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10
Mar

Advice post: Teaching in the time of COVID-19

Some of us have already stopped holding classes in person. It looks like a lot more of us will be
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09
Mar

How is your classroom management?

Did you hear about the recent-ish story about the white professor who called the cops into his classroom to exert
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06
Mar

Recommended reads #167

What if we didn’t grade? A bibliography. Joe Travis’s essay for the E.O. Wilson award in Am
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02
Mar

Cover letters for journal submissions

I think one of the sillier rituals in academia is composing cover letters to accompany our manuscripts when we submit
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28
Feb

Recommended reads #166

A guide to academic advising for STEM faculty Jokes I’ve told that my male colleagues didn’t like. (e.
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25
Feb

A common application for tenure-track positions

It often takes a large number of applications for highly qualified applicants to land a tenure track position. Let’s
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21
Feb

Recommended Reads #165

Remembering George Gilchrist. The continuing decline of the art of scientific illustration. On the rush to judgment. Why we need
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19
Feb

Articles with simple statistics that are good examples for teaching

I taught biostatistics for several years. You know what was one of bigger challenges of teaching that class? Finding articles
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14
Feb

What’s the hurry with the job offer?

Last week, I had a conversation with someone who was mildly cheesed off about how some universities make tenure-track job
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07
Feb

Recommended reads #164

Time management is about more than life hacks If your university’s administration ran a polar expedition “xyscan is a
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