We’re number 33!
We’re number 33!
According to the latest rankings by Time Magazine, my current university — California State University Dominguez Hills
Don’t go to grad school! and other fairy tales
The fitness of organisms is measured by their reproduction. Successful scientists make more scientists. Successful professors make more professors, so
“What’s going to be on the exam?”
Do you love it when students waste office hours with questions that don’t help them learn? Do you want
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* Here is a summary of a study that tracked time budgets of faculty members. I find it to be shockingly
I must be the worst statistics professor
Several times a year, students contact me to tell me that I was the worst professor ever.
To be precise,
A mountain of progress still needed for equity in science
Most senior scientists aren’t from ethnic backgrounds underrepresented in the sciences, and don’t train many scientists from these
Ant foraging diversity: a simple and elegant explanation
Science can be creative and elegant.
To illustrate this fact, I want to bring to your attention a groundbreaking review
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* Google tries to have it both ways when it comes to geopolitical boundaries. Where does Russia start and where does
Public higher education is not a reward for hard work
Here in California, there was a measure to officially restore affirmative action to the public university admissions process.
(The movement
Our expert advice remains unheeded
Once in a while, tropical biologists get bot flies. We sometimes find this out while were are in the field.