Collected observations from travels among universities
Invited seminars and job interviews offer a unique opportunity to learn (and remember) what grad school is like and how
Teaching Tuesday: Writing in Ecology
In my continuing series on teaching ecology, I am going to focus on using writing in ecology classes. The following
A snapshot of the publication cycle
I was recently asked:
Q: How do you decide what project you work on?
A: I work on the thing
Friday Recommended Reads #8
You probably caught the news about the oarfish. Two washed up in Southern California. Why did these creatures make it
The conflict-cooperation model of faculty-admin relations, Part 4: Consequences of our social interactions
This is the penultimate piece in a series on faculty-admin relations. Here are parts one, two, and three. You
What happens when you don’t know anything about the subject you’re teaching?
Biologie & Anatomie & Mensch, via Wikimedia commons
Like many grad students in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, I my made
Teaching Tuesday: How do ecologists teach and are there barriers to change?
Continuing on in my presentation of results from a survey of higher education in ecology, I am going to spend
This attempt to create an inclusive professional blog
Running this blog has been a wonderful experience. I think it’s a productive and professional use of my time,
Friday Recommended Reads #7
What are deans thinking when they’re evaluating tenure cases? Apparently, at least one of them is sizing professors up
Why host a speaker?
I recently went over why seminar speakers might give a talk. Now, the flipside:
What is to be gained by
