I have no idea. I wrote a message back which was basically WTF? And that I hope he’s OK. He hasn’t responded. I think he’s been unwell and that this was bothering him. Or hells, maybe he’s lost it. But I’m fairly confident he didn’t make the cartoon story up as a delusion. Those guys were awful and I had a very bad…

Hey, so I just found out that a few years after finishing my post-doc some of the old guys in the department drew up a cartoon of me and my advisor and left it on his desk to make fun of him. My advisor was an old guy that was quite hard to work with. I don’t think the cartoon was sexual in nature, but it definitely…

I think I deleted rather than published what I just wrote. Sorry for the double if so!

OK, also, I truly know a bunch of great men in my STEM field that see me as a person not a woman. Focus on your work and what you think is cool about it and that’s more than enough to get you respected.

I haven’t thought this out enough to be really helpful, but I did want to jump in and say I’ve been there. I think we’ve almost all been there. For me, the crisis was during my post-doc. That was during the whole Larry Summers bullshit. We ended up having too many conversations amongst the other post-docs that exposed…

OK, shows how out of the language loop I am!

And Alberta in particular.

I think you meant “wait women” not “white women”?

Wow, I am exactly there myself — everything except I’m in Seattle, not CA. So depressing that after all this time and having a good job I still can’t afford to live in anything better than what I had in school. But I’m trying. I’m putting in a bid tomorrow for a townhouse, though I’ve lost out 3 times so far. Maybe…

Once again, fantastic artwork!

I was Maid of Honor at my friend’s wedding. It was a small wedding, out in a gorgeous cabin-y hotel in the mountains. Everyone came from different places so the night before was one big hot tub party to catch up with old friends. I was sharing a room and bed with the bride’s sister, who I only kind of knew. In the…

Hey, what I took from your message is that you're being asked to take on a new and more important workload, which ALWAYS throws a person, but really is a great thing. Own it and own your contribution. It always helps me to know that in general as women we super down play our abilities (it's lifelong conditioning plus…

I just tried yoga a couple of weeks ago. One was an end of night stretching type which was pretty good. I let the instructor know that it was my first time ever and she was very welcoming. The second class was vinyasa flow, which SUCKED for me. It sucked because we kept moving the whole time (which is apparently…

I totally agree! I used to subscribe to Food and Wine, and every year their "Best New Chefs" edition would feature about 20 chefs, only one of which was a woman. And to follow up on usedtobehere's comment below, yes, almost always a pastry chef. (And I'm not in the industry, but I've always wondered if more women…

I was coming in to make that Bloom County reference, but yours is so much better! I had no idea I could find Bloom County comics online!

Stars for pointing out the excellent example of Dunning-Kruger!

Stars for pointing out the excellent example of Dunning-Kruger!

Ultimately, the experts are the experts for a reason: if the overwhelming scientific consensus is that a particular food additive is safe to ingest, or that vaccines are safe and preferable to dying of easily-preventable diseases, or that my iPod is powered by a collection of electric signals rather than tiny singing…

Student/teacher relationships, sure. But I don't support an all-campus ban. Not only is it unrealistic, but who do you think is going to get punished in this? My guess: not the male professors, certainly the female professors, and always the students. How can this be anything but very harmful to the students who…