Many Cosmic Variance readers will recognize friend-of-the-blog Allyson Beatrice -- frequent commenter, occasional solo blogger, and co-blogger at Cocktail Party Physics. For a while now, Allyson's day job has been as an administrator and conference organizer for groups of scientists and engineers -- a task of uncertain rewards which, for whatever murky reasons, she truly seems to love.
I’m a lab secretary. If I’m your lab’s secretary, I have access to your credit cards, your CV, your passport, and your society memberships. I could write a crackpot paper about string theory and its effects on pineapple custard and publish it under your name on Optics Express. But I wouldn’t do that. My job is to get you to the plane on time so that you can present your brilliant paper on quantum physics and gravity in the solar system to a bunch of people whose lives revolve around fun new ...
