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Author Archives: Athene Donald
Parliamentary Debacle?
This past week I have learned some things about our Parliamentary democracy I have never previously known I needed to know. I also got decidedly cross. It started with a tweet, a tweet from the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee … Continue reading
Posted in Science Funding, Women in Science
Tagged Jo Johnson, Science and Technology Select Committee, Vicky Ford
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Marital High Jinks and Academia
I am quite sure I have never previously had occasion to write the name Wayne Rooney in any situation, but he does seem relevant to the topic of gendered sentences. Hadley Freeman wrote a withering piece last week about how … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Science Culture
Tagged feisty, Hadley Freeman, letters of reference, Wayne Rooney
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The Summer is Over
I have recently returned (so yes, I feel the summer is over) from a few days holiday in places far less flat than Cambridge which provided enough time to sink into the unusual bliss of uninterrupted reading. So, rather than … Continue reading
Posted in biography, Book Review, Science Culture
Tagged Jan Henrik Schön, migraine, Robert McCrum, William Armstrong
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Admissions in Balance
Last October when I sat at the undergraduate Matriculation Dinner and looked across Churchill College’s large Hall, I was dismayed to see that the proportion of Freshers was very far from a 50:50 mix of men and women. I am … Continue reading
References from the Past
It is a standard part of our job and our responsibilities to write letters of reference for students and postdocs, past and present. But I sometimes get very frustrated by those who ask me to write a letter of support … Continue reading
