07
Jan
Getting back to the routine.
Last year was a pretty big one for me, both personally and professionally. We bought a row house and moved
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Terry McGlynn
06
Jan
Cheating is the norm. Plan your course with this in mind.
If you make it through the upcoming semester without having busted any students for cheating, then the odds are that
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28
Dec
Are you taking a real holiday? A poll.
On any given day, we don’t have to work as much as we usually do. A lot needs to
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23
Dec
NSF mostly overlooked teaching institutions for Presidential Early Career Awards
The PECASE awards from NSF were announced as a Christmas present for 19 scientists.
These Presidential Early Career Awardees are
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20
Dec
Friday Recommended Reads #14
Would you like to volunteer in a natural history museum collection but can’t find the time or opportunity? If
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19
Dec
The rejection that wasn’t
I remember when I got the reviews back from the first big paper that I submitted. I was mad to
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17
Dec
Teaching Tuesday: Interpreting figures
When I was an undergraduate, I experienced one of those aha moments in my upper-level plant ecology class. At that
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16
Dec
Coming out of the closet, tenure denial edition
With a bit of CV forensics, you can infer a lot about the career of an academic.
One potential indicator
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13
Dec
Friday Recommended Reads #13
How many scientific arguments are philosophical disagreements rather than disputes over scientific theory? Jeremy Fox makes a great, and detailed,
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11
Dec
Disadvantaged students come from disadvantaged universities
The future of research in the USA requires that we recruit the best possible scientists. As the country gets less
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