party Physics
  
• Julie Craves at Coffee and Conservation
• Kristin Stephan at Coffee Talk
• Damn Good Technician's blog
• Dara Sosulski's blog
• Julianne Dalcanton at Cosmic Variance,
• chall at Dreams and hopes of a (post doc) scientist
• Dr. Jeckyll & Mrs. Hyde
• PhD Mom at Dr. Mom, My Adventures as a Mom my Scientist
• Dr. Petra Boynton
• Eva Amsen at Expression Patterns
• Pat at Fairer Science
  
• FemaleScienceProfessor
• Maria Brumm at Green Gabbro
• Barn Owl at Guadalupe Storm-Petrel
• Alethea at Humans in Science
• ilovebacteria.com
• Dr. Isis at On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess (old blog and current home at scienceblogs.com)
  
• KH at Lecturer Notes
• Sheri at Life, Birds, and Everything
• GrrlScientist at Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
  
• Tuff Cookie at Magma Cum Laude
• Jennifer Rohn at Mind the Gap
• post-doc at Minor Revisions
• Scicurious at Neurotic Physiology
  
• Scicurious at Neurotopia v. 2.0
• Christie Lynn at Observations of a Nerd
• Shelley Batts at Of Two Minds
• Mary Jo Rhodes at Over Land, Under Sea
• El Fields at Panthera Studentessa
• PodBlack at PodBlack Cat
• Anne-Marie at pondering pikaia
• Mimi at Potspoon!
• SkookumChick at Rants of a feminist engineer
• Cath Ennis at rENNISance woman
• steffi suhr at Science behind he scenes
• ScienceWoman and Alice Pawley at Sciencewomen
• Jane at See Jane Compute
• Karen James at The Beagle Project Blog
• Bean-Mom at The Bean Chronicles
• Kristi Vogel at The Gulf Stream
• A Life Long Scholar at The Musings of a Life-Long Scholar
• Mary at The Open Helix Blog
• Miriam Goldstein at The Oyster's Garter
• Olivia Judson at The Wild Side
• AcmeGirl at Thesis - with Children
• Zuska at Thus Spake Zuska
• Pamela Ronald at Tomorrow's Table for Nature

Not only are there are lot of bloggers on the list, many bloggers submitted more than one post, so there are a huge number of entries. The judges have a tough job ahead of them.

Some of the entries relevant to women in STEM:

• 49 percent. : She said to no one in particular
• A Blog Around the Clock: The Future is Here and it is Bright: Interview with Anne-Marie Hodge
• A k8, a cat, a mission: Providing and Nurturing
  
• A Mad Tea-Party: Birds of a Feather?
• Adventures in Ethics and Science: Girls, boys, and math.
• Almost Diamonds: Diversity Now
• Coffee Talk: what motherhood has taught me
• Drug Monkey: It Doesn't Hurt a Bit to Be "That Guy"
• FemaleScienceProfessor: The Best Woman...
• Irene Suarez at Nano2Hybrids: Girly Girls in Science
• Neuroanthropology: Girls closing math gap?: Troubles with intelligence #1
• PodBlack Cat: She's Already Got Science - Women, Skepticism and the Need for More Research
• Rants of a feminist engineer: Stories of an academic panel discussion
• ScienceWoman at Sciencewomen: A reckless proposal, or "Scientists are people too, and it's time we started treating them that way"
• The Bean Chronicles: At home again
• Thesis-With Children: What is fair?
• Thus Spake Zuska: The Proper Way to Be a Woman in Science
• Zimblog: The gender gap in math has disappeared
  

Tags: women in science, blogs, The Open Laboratory

December Scientiae Carnival: Totally Hot!

Howdy readers. I'm back from my trip to New York and ready to blog again. Actually I have been blogging on my (usually infrequently-updated) personal blog, so if you'd like to see some photos from my trip you can check them out over there.

Dr. Isis has posted the December Scientiae carnival, and there are lots of totally hot posts. Go check them out!

The January Scientiae Carnival will be hosted by AcmeGirl at Thesis-With Children.

December is the time that we prepare to close out one calendar year (or semester) and begin another. We stand on the threshold between the new and the old. As a way of honoring the transitional nature of this time of year, I’d like to challenge you to think about all the doors that you have opened and closed this year.

As one door closes, another one opens. Likewise, as one door opens, another one closes.
[...]
Feel free to write about a specific episode, or use this as an opportunity to look back on the entire year. Or write about something else entirely.

Entries should be submitted by December 28 at midnight.

Tags: scientiae carnival,

Academeology

I reviewed Female Science Professor's book, Academeology: Random Musings, Strong Opinions & Somewhat Bizarre Anecdotes from an Academic Life, for the latest issue of Nature.

The very short version: I enjoyed reading Academeology, but I prefer FSP's blog.

• Read the review (it says subscription required, but I'm able to access the whole thing)
• Read the Editor's summary
• Read Female Science Professor's blog
  
• Check out the table of contents and order a copy of Academeology for yourself
  

I never thought blogging would be what lead to my publication in one of the "big three" science journals!

Tags: Academeology, Female Science Professor

Links and Awards

Thanks to everyone who has been linking here over the past few months. I'd like to give a couple of special thank-yous.

Indiana University Professor Richard Hake has included Women in Science in his list of education blogs. It's part of his larger project compiling resources for physics education.

Long ago Nina Munteanu kindly awarded me the Excellent Blog award. I was meant to pass it on by listing 10 more blogs, but I couldn't narrow down my choices to only ten. All of you reading this can consider yourself awarded and pass it on.






All Diva Media has listed me as one of 20 Women Bloggers to Watch in 2009 . Follow the link and check out some of the other cool blogs by women.

