Do model systems work at teaching-focused universities?
Many research strategies, developed inside large research institutions, don’t work well in small teaching-centered institutions.
One of these strategies,
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I’m not expecting unreasonable time commitments from other academics
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Knowing your animal and your question
I’ve read a lot of research proposals and manuscripts. Some manuscripts were rejected, and some proposals didn’t fare
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Alan Townsend wrote an op-ed that I think you really need to read: Science might save my daughter. Don’t
Should scientists write Wikipedia pages for their study species?
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Building a better faculty orientation
I don’t remember my New Faculty Orientation that well. Why is that?
I’ve done this a few times.
Let’s talk about mental health in academia
A few days ago Canada was abuzz with messages about mental health for Bell Let’s Talk day. The social
Taking action at this critical moment
I’m going to have to suspend business-as-usual. Please stick with me, while I connect some dots to explain how
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I feel a bit guilty that I came upon some cool reads, in the precise moment that my country stopped