05
May
“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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02
May
Recommended reads #26
* Here is a summary of a study that tracked time budgets of faculty members. I find it to be shockingly
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30
Apr
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,
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28
Apr
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
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24
Apr
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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18
Apr
Recommended reads #25
* Google tries to have it both ways when it comes to geopolitical boundaries. Where does Russia start and where does
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17
Apr
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
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16
Apr
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.
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15
Apr
Backyard science
Spring is springing in Sweden and I’m finally out from under my grant writing load. It is pretty easy
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14
Apr
The first days of a new tenure-track faculty job
This is the season when some lucky ones preparing for new jobs in the fall. A few people have asked
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