Women in Science Roundup: November 15

Some interesting links I've collected over the past month or so:

ScienceWoman chronicles a day in her life as a 2nd year assistant professor with "an almost 2 year old": Part 1 (midnight - 8:39am), Part 2 (9:10am-5pm), Part 3 (5:20pm-midnight). ScienceWoman does not get much sleep!

There's a discussion at Dr. Isis's blog about whether (and how) women scientists should be allowed to "express their femininity". There are lots of comments (including mine), representing a wide range of opinions, from "I can't take feminine women seriously" to "I love being a girly girl" and lots in-between. And there is more discussion at ScientistMother, Candid Engineer, Professor Chaos, and Zuska's.

Asparagirl has a nice post at Metafilter about the women of ENIAC

James at The Island of Doubt writes about Alexandra Morton, who has made significant contributions to marine biology without a PhD.

Jane Goodall was one of two winners of the Leakey Prize in human evolutionary science. She was also named a Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year.

Alice of Sciencewomen reported back from a day long Association of Women in Science workshop on "what works"

Nancy Jane Moore at Ambling Along the Aqueduct points to an essay in Bitch Magazine aon women and ambition.

ScienceWoman writes about pseudonymity in the "women in science" blogging community:

Also, the I think issue of trust is different in our community than in other parts of the science blog universe. Most of us are not using women-in-science blogs as a way of increasing our scientific knowledge. They are certainly no substitute for reading journal articles or time at the bench, field, or model. We are using women-in-science blogs to to learn from others, get tips on career development, cooking, paper-writing, and child-rearing. We are using women-in-science blogs to participate in a community of people who work in scientific/engineering fields and are interested in combining our demanding career with *some* sort of life outside the lab. And in this sort of community, it seems to be less important whether the blogger is Ariel, an astronomer in Arizona, than whether the blogger can provide insight into how to reach for the stars while keeping your feet on the ground. (And commenters too have such an important role in this community when you provide support, constructive criticism, sympathy, and encouragement).

Janet Stemwedel (aka Dr. Free-Ride) has some good reasons to blog under a pseudonym.

An article in Salon about "the momification" of Michelle Obama has inspired a great post by Kate about how family friendly workplaces are not only a woman's issue:

But here's the thing: making a workplace more family friendly is a fight that cannot be one by women alone. Women cannot be the only ones making a ruckus in the workplace and fighting with themselves, their peers and their bosses to effect change. If we make a nurturant woman's workplace more friendly but not her partner's, it means the woman is always being flexible, always ceding her own wishes, because it is more permissive in her workplace.

There's also discussion of the article at Geeky Mom.

A study of western anatomy textbooks used at European, American, and Canadian universities has shown - not surprisingly - that the "universal model" is a white male.

The researcher also points out that using female bodies to illustrate body parts that are identical in both sexes is a recent development. “Up until virtually the 1990s, male Caucasians were used exclusively to represent anatomical bodies, with female bodies appearing only in fragments to represent their sexual organs.”

Barral points out that these biased views persist, with an image appearing in the popular science magazine Mente y Cerebro as late as 2003 that made the female brain appear to come between that of a child and an adult male in the evolutionary process.

Lisa at Sociological Images shows a set of books for kids for sale at the NASA John Glenn Research Center that imply that "women scientists" are a separate category from simply "scientists". Would you buy a book for your daughter titled You Can Be a Woman Zoologist?

Valleywag notes that a recently touted milestone - more than half of Silicon Valley companies have at least one woman on the their board of directors - isn't really so great. That's actually still far less than the 89% of S&P 500 companies include at least one woman on their boards.

Tags: women in science, gender gap, stereotypes

Science and Science Fiction

Those of you who read my other blog have probably seen this, but for those of you who don't:

ScienceOnline09 is an annual science communication conference that brings together scientists, bloggers, educators, and students to discuss promoting public understanding of science. Stephanie Zvan and I will be moderating a session on science fiction as a tool for science communication. We're looking for input on the topic and to start an online conversation between science fiction writers and science bloggers.

Participation is easy:

Questions about science and its relationship to science fiction are posted at my blog - Biology in Science Fiction - and at Stephanie's blog Almost Diamonds. Send us a link to your answers on your own blog or post the link the comments at either site. If you're a writer without a blog, you can post your answers directly at either site.

We will then collect links to the posts on the ScienceOnline09 conference wiki, as well as our own blogs, and facilitate a discussion on the different ways science and science fiction are used.

If you'd like to participate in the online discussion, get the questions, then post your answers on your blog.

I look forward to seeing your contributions!

Tags: ScienceOnline09, science fiction, blogs

Vote for Danielle Lee's Urban Science Adventures

The finalists for the 2008 Blogging Scholarship have been announced and there is one woman science blogger on the list: Danielle Lee of St. Louis, who blogs at Urban Science Adventures. Lees studies the behavior of prairie voles, both in the lab and in the field. She blogs about her own research and urban wildlife in general.

She'll also be at the ScienceOnline09 conference moderating the "Race in science - online and offline" panel.

The winner of the scholarship will receive $10,000. You can vote for Danielle Lee here.

(And as a side note: I realize I haven't updated the women science bloggers blogroll in a while. That's in my plans for next week. Apologies for you bloggers waiting to be added.)

Tags: women in science, blogs

Science Online '09

This is a duplicate post from my Biology in Science Fiction blog:

Blogging can be a lonely thing. I get a few comments and some feedback, of course, and I comment on other people's blogs too, but it's not really the same as having a face-to-face conversation. That's why I'm excited I'm going to be attending ScienceOnline09, an annual science blogging conference that meets in January at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Speculative fiction writer Stephanie Zvan and I will be co-moderating a session on "Science Fiction on Science Blogs". We are in the early stages of hammering out what exactly we'll be talking about, and suggestions are welcome. If you are interested, you can add to the discussion of our session on the ScienceOnline'09 wiki.

