The Sciences
When Doing Sensitive Interviews, Have Emergency Puppy
So, I haven’t had a chance to blog these last few weeks. Part of it is that I’ve been submitting papers, revising papers, teaching, and giving talks – the usual gig for a professor.
Stories by Kate Clancy
Health
Roller Derby Teammates Give Each Other Bacterial Hugs
My team does a lot together. We work out. We practice and scrimmage. We swap recipes and cook food together. We watch footage and we hold meetings. We try to listen and then talk all over each other...
The Sciences
Science Online 2013 Archive Up: Watch Our Identity Session
The #scio13ID session is here! It was a great session thanks to a brilliant, brave, thoughtful audience. Watch live streaming video from scienceonline at livestream.com
The Sciences
The Biological Anthropology Field Experiences Web Survey: Now Live
Field experiences are often what help an undergraduate decide whether or not to pursue biological anthropology, they determine the course of a graduate student’s dissertation, and they provide the data needed to launch grants and make tenure cases for faculty...
Evolution
5 Ways to Make Progress in Evolutionary Psychology: Smash, Not Match, Stereotypes
(Alternate, Twitter-sourced titles: "5 Ways to Prove Darwin Wasn't Crazy," "Shut the Eff Up and Science Already," "5 Ways Psychology Needs to Evolve."
Mind & Brain
My response to the Guardian pseudoscience on girls and science
Just wanted to give a quick heads up to those of you who follow on the blog but not on Twitter or Facebook (personal, blog) that Chris Chambers and I have a piece in the Guardian today responding to the recent pseudoscience on why more girls don't pursue science in places like the US and UK: "Pseudoscience and stereotyping won't solve gender inequality in science." Many thanks to Ed Yong for hooking up Chris and me, and to Chris for graciously inviting me to write with him...
The Sciences
Diversity in Science Carnival: Identity Edition
I have a million thoughts swirling in my head after Science Online 2013, and a million more things I want to learn about and accomplish for Science Online 2014.
The Sciences
Context and Identity in Science Writing #scio13ID
As you now all know, my partner in crime Scicurious is much like the superhero Batwoman. Or maybe, she is trying to tell us something, and finally share with us her secret identity?
The Sciences
Kate Clancy s Short Grant Rant: On Broken Promises
Here is my grant rant. It is very, very simple. Last night I was talking to a colleague who just heard he missed the funding cutoff for his NIH grant by a single point – a score of 19 and under was funded, and his grant was a 20 (Edited 1/27 8pm CST to fix incorrect wording - numbers weren't percentiles but the actual NIH scores)...
The Sciences
Challenge Accepted: Non-traditional Assignments in the Classroom
I’ve been teaching a 200-level evolutionary medicine course at my university for four years. Each year I try something a little different to give students more ways to express themselves and to demonstrate their understanding of the material...
The Sciences
Back to Work! Autonomy and the Stress of Being a Professor
I used to have a colleague who thought it was funny to yell “back to work!” whenever he saw me. He would regale me, a young, breastfeeding assistant professor with an infant in tow and a 750 student course, with tales of when he was an assistant professor and would work all day, come home to the kids, and then go back into the office to work after tucking them in...
Evolution
Will the Pill Mess Up My Ability to Detect My One True Love?
It's vacation time for Team Family, as my daughter calls us. While we're skating and skiing, enjoy this repost from my old blog on hormonal contraceptives and mate choice.
The Sciences
Link love: December 2012
Some interesting, insightful, or amusing things I've been reading this week. The DSM-V is out I'm not a psychologist, but the DSM, or Diagnostic Systems Manual, is still important to my research, but as someone who teaches evolutionary medicine, most especially my teaching...
Health
Don t Sweat It: Premenopausal Women, Reproductive State, and the Joy of Night Sweats
Figure 1. Image of a sweat gland from Gray's Anatomy, 18th edition I tend to go to bed freezing, especially so in the winter, so I pile our flannel sheet, blanket, and down comforter over me when I settle in to sleep...
The Sciences
Audiences, Trolls, and Getting Some Science Onto the Internet
Earlier this week, the Women in Science group at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign convened a panel on using social media to promote science.
The Sciences
Today: Using Social Media to Promote Science
Join me, Joanne Manaster, Melanie Tannenbaum and Prof. Bill Hammack today from 4-6pm at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Institute for Genomic Biology, room 612 (that's the room right next to Array Cafe, in the Gatehouse)...
Evolution
Bone Mineral Density Status: It s Complicated
Lady bones are delicate, selfless, dense connective tissue that hold lady bodies up to help the lady vessel carry babies. When we are pregnant, the thinking goes, lady bones give up their calcium in vast quantities, depleting themselves for the good of their darling fetuses...
Evolution
The Ladybusiness Lab is Hiring
As you all know, the gig that takes up a lot more of my time is that I am an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
The Sciences
Being Overwhelmed is Way Scarier Than a Paranormal Activity Movie
Want a little lesson in the life of a scientist? On my plate right now: Proposal reviews: OVERDUE Book chapter: OVERDUE Two revise and resubmits: one OVERDUE, one not (yet) Manuscript review: SUBMITTED LATE Proposal revision to mock panel: only a matter of time before OVERDUE New grant proposals: WAY BEHIND SCHEDULE Workouts: NOT HAPPENING with husband out of town and sitters unavailable Emails to me these days: GO INTO A BLACK HOLE UNLESS YOU WRITE A SECOND TIME AND ARE ON FIRE Kiddo’s Halloween costume: NOT QUITE DONE AND THE CLOCK IS TICKING Blog post: well, at least I got something done...
Health
Hot for Obama, But Only When This Smug Married Is Not Ovulating
You all must forgive me for this blog post. You see, I am in my premenstrual phase, and so with all my insane-o premenstrual symptoms I simply cannot access the part of my brain that makes political decisions...
