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Comment on Spam or Salvation? by bdwarf

bdwarf — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:45:33 +0000

Ironically, I’ve had a huge increase in spam since I wrote this….

Comment on Perceptions of Appropriate Behavior Between Students and Advisors: Results are In! by mary

mary — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:17:09 +0000

Thanks for the survey; I participated. Networking is crucial to a career in astronomy, and students and advisors need the right balance of sociable interactions yet without inappropriate behavior occurring. Therefore, to help improve the validity of the survey, I would have liked to have seen some questions that could establish a baseline. For example: “Student asks advisor how to reduce telescope data — appropriate or inappropriate?” as well as the other end of the spectrum: “Student asks advisor for letter of recommendation; advisor then propositions student — appropriate or inappropriate?”

I also enjoyed the list of “favorite quotes” and really appreciated the survey having the free-form answer/comment fields.

Comment on Perceptions of Appropriate Behavior Between Students and Advisors: Results are In! by Who is advising our female astronomy students? « nebulium on neith

Who is advising our female astronomy students? « nebulium on neith — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:32:49 +0000

[...] at perceptions of inappropriate behavior between students and advisors in astronomy (see the next blog post). We polled 579 students, researchers, teachers, staff and other astronomy affiliates as part of [...]

Comment on Who is advising our female astronomy students? by Perceptions of Appropriate Behavior Between Students and Advisors: Results are In! « nebulium on neith

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:31:38 +0000

[...] Given that female students are less likely to have a same-gender advisor than male students (see my last blog post on this), this trend may have a negative affect on young women’s student/advisor [...]

Comment on Who is advising our female astronomy students? by Genevive

Genevive — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:04:56 +0000

Good work! I’m curious to see if your hypothesis, that cross-gender advising relationships lead to an increased perception of inappropriate behavior, holds up in other fields of science, including those that are dominated by women.

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ลงประกาศฟรี — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:21:40 +0000

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Comment on Too Much Violence in Astronomy? by Too Much Violence in Astronomy? Felicia Day thinks so… « nebulium on neith

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:01:36 +0000

[...] time back I wrote a post on the reporting of astronomy and how it is frequently couched in violent or aggressive tones. The brilliant folks at [...]

Comment on The Adam J. Burgasser Endowed Chair of Astrophysics by Ryan Lang

Ryan Lang — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:27:55 +0000

Adam (and Scott), thanks for this…I had heard the story but hadn’t seen the proposals. It made my night!

Comment on The Adam J. Burgasser Endowed Chair of Astrophysics by Scott H.

Scott H. — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:44:43 +0000

Incidentally, the timestamps are rather screwed up here … I definitely did NOT submit my first comment at 2:39 am!!

Comment on The Adam J. Burgasser Endowed Chair of Astrophysics by Scott H.

Scott H. — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:39:44 +0000

And now I’ve linked my endowed chair title from my webpage back to this!

My first paper acknowledging the Chair’s “support” should be on the arxiv very soon. Sadly, the first paper I completed after receiving the chair was for PRL which has very strict page limits, and my co-authors weren’t happy about sacrificing the word space for this acknowledgment. Since the bulk of the work on that paper was done without the Chair’s support, I reluctantly acquiesced. No more, though!