Friday Recommended Reads #15
If you hear a song and want to know what it is, you can whip out your phone and an
Keeping seven people out of your head
I recently declined to seek an opportunity to become a 50% time administrator. Why did I turn it down? I
Getting back to the routine.
Last year was a pretty big one for me, both personally and professionally. We bought a row house and moved
Cheating is the norm. Plan your course with this in mind.
If you make it through the upcoming semester without having busted any students for cheating, then the odds are that
Are you taking a real holiday? A poll.
On any given day, we don’t have to work as much as we usually do. A lot needs to
NSF mostly overlooked teaching institutions for Presidential Early Career Awards
The PECASE awards from NSF were announced as a Christmas present for 19 scientists.
These Presidential Early Career Awardees are
Friday Recommended Reads #14
Would you like to volunteer in a natural history museum collection but can’t find the time or opportunity? If
The rejection that wasn’t
I remember when I got the reviews back from the first big paper that I submitted. I was mad to
Teaching Tuesday: Interpreting figures
When I was an undergraduate, I experienced one of those aha moments in my upper-level plant ecology class. At
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