Posts by sarcozona
Why low pay for trainees is a feminist issue
Scientists get paid like shit in grad school and things don’t improve much when you’re a post doc. This pushes women (and men – but mostly women) who want families out of science. Just listen to the brilliant Claudia Alexander lay it out. “I was never able to find the right mix of work and […]
I am never busy
I am never busy. My to-do list is long and it grows every day I spend in bed with a migraine. But I never feel harried; I don’t even allow myself to rush. A departure from calm leads to migraine attack, a return to calm leads to migraine attack. Busyness leads to migraines directly, through […]
New (now old) post on TSW
A few weeks ago I wrote about the Software Sustainability Institutes’s proposed changes in software development in science over on Tenure, She Wrote.
Migraine log – October
It’s been some time since I did a migraine log. Let’s slog through some data. Frequency Back when I did my last migraine log at the end of May, I was all aflutter about topamax, which I’d started 6 weeks before. I’ve had some serious ups and downs (downs and downs?) with it since then. […]
Out Of My Head – a migraine documentary on Kickstarter
Some people are making a documentary about migraines. It looks like it could be good. Maybe lots of people will watch it and I won’t have to explain my life over and over and over. Kickstarter here.
Good chronic pain and illness management
I’ve warned you off potentially bad chronic pain management programs and asked you to join a project improving a widely used program in North America. But if you’re looking for help right now, that isn’t very useful. So, here are a couple resources for the here and now: Not all official chronic pain/illness management programs […]
While you’re waiting for the bus
9 Things That Reveal How Airbnb Lets Rich People Run a Bunch of Illegal Hotels Tracking one hundred students The iPad Air 2 Has Its Own SIM So You Change Carriers Whenever You Want Controversial: Should Workers Be Paid For Time They Spend at Work? When is a pumpkin not a pumpkin? Pumpkin disambiguation The […]