This study on "Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science" is now old news, but it hasn't answered many of the questions we're interested in about women in academic science careers. Women in 2004 and 2005 at top research universities were as successful as men in obtaining academic jobs and tenure, but the rub is that women are less likely to apply for academic or go up for tenure.

Why? Well, like I said, there are more questions that have to be addressed before we know why, but I'm betting that a big part of the problem is this:

I regularly read the Huffington Post, for the good reason that it often sports intelligent articles written from a progressive standpoint, and because I believe in open access and open contribution to the socio-political discourse (otherwise, I wouldn’t bother writing this blog).

Then again, one of the drawbacks of openness is that you get crap together with the good stuff.

This isn’t altogether bad, since reading crap is a necessary component of developing one’s own sense of critical thinking, sharpening the baloney detector, so to speak. But crap needs to be responded to, especially when it comes from influential sources.

Contrary to many notions about predators, it would seem that there are many whose success is directly linked to their social organization and more specifically to the role of the social leaders that may direct the group.



Predation is, by its nature, an energy intensive, high risk endeavor. Unexpected events may occur resulting in injuries, which may directly affect the ability of the predator to survive.

LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The AV Global Alliance provides video conferencing and audio visual services to multinational companies. Five new companies have joined the Alliance, extending its reach around the globe to 130 cities in 26 countries.

Audio Visual Machines welcomes absolut Technologies (Brazil), ETS YCP (South Korea), Newtech (Argentina), Polymedia (Russia) and Talk Vision (Netherlands and Belgium) to the AV Global Alliance. The Alliance is a partnership of leading audio visual and video conferencing systems integrators from different countries around the world, and provides mutual support for their international clients.

PARIS, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Electronics giant implements Campaign Commander(TM) to drive European email marketing

Sony has extended its contract with Emailvision and has announced that it will utilize Emailvision's Campaign Commander (TM) software across its European electronics division, which covers 35 countries and 5 product divisions.

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Handset Manufacturers Will Benefit From Access to Essential Patents at Reasonable Royalty Rates

SISVEL CDMA2000, LLC, today launched a new joint patent licensing program, or patent pool, offering a license to essential CDMA2000 patents to all users on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms. The portfolio of essential CDMA2000 patents included in the program are owned by France Telecom; Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation; NTT DOCOMO, INC.; Royal KPN N.V.; and Siemens AG. SISVEL will act on behalf of the patent owners as licensing administrator for the program.

NEW YORK, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- A major hurdle to achieving a consistent view of pricing, positions and exposure lays in the divide between market data feeds and reference data repositories, according to GoldenSource, a global software provider of enterprise data management (EDM) solutions.

Pricing mechanisms in the front office and valuations for PL in the back office often depend on the same price and rate data, yet both areas derive this information from disparate sources. According to research* from consultancy A-Team Group, 87 percent of risk managers are interested in centralizing market and reference data, namely to address the following:

LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- ThirdForce, the UK's leading e-learning provider, now acts as the preferred supplier of U-skills to one of the most respected care home companies in the UK, Barchester Healthcare. ThirdForce will support the 15,000 strong workforce with Skills for Life e-learning to enhance Barchester's quality provision of care and customer service.

Training and development is a key component to the success of the Barchester business; a group that currently cares for over 10,000 residents in 170 different locations across the UK.

LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Information released this week by the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) highlights their concerns over permanent fillers. Q-Med, the leading Swedish medical device company which has developed and produced Restylane(R) and Macrolane(TM), confirms that all of its products are temporary. Q-Med products are based on the company's patented technology for the production of stabilized non animal hyaluronic acid (NASHA(TM)). NASHA has been researched and developed over 13 years with robust clinical data underpinning its safety and efficacy.

The BAAPS' survey also cites that body contouring fillers, such as Macrolane, are an area of concern and states that patients are unaware of the risks.

LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Designed to Help Businesses get the Most out of Enterprise Applications

Vialtus Solutions (formerly Pipex Business) launches its new Application Hosting services today, aiming to help businesses take advantages of an increasing array of enterprise applications delivered from one of the company's two UK datacentres to any IP-enabled device. The new hosting services are designed to offer businesses the most appropriate combination of technology, customer service and flexibility to enable them to use hosted applications to improve productivity and reduce IT costs.