I'm planning on attending the Women in Science & Engineering networking dinner on Friday night, and I hope I get to meet some of you there! (See who else is attending)

Tags:ScienceOnline '09, blogging

Nature Network Looking For Non-North American Non-European Science Bloggers

Nature Network is a networking site for scientists, that includes forums, groups and, of course, blogs. While the scientists who blog there hail from around the globe, the site is dominated by scientists in Boston and London. Not surprisingly, most of the Nature Network bloggers are in North America or Europe.

Matt Brown, one of the editors of Nature Network, has posted that they are looking for science bloggers from Africa, Asia, South America and Central America to provide new perspectives. You can post as frequently as you like, but they would like the blogs to be in English. If you are from one of those regions, it would be great if you chose to join the conversation there.

Here are some of the women currently blogging at Nature Network blogs:

• Jennifer Rohn's Mind the Gap is about "Adventures in the London sci-lit-art scene...and occasionally beyond". Rohn is a post-doc in cell biology at University College London. She's also the founder and editor of LabLit.com magazine.
• Sara Fletcher writes about "daily life at a synchrotron" at A different wavelength. Fletcher is a technical writer and web manager for the Diamond Light Source synchrotron in Oxfordshire.
• Toronto biologist Eva Amsen blogs about her (almost completed) PhD, among other things, at Expression Patterns. She writes about the intersection of science, art and daily life at easternblot.
• University of California at Davis Professor of Plant Pathology Pamela Ronald blogs at Tomorrow's Table for Nature as well as her original Tomorrow's Table blog. Ronald is also the director of grass genetics at the Joint Bioenergy Institute.
  
• The Gulf Stream is a blog about environment, natural history and academic culture by developmental neurobiologist Kristi Vogel. Vogel is an Assistant Professor in the department of Cellular and Structural Biology at UT Health Center in San Antonio.
  
• Notes from a small lab is postdoc Joanne Clark's blog about science, life and moving from London to Boston.
• Anna Kushner's blog, Lab Life, have followed her experiences as a graduate student at Harvard to her current position as an intern at the Nature Network offices in Boston.
  
• Deanne Taylor is the program director of the bioinformatics graduate program at Brandeis University, as well as a research scientists in biostatistics at the Harvard NIEHS Center for Environmental Health.
• rENNISance woman is the blog of Cath Ennis, research development facilitator at BC Cancer Research Centre in Vancouver. She also writes about less sciency stuff at VWXYNot.
  

There are a number of other blogs there too, but these are the most recently updated and/or established blogs. As you can see from the list, scientists from the US, UK and Canada are overrepresened, as are life scientists. It would be excellent if a wider diversity of voices joined in the conversation.

If you are interested, read the notice at AuthorAID.

And I suppose this is as good a place as any to plug AuthorAID which is a free program designed to help researchers in developing countries to publish and otherwise communicate their work. They have held a number of workshops in Africa, with the next scheduled for November 12 at The Grassland Society of Southern Africa. Check out their site for resources on how to write papers and make presentations. The AuthorAID blog is written by Barbara Gastel, an associate professor in the Department of Humanities in Medicine at Texas A&M, who specializes in science writing and technical communication.

Tags: blogs, Nature Network, AuthorAID

Blog Roll Update

More women blogging about science and engineering:

Engineering

(Female) Assistant Engineering Professor says:

I'm an assistant Engineering Professor starting down the tenure track road this year (2008). And I'm female. As my life is becoming exponentially hectic, I thought that my experiences might be helpful to others, and other's advice might be helpful to me.

Angineer is written by Angie in Colorado:

A female professional engineer who defines herself by the groups and activities she joins--I am a leader in the Society of Women Engineers, adult Girl Scout volunteer, and proud sorority alumna and adviser.

Physical Sciences

The Musings of a Life Long Scholar: A new blog by geologist Life Long Scholar, which is about "musing about her love of learning and the joys of life in the sciences."

One Astronomer's Noise is the blog of Nicole, "Astronomy grad student, skeptic, atheist, libertarian, and belly dancer."

Life Sciences

The Minority Scientist blog has two goals:

*Share useful information to assist minorities, including women and underrepresented peoples, in science navigate a career in scientific research.
* Explore the world of science through the eyes of a single parent pursuing a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences.

A Neotropical Savanna is the blog of Mary Farmer:

The posts in this blog are my own experience working through the learning of plants in the area where I now live. Even though this area happens to be in Panama, the principles I use for learning these plants apply to the learning of all plants. Most interesting may be the mistakes I make! And I make plenty, believe me.

Farmer also runs the web site Learn Plants Now!

Microbiologist XX says she is "finishing my PhD in microbiolgy. This consumes most of my time. I also enjoy listening to music, reading, laughing at my cats and shopping for shoes."

S. of More Than a Permanent Student is in grad school studying ecology.

Tags: women in science, women in engineering, blogs

Blogroll Update

Here are some new blogs on the women in science blogroll.

General and Miscellaneous

The Alternative Scientist is a group blog about "alternative career options for scientists. There are many career paths for a scientist in addition to the traditional tenure track, and the goal of this blog is to provide a forum for open and honest discussions about the various possibilities." Women who blog there include Bean mom "an ex-scientist mommy adjusting to stay-at-home-momhood" (personal blog: The Bean Chronicles), CAE, who has a PhD in molecular cell biology and works in industry (personal blog: VWXYNot?), Mad Hatter, a bioscience faculty member, (personal blog: A Mad Tea-Party), science cog "a newly appointed tenure-track assistant professor in the mathematical sciences at a large research university in the United States" (personal blog: Ivory Tower Tales), The Mad Chemist a PhD chemist working in industry (personal blog: Mad Chemist Chick), and Scientist Mother, who is "pursuing my PhD at a university in Western Canada" (personal blog: ScientistMother: raising my own little experiment). They are interested in hearing from you too:

We welcome anyone who is interested in discussing alternative science careers, whether it be to share information, advice, musings, or personal experiences. You do not have to be in an alternative science position to join us!

