What are the top 100 must-read papers in ecology?
With the internet currently atwitter about a new paper in the upstart journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, I have a
Starting experiments with a “nut fig”
The term “backwards design” is often applied to curriculum design. If you want your students to learn a particular thing,
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Understanding student resistance to active learning
9 myths holding you back from stellar slides. Not as clickbaity as it sounds.
Deserting students after graduation
The moment after students graduate, many resources and opportunities become unavailable. This is a problem.
I can classify the undergraduates
The BA/BS distinction is BS
If you have a science degree, does it matter if your diploma says BA or BS? Nope.
When you take
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Best practices for writing multiple choice tests
Criticizing another scientist’s work isn’t bullying. It’s science.
Science Friday
Academic blogging as “inreach”
People have been saying “blogging is dead” consistently for the past decade. Yet, fellow readers, here we are, on this
Time limits and test anxiety
When the clock is going TICK TICK TICK, it can be hard to think clearly, because you’re anxious about
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Transformative research is not easily predicted
Staying in the game
A new opinion piece comes out with a bold suggestion:
Scientific identity crisis
Well, all right, maybe identity crisis is a little overly dramatic.
However, I have been mulling over my science identity
