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Wisconsin Symposium on Feminist Biology!
Wisconsin Symposium on Feminist Biology Join us October 10 – 11 as we consider how to uncover and reverse gender bias in biology Keynote speakers: Anne Fausto-Sterling, Brown University Sari van...
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How don’t you know what you don’t know?!
True story: when I was a graduate student, I supervised a sort of mini-lab of undergraduates. For reasons that are completely opaque to me know but I’m sure made a lot of sense then, one of these...
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Is subjectivity biased?
Okay, not surprisingly, the answer to whether subjectivity is biased is ‘no’. LET’S GO HOME! Just kidding! Remember math tests? It wasn’t the answer at the end, but how you got there. Ok, so science:...
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Um, there’s some rape culture in my neuroanatomy…
When I was in graduate school, I took a human neuroanatomy class. It was both awesome and boring. Why boring? Because decades of people had mistreated their donated cadavers so that, by the time I came...
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The Curious Case of Period Panties: Is the Stereotype of Premenstrual...
Guest post by Tory Eisenlohr-Moul, Postdoctoral Fellow in Women’s Reproductive Mood Disorders, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Both physical and psychological experiences of the menstrual...
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Since I’m made of particles, I’m a particle physics expert!
There are many things I’m an expert on. Here is a list: Weather. Why? Because I have experienced weather for all the years of my life. Existence. Why? Because not only have I experienced weather for...
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The particle is the boy and the anti-particle the girl? Ridding physics...
Guest post by Jeremy Bailin, Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Alabama! Let’s talk about matter/anti-matter annihilation in the early Universe. Okay, so that’s not normally...
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Medicine (yay!) vs. Medicalization (boo!)
Once, an undergraduate student told me she was experiencing depression, but that she had been concerned about telling me she was on anti-depressants. Why worry about telling me? I asked. She explained...
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Here she comes to save the day: PIPETGIRL!
Editor’s Note: Here is a guest post by Stacey Ritz. We put it in pink so that people with girl-eyes could read it. Editor’s Note: I am SO GLAD she is pointing to the lab so that my girl brain can...
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Babies and STEM
I am just going to lay this out here. If you want to discuss when we start giving children the message that STEM is for boys and not for girls, then you can’t get any earlier than the selection of...
View ArticleFeminist Biology Post Doc/Sabbatical!
Here is a new posting for that Feminist Biology post doc/sabbatical position at the University of Wisconson-Madison! This is the second year, and it seems like a great opportunity. Here is the link!...
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Sex, Gender, and the New NIH Policy
Guest Post by Heather Shattuck-Heidorn! In May 2014, the NIH released a new policy mandate requiring equal representation of “sex” in all preclinical research (the research on animals and cellular...
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Exploring Different Methods and Approaches to Doing Feminist Biomedical Science
Guest Post by Sarah Singh and Ineke Klinge! As Heather Shattuck-Heidorn explains in her recent post, scientific researchers, particularly in the health sciences, are being required by funding...
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Apologies for the delay?
If you’re like most academics I know, then you’ve probably typed the title of this post a number of times. “Apologies for the delay” you’ve written, to help alleviate the guilt you feel in taking too...
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Women, Science and the Stage
Guest Post by Molly Freeman, Artistic Director of Smoking Apples Theater Company Making theatre from scratch relies on unflinching determination, total belief in what you’re doing, and a good deal of...
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Wisconsin Symposium on Feminist Biology- October 7, 2016
Wisconsin Symposium on Feminist Biology October 7, 2016 Featured Speakers: Marlene Zuk, Kathryn Clancy, Molly Carnes, and Ann Fink Registration Now Open!
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The March for Science… and Politics?
This is a guest post by Anne Fausto-Sterling! The January 21, 2017 Women’s March on Washington, DC was quite the eye-opener. I am not a naïve marcher, since my first such trek to Washington dates back...
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What’s an Introduction For?
At the University of Michigan, I have been the Director of a Feminist Science Studies program, funded by our Institute for Research on Women and Gender, which means our group has had a lot of speakers...
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If Feminists Hate Science, Why Did We Science! So! Hard?!
You know the story: feminists hate science. It’s clear, it’s catchy, it’s a headline that fits with most media messaging about feminists – they (we!) hate things. Everything! What else do they/we hate?...
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Contributing vs. Interfering in Science: What’s the Diff?
Leave science to the scientists, AMIRITE? If medicine is a place where medical doctors do medicine, art is a place where artists do art, and music is a place where musicians make music, then science...
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