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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Terry McGlynn
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
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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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10
Dec
Teaching Tuesday: talking about teaching
When I did a survey of ecology teachers earlier this year*, I left a space for further comments on teaching
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09
Dec
Grabbing the brass ring
Many moons ago, I wrote some friends and colleagues to let them know I was starting a tenure-track position.
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