03
Feb
Who can we trust?
A few weeks ago, I was hit by an unexpected gut punch. It was an email from a trusted colleague,
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31
Jan
Unordered thoughts on the Pruitt situation
If you’re not one of those folks who pays close attention to social media and the lil’ blogosphere of
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29
Jan
Hanging newly graduated students out to dry
My head spins when I see science opportunities designed to increase the diversity of applicants to graduate STEM programs, they
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27
Jan
Is “critical thinking” a generalized skill?
Based on the things I’ve been reading lately, the answer to the titular question is “mostly no.”
It’s
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24
Jan
Recommended reads #163
It’s been a whole month since the last one of these? How about I prune this down to the
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22
Jan
Some ideas for better office hours
Welcome back to a new semester! I don’t know about you, but I am often generally unpleased with how
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18
Jan
The deficit model of science communication
This is central concept for science outreach. Some interactions today have led me to wonder whether we are all on
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15
Jan
Help us to diversify and humanize biology courses!
a guest post by Project Biodiversify (www.projectbiodiversify.org @biodiversifying)
We contain multitudes. Our courses should reflect this.
We contain
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13
Jan
A time portal journey to the pre-internet era
I inadvertently created my own archive of pre-internet academic life, and spent some of this weekend exploring it.
The year
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06
Jan
How university endowments predict, and don’t predict, teaching loads
It’s typically exciting to find out that your hypothesis is wrong – and I was wrong! Here’s my back-of-the-metaphorical-envelope
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