The danger that this goes “too far” is absurd, and if THAT happened, holy shit, congratulations. I welcome our female scientist overlords.

Again, this is my job, which I did by enforcing site-wide rules. I'm paid do this. It's my good luck that we have a commentor base that makes it, for the most part, a highly enjoyable experience. If it was a constant bop-a-troll, you'd bet it would be frustrating, but it isn't and it's not.

Seriously? Try reading the actual discussion section. There are so many people disagreeing with each other on so many different topics, it's phenomenal.

The thing is, depending on the context, these events can have wildly different meanings for different people. And this took me a while to understand because I was like you in thinking these people were too sensitive and being ridiculous.

This not isolated to just one person. It has been made very clear by many women for many years now how they feel about images like these in certain context. It isn't surprising. It isn't new. It isn't special snowflake syndrome. It is the reason why teachers don't come to class in Hooter's or Chippendale dancer…

It would not be appropriate to have a professor have that calendar or wear that shirt to class. You know that is the truth. Please don't act like this would be acceptable.

As a scientist who does an abnormal number of public appearances in a non-academic context, I would so deeply love for it to be a Thing to hire fashion advisors for scientists before events. I am extremely grateful I have access to some undeniably stylish people who have no problem evaluating, editing, and adjusting…

Well... Having many brilliant, skilled friends in the industry in various stages of employment, the job market is sadly small. I would absolutely love it if the funding for space science (or science at all!) was sufficient enough that rocket scientists, astrophysicists, planetary scientists, aeronautics engineers, and…

Oh, absolutely, totally agree! I meant that more as, "I, individually, can do nothing to solve this problem for Taylor, or offer him any advice on how to deal with the aftermath of this mess." His apology very much struck me as heartfelt and genuine, and he seemed to have the support/sympathy of a woman on his team…

I love your article on this. However, I think that Taylor can be helped . . in fact, possibly he has been helped by this debacle in some way. His apology seemed real to me. If he really learned all of the lessons from this, then he is on his way to being a better person. Maybe he will start asking himself and…

Thank you. I wasn't sure I wanted to write this: I don't like jumping on people when they make mistakes. I finally did becauase it'd be even sadder if we walked away from this mess without anyone learning from it.

I really don't have the information to know — everything is chaos tonight with reports coming in all over. I'm just happy a few of the scientists on that setup checked their data and posted it for us; I'm hoping to have a follow-up later this week with a bit more on, "Here's all the unexpected ways we could sense this…

Most astronomers have had to deal with Source Extractor, aka SExtractor, pronounced sex tractor. Even worse, the program command name is just "sex". So, your supercomputer can easily be clogged with to many instances of sex.

Big blue star for you! And really nicely done spotting how it worked into them coming up with the "right" solution later on — can't have them be on entirely dead-ends. Leaving tiny physics-clue Easter-Eggs for episode resolutions was one of my favourite things to do. Reward those screen-freezing uber-geeks who create…

The first episode I ever worked on was the Atlantis season finale, Last Man. For a long time I only showed up after the scripts were written, so the only science I could add was in the physical props. Eventually I was around enough that other departments started borrowing me (like set decorations), but it wasn't until…

Dialogue that was never written or spoken by anyone, ever:

Thank you! The cast and crew are genuinely wonderful people who welcomed me into the industry and taught this awkward scientist how to work on set without messing things up. Absolutely wonderful people, and I'm so glad for the opportunities they gave me.

I'll have more backstage-science stories about Stargate…