saw this today

...and it made me laugh! I think the dissertation writing/defending and graduation hoop-jumping have started to give me a similarly snarky mindset in dealing with reviewers, etc:

wrongcards.com

That's basically what the first draft of a rebuttal letter sounds like! :)

(A WORD OF WARNING if you go to that site: some of the cards are mean, dark, gross, and completely unfunny. This one, spotted on another blog, make me smile though.)


(PS- a LOT has been going on in my life lately and I'm gearing up to write about it, but I'm not ready just yet. So stay tuned!)

Letters to Our Daughters Project quote

I found this today catching up on the posts of one of my favorite bloggers, Isis the Scientist. She writes a divine blog about being a woman/wife/mother while also being an amazing scientist and a bit of a shoe diva. She has recently begun a series of posts composed of letters of advice written for young female scientists, which broadly apply to young women in general. The quote is from a senior woman scientist's letter, written for her "daughters in science"- the women scientists who are coming up behind her. She writes: