04
Nov
Retooling at mid-career
At mid-career, a lot of the research techniques and approaches that people in use today today didn’t exist when
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Latest
01
Nov
Academic advising by tenure-track faculty
Based on some recent conversations, I’m realizing that an underappreciated piece of professoring is academic advising. I don’t
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18
Oct
Look in your own backyard
Metaphorically, that is.
What can you do to increase the representation of minoritized people in your department and in your
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09
Oct
Recommended reads #159
Hitman 2’s new game lets you quit being an assassin and become an ornithologist: “Here’s how it works:
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07
Oct
Be careful with human examples when teaching animal behavior
You may or may not have heard of this weekend’s debacle from the Proceedings of the National Academy of
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30
Sep
Reviewing manuscripts as an early career scientist
I find this weird, but apparently, some journals in some academic fields don’t allow grad students or postdocs to
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24
Sep
On the urgent need for climate action
You’ve probably seen clips. But please watch the whole speech, it’s less than five minutes.
Thanks. Here are
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23
Sep
Do R1s or PUIs have higher research expectations?
Well, of course, major research institutions (R1s) expect more research to come out of their labs than primarily undergraduate institutions
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21
Sep
Recommended reads #158
A very nice paper on efficient teaching, showing how small tweaks can result in big educational gains.
“Dr. Kathryn Milligan-Myhre
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15
Sep
On unearned authorship by advisors of graduate students
Authorship is weird. As an instrument to attribute of credit, it’s far too coarse whenever the number of authors
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