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08
Sep

Research productivity during mid-career and beyond

Apparently, I am “mid-career.” When I registered as a reviewer for the NSF GRFP, that’s the box I checked
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03
Sep

Recommended reads #195

These recommended reads are all about reviews. A review of an essay: The problem with rigor. “The rhetoric of rigor
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01
Sep

NSF needs more non-R1 GRFP reviewers, please sign up!

I have a little something to admit. I just registered as a potential reviewer for the NSF GRFP for the
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27
Aug

Recommended reads #194

A series of photos of from US public lands from photographer Bob Wick, most of which are jawdroppingly gorgeous. And
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20
Aug
Planning lab “boot camps” for after the pandemic

Planning lab “boot camps” for after the pandemic

My department just had a great idea: We’re planning “boot camps” to train students with the basic lab skills
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02
Aug

Recommended reads #193

The parenting penalties faced by scientist mothers When your institution values money instead of people and science How Caltech can
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16
Jul

Recommended reads #192

Ten simple rules for productive lab meetings “I Signed Up to Write College Essays for Rich Kids. I Found Cheating
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12
Jul

Update on fixing a racist common name for an ant (and a moth)

A couple years ago, I shared with y’all about an old screwup of mine, and how I was planning
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22
Jun

A personal existential crisis about biodiversity and climate change

When did you first realize the scope and the scale of biodiversity loss and the impact of climate change? Did
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21
Jun
Recommended reads #191

Recommended reads #191

Whew! It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these for you. So I’ve got some
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