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03
Jul

EEB Mentor Match 2022 is live!

This is just a quick post to let you know that EEB Mentor Match is now launched, and is ready
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22
Jun

Effective teaching is not standardized teaching

There was a comment on a recent post that I’ve been chewing over for the past week, that gets
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20
Jun

Building and maintaining friendships as an academic

I just made a few new friends, perhaps. After more than two years of pandemic-induced isolation, I had the privilege
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10
Jun

On the exodus of faculty

A lot of folks, with tenured positions, are choosing to get out of the university game to do other kinds
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22
Apr

Planning for safe and inclusive field research

Fieldwork can be the best part of being a scientist. But when unprepared or abusive leaders take trainees into the
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17
Apr

Recommended reads #201

Since it’s been quite a while since the last post, I’ve accumulated a particularly good crop of reads.
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16
Mar

Updating my perspective on “predatory” journals

It took a while for the rise of the internet to destabilize the academic publishing industry, but still the major
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07
Feb
On the legacies of Ed Wilson and EO Wilson

On the legacies of Ed Wilson and EO Wilson

After E.O. Wilson died in the final days of 2021, we have have been treated to detailed remembrances of
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31
Jan

(Not) all rankings are bad

Standard university rankings may or may not be bollocks, but they are a destructive force. This is because of Goodhart’
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27
Jan

Recommended read #200

Welcome to the “what he said” edition of rec reads. I have one link for you: An essay by Dr.
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