On a Friday in mid-March, a student in my department was notified that they were just accepted into an NSF-funded

People often ask me what they might to read to get started with teaching science at the college level —  or

I admit it, I don’t like using the LMS. (The LMS is “learning management system” — the software that universities

This case study of search committees demonstrates how downright sexist conduct is pervasive in academic job searches. When it comes

Some people will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid dropping the H-bomb. (This’ll be a short and less-than-grand post

A couple weeks ago, the students in our department bought lunch for the faculty. It was a nice catered takeout

I make a point to post at least once a week. Sometimes the blog posts are full essays, sometimes they’

Is peer review broken? No, it’s not. The “stuff is broken” is overused so much that it now just

Why I stopped writing on my student’s papers. Four very practical solutions to make conferences less difficult for scientists

I’d like to think I’m not a clueless ignoramus when it comes to navigating university bureaucracy, but sometimes