22
Oct
Conference report: SACNAS
Here is a detailed report on my brief experience with the SACNAS meeting, aggregated as an unordered set of observations
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21
Oct
Taxonomy vs research theme based conferences: which do you attend?
These two weeks are allowing me to contrast two very different kinds of meetings. As a member of the Linnean
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20
Oct
Having “The Talk” with students
Recently, I posted on my regular blog about two separate incidents at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
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15
Oct
Does your campus allow Federal Work Study awards for undergraduate research?
I used to have Work-Study students doing research in my lab, when I was visiting faculty at Gettysburg College. Then
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13
Oct
The Church of High Impact Practices
Educational fads come, and educational fads go. A dominant fad at the moment is “High Impact Practices.” Several years ago,
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10
Oct
Recommended reads #37
* “If you wouldn’t say it in person, don’t say it in an anonymous review.”
* Boat parts or names
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06
Oct
When are minority-focused conferences the best choice?
Sometimes, the title has a question mark. The body of the text usually has the answer to the question in
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03
Oct
Which institutions request external review for tenure files?
Today, I’m submitting my file for promotion. It’s crazy to think I submitted my most recent tenure file
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29
Sep
Let’s stop mixing up education and social capital
When people talk about the “value of a quality education,” they’re probably not talking about education. What does a
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26
Sep
Recommended reads #36
* One Woman’s Life in Science. This came out almost twenty years ago in the Sigma Xi magazine, but it
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