There is information in the blog's sidebar on how to contact them.

The Powerful Mind Coaching Blog is the professional outlet of Mary Coussons-Read, Professor of Psychology and Health and Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado Denver, who provides "cohesive life coaching for parents in academia". She says:

I founded Powerful Mind to provide what I never had as a junior faculty member-advice and support from folks who were my advocates to help me get where I needed to go professionally and personally. Now that I’m a Full Professor and Associate Dean, I’ve been on both sides of the tenure and promotion process, and have (and still do) struggled with simultaneously being a Professor, Partner, and Parent. I am passionate about working with clients to help avoid the pitfalls of balancing academic and family life. At the core of Powerful Mind is my commitment to providing a safe, professional, and deeply supportive environment to help parents who are working to succeed as academic professionals.

And, while her mission is official about "parents" in academia, her blogging is mostly about being a mom.

{teen}skepchick is the younger sister blog to skepchick. It's got all the skepticality of skepchick, but with teenaged bloggers, a younger target audience and less explicit content and language. For more details, check out their welcome post.

Cloud writes at Wandering Scientist . She says "I'm a scientist/techie and a Mommy. Pre-Pumpkin, Hubby and I loved to travel. Someday, we may even travel again. My blog has as many interests as I do."

Now, what was I doing? is the blog of JaneB, "a female scientist with an academic post in NorthernCity in England. I'm single and share a small house in MarketTown with a 'second-hand' middle-aged and opinionated cat (Furball4)."

Life Sciences and Scientists

Samia blogs at 49 percent. She's "a senior biochemistry major with plans for graduate studies in a related field. Right now I'm working as an intern at an EPA laboratory [. . .]"

Professor in Training is "a (soon to be) new (female) Assistant Professor in the biological sciences at Really Big U. After losing my social life (and skills) during my PhD, I've managed to reconstruct something resembling a life during my postdoc years and am hoping that the move to the tenure track won't lead to a nervous breakdown. I guess only time will tell ..."

Bug Girl blogs about entomology, gardening, ranting and nerdery. She has a PhD in entomology and "[a]fter a decade or so as a professor, she decided to jump the academic ship and went on to be a dot.com designer, web mistress, forensic consultant, and general attention whore." She also guest blogs at skepchick.

Panthera studentessa El is "an undergraduate zoology student with a cultural studies minor at a large research university in the midwest (technically I'm done with my degree, but I'm taking an extra year to do research and lab work before I begin applying to graduate schools)"

Pamela Ronald blogs at Tomorrow's Table. Ronald is a Professor of Plant Pathology and Chair of the Plant Genomics Program at the University of California, Davis, where she studies the role that genes play in a plant’s response to its environment. She uses her blog to "explore topics related to genetics, food and farming."

academia and me is the blog of female in academia who is "in the biological sciences, currently in the last phase of writing my PhD thesis. There is also a male in academia, too. We have two little children and try to one day be one of those double-career couples who actually manage to combine family and science."

Physical Sciences and Scientists

Mad Chemist Chick is "a Ph.D. organic chemist who recently escaped from the treacherous halls of academe into the Promised Land of Industry."


Computer Science and Mathematics

Tech Her is the blog of Telle Whitney, the CEO of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. "Telle is a senior technical woman who is dedicated to the recruitment, retention and advancement of technical women in high tech and academia."

Confessions of a Mathematician is the blog of Courtney, "a math graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed (or not...) math comic, Brown Sharpie."

Tags: women in science, blogs

Ice Stories

The Exploratorium has collected a bunch of blogs under the heading "Ice Stores: Dispatches from Polar Scientists", which showcases scientists working at the poles. Not surprisingly the research is seasonal: scientists work in Antarctica during the Northern Hemisphere's winter (so summer at the South Pole), while research in the Arctic is going on now. A number of women scientists are part of the effort.

In the Arctic:

• Anne Jensen "lives and works in Barrow, Alaska. Anne’s field studies have taken her throughout much of Alaska for the past 25 years. Her research in human adaptation in the Arctic includes a long-term project at the prehistoric village site of Nuvuk, where the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas come together. Historic Nuvuk is also the site of a 1,000-year-old burial ground. Hundreds of gravesites are endangered there by erosion, which sometimes removes 50 feet of coastal frontage in a single storm."
• Amy Breen "has studied the impacts of climate change on Arctic plant communities for nearly a decade. She is a PhD candidate in the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska, and a member of a team of circumpolar scientists participating in the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX). In July 2008, she’ll begin blogging from the Toolik Field Station, her field site in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range in Alaska."
• Laura Thomas "is an archaeologist and full-time resident of Barrow, Alaska. As the Field and Lab Director for the Nuvuk Archaeology Project, Laura devotes her time to the long-term excavation of a 1,000-year-old burial ground significantly threatened by erosion. Born and raised amongst the rich geological history of Ontario, Canada, Laura has held a lifelong interest in prehistory and how past peoples adapted to their environments. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto, and describes her archaeological work in the Arctic as 'living the dream.'"
• Zoe Courville "studies snow and ice in polar regions. She received her PhD in material science from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in 2007. She is currently employed as a research mechanical engineer at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab in Hanover, New Hampshire. She loves working in the polar ice caps and sharing her experiences with others."

