Religious scientists as a component of STEM diversity
My experiences are leading me to worry that strident attitudes against religion are harming efforts to diversify our scientific communities.
Recommended reads #82
This seems like a critical tool for building a syllabus – a course workload estimator.
Patricia Leary is a law professor
Respecting the expertise of amateurs
Amateurs aren’t experts, but they often have a lot of expertise that we overlook.
The ornithological community has been
Small institution vendor discounts?
This post grows out of a conversation I was having about how scientists purchase supplies and equipment at smaller institutions.
Recommended reads #81
The underground network of folks self-medicating with gut parasites.
Reinventing biostatistics education for basic scientists.
A wiki to advise folks
Twelve museums I loved that you might not know about
I’ve been on mostly-vacation for the past week. I thought I’d share something different. Some of my favorite
How can track record matter in double-blind grant reviews?
We should have double blind grant reviews. I made this argument a couple weeks ago, which was met with general
Recommended Reads #80
“America’s early aerospace engineers ignored computers because they considered programming to be women’s work.”
Can the liberal arts
Saying “see you later, sometime” to the rainforest
I just got back home from a few weeks of fieldwork in the rainforest. Most of the science I’ve
Why not double-blind grant reviews?
In some academic fields, double-blind reviews of manuscripts for peer-reviewed publication is the norm. It’s no surprise that people
