06
Mar
Check out Rapid Ecology!
Three months and change ago, I wrote a post about how academic blogs have very few voices, and we need
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05
Mar
The hypocrisy footprint
Image: A sunset over probably Iowa, viewed from a carbon-emitting airplane
Last week, an offhand remark in a radio story
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27
Feb
Powerful truths about sexual harassment
Today, the House Committee on Science had a hearing about sexual harassment. The whole thing is worth your time, but
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26
Feb
When you are asked to review a paper that you’ve already reviewed for another journal
This situation can be a bit of a conundrum if you haven’t dealt with it.
Let’s say you
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23
Feb
Recommended reads #123
Got milk, must conference
Bioinformatics skills – How to get them and not get scared
Being an academic after experiencing personal
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20
Feb
Efficient teaching: Crowdsourcing class notes
I’m writing this entire blog post to share one cool tip:
Protip for professors: create a googledoc to crowdsource
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12
Feb
How often are you cited correctly?
Sometimes, I get cited incorrectly. I have some feelings about this.
When I started doing science, the Science Citation Index
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09
Feb
Recommended reads #122
This is wonderful: NSF is now requiring awardee institutions to report findings of sexual harassment by personnel on NSF grants,
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02
Feb
When the trash gets passed
The term “passing the trash” is commonly used to describe when sexually abusive K-12 teachers and priests get quietly shifted
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29
Jan
Science has an atheism problem
An alternative title for this post might be: Atheism has a jerk problem.
Our scientific communities do not fully accept
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