Last week, after work, I found myself wandering down to the English Speaking Union, of all places. A strange enough venue (and Google Maps told me that the Edinburgh Toastmasters meet there, though how it knows that I can’t guess). I was there to see a lecture by Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell. I am… Continue reading Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Careering Through Astronomy
I posted about the book launch for The Wages of Sin back in June. Despite devouring the text in under a week, I’m only just reviewing it now. Why? Because my backlog of reviews is ridiculous. Sorry. First of all, how gorgeous is that book cover? I know, I know, you should never judge… Continue reading Book review: The Wages of Sin
In about… oh, October? I joined a feminist book club. The first meet up was a bit hurried and out of the blue, so we agreed to read a few short essays rather than a full book and so we went for some bits from Dubliners. For the second meeting, we thought we’d look at… Continue reading Feminist book club
This has been sitting on my shelf for very nearly a year because I am a Bad Person. A bad person with a reading list longer than I am tall, to be fair, but still, I take all the blame here. I should have read it much sooner. It was a gift from a brilliant… Continue reading Book review: The Bell Jar
I like to try new things whenever I get the chance. I don’t get nearly enough chances but I take them when I do. The best things I tried this year were: Joining a feminist book club Ok, so we’ve only met twice and our third planned meeting has been postponed until January but I… Continue reading Favourite new things I tried in 2015
In October I joined a feminist book club. I’ve been looking for one for a while and the best I’d found was the events organised by the Glasgow Women’s Library (a fantastic organisation deserving of more credit than it gets) but most of their events happened during office hours and none of them could really… Continue reading Book review: Female Chauvinist Pigs – Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
I have a kind of mental list of “books I want to read” or “books I probably should read.” That list is sketchy in information beyond the titles, though. A book might be on the list because someone recommended it, or because I read something else by the same author and I liked it, or… Continue reading Book Review: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I sit on the Physics and Astronomy school’s Athena SWAN and Project Juno committee. Athena SWAN was established in 2005 to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) employment in higher education and research. I believe it has now been expanded to include the… Continue reading Athena Swan and Project JUNO
I took part in the Explorathon (a.k.a. European Researcher’s Night) not long ago. We ran an event with the Glasgow chapter of Science Grrl – “I’m a Science Grrl, Talk to Me!” This is a great event – it’s so easy to run, the kids love it, we can very quickly reach a wide audience and… Continue reading Explorathon 2015 with Science Grrl Glasgow
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