The X'Pert 2 is gathering more X-ray data for my second paper while I get a *gasp* supportive email from a feminist scientist professor of women's studies at San Diego State, Deboleena Roy. She has a Ph. D. in reproductive neuroendocrinology. I sent her an email asking for suggestions how to actually apply feminist criticisms to what I do, because ( Read more... )

I emailed a professor at Rice whose group and research had been featured on PBS as being woman-friendly. Her webpage says transfer students are welcome and that some of her best sudents are 'refugees' from other groups, asking if my background could be useful in her group and explained that I don't like the environment my current research group has ( Read more... )

I hadn't understood until now that science isn't about knowledge or understanding but about power. I bought the myth.

I don't think the science I love really exists.

I wanted yu xiang qiezi for lunch. I was going to bring my lunch back to my office because I was eating alone. I was about to order in Chinese when I realized I don't know what "to go" is in Putonghua. My mind started sprouting off into other languages and drew a blank. I tried thinking of a typical restaurant dialogue in China or somewhere in ( Read more... )

I can tell when I'm not happy in my environment. When I'm happy, I just use whatever language is around me in my head and in my notes. When I feel threatened in that language, I start taking notes and thinking in another. I started a research diary in Finnish, in part to jiggle my scientific Finnish, in part as escapism, and in part as a silly ( Read more... )

...learn to write you literary scientific cretins!!! Aoyama and Eguchi - WAS YOUR PRECURSOR Ru(EtCp)2 OR Ru(Cp)2?? WAS YOUR SUBSTRATE SILICON OR SILICON DIOXIDE? DID YOUR SILICON WAFERS OXIDIZE IN THE CHAMBER PRIOR TO GROWTH? I DON'T KNOW AND I SHOULD BECAUSE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO TELL ME! THAT'S WHAT PAPERS ARE SUPPOSED TO DO!

*grumble*

I'm starting to write my prelim report. I opened EndNote and was going to make sure I can't forget any papers by going through them from the top and writing the sentence they belong with, then sorting the sentences out. The papers at the very top, are, of course, by Aaltonen, Titta. Out of the few people that are giving me support, I am the most ( Read more... )

1. My abstract for the spring Materials Research Society meeting in San Fransisco was accepted. I'm going to my first conference ( Read more... )

One of my labmates broke off a screw in the only functional platten. Now we have no working plattens. I know it! This is why I haven't analyzed any of the films I've grown in months. I have things to do that don't require the vacuum chamber. Like celebrating Christmas ( Read more... )

The logic behind the "challenge" to Western freedom of speech is very troublesome. To make the argument work, one would have to consider a particular religion's myths about history and theology to be historical and theological truths the way the Holocaust is historical truth. We have so much evidence of the Holocaust - including lots and lots of ( Read more... )