15
Jan
Recommended reads #68
A lecture from the lectured. This is a superb piece from students responding to that op-ed piece in the New
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14
Jan
First week off the job-life as an unemployed academic
This week I am officially unemployed. What does life as an unemployed academic look like? Well, in the first place
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12
Jan
Yet even more sincere answers to stupid questions
People write the craziest things into google, and then land on Small Pond Science.
Here’s a selection of some
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11
Jan
Who you know really matters
People say that it can be important to go to conferences once in a while because “networking” is important.
I
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04
Jan
Undergraduate research is many things
Conversations about “undergraduate research” often involve dispelling misconceptions.
Undergraduate research is not one thing.
What is undergraduate research? It is
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30
Dec
Top 10 Small Pond Science posts of 2015
Small Pond Science had a good year. Most readers have joined within the last year, so let’s recap with
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25
Dec
Recommended reads #67
What does the Paris Agreement mean? After a a few decades of knowing about the greenhouse effect as a real
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21
Dec
A little story about how minds change
A funny little thing happened in our last departmental meeting of the semester.
We meet for 2-3 hours at a
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17
Dec
Should I stay or should I go now?
Or maybe an alternative title could be “The Accidental Academic”.
This November I heard back from the two main Swedish
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16
Dec
Live tweeting at academic conferences: time to move on?
Guest post by Ian Lunt.
In popular culture, peak beard has been defined as the point in time when the
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