In the Antarctic:

• Cassandra Brooks "is a graduate student in Marine Science at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) in California who has studied Antarctic marine resources for the last four years both at MLML and with the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program (AMLR). Cassandra’s work focuses on life history and population structure of Antarctic toothfish. Her goal is to provide information on their age, growth, and spatial distribution in order to facilitate sustainable management of this important Antarctic species."
• Christina Riesselman "has traveled to Antarctica three times in pursuit of fossil diatoms that can unlock the secrets of past climate change. She's a Ph.D. student at Stanford University's Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences and a member of the international team of scientists working on the ANDRILL sediment coring project."
• Nadine Quintana Krupinski "studies the dynamics of ice sheets and the waterways that exist under glaciers. She's a glaciology Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and enjoys working on isolated glaciers in the world's polar regions."
• Maria Vernet "has been a primary investigator on thirteen research cruises off the Western Antarctic Peninsula, exploring one of the coldest marine ecosystems on earth. She's a marine biologist from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California. During winter 2008, she studied the ecology of phytoplankton and its role within the marine ecosystem at the Palmer Station Long-Term Ecological Research Network (LTER). From May 31 to June 20, 2008, Maria is on board the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker in the northwest Weddell Sea, collecting plankton samples from under and around large free-floating icebergs that have broken off from the Antarctic Ice shelf."
• Kathryn Schaffer Miknaitis "dreamed of becoming an artist but fell in love with physics in graduate school. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago's Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and pursues questions about the origin and history of the universe on the South Pole Telescope team. She arrived at the South Pole in November 2007 and blogged about her work on the telescope until she left in February 2008."

If you click on the scientists' names, you'll not only get to their blogs, but you can learn more information about the projects they are working on. It's an interesting glimpse into doing scientific research under extreme environmental conditions.

Tags: women in science, Arctic research, Antarctic research, blogs

Blog roll update: supplemental

Thanks to everyone who sent me blog suggestions!

As always, if you'd rather your blog not be listed, drop me a note and I'll remove it from the list. And if you have another suggestion, let me know!

General and Miscellaneous

The Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS) has news about meetings and fellowships.

The Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (CWiST) blog has news about Canadian women in, well, you know . . .

Physical Sciences

Christie at the Cape teaches in the geology department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She says "I am pretty new here. This blog is about settling in."

Mel at Ripples in the Sand is "a graduate student in the Rocky Mountain region. My interests include sedimentology, stratigraphy, and diagenesis - with an emphasis on deserts."

Alessia Maggi is a research seismologist in Strasbourg, France who blogs at Sismordia - Seismology at Concordia.

Ordinary High Water Mark is written by Coconino, "a woman geoscientist and I primarily work on conducting wetland/waters jurisdictional determinations in the greater southwest."

Dr. Lisa is an astrophysicist who blogs at Things I Find Important. "I'm a scientist and an educator. And occasionally, I want to say things that I shouldn't say in front of the students. So, here I am."

Louise Riofrio blogs at A Babe in the Universe. She's a "Full-time researcher in cosmology. Before graduating I learned that the speed of light is slowing down and came up with the GM=tc^3 equation, which most physicists still can't explain. More recent work seeks Black Holes in some very unexpected places. I enjoy exploring a strange world and unusual forms of life."

Marni Dee Sheppeard is a physics and astronomy postgrad in New Zealand. Her blog, "Arcadian Functor" has "occasional meanderings in physics' brave new world."


Wayward Elf is an "American expat in Switzerland who, to the horror of everyone she meets, shipped over a spinning wheel and ten (small and liftable) boxes of books. And a lot of knitting needles. All padded with my yarn and fiber stash." She just successfully defended her thesis - congrats Dr. Elf!

Life Sciences

Rock Doctor writes at Life v. 3.0 . She says: "After many bumps, twists, and turns in the life of a military spouse, I have finally reclaimed my own space and place. I am for myself and all the world, a geobiologist."

Adopt a Microbe is the blog of Emma Lurie, a student in Perth, Australia. Each post is a portrait of a bacterium, virus, or other microbe, with a description and cute original illustration. I never thought I'd want to give herpes a hug!

Alethea of Humans in Science suggested several French women science bloggers:

Ingénieur Bioinformaticienne is written by "Evelyne, is a research engineer in bioinformatics and has been actively writing for the last year on her career."

Dr. Caroline Legrand, anthropologist, "has a diverse blog covering her academic specialty, genealogy, searching for origins, and her view of French academic politics."

Dr. Sophie Pène "has been keeping a blog about her research in networking on her university site"

Mathematics and Computer Science

Ivory Tower Tales blogger Science Cog is "a newly appointed tenure-track assistant professor in the mathematical sciences at a large research university in the United States. Cast of characters on this blog include the cog family consisting of spouse with demanding job and several kids."

Jessika at Middle Raged Punk is "a 30-something punk/geek chick living in Oklahoma. I am married with one Baby Grrl, and am still struggling with working full time, doing the home stuff, and rebelling against the system while trying to find time to satisfy the geek in me by playing video and other games." She asks "Where'd all the women in IT go?"

The Women and Mathematics EMS Committee blog has the following description:

The idea to try and provide European women mathematicians with a meeting point between the two EWM meetings, was born at the EWM Cambridge meeting. The European Mathematical Society Committee Women and Mathematics launched the blog on September 12, 2007, with a wish to put this idea into work.

We are doing our best to publish the materials as regularly as possible. Of course, people are more than welcome to leave their comments. (Unfortunately, this opportunity has not been very much exploited.) So far we have published various materials : statistical data, reports on past activities of the Committee, materials about EWM; we have also started a gallery of portraits of living women mathematicians, each of whom is introduced by one of her women colleagues.

