10
Jun
College students are adults
Even you might not think of your college students as adults, it would help if you treated them as if
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06
Jun
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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30
May
Recommended reads #152
A wave of graduate programs drops the GRE application requirement, with biology programs leading the way.
Can you really do
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29
May
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
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27
May
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
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21
May
We need distributed power structures in grad school
For most grad students in the sciences, their doctoral advisor has an extraordinary level of power over their professional and
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17
May
Recommended reads #151
If you haven’t read this editorial about “What ‘good’ dads get away with,” please do. It’s about the
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14
May
Ways to fund student travel, ranked
You are sending students to a conference. What’s the best way to pay for it?
1. Travel Award. Let’
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07
May
Are some people just innately smarter?
I don’t know about you, but I’m used to hearing academics talking about how some people are just
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03
May
Recommended reads #150
One hundred fifty. I’ve done this 150 times! How ’bout that, eh?
8 ways to teach climate change in
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