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22
May

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
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18
Apr

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
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17
Mar

Recommended reads #207

Higher education’s other diversity crisis (the article is about Oxford, but really, it’s about everywhere) Insect decline gets
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15
Mar

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
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10
Feb

Recommended reads #206

The loss of bodily autonomy is making prospective college students rethink where they’ll go off to college. The great
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04
Jan

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
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07
Dec

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
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28
Nov

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
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08
Nov

Recommended reads #205

A couple more research articles showing how teaching valuations are sexist. And the interaction effect with age is quite something.
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07
Nov
On bureaucratic obstacles to field experiences for students

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
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