Terry McGlynn

10
Feb
What are our academic blind spots?

What are our academic blind spots?

Here’s a notion: When we discover a big new thing, this often requires an abandonment — or at least serious
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06
Feb

Two years of Small Pond Science

Small Pond is exactly two years old. Here’s a reflection on how this site has affected me. Some might
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04
Feb

Browsing the tables of contents

This is going to make me sound not young, but here it goes. Library Stacks from Purchase College Library When
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02
Feb

A conversation that can help protect your students

A student recently dropped by to tell me about an exciting opportunity. She was going to spend a few weeks
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30
Jan

Recommended reads #45

This video clip showing aggressive mimicry by the Persian Horned Viper is amazing. University Signs Slavic Languages Professor to Five
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27
Jan

Is it harder, or easier, to publish in your field?

It takes time and effort to publish a paper. After all, if it were really easy, then publications wouldn’t
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23
Jan

The academic cold contact

A lot of science that gets done these days results from collaboration. Collaborations can come about it a multitude of
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20
Jan

Why I’m a little sour on crowdfunding

Here’s an idea for a new way to fund science: We can just create websites about our projects, and
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16
Jan

Recommended reads #44

If you haven’t read it yet, Terry Wheeler’s post, “20 Years in the Professor Game: things I did
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13
Jan

Authorship when the first author is the senior author

Authorship conventions are based around assumptions that research was done under the umbrella of a research institution. It’s often
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