Recommended reads #45
This video clip showing aggressive mimicry by the Persian Horned Viper is amazing.
University Signs Slavic Languages Professor to Five
Is it harder, or easier, to publish in your field?
It takes time and effort to publish a paper. After all, if it were really easy, then publications wouldn’t
The academic cold contact
A lot of science that gets done these days results from collaboration. Collaborations can come about it a multitude of
Why I’m a little sour on crowdfunding
Here’s an idea for a new way to fund science: We can just create websites about our projects, and
Recommended reads #44
If you haven’t read it yet, Terry Wheeler’s post, “20 Years in the Professor Game: things I did
Authorship when the first author is the senior author
Authorship conventions are based around assumptions that research was done under the umbrella of a research institution.
It’s often
Experiments can sell your science, even if they’re not going to work
We typically need manipulative experiments to truly know how a biological system works.
Nevertheless, on most days, I feel that
Standards-based grading
As we start up the new semester, this is an apt time to evaluate, and update or change, our grading
Recommended reads #43
In an intentional experiment in peer review, the organizers in a computer science conference discover that half of the papers
Dead grandmothers no more: the equal accommodation classroom
Let me tell two anecdotes to put the Dead Grandmother Syndrome in perspective.
I remember when I was a student
