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Microbiologist XX: Yep, it's been that kind of day.

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Ramblings of a female microbiologist. Tuesday, February 1, 2011. Yep, it's been that kind of day. I started the day off well enough. I woke up on time, I made myself some coffee (bonus) so that I wouldn't need to stop on the way. I get in the car and proceed to work, quite proud of the $1.50 I am saving. However, about 30 seconds later, the universe decided that today, I would provide it with comic relief or something. Not the good kind). 2 My boob is really wet and warm. Several labor-intensive sips lat...

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Microbiologist XX: Friday Funny: F**k you and your f**cking cheeseburger

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Ramblings of a female microbiologist. Thursday, January 20, 2011. Friday Funny: F* k you and your f* cking cheeseburger. I don't know if I've mentioned this before or not, but I am from Texas. Although I don't share many of the opinions and views expressed by the inhabitants of my home state, I do love the Texas fast food burger joint know as Whataburger. When I was little I thought it was water burger). Like any establishment open 24h, drunk idiots tend to congregate at Whataburger. I am a post-doctoral...

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YoungFemaleScientist: June 2005

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Sunday, June 12, 2005. So, we're getting ready to go on this trip, and of course, the airline we're flying on:. A) doesn't have places to plug in laptops in coach. B) won't let us upgrade to business class, because we bought discount tickets. I'm also feeling really, ahem, naive. Because I bought a power convertor thingee last year, not realizing that you can't even plug that into most Economy class seats. They certainly market it as if it's going to solve all your problems! But really, we don't fit into...

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YoungFemaleScientist: July 2005

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Thursday, July 28, 2005. Today is Big Machine Science Day: Aka, waiting for my cells to do something interesting under the microscope. It's going to be a slow day. I knew this, and I almost brought Harry Potter with me, but then felt guilty. What was I thinking? Lately, I'd rather work in a coffee shop. And the micro- the day to day, okay I just spent a week on this experiment and will it work or was it a total waste of time and effort? Ha ha ha, it's those last two things that really get you in the end.

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YoungFemaleScientist: On publishing

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Monday, December 02, 2013. A comment on the previous post asked how much I published. Let me start by saying, a lot more people have read this blog than ever read the scientific papers I published, if that tells you anything. I can't give you exact numbers, but I did publish well enough to get fellowships. (for all the good it did me, since I never had sufficient financial support from my PIs.). I could have, should have, would have published more if it had been entirely up to me. As I've mentioned repea...

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YoungFemaleScientist: Response to old comments on "Dear PI, it's your fault I'm depressed"

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Response to old comments on "Dear PI, it's your fault I'm depressed". One of my previous posts. Is still getting comments, but blogger won't let me write a long reply all at once. So here are some replies. I realized this is really late to reply, but why not, I have time. It's too bad so many labs are one-trick pony houses. Personally, I think it makes more sense to interview students to see how they think. What they worked on before is just a vehicle for discussing that. That's ...

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This Might Be Science: June 2011

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This Might Be Science. This Scientist blogs about things that Might Be Science, including working as a scientist and taking a "non-traditional" career path She also blogs about being a mother and being a Christian in academia. She used to blog about balancing motherhood and grad school. She is a nerd. Saturday, June 18, 2011. We found out yesterday. He just kicked me. Well! And who wants to hear about another pregnant woman? It's all gas and crying at commercials and back pain, right? I mean, thank God f...

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YoungFemaleScientist: Nightmares as flashbacks: perils of mentoring

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Monday, November 18, 2013. Nightmares as flashbacks: perils of mentoring. Greetings, readers. I'm not planning to come back to blogging regularly, but have a few stories to share. Sometimes when they pile up like a traffic jam in my head, I think it's better to get them written. 1 The bad graduate advisor. We'll call his boss Derek (and hopefully I won't confuse myself writing with fictitious names here). Derek is a rich, relatively well-known dude. Without describing any details here, it's a typical sto...

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YoungFemaleScientist: April 2005

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Friday, April 29, 2005. Science is all crap. Well, it has been a few days and I have no new data. I forgot what this was like: as a postdoc, stuff has generally worked for me. I've had some dry spells, but I usually always have something cooking. A few days of solid failure brings me back to grad school. ahh, grad school. What a miserable time that was! Hard to want to come in for more punishment on the weekend. Posted by Ms.PhD @ 10:35 AM. Links to this post. Tuesday, April 26, 2005. Anyway, long story ...

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YoungFemaleScientist: February 2005

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Monday, February 28, 2005. My horrorscope said to "give myself credit", so here goes:. My paper got in today. I am SO relieved. And regarding a previous blog, I don't think I said this outright, but I think that it ultimately hurts everybody to recruit students on false pretenses. They just end up quitting anyway, somewhere down the line, or they end up miserable and make everyone around them miserable, too. Science is bad enough, even when you're pretty sure you want to be in it! Links to this post.