Engineering

Hot Chicks Dig Smart Men is written by Janiece Murphy, "a Hot Chick living in Parker, CO with my Smart Man, my family and my Giant Schnauzer. I'm a 17 year veteran of the United States Navy, and I currently work as a Systems Engineer at a major manufacturer of Telecommunications equipment. I'm an amateur skeptic and a fan-girl of science, and I think Neil deGrasse Tyson knows the secret of the Universe. I'm unashamedly liberal. I attend the University of Denver, knit cold weather accessories for various charities, and I'm learning to play bass guitar in an effort to stave off the Mad Cow."

Tags: women in science, blogs

Blog Roll Update

I've been kind of neglecting the list of women science bloggers in the sidebar. If you asked to be included and I'm just now getting around to adding you, I apologize. I've done a bit of spring cleaning, and removed blogs that either have gone dormant (not updated for at least 6 months) or have been deleted completely. I also added the new Blogger widget that shows the most recent post for each blog. I like it, for the most part, but the one drawback is that it can only include blog feeds - blogs without feeds (and there are some out there) aren't included, and there usually aren't separate feeds for individual authors in multi-author blogs.

What's exciting to me is the sheer variety of women science bloggers. Some talk about their personal experiences, while others are purely science. Some bloggers are pseudonymous, others blog under their real names. The authors are undergrads, college students, grad students, post docs, faculty members, scientists in industry, programmers, teachers, science writers, and more. And what are all these blogs good for (other than interesting reading, of course)? Fairer Science's Building Web Communities has some suggestions for "Using Women in Science Blogs to Encourage Girls in Science" (and I'm not just mentioning because they link back here). There's also a good discussion of using "Women in Science" blogs as a recruitment tool at Sciencewomen.

Please let me know if there are blogs you think should be included (I apologize if your blog vanished in the transition to the new widget), I've miscategorized your blog, misspelled your name or you'd rather not be included in the blog roll at all.

So without any more ado, here are the most recently added blogs:

General & Miscellaneous

This category is for blogs that are about science or women in science in general, or it's unclear whether author is a life scientist, physical scientist or other.

Parsnip Parsimony is a "vegan baking and science blog". Her most recent post is about donuts and chemistry. Yummy!

Inside Higher Education's Mama PhD is a group blog by mothers "attempting to balance motherhood and academics", that includes "ABCs and PhDs: Biologists at Home" Liz Stockwell, Dana Campbell, and Susan Bassow, as well as "Math Mom" Della Fenster.

Scientia Matris is "A female post-doc in some field or another. A mother of two divine little creatures who sometimes I refer to as 'career killers' (they are my highest impact productions whose citation rate will long outlive me and possibly also my science!). I work in a big group at present but am about to take the big leap and set up on my own."

Jennie at Just a Girl is "in the last year of my Ph.D. dissertation
and have currently moved from the East Coast to the Midwest for my
husbands job." She turned in her dissertation on June 2 - congrats!

Becky at Sweet Life in Seattle is a "postdoc in science trying to navigate being a full-time working mom and wife and all of the minutia that entails."

Kate's Controversies "is a place for conversation and discussion about controversies in science, technology, engineering, and many other topics. Kate, the blog's owner, will use this blog to publicly ask "WHY?" to controversial topics that catch her eye."

Life Sciences

This is definitely the largest category. I'm not sure if that's because there are more women who blog about the life sciences (which would make sense because there are more women life scientists than physical scientists), or if it's because I'm most interested in biological science topics.

Neurotic Physiology is a blog by "SciCurious", who is "a graduate student struggling through the vagaries of a PhD in Physiology and Pharmacology at a southeastern university. She tried to stay focused on her work, but she can’t help it, she’s sci-curious. In her free time, she is a nerd, a geek, and also a dork. And every once in a while, she talks about herself in the third person. "

R.E.S.E.A.R.C.H.E.R.S is a co-ed blog by postdocs Dr. A and Dr. J. What their blog is about:

Dr J and I used to work on the same floor in the institute where I did my Ph.D. and where J came for a postdoctoral position from across the pond. The last year for me, and the first for him were very busy times but we helped each other through by providing counseling over a pint or 5, a bottle of shiraz, chocolate and sushi. These sessions were instrumental in getting me through the hardest year of my life and now that I have moved for my own postdoctoral work, and we are unable to chat, bitch, wine, or cry in person - why not start a blog!

Scientist Mother is pursuing a PhD at "a university in Western Canada". She's an indo-Canadian, and, as the title of her blog indicates, a mother. Her latest post is on the Validity of Leaving Academia.

The About.com biology blog is written by Regina Baily, who is "active in the development of biology and science related content for a Web content development firm. She has written the forward for a book from the well known Complete Idiot's Guide series: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Cloning." Her goal "make biology meaningful and fun, and to provide you with fresh, up-to-date information that will make you wonder why all of those science courses were so boring."

Biotech Brazil is written by Luciana di Ciero, "an Agronomic Engineer with a Masters Degree in Agronomy and Doctorate Degree in Science."

Tina at Raising Scientists is 'Full time post-doc. Part-time teacher. Mother of two. And sleep deprived."

Julie R at In My (Not So) Abundant Spare Time . . . is "Postdoc by day. Wife and mother of twins by night."

WomanScientist is a graduate student "Trying to figure out what it means to be a woman and a scientist. Trying to figure out how this career fits into real life. Trying to convince myself that I can do this.

Physical Sciences

This category includes physics, chemistry, geosciences, astronomy, and related sciences.

Magma Cum Laude is written by Jessica, a soon-to-be graduate student in volcanology.

Science writer Jennifer Ouellette, who blogs at Cocktail Party Physics, has a second blog at discovery.com called Twisted Physics.

