15
May
Recommended reads #173
Teacher evaluation form for Spring 2020, from McSweeney’s
This is a very handy and straightforward resource to help you
1 min read
Terry McGlynn
13
May
Our biggest achievements and struggles are not on our CVs
They say that your curriculum vitae records what you’ve done in academia. That might be true, but it doesn’
3 min read
01
May
Recommended reads #172
“Who’s laughing now, assholes?” A letter from Henry David Thoreau.
What do final exams mean in a pandemic? [highlighted
1 min read
20
Apr
The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching
While I’ve mentioned it briefly in the past, now I’m ready for the full announcement: my book is
3 min read
17
Apr
Recommended reads #171
Noted philosophers reconsider their key insights after a month of social distancing.
George Saunders’s letter to his students about
2 min read
15
Apr
Why privilege should be part of our conversations as natural scientists?
This is a guest post by Edauri Navarro Pérez.
During my years as an undergraduate student I noticed that different
10 min read
06
Apr
What music are you working to?
The pandemic is, quite sensibly, consuming a lot of our energy and most of us are stretched quite thin. I
1 min read
03
Apr
Recommended reads #170
Flatten the curve of armchair epidemiology
Math teachers should be more like football coaches
Why live teaching isn’t always
2 min read
30
Mar
No, the pandemic is not making me more productive
Thank goodness, nobody I am working with has asked or expected me to maintain my productivity at the level it
3 min read
22
Mar
Recommended reads #169
I hope you all are safe, well, and that your loved ones are cared for. I’m not positioned to
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