Terry McGlynn

13
Mar

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’
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12
Mar

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
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09
Mar

Recommended reads #124

Why I stopped writing on my student’s papers. Four very practical solutions to make conferences less difficult for scientists
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08
Mar

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
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06
Mar

Check out Rapid Ecology!

Three months and change ago, I wrote a post about how academic blogs have very few voices, and we need
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05
Mar

The hypocrisy footprint

Image: A sunset over probably Iowa, viewed from a carbon-emitting airplane Last week, an offhand remark in a radio story
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27
Feb
Powerful truths about sexual harassment

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
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26
Feb

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
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23
Feb

Recommended reads #123

Got milk, must conference Bioinformatics skills – How to get them and not get scared Being an academic after experiencing personal
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20
Feb

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
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