Massive editorial failures harm authors and readers
Have you heard of the newly published misogynist paper in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine? Here’s the start
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53 essential tech-bro terms explained (It’s like the Devil’s Dictionary)
Computer-based and bench-based research [in course-based research projects]
Being a professor is too many jobs, perhaps?
Some while ago, a colleague mentioned how his job as a professor was a “triple position.” Teaching well is a
Better recruitment of postdocs and grad students
Remember when I was saying that junior scientists of color are more likely to get ignored when they send their
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Two tenures
How to hold a better class discussion
“It’s time to recognize how men’s careers benefit from
College students are adults
Even you might not think of your college students as adults, it would help if you treated them as if
Fixing a racist common name that I coined
Let me introduce you to one of my favorite animals, Aphaenogaster araneoides, and a major league screwup of mine:
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A wave of graduate programs drops the GRE application requirement, with biology programs leading the way.
Can you really do
Research with undergraduates on an empty campus
Summer is go-time for research, particularly in undergraduate institutions. But yet, when I walk across the desolate campus in summer,
The tradeoff between productivity and risk-taking
For a lot of academic scientists, the currency of research is productivity.
Pre-tenure faculty need to build a list of
