24
Dec
Recommended reads #162
Would your cat eat your dead body? Now there’s peer-reviewed science to answer this question.
An exceptional obituary for
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18
Dec
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Why do some places have high teaching loads and others have low teaching loads? [poll]
Of course, institutions with more money have lower teaching loads. I have a specific hypothesis: Endowment size predicts teaching loads,
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10
Dec
Reporting plagiarism and cheating to the university
Some folks are surprised to learn that cheating is extremely common. I mean, it’s the norm.
On the other
02
Dec
Preventing students from having copies of the exam
I know a lot of people who prevent copies of their exams from leaving their classrooms. I think this is
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27
Nov
Recommended Reads #161
Teaching more by grading less, or differently
Here is a sublime profile of biologist Art Shapiro. And apparently, everybody I
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25
Nov
Down with bar graphs
Some folks really hate pie charts, but I think for some purposes, they can communicate precisely the information we want
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20
Nov
About the ads
You might have noticed ads on the site.
The very short explanation is that I’ve decided it doesn’t
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19
Nov
They’re not even trying at NIH
I just saw this, and I think everybody needs to see this. Here it is:
I'm in a
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18
Nov
Running an unfunded seminar series, and traveling to speak for one
Do you have a funded seminar series? How often can you bring in outside speakers? Do you wish you had
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14
Nov
Academic advising and academia
I’ve recently talked about the hidden labor of academic advising, and also the need to provide an education in
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