Sexist advice for scientific presentations

This is not a joke, but is based on a real story, told me by the boss in the cartoon... The trick/advice worked as miracle, the attention of everyone was focused on Amanda during the speech, but nobody was listening to the scientific content... (I am sorry to make those cartoons, but very very often I have the impression that the male scientific world used young female scientists as decoration (ornament, parade, etc.)

The most expensive present I've ever had

Story inspired by life... Baby Boo went on a walk with his grandpa and found some nice flower that they picked up for me... Instead of being happy I got a shock (that I tried to hide from them) by discovering that it is a highly endangered plant...

Baby names for geometers

Not much comments, just a next one from this series.

Safety signs (+ lab equipment) for fashion addicts & yuppies in the lab

Well, we probably all know snobs and yuppies and fashion addicts in our environment... This small compilation is for them and about them... Because sooner or later they may also appear in the labs. (Although people wearing Louis Vuitton shoes rarely choose science for their profession, and people earning their living with science can rarely afford Louis Vuitton shoes...)

Politically corrected, revisited and modernized holiday terms

Well, not a really scientific cartoon, but an actual one... after all these holidays. I made the cartoon and the joke to express that I strongly and deeply disagree with this tendency and political will of correcting, rewriting and suppressing terms of our 2000-year-old civilisation. Even if eventually and actually it looks like this civilisation is declining and changing rapidly.

Scientific 'Happy New Year' Greeting Cards

Well, probably all scientists send and get some Christmas and New Year greeting cards from their colleagues. I also got some recently and this has inspired me. This cartoon is not really a joke, just the description of some facts or things I observed. Often men (who are in the position and have a lab) send a card with their group (lab) members on it. This is normal and quite understandable, especially in the US or in other countries/institutions with well-developed lab homepages including such photos each year, etc. What I wanted to show in comparison here is what I observed about Women in Science... 1) Scientific spinsters prefer to send some cutie animal containing greeting card (having often nothing more to show related to science or their lives or their non-existing lab, because they cannot cooperate with most people in the world)... 2) Scientific moms have tendency to send cards with their family on it. Either because they want to underline that besides their carreer they do have a happy family life as well (even if they may also have a lab if they are lucky), or because their chances to (ever) have a lab are quite low since they chose to have a family (so they cannot send any lab photo). And definitely family means a lot more to them than anything else, and they WANT or LIKE to share this fact with the scientific world as well, because it is an integral and important part of their personality, and/or because they do not want to be categorized as 'scientific spinsters' or 'escorts'...

Thanks for the 30000th pageview!

This is just a short message to the readers of the blog from all over the world, from Georgia to New Zealand, through Philippines, Argentina, Egypt, and of course the USA, Canada and Great Britain... Thanks for viewing the blog, I hope you like it, and I hope to get some encouraging feedback (maybe even some straightforward criticism) to keep on going with this comic strip project for long (besides my scientific and housewife activities)...