Terry McGlynn

14
Oct

Why give a seminar?

What is the purpose of an invited seminar? Everybody wants to give a great seminar. But when the speaker gives
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12
Oct

A response to censorship by Scientific American [updated]

This post is mostly inside baseball among blog people, but it’s an important topic that I don’t want
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11
Oct

Friday Recommended Reads #6

My favorite new comic is BuzzHootRoar. It’s brand new, with two new comics that have come out this week.
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09
Oct

Efficient teaching: class needs to end on time

Class needs to end when it is supposed to end. If you did not plan adequately, it is not acceptable
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07
Oct

Biology departments need an accreditation body

My department would be so much better off if it was possible for us to be accredited. But no accreditation
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04
Oct

Friday Recommended Reads #5

Alan Townsend has a remarkably frank post about how departments and individuals handle tenure decisions, and how plenty of people
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03
Oct

The conflict-cooperation model of faculty-admin relations, Part 3: How our universities run like social insect colonies

With the understanding that we are social animals and that principles of behavioral ecology for social groups can apply to
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02
Oct

Two Tenure-Track positions in Biology at CSU Dominguez Hills

My department is hiring two biologists. What field of biology? You name it! The department has a broad variety of
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02
Oct

Efficient teaching: Getting metacognitive

I’ve built up a little speech that I make on the first day of class, after we’re done
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01
Oct

Teaching Tuesdays

by Amy Parachnowitsch This isn’t a real post but rather a heads up for the coming weeks. As a
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