17
Dec
Teaching Tuesday: Interpreting figures
When I was an undergraduate, I experienced one of those aha moments in my upper-level plant ecology class. At that
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16
Dec
Coming out of the closet, tenure denial edition
With a bit of CV forensics, you can infer a lot about the career of an academic.
One potential indicator
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13
Dec
Friday Recommended Reads #13
How many scientific arguments are philosophical disagreements rather than disputes over scientific theory? Jeremy Fox makes a great, and detailed,
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11
Dec
Disadvantaged students come from disadvantaged universities
The future of research in the USA requires that we recruit the best possible scientists. As the country gets less
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10
Dec
Teaching Tuesday: talking about teaching
When I did a survey of ecology teachers earlier this year*, I left a space for further comments on teaching
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09
Dec
Grabbing the brass ring
Many moons ago, I wrote some friends and colleagues to let them know I was starting a tenure-track position. One
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06
Dec
Friday Recommended Reads #12
Did you know that the funding rates of NSF Graduate Fellowships are about 50%!? That’s true as long as
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04
Dec
Income inequality predicts science test scores, but not the way you might imagine
More than half of all children attending public schools in the United States are living in poverty. As the unequal
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04
Dec
Conflicting interests of faculty and administrators
Motives of faculty and administrators can be highly variable. But even though many administrators were once faculty themselves, I can
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28
Nov
Why I knit (and give thanks)
I am Canadian, and living in Sweden, I often get comments suggesting that I’m really American (North American, true
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