Terry McGlynn

18
Nov

Running an unfunded seminar series, and traveling to speak for one

Do you have a funded seminar series? How often can you bring in outside speakers? Do you wish you had
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14
Nov

Academic advising and academia

I’ve recently talked about the hidden labor of academic advising, and also the need to provide an education in
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12
Nov

Gender inequity at every step of publishing

I sat down to my laptop this morning and was looking forward to getting to work. But then I looked
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08
Nov

Recommended reads #160

This might as well be straight from a science fiction novel, but it’s our reality: Scientists around the world
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04
Nov

Retooling at mid-career

At mid-career, a lot of the research techniques and approaches that people in use today today didn’t exist when
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01
Nov

Academic advising by tenure-track faculty

Based on some recent conversations, I’m realizing that an underappreciated piece of professoring is academic advising. I don’t
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18
Oct

Look in your own backyard

Metaphorically, that is. What can you do to increase the representation of minoritized people in your department and in your
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09
Oct

Recommended reads #159

Hitman 2’s new game lets you quit being an assassin and become an ornithologist: “Here’s how it works:
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07
Oct

Be careful with human examples when teaching animal behavior

You may or may not have heard of this weekend’s debacle from the Proceedings of the National Academy of
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30
Sep

Reviewing manuscripts as an early career scientist

I find this weird, but apparently, some journals in some academic fields don’t allow grad students or postdocs to
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