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Apr
NSF Graduate Fellowships are a part of the problem
I started this morning with tremendous news: a student of mine, who left my lab for a PhD program last
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30
Mar
Do textbooks reflect, or shape, the canon?
Faculty members get unannounced visits from book reps on a periodic basis. They offer free books, and sometimes bagels. Then,
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27
Mar
Recommended reads #49
Why is so much of our discussion of higher ed driven by elite institutions?
Why has bioinformatics education failed?
The
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25
Mar
The science education crisis needs a focus on K-6 classrooms
By my counting, we have three kinds of science education crises in the USA.
1. A ridiculously low degree of
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23
Mar
The more things change, the more they change
Monet Kelp Forest. photo by Bruce McGlynn
I just had the pleasure of spending a couple days hiking around the
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17
Mar
Taxonomist Appreciation Day is Thursday!
Taxonomist Appreciation Day is March 19th – this Thursday!
Among all the sciences, one of the least heralded and most critical
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13
Mar
Recommended reads #48
Allen Orr wrote a masterful review of DS Wilson’s latest book on the evolution of altruism.
Jeremiah Ory has
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12
Mar
How does blog readership grow, and (how) does this matter?
How useful are science blogs, and what is the future of science blogging? Probably the worst place to get a
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10
Mar
Efficient teaching: improving student writing ability
Last week’s post was about university writing requirements that fall ludicrously short of their goal, like how this ferret
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05
Mar
University writing requirements are a joke
When your undergraduates leave campus with a Bachelor’s degree, can they write well?
I wish I could say that
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