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Aug
Who uses tenure and how do they use it?
They say that tenure is designed to protect academic freedom. That is mostly true, but it is also used for
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Latest
25
Jul
Systemic racial disparities in NSF funding
If you’re doing basic scientific research in the US, here’s a new must read. This preprint by Chen
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20
Jul
Why I don’t have trouble finding peer reviewers
I see this very often in social media, and also in conversation with other academic editors: it’s getting harder
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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
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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
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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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