How does college selectivity affect the jobs of professors?
Sometimes when I talk about teaching — and interactions with students in general — folks don’t really get where I’m
On the ballooning of spiders and deep evolutionary branches
To keep track of projects, I use a sophisticated app called Moleskine. But early on in grad school, when I
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Cards against humanities. You read that right, not humanity, Humanities.
This Puliter Prize-winning story by Kathryn Schulz about The Really
Impatience with the peer review process
Science has a thousand problems, but the time it takes for our manuscripts to be peer reviewed ain’t one.
NSF’s Water Man award
When I was a tween, a cutsey feel-good book was a bestseller: All I Really Need to Know I Learned
Using a grant writer
I’m working on a couple biggish grants at over the next couple months. I’m doing something that I
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“Mistakes I’ve made as an early career researcher”
A recent story in the New York Times is explaining how
Education research denialism in university STEM faculty
Scientists regularly contend with irrational denialism of simple facts. In our classrooms, communities and the media, we hear patently absurd
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Have you ordered a copy of Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl yet?
Here’s my review on Goodreads. A more
NSF Graduate Fellowship timing doesn’t help the undergrads who need the help
NSF just announced their Graduate Fellowship (GRFP) awardees. Here’s where you can download the excel file that lists all
