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Are you taking a real holiday? A poll.

NSF mostly overlooked teaching institutions for Presidential Early Career Awards

Friday Recommended Reads #14

The rejection that wasn’t

Teaching Tuesday: Interpreting figures

Coming out of the closet, tenure denial edition

Friday Recommended Reads #13

Disadvantaged students come from disadvantaged universities

Teaching Tuesday: talking about teaching

Grabbing the brass ring

Friday Recommended Reads #12

Income inequality predicts science test scores, but not the way you might imagine

Conflicting interests of faculty and administrators

Why I knit (and give thanks)

On creating your own path through life

Friday Recommended Reads #11

The three most important members of your department

Journal prestige and publishing from a teaching institution

Could twitter have saved the lives of seven astronauts?

Ant science: Ants try to eat protein beverages like solid food

Teaching Tuesday: Interviewing–the teaching test lecture

Friday Recommended Reads #10

Why I don’t take high school students into my lab

Teaching Tuesday: Incorporating primary literature into courses