Comments on: Help a Fangrrl Out?

By: Allyson Beatrice

Allyson Beatrice — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:49:00 +0000

Sili: Sorry to hear that. Most of the secretaries I’ve met for various labs/groups really do care very much for the scientists and engineers they support.

Pope Maledict: IME, conferences are enormously fruitful for collaboration between scientists who often only see each other F2F once or twice a year.

They can be made cheaper, though.

By: Sili

Sili — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:46:20 +0000

This is what should happen in a department.

It was not what I saw in mine before disillousion overpowered me completely.

I’ll be very jealous of the lab the hires Allyson.

By: Pope Maledict XVI

Pope Maledict XVI — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:17:05 +0000

I wish Allyson luck, but I think she should downplay the “getting people to conferences on time” aspect of her skills. She seems to have many others, and I predict that one of the few good things to come out of this crisis will be the realization that 99% of conferences are a colossal waste of time and money. I know of an institution where postdoc money was cut back so that conference money would not be. That sort of scandal will soon be as extinct as gargantuan pensions for failed bankers, and a damned good thing too.

By: Ciaobella

Ciaobella — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:53:13 +0000

Dear Science Dean at Any Large University: Please find a way to fire one of your highly-paid senior faculty (e.g. that one who hasn’t published in a decade and doesn’t take on new students); then hire this woman and a new junior faculty member (or 2-3 postdocs or 4-6 grad students).

By: Lee Kottner

Lee Kottner — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:02:13 +0000

Allyson’s co-blogger at Cocktail Party Physics here. I just want to add my kudos to Sean’s praise of Allyson’s abilities. I’ve had a sneak peek at her resume and there ain’t much secretarial about it, whatever those titles have been. Allyson’s a crackerjack conference organizer, managing editor, publications manager, international rights manager, lab health & safety trainer, purchaser, and has technical & scientific editorial experience. Did I mentioned she’s published a book? And is working on the second one right now? She’s smart, she’s experienced, she has loads of initiative and she’s got lots of OJT along with that killer attitude. She’d be a tremendous asset to anybody’s lab and besides that, she’d be fun to work with.

Don’t let that “secretarial” title fool you. What Allyson really is, is a very professional Project Manager.

By: greg

greg — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:24:29 +0000

Ouch. Best of luck Allyson

By: incognegro

incognegro — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:37:23 +0000

LMFAO @ “cut a bitch”!

Loooove the attitude! We could user her at Ricoh, here in Atlanta