The Singular Scientist

A commenter on an earlier post in this series brings up an important issue regarding scientists who are reluctant to be cheerleaders for s...

I'll bet you didn't know that fact about blue-eyed people.  To find out more, I encourage you to watch this PBS Frontline episode . ...

A male colleague asked me a question, which I translated to mean, "What exactly do women want?" This colleague is a young scient...

In this series of posts, we are talking about introverts and the problems they face in a society that idolizes extroversion.  In the last po...

In this series of posts, I'm discussing introverts, and to kick off the series I described a hypothetical situation in which a young sci...

In the previous post I described a hypothetical situation in which Jennifer, a marine biologist in her first job, has run into a problem.  H...

Imagine the following hypothetical scenario: After receiving a Ph.D. in marine science, Jennifer started working for a government science ...