Physicality of Words is a blog by postdoc Åka, who writes about "physics, about going abroad for postdoc, about literature and ideas, and about fandom and Sweden and related things that I find interesting."

Dr. RMC, Non-Fiction Scientist is written by "a female postdoc in the general area of env. chem."

Nerd-land is a blog (in English) by Darwi, a Bosnian scientist now working in the UK. Read about her experience as a woman in science.

A Wallflower Physicist's Perspective is written by "a female undergraduate about to begin the stressful journey of applying to and then trying to survive graduate school in physics. If all goes as planned, I will earn my Ph.D. sometime within the next decade and go on to enjoy a life of research and unabashed nerdiness."

Nancy Atkinson @ Universe Today is freelance writer and journalist who writes about space exploration and science. She's also a NASA Solar System Ambassador.

Emily Lakdawalla pens (keys?) the Planetary Society Weblog.

Feminist Chemists have a manifesto (my term, not theirs):

Feminist Chemists believe that all women are created equal too.

Our site is a central repository of information that will educate and inspire and likely infuriate.

We are astonished that there is still a debate about the existence of discrimination against women in chemistry. If anyone still doubts this fact, our site provides irrefutable proof from diverse credible sources.

As Feminist Chemists we are opening chemistry to all people.

We are challenging the status quo of the androcentric field of chemistry and demanding that the conscious and subconscious gender bias operating within the field be acknowledged, addressed and stopped!

We emphatically believe that ending gender bias in chemistry is of the utmost importance to our national interest and the realization of our species’ potential.

This is a call to action.

Silver Fox at Looking for Detachment is a "fifty-something exploration
geologist working here and there in the West, mostly. Geologist,
exploration- ist, artist. Former pool player, Austin Rules (no slop,
bank the 8)."


Mathematics and Computer Science

For those of you who want to make suggestions for this category, note that "computer science" doesn't include blogs that focus on gaming or technogadgets.

Isobel Lugo - a "third-year PhD student in mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania" - blogs at God Plays Dice, "A random walk through mathematics -- mostly through the random part."

Girly Geekdom is a group blog associated with Girl Geek Dinners.

Geek Girl Blogs is an aggregate of blogs by and for Women in IT.

We know that there are many amazing women working in the IT industry, across all areas, countries and backgrounds. Many of these amazing women have decided to keep blogs that give insight into their daily life: some purely technical, some social, others cover dealing with the constraints of working in this so called mans world, balancing work with family and achieving amazing personal & career goals, while others are just damned entertaining.

The Haxr Chick Blog is "a hacker chick's thoughts on life and software" written by Abby Fichtner, who is a "writer, runner, cyclist, boxer/kickboxer, book worm, couch potato, food lover, perpetual dieter, hacker, software engineer, ScrumMaster extraordinaire".

The about.com Math blog is written by Deb Russell "an experienced teacher having taught both elementary, middle and high school students. Deb has presented math implementation and math exemplar inservices to hundreds of teachers throughout her school board and educational jurisdiction. " She says:

I love teaching and learning all about Mathematical concepts. As an educator, parent and math enthusiast, I'm committed to providing you with the best mathematical resources. A solid foundation in Mathematics can pave the way to success and is an important factor in many careers. The problem solving strategies required in math help prepare us for today's complex, information age. After all, it's the wealth of rich resources used appropriately that improves mathematical understanding.

Rivikah at Life and Then Some is a mathematician.

Engineering

This is currently the smallest category, so more links to women engineers who blog would be appreciated.

Also Worth Reading

Educated Woman is a series of articles Science Minority Scientists Network about the "grad school adventures" of the pseudonymous Micella Phoenix Dewhyse. I'm kind of late to the game, since the series started in 2002 and is on its next-to-last installment, but it's definitely worth reading.

The PBS Wired Science Correlations blog has a few women bloggers (but no individual feeds), including antarctic meteorologist Tasmin Gray (who also blogs at Melted Cheese), biologist Tara Smith (of Aetiology), and marine biologist Sheril Kirshenbaum (who also blogs at The Intersection).

Tags: women in science, blogs

Welcome Fellow Blogger Users!

I was surprised when I logged into Blogger that Women in Science had been listed as a "Blog of Note". No wonder there have been so many new comments today. Welcome everyone (except the spammers)!

I hope you find the blog interesting and chose to stick around. And if you are interested in science and scientists, be sure to check out some of the blogs in the sidebar.

Additions to the Blogroll

Here are some recent additions to the blogroll in the sidebar. The "highlight post" is one that I found interesting; YMMV as they say on the internets.

As always, if you think your blog is listed in the wrong category or you would rather not be listed in the blogroll, please drop me an email and I'll change it. I'd also appreciate any suggestions for blogs to be added, particularly in the physical sciences and engineering, since my own science blog reading leans more heavily towards biology.

Physical Sciences

Twinkle twinkle YSO: Hannah is a PhD astronomer who blogs about astronomy and women in science.
Highlight post: Impressing Impressionable Girl Scouts

AstroPixie: Amanda Bauer is an astronomer in the middle (end?) of writing her dissertation. She writes about "things and stuff, astronomy and life"
Highlight post: 50 Years of Space Science

i postdoc, therefore i am: Schlupp is "Yet another postdoc in the physical sciences, in condensed matter theory. Originally from My Country / Europe, with a PhD from MyCountry Provincial Tech, I did a two-year postdoc in Germany and have just started another one in the US."
Highlight post: On the Existance of Deadwood

Rising to the Occasion: saxifraga is "a Postdoc in earth science at a research institute in Scandinavia and teach at University above the Arctic Circle. I am also a wife, a daughter, a sister and hopefully still a friend to some awesome people I spend way too little time with. The blog is an outlet for my personal thoughts and a way to engage in discussion with others about academic life and work. I appreciate my readers and your opinions."
Highlight post: When there's more than one side to the story

Life Sciences

Mind the Gap: Jennifer Rohn is "a post-doctoral cell biologist at University College London, having returned last year to science after a four-year sabbatical as a journal editor. In my spare time, I am also a freelance science writer, editor and journalist; novelist; biotechnology consultant and the founder and editor of LabLit.com magazine"
Highlight post: In which I marvel at bureaucratic insanity

rENNISance woman: Cath Ennis of VWXY Not? has a second blog on the Nature Network that is more directly focused on science. Her description: "I blog about current genetics, genomics, virology and evolution research. I'll also include posts about grant writing and any other ideas that take my fancy."
Highlight post: Leaving labs and losing labmates

Missives From the Frontal Lobe: KL Dickson is currently studying neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her blog is about "neuroscience, atheism, philosophy, neurotheology, transhumanism, and lots of things."
Highlight post: On transhumanism

Everything and more: Makita is "a full-time graduate student, carpenter, cleaning lady, gardener, electrician, and probably a few other things that are required to keep my household running." Her blog is about her "adventures in life, and an outlet for my thoughts."
Highlight post: Oral exam .... again (congrats on passing!)

Blue Lab Coats: This blog is written by a "female w/kids balancing academic science & home". "I am a veterinarian and biologist, and I have a tenure track junior faculty position. I come to work every day because there are certain biological questions that I find fascinating and I can’t stop thinking about. I hope that what I do in my job (and in my life) makes a difference for others."
Highlight posts: Unsolicited Advice: Job Search Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde: "I'm a postdoc in the biological sciences. I can't decide if I work too much or not enough. I'm married to Dr. Hyde, a fabulous scientist himself, and we're trying, despite some obstacles, to fulfill our Darwinian mandate by having a child or two. The title and pseudonym? One name at work, another at home."
Highlight post: What's in my name

Candidate Models: Stepwise Girl writes about "-my adventures as a young academic - I guess I'm something along the lines of a tenure-track professor although that's not what I'm called here where I am; -as a subset of that, partly, how being a woman is inflecting the trajectory; -I guess there might be some questions related to the environment"
Highlight post: Déjà vu

Science Sisters: This blog is written by Jena & Mary, who are "both pre-pharmacy students, sisters, best friends." The tone is breezy and I'll admit that I'm not particularly keen on being addressed by "Hey Girls" at the beginning of every post, but that's probably because their target audience is 20 years (or more) my junior. You can't beat their enthusiasm.
Highlight post: Lost In Space

Guadalupe Storm-Petrel: barn owl is a "cancer and developmental neurobiology researcher, medical educator, and frustrated natural historian; long-limbed, long digits, Northern European peasant and barbarian stock, lots of wild hair and prone to intellectual wild hares. Interests wander incessantly. Strong Luddite tendencies. Congenitally incapable of silence and acceptance in the face of social or environmental injustice." Her blog is mostly hard biology, rather than commentary.
Highlight post: Don't You Step on My Blue Sulid Shoes

The Grad Life: A Southern Girl's Affair in Boston: Southern Grad Girl is "a life-long Southern girl who left the South for grad school in the life sciences in Boston. I have a wonderful non-scientist husband who happily (well, sort of happily) followed me across the country. I'm a second-year student, still in the honeymoon stage."
Highlight post: No news is not good news

Still Evolving: Farne is "in my mid-40's in a same-sex relationship, with 2 grown kids, lots of Italian Greyhounds and an interesting job in training with the development side of a pharmaceutical company. And an ex-husband who complicates my life..."
Highlight post: A question for 2008: Where have all the older women gone?

Dirt and Rocks: Brigindo is "a behavioral scientist fascinated by life's daily minutiae. if
it's seemingly inconsequential and repetitive, our girl's on it."
Highlight post: On the Fragility of Students

Mathematics and Computer Science

Keet Blog: Maria Keet is "an Assistant Professor (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato) at the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy." She often writes about ontology, bioinfomatics, and science in general.
Highlight post: From the marketing department - or: blogging by science journalists vs. scientists who are blogging?

Engineering

Journeys of an Academic: Academic is "a quirky engineer who actually wants to try making a difference in the world."
Highlight post: Emails that Make our Heart Pound

Candid Engineer in Academia: Candid Engineer is an "engineer-scientist trying to find my way as a postdoctoral researcher at Brilliant University. My new academic home is flush with cash- but the abundance of funding comes with a price: pompous and secretive colleagues. Tune in regularly as I offer my perspective on random academic topics and chronicle my experiences as a researcher at Brilliant U."
Highlight post: Flatter Me Silly

It's not really a new blog, but Alice Pawley, an assistant professor of engineering education at Purdue, has joined ScienceWoman at the newly renamed ScienceWomen blog (formerly "On Being a Scientist and a Woman").

Engineering Education: This new blog has two authors - Alice Pawley and Gina Navoa Svarovsky, who is "finishing up my PhD in Educational Psychology while also being a faculty member at a two-year masters program. My dissertation work focuses on engineering education in the K-12 arena, and in particular, engaging girls in meaningful and empowering engineering activity during their precollege years."

General

Thesis - With Children: AcmeGirl is a "PhD student at an Ivy League University. I'm a woman of color in one of those (white)male-dominated fields. I also have two children and am trying to have some kind of healthy relationship with my long suffering husband. Basically, I'm as close as a single point can come to being a complete data set." (Note: I've filed this under "general" since AcmeGirl doesn't specify if her ology is in the physical or biological sciences.)
Highlight post: Maintaining Decorum

Tags: blogs, women in science, women in engineering