Why it is icky to offer free conference registration for student volunteers
Some academic societies do this thing where they offer free conference registration to a limited number of students, and in
Why doesn’t NSF redact horrible GRFP reviews that demonstrate overt bias?
The ongoing conversation about inequitable outcomes in the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) is scaffolded
Recommended reads #207
Higher education’s other diversity crisis (the article is about Oxford, but really, it’s about everywhere)
Insect decline gets
Undergraduate research: course credit vs. getting paid
Undergraduate labor powers many university laboratories. Many of us faculty in primarily undergraduate institutions simply would not be shipping much
Recommended reads #206
The loss of bodily autonomy is making prospective college students rethink where they’ll go off to college.
The great
Good, bad, and worst dates for academic conferences
Looking at social media today, I have developed an unambiguous case of FOMO because I’m not at the SICB
The SLAC job market and disappearing jobs
Just in case you thought blogging was dead: I read an interesting blog post that I want to share with
The adjunct hiring process is ridiculous
Once in a while, I get an email that sounds like this:
Hi everybody I know who is driving distance
Recommended reads #205
A couple more research articles showing how teaching valuations are sexist. And the interaction effect with age is quite something.
On bureaucratic obstacles to field experiences for students
If your university is like mine, then you hear a lot about everybody is working hard to make sure that