Terry McGlynn

10
Feb

How do you hand back papers?

I was chatting with colleagues about the mechanics of handing back papers to students. How do you do this? As
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06
Feb

Responding (or not) to prospective students

For all the concern about pipeline problems, we seem to be fond of creating bottlenecks that filter out the people
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01
Feb

Getting lots of competitive REU applications from URM students

We did a thing that worked. Maybe you could try it. It’s something that I’ve suggested before, but
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01
Feb

Recommended reads #144

To groom better scientists, harness the power of narrative. Applying for faculty jobs and don’t know what an institution
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30
Jan

Evolution at the asymptote

This Small Pond is approaching carrying capacity. (There are some good analogies involving allochthonous and and autochthonous production, but I
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28
Jan

We needed to watch our own behavior before social media, too

We still have generations of academics who are still in denial about how social media has changed how we are
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22
Jan

Government shutdown and the thin veil of normalcy

This is going to be a quick or poorly edited post because it is extremely late, as I just uploaded
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18
Jan

Recommended reads #143

“Lessons from a postdoc gone wrong” makes sense in other domains as well. A year of being a science mama
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16
Jan

Going exam-free

Are you preparing for the new semester? Are you sitting in the position of academic freedom guaranteed by tenure? Here’
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14
Jan

We can create useful student evaluations of teaching. Here’s how.

Student evaluations are here to stay. And that’s the way it should be. I think universities owe it to
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