18
Jul
Hidden curriculum™ for mid-career faculty
Over the last few months, I’ve had some quality time with a bunch of other mid-career academics who are
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15
Jul
Recommended reads #202
The serviceberry
“I wouldn’t be a scientist without my abortion.”
What’s in a bird name?
13 ways to
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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
After E.O. Wilson died in the final days of 2021, we have have been treated to detailed remembrances of
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