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25
Sep

Service as leadership

Last week, I was at a workshop and a fellow participant made an observation that really caught our attention. They
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18
Sep

What does “undergraduate research” mean to you?

I’ve seen people talk past one another when discussing undergraduate research. This is usually because each person in the
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15
Sep
Recommended reads #112

Recommended reads #112

Can you pick the bees out of this lineup? No really, can you? The NSF-DEB blog has a post about
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13
Sep

Recommendations for making science inclusive, and how to talk about it with others

You’re reading Small Pond Science right now — but a lot of our colleagues don’t read anything resembling a
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11
Sep

Deadlines for undergraduates in research

Students might not be aware of the time horizons of applications for opportunities. Oftentimes, these things need more advance planning
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05
Sep

Not waiting for the dinosaurs to retire

I hear this a lot: “Bad behavior in academia comes from the guys who have been around for a long
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01
Sep

Recommended reads #111

Hope Jahren’s New York Times piece about the Norwegian summer is achingly gorgeous. The biggest misconception about today’s
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28
Aug

To ban or not to ban laptops?

Some folks want to ban laptops from their classrooms, and others are okay with laptops. This is a perennially annoying
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25
Aug

Censorship or business as usual?

There’s a screenshot of an email from the Department of Energy that is making the rounds. I’d like
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23
Aug

EEB Mentor Match to help underrepresented students get graduate fellowships

I’ve griped about how undergraduates from wealthy private institutions and public research universities get the lion’s share of
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