Welcome to the May 2009 edition of Scientiae. Please note the ‘e’ on the end, this is the carnival for women in science and not to be confused with the newly awesome Scientia Pro Publica carnival coming later this weekend on NatureNetwork, hosted by Bob O’Hara at Deep Thoughts and Silliness

This months theme for Scientiae was ‘A Snapshot’ and came from my fascination with time capsules. I was also happy to accept submissions related to any of the carnivals themes.

This will be part I, part II to follow.

More below the fold…

Patchi over at My Middle Years reflects on how her life has changed in the last year, and how few things were certain both then and now when on a postdoc contract. Mrs. Comet Hunter has made some seriously important lists looking at what she is doing right now, and what she will be doing in 6 and 12 months. It sounds like she’s about to discover how much things can change in a year.

With quite a literal spin on ‘a snapshot’ comes a post from the Bigger Picture blog documenting photos and the Smithsonian. Women in Science: What the Photos Say is a series of photos that shows the role of women in many technological advances. Where women are often portrayed as the assistant or observer, these photos really show them with their sleeves rolled up and getting on with it!

ShortGeologist offers a succinct description of where she and her blog are at right now over at Accidental Remediation while Fia (Academia and Me) regards herself to be very much in transition at the moment as she goes through Grad School. Whether one does truly emerge from that experience as a beautiful butterfly postdoc would be debated by DrL (Who am I?) who is in need of some serious support as she grapples with cultural and academic issues as a female postdoc in Japan. Kate over at Academic Ecology reflects on her spring :
That’s my snapshot of spring 2009: buds of spring in the midwest, MRU activity waxing and waning, La Dudarina growing, experimental teaching, and me facing in the direction of reality.

ScienceWoman at ScienceWomen looks at how the last semester has gone and realizes that some changes may need to be made. While her theme for 2009 was sustainability and a very good one at that, she has now decided that there will be no more Mrs Dr Nice ScienceWoman, and the new theme will be that of ruthlessness.

CromerCrox over at The End of The Pier Show makes us all jealous by sharing a snapshot of a beautiful English spring day by the seasode. Deckchairs and ice cream anyone?

PodBlackCat talks about Bad News In Threes following the very tragic death of one of her students.

NatureNetwork Contributions

Perhaps its all to do with Chimps. Eric, a fellow NatureNetworker who writes The Primate Diaries, discusses how chimps can be male chauvinists, but are sometimes willing to share with the females.
“High rank has its advantages, but so does the guy who’s willing to share.”

Henry Gee celebrates an ‘all-round foul-mouthed hellraiser’ for Ada Lovelace Day, writing about Professor Jane Gray.

OK, well I’m going to stop there for now and come back with part II later today or perhaps tomorrow. There were so many submissions for this carnival (much to my delight) that I’ll split the goodness over two posts.