Scientiae

Hello, just a quick reminder that you have a little more than 24 hours to get your posts in for the July carnival. Looking forward to reading them all!

Janeb

Now, what was I doing?

Hello! Just a reminder of the call for posts for the July Scientiae Carnival, on the theme of 'Fantasy Institute' (or of course any other relevant topic).

The academic blogosphere is often resounding with complaints about the brokenness of the system, and discussions of the challenges and sometimes outright hostility faced in building a scientific career. This carnival is a chance to make some positive suggestions of how we might make things better.

Why not take some time this weekend to come up with some suggestions? Silly, extreme or serious, fantasy institute can incorporate them all (personally, I favour an ice-cream fridge and a "no-assholes" hiring policy...). I look forward to hearing your brilliant ideas!

Hello, I'm JaneB and I blog over at 'Now, what was I doing?'. And this month I get to host the Scientiae Carnival!

Summer is a good time for day-dreaming and thinking Big Thoughts, free from (some of) the stream of student enquiries, emails and phone calls that disrupt our time during the semester. So for this carnival, I thought it would be fun to revive an old game we played in my grad-lab, 'Fantasy Institute'. The rules of the game are simple - you have been selected as the Director of a newly endowed research institute. It is your job to decide where the institute will be based, its codes of conduct, its structure, and who you will hire.

Dream away! Tell us what would make your institute a haven for scientists. A 'everyone must leave by 5pm' rule? A woodland setting with squirrel feeders? Daily shipments from your favourite supplier?

Please submit posts on this, or any topic related to women in science (or making the world of science a better place to work), by emailing the permalink URL of your post to scientiaecarnival [a] gmail [dt] com by 11:59 pm GMT on Wednesday, June 30th. The carnival will be posted by July 1st.

The June Carnival is up! Go check it out. Thanks for all wonderful submissions and awesome participation. And thanks for celebrating with me! Enjoy!

Rocket Scientista