Terry McGlynn

07
Jan

What experimental artifacts are you ignoring?

Collectively, as a scientific community, we have so many blind spots. I remember running into one of these blind spots
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04
Jan

Recommended reads #142: back to work edition

That was a restful two weeks. Now, back to business. The Green New Deal, explained Why do scientists reinvent wheels?
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20
Dec

The Top 9 Small Pond posts of 2018

I can’t say that 2018 has been a good year, but it has been a good one for Small
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17
Dec

The power of small teams

If you search up the phrase “power of small teams,” you’ll find lots of conventional wisdom. I just would
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14
Dec

Recommended reads #141

Don’t spend your holiday break writing. Did you know about the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876? The power of
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10
Dec

“How do we diversify our seminar series?”

Last week, I got a request for some advice, and thought I’d share a version of my answer with
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05
Dec

Science twitter highlights #4

A 36-year-old man was admitted to the ICU with an acute exacerbation of chronic #heartfailure. After a ventricular assist device
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03
Dec

Word choice is more than semantics

I recently read through some of early posts on here. I’ve been at this for over five years now,
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30
Nov

Some science twitter highlights #3

Honorary doctorates are awarded to recognize a person's significant contribution to a field without completing usual requirements (eg.
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26
Nov

Dismantle the pipeline

The pipeline metaphor has a lot of problems. In STEM careers, people come from a wide range of backgrounds, receive
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