Things I wish other people blogged about
I make a point to post at least once a week. Sometimes the blog posts are full essays, sometimes they’
Sizing up competing peer review models
Is peer review broken? No, it’s not. The “stuff is broken” is overused so much that it now just
Recommended reads #124
Why I stopped writing on my student’s papers.
Four very practical solutions to make conferences less difficult for scientists
Non-mandatory sexual harassment training?
I’d like to think I’m not a clueless ignoramus when it comes to navigating university bureaucracy, but sometimes
Check out Rapid Ecology!
Three months and change ago, I wrote a post about how academic blogs have very few voices, and we need
The hypocrisy footprint
Image: A sunset over probably Iowa, viewed from a carbon-emitting airplane
Last week, an offhand remark in a radio story
Powerful truths about sexual harassment
Today, the House Committee on Science had a hearing about sexual harassment. The whole thing is worth your time, but
When you are asked to review a paper that you’ve already reviewed for another journal
This situation can be a bit of a conundrum if you haven’t dealt with it.
Let’s say you
Recommended reads #123
Got milk, must conference
Bioinformatics skills – How to get them and not get scared
Being an academic after experiencing personal
Efficient teaching: Crowdsourcing class notes
I’m writing this entire blog post to share one cool tip:
Protip for professors: create a googledoc to crowdsource