12
Feb
Recommended reads #70
In 1951, The Explorers Club in Manhattan had a big fancy dinner, with a main course of mammoth, which was
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11
Feb
What is creativity and how creative are scientists?
As often happens to me, I have a post idea banging around in my head (or sometimes started on the
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08
Feb
Do you write your recommendation letters?
This is a question for both the people requesting letters of recommendation, and those who are signing the letters of
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03
Feb
Firing scientists for sexual misconduct is not enough
When Jason Lieb was a professor at the University of North Carolina, he was sleeping with one of his own
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01
Feb
Shooting down a widely held scientific myth
Bullet ant image by Benoit Guenard
Science is full of ideas that people somehow accept to be true, just because
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29
Jan
Recommended reads #69
Here’s a profile of Vojtech Novotny that makes him look great, because he is.
America’s climate refugee crisis
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28
Jan
Blurred lines in academia–what is work?
While navigating the unemployment system in Sweden, I’ve discovered that I need to report every month what I’ve
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25
Jan
The tyranny of the 9-month position
I’m convinced that 9-month positions are bad for pretty much everybody. Especially driftwood faculty.
This week I was having
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19
Jan
Can on-line networking replace the traditional kind?
A few weeks ago Terry wrote about going to conferences, networking and social capital. The post struck home for me
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18
Jan
It gets busier.
I couple years ago, there was a careers-in-science discussion on an OTS field course. (I was visiting faculty — I am
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