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07
Aug
A vacationing scientist.

A vacationing scientist.

“I wish those flowers were closer and then we could pick them and you could do the work.” –my daughter
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31
Jul

Conferences need students: make them affordable

People go to conferences for a variety of reasons. Conferences are used to align future research priorities, and students and
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28
Jul

Replacing the “academic pipeline” with the "subway"

There should be many origins and paths towards a career in STEM, so let's use a better metaphor.
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25
Jul

Recommended reads #32

* When editors reject manuscripts without review, does this decision indicate manuscript quality? This study says “no.”  * “The best option of
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16
Jul

Teaching Challenges: group projects

Science is a collaborative effort and in essence, more and more of our scientific effort is done in groups. We
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14
Jul

Parental care and scientific careers: a fish metaphor

Dads typically do less parental care than the mom, at least in the US. This is a problem, especially for
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11
Jul

Recommended reads #31

* Setting boundaries for summers when faculty are not paid. * Whoa. A “peer review ring” was caught and sixty papers were
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07
Jul

What happens in the canopy stays in the canopy.

For a few years, I’ve harbored a very cool (at least to me) natural history idea. But it’s
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03
Jul

Respectful conversation at academic conferences

You’re probably familiar with this scene from academic conferences: Person A and and Person B have been chatting for
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01
Jul

Field courses: a blessing and a curse

Since I began my position at Uppsala, my summers begin frantically. Although my teaching load is relatively light, the majority
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