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
Recommended reads #111
Hope Jahren’s New York Times piece about the Norwegian summer is achingly gorgeous.
The biggest misconception about today’s
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
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
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
Deadline awareness for everybody
I and my family are now up in Oregon to experience the total solar eclipse. Which will be amazing.
This
Recommended reads #110
This, I think, is ingenious and next-level stuff: Designing malware to hack bioinformatics software by coding it into the
Requiem for a sabbatical
I haven’t had any service or teaching duties on my campus since May 2016. That ends today. I know,
What are best ways to learn R?
Over my year of sabbatical, I planned to become comfortably proficient with data manipulation and analysis with R. I’m
Recommended reads #109
A quick guide to effective grassroots advocacy for scientists.
Why I don’t ask students to write the thesis statement