Period 47: Why I’ll never stop talking about Norma
As I continue to educate myself on hormonal contraception, I see a trend: plenty of smaller studies showing that hormonal contraception carries mood-related...
Period 46: Political interference in academic research
If you’re at all plugged in to science, or academia, you likely know about the OMB proposed changes. If you don’t, let me share directly from the literature...
Period 45: Adolescence and the organizing influences of sex steroid hormones
A young kid's brain on hormonal contraception....
Period 44: Setting aside time
Critical science is the investment we need
Writing under the influence
I am writing this post about seventy five percent recovered from the strongest old fashioned cocktail of my life. I am two days into a three day narration...
Period 42: Being a professor in these times
Today I’m sharing some comments I gave as a panelist for my local AAUP chapter at an event last week. This event was on the weaponization of Title VI. Title...
Period 41: Remember blogs?
She returns!
Period 40: Run, hide, fight
At the start of every semester, my campus sends around a reminder to go over with students what to do in the event of a campus shooter. Our options are Run-...
Period 39: How to think not what to do
This week for my Feminist Science seminar we read Michelle Murphy’s work on pollution and the alterlife, and Jamie Haverkamp’s work on love-care-response as...
Period 38: To transform, to be transformed
I spent hours this week reading names of the dead. Out on the quad, on sunny, gorgeous fall days, we stood at various intersections with four binders full of...
