Blogs by women in science, engineering, technology
Ruth Wilson
Wednesday, 06 August 2008 14:35 UTC
I just wanted to say I’m really looking forward to the conference. At UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology we work with women of all ages (18+), and blogging, eportfolios etc are becoming increasingly important to women building careers, communicating science or wanting to network.
Any way, I wanted to say that I have built a couple of basic pages about blogging on our site, with a list of some of the women in science bloggers who are around. I tried to get all the women coming to the conference on the list, but in a few cases I got a bit lost… Corrections/clarifications etc welcomed!
http://www.ukrc4setwomen.org/html/raise-your-profile/blogging/
I also began to realise how much is out there, and I can’t include everyone. One way round this is maybe to make another page on the site, with a list of useful ‘environments’ like nature network and science blogs and others where lots of people operate. Any suggestions welcomed.
Best wishes, Ruth
Updated 09 August 2008 07:13 UTC
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Hi Ruth,
Looks like you’ve got a good list of female science bloggers there.
The scienceblogs.com blog sciencewomen is actually run by two female tenure track assist. profs in the US. Alice Pawley who blogs under her own name and ScienceWoman who keeps the pseudonym (and has the photo of the muddy wellies).
A few other suggestions:
http://what-was-i-doing.blogspot.com/ By Jane B is the blog of a female academic in the UK. I think female UK academic bloggers are pretty rare so this one is worth including.
and http://alternative-scientist.blogspot.com/ which is a blog written by many scientists, some female, mostly in North America about other careers one can do with science qualifications. It is pretty well written, and quite useful for people thinking ’I’ve done a postdoc, now what do I do’.
Your pages about blogging look good!
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I’m female and coming to the conference.
I’m a recent graduate in Psychology (yes, it is a proper science, and much of my blog is devoted to arguing with people who would rather pretend it isn’t so they can get away with mis-using it).
Currently applying for research work.http://brainduck.wordpress.com/
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Hi Katherine and Brain Duck
First, Brain Duck you are on the list of women bloggers now.
Second, thanks Katherine for clarifying Science Women for me, and I’ve also included Jane B Her blog looks very interesting. I shall try to mention her in one of our email newsletters in the autumn.This is a chance too for me to promote our latest post: a construction manager who originally wanted to be a nurse…
Best wishes, Ruth
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I recently came across a US blog that collects interesting stories etc about women in science
I’ve been putting together an RSS feed about women in science (with a biomedical slant) but I’m struggling it a bit to keep it going. It’s a bit between the devil and the deep blue sea – there is a low level of “major” news items but, as you say, a huge amount of other activity now. My rss feed was mainly for local consumption but I’m interested in any feedback – perhaps I am duplicating the work of the resource centre? Or could I feed into that?
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