28
Oct
A snapshot of the publication cycle
I was recently asked:
Q: How do you decide what project you work on?
A: I work on the thing
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Terry McGlynn
25
Oct
Friday Recommended Reads #8
You probably caught the news about the oarfish. Two washed up in Southern California. Why did these creatures make it
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24
Oct
The conflict-cooperation model of faculty-admin relations, Part 4: Consequences of our social interactions
This is the penultimate piece in a series on faculty-admin relations. Here are parts one, two, and three. You don’
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23
Oct
What happens when you don’t know anything about the subject you’re teaching?
Biologie & Anatomie & Mensch, via Wikimedia commons
Like many grad students in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, I my made
5 min read
22
Oct
Teaching Tuesday: How do ecologists teach and are there barriers to change?
Continuing on in my presentation of results from a survey of higher education in ecology, I am going to spend
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20
Oct
This attempt to create an inclusive professional blog
Running this blog has been a wonderful experience. I think it’s a productive and professional use of my time,
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18
Oct
Friday Recommended Reads #7
What are deans thinking when they’re evaluating tenure cases? Apparently, at least one of them is sizing professors up
2 min read
17
Oct
Why host a speaker?
I recently went over why seminar speakers might give a talk. Now, the flipside:
What is to be gained by
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16
Oct
Hittin’ the lecture circuit
Over the next couple weeks, my show is going on the road!
Tour dates:
* 18 Oct 2013 – Boulder
* 28 Oct
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15
Oct
Teaching Tuesday: teaching tools ecologists find effective
As an antidote to last weeks challenges to teaching ecology, here I’ve collected all the responses to the question:
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