As an undergraduate journalist at Stanford, Theo Baker investigated allegations of scientific misconduct by the university’s president. Patricia Maurice comments on his hot-off-the-press book in her post in the @epistimi-stemm.bsky.social blog series See: www.epistimi.org/blog/how-to-...
As senior women leaders in STEMM, we enjoy many privileges. One of these is the opportunity to travel as part of our work or for leisure. In this post in the Epistimi blog series, we describe how we can put our travel dollars to work for the good of women. See: www.epistimi.org/blog/women-s...
Generative AI (GenAI) is advancing with nearly unbelievable speed and has made inroads into every sector, including research and education. See our @epistimi-stemm.bsky.social blog post for some key aspects that women leaders in STEMM should be aware of at: www.epistimi.org/blog/what-ev...
Kara Swisher’s 2024 “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story” provides an insider’s view of the tech industry based on the author’s many years of interviewing tech leaders. Read the review by Patricia Maurice in the @epistimi-stemm.bsky.social blog post: www.epistimi.org/blog/a-woman...
Patricia Maurice and I address the seeming paradox of women's decreasing representation in STEMM academics with increasing rank in our @epistimi-stemm.bsky.social blog post: www.epistimi.org/blog/who-ben...
Navigating dual careers is a challenge for many senior women in STEMM academics, which Patricia Maurice and I discuss in the latest post in our @epistimi-stemm.bsky.social blog series. This post focuses on the first step of job searches and negotiation. See: www.epistimi.org/blog/a-begin...
The 2025 book “Labwork to Leadership” by @jenheemstra.bsky.social is an invaluable resource for aspiring academic leaders. Patricia Maurice and I reviewed this book for the @epistimi-stemm.bsky.social blog series. Read our review at: www.epistimi.org/blog/when-do...
Women in STEMM academics take on a disproportionate amount of service tasks. Although essential for the functioning of academic institutions, these tasks are often severely undervalued. Read more in our latest Epistimi blog post at:
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Many universities are struggling to keep up with rapid advances in Generative AI. This Epistimi blog post by Eva Akesson (edited by me and Patricia Maurice) describes the work behind the Lund University policy and provides a link to the current document. See: www.epistimi.org/blog/develop...
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In this post on artificial intelligence (AI), we focus on the ‘Top 10’ things every senior woman leader in academia should know about AI, especially generative AI (GenAI). We hope that this will...
The first step for most dual-career academic STEMM couples is to find and negotiate two faculty positions. Here, we focus on this step at institutions in the US and Europe.
Cicero famously asked “who benefits?” to expose interests motivating crimes. We can pose the same question regarding the motivations that underlie the lack of women’s advancement in STEMM academ...
In US and UK universities, the job responsibilities of most professors are often grouped into three categories — teaching, research, and service. In European universities, service is often less ...
Tech Journalist Kara Swisher’s 2024 Burn Book: A Tech Love Story is an irreverent, humorous, and at times downright frightening memoir that helps drive home the many reasons why we need more women at ...
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As senior women leaders in STEMM we know we are stronger together — we all benefit when we support one another. But this is also true when we support women outside of STEMM, including women whose path...
Theo Baker’s 2026 book “How to Rule the World: An education in power at Stanford University” warns about dubious scientific research and flawed ethics and provides insight into an undergraduate’s ex...
Eva Åkesson, Professor of Chemical Physics at Lund University (Sweden) and former Rector of Uppsala University, kindly shares some of her observations from working on university policy for generative ...
As women leaders in #STEMM academics, we hope to be role models for early career researchers. But what if the role that we’re modelling is not a realistic aspiration? Read our latest post in the @epistimi-stemm.bsky.social. See:
www.epistimi.org/blog/on-not-...
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Prof. Jen Heemstra’s 2025 book “Labwork to Leadership” is one we wish that we had been able to read when starting out as assistant professors. Even senior women leaders in STEMM will be able to ...
As senior women in STEMM academics, we are proud to be role models for our junior colleagues. But we should take care to avoid the potential pitfalls of the survivorship bias that pervades acade...
