Why give a seminar?
What is the purpose of an invited seminar?
Everybody wants to give a great seminar. But when the speaker gives
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
Friday Recommended Reads #6
My favorite new comic is BuzzHootRoar. It’s brand new, with two new comics that have come out this week.
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
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
Friday Recommended Reads #5
Alan Townsend has a remarkably frank post about how departments and individuals handle tenure decisions, and how plenty of people
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
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
Efficient teaching: Getting metacognitive
I’ve built up a little speech that I make on the first day of class, after we’re done
Teaching Tuesdays
by Amy Parachnowitsch
This isn’t a real post but rather a heads up for the coming weeks.
As a