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?
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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
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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To groom better scientists, harness the power of narrative.
Applying for faculty jobs and don’t know what an institution
Evolution at the asymptote
This Small Pond is approaching carrying capacity. (There are some good analogies involving allochthonous and and autochthonous production, but I
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
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
Recommended reads #143
“Lessons from a postdoc gone wrong” makes sense in other domains as well.
A year of being a science mama
Going exam-free
Are you preparing for the new semester? Are you sitting in the position of academic freedom guaranteed by tenure?
Here’
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