Girls with toys:

[likethebeer]

This is what real scientists look like.

The author, Kate Clancy, takes NPR to task for using the phrase "boys with toys" when describing science.

.... As a scientist, I enjoy not only the broad theoretical questions of my field of biological anthropology—questions such as what it means to be human or what environmental pressures motivated our most interesting adaptations—but also the day-to-day fun of designing studies, collecting data, analyzing it in the lab, and creating statistical models to make sense of it all. My lab has freezers full of human piss and spit, my hard drive is full of ultrasound images of uteruses and ovaries, and I rub my hands with glee at the thought of buying both a new ultrasound machine and multiplexer—a piece of equipment that will allow my students to measure multiple hormones and biomarkers from a single sample at once—this summer. I am definitely a girl with toys.

Comments

[immemor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, silly to tell someone, "Your contributions don't matter because... um... rhyming."

Join us next summer when "girls with toys" demand to be called "women with tools."

may already be touching!

[immemor.livejournal.com]

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[insert sound of kid in backseat of car saying, "Stop touching me, stop touching me, quit it, mom, she won't stop."]