Recommended reads #77
“Natural history: an approach whose time as come, passed, and needs to be resurrected.”
A reconsideration of “new conservation.” Also,
What is press-worthy scholarship?
As I was avoiding real work and morning traffic, there were a bunch of interesting things on twitter, as usual.
How does college selectivity affect the jobs of professors?
Sometimes when I talk about teaching — and interactions with students in general — folks don’t really get where I’m
On the ballooning of spiders and deep evolutionary branches
To keep track of projects, I use a sophisticated app called Moleskine. But early on in grad school, when I
Recommended reads #76
Cards against humanities. You read that right, not humanity, Humanities.
This Puliter Prize-winning story by Kathryn Schulz about The Really
Impatience with the peer review process
Science has a thousand problems, but the time it takes for our manuscripts to be peer reviewed ain’t one.
NSF’s Water Man award
When I was a tween, a cutsey feel-good book was a bestseller: All I Really Need to Know I Learned
Using a grant writer
I’m working on a couple biggish grants at over the next couple months. I’m doing something that I
Recommended reads #75
“Mistakes I’ve made as an early career researcher”
A recent story in the New York Times is explaining how
Education research denialism in university STEM faculty
Scientists regularly contend with irrational denialism of simple facts. In our classrooms, communities and the media, we hear patently absurd
