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Don't become a professor unless you want to teach

Don't become a professor unless you want to teach

Sciencing for the joy of it

Sciencing for the joy of it

What to do when students turn in assignments generated by AI?

What to do when students turn in assignments generated by AI?

The best scientific talk advice that gets ignored

The best scientific talk advice that gets ignored

Academic hiring criteria are all wrong

Academic hiring criteria are all wrong

You are more powerful than you think

You are more powerful than you think

The meeting scheduling crisis is an indicator of a much bigger problem

The meeting scheduling crisis is an indicator of a much bigger problem

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18
Sep
It's a picture of agar on a petri dish with nutrient dots showing major train stations in the Tokyo Subway network, at four time points. The slime mold connected the dots just like the train.

Unstrategic planning

A plan isn't good unless it's realistic.
5 min read
27
Jul
Academic Mixtape 39

Academic Mixtape 39

The essential nature of natural history in research, the beliefs of men who don't see misogyny in higher ed, why your dog needs to be on a leash but mine doesn't, new monkeys, horny President Harding, insects bigger than your head, y más.
7 min read
11
Jul
Submit your OMB comment this weekend.

Submit your OMB comment this weekend.

This one is important. It's due on Monday.
5 min read
22
Jun
a scantron sheet.

Don't become a professor unless you want to teach

And yes, that includes all y'all in the UC and other R1s.
5 min read
15
Jun
man juggling fire sticks

Don't look busy

The Culture of Busy can hurt the people who rely on you
6 min read
04
May
What I learned in my year as Academic Senate Chair

What I learned in my year as Academic Senate Chair

My 1-year term as Chair of Academic Senate is winding to a close. Phew. My obligations in this term
8 min read
17
Apr
Academic Mixtape 38

Academic Mixtape 38

mostly uplifting stuff from the past couple months
5 min read
01
Apr
old timey black and white image of white women working as switchboard operators

Call your Program Officer

Yes, you. Schedule a phone call. This is the hidden curriculum.
2 min read
23
Mar
Green tree ants (Oecophylla smaradinga) cooperating to build a woven nest

Hi there, colleagues in China!

I tend to avoid looking at the analytics for this site. It's sometimes funny to see which search
4 min read
03
Mar
an empty bird nest, made of up plant fibers

Knowing when to take risks

Risks are necessary for transformative science, and to transform our community of scientists
4 min read