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Sep

Recommended reads #180

A detailed account of how Eunice Foote conceived the role of atmospheric gases in climate warming in 1856, and how
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31
Aug

Bringing new students into the lab during the pandemic

As developed nations are on their way to returning to normal, we in the United States are in this pandemic
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21
Aug

Recommended reads #179

Here’s a big list of ways to convert typical active learning approaches to a physically distanced classroom, asynchronously online,
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15
Aug

How about alternating online and travel conferences?

Now that many of us know what an online conference is like, it appears there’s increased demand for more
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11
Aug

Are recommendation letters a bad thing?

In the past couple years, we have made progress in dropping the GRE, and now the pandemic has come through
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31
Jul

Recommended reads #178

A landmark paper about gender inequities in academic advancement and funding by Rissler et al. just came out in Bioscience.
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24
Jul

What’s up with the new NSF GRFP priority areas?

The new solicitation for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program arrived last night with NSF’s daily digest bulletin. There
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20
Jul

Making sure your online course has what it needs

For a lot of us, this Fall will be our first experience teaching fully online. This shouldn’t be like
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17
Jul

Recommended reads #177

Rich Lenski’s excellent guide: “How to write a response to reviewers in ten easy steps.” (As an author this
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13
Jul
Sign up now for EEB Mentor Match 2020

Sign up now for EEB Mentor Match 2020

Not everything about 2020 is horrible: We’re running EEB Mentor Match again! More than ever this year, undergraduates from
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