A typical semester courseload is cognitive overload
It feels weird to just write a blog post. I’d just like to say* that I realize things are
Stepping up to do the work in an academic society
Today, the Ecological Society of America is dropping its ballot for a new round of seats on the Governing Board.
Recommended reads #181
The author of the infamous Carreira letter just became the Editor-in-Chief of the flagship journal of the American Chemical Society.
A study in contrasts
A colleague brought to my attention a story from yesterday’s All Things Considered, and I can’t stop thinking
Recommended reads #180
A detailed account of how Eunice Foote conceived the role of atmospheric gases in climate warming in 1856, and how
Bringing new students into the lab during the pandemic
As developed nations are on their way to returning to normal, we in the United States are in this pandemic
Recommended reads #179
Here’s a big list of ways to convert typical active learning approaches to a physically distanced classroom, asynchronously online,
How about alternating online and travel conferences?
Now that many of us know what an online conference is like, it appears there’s increased demand for more
Are recommendation letters a bad thing?
In the past couple years, we have made progress in dropping the GRE, and now the pandemic has come through
Recommended reads #178
A landmark paper about gender inequities in academic advancement and funding by Rissler et al. just came out in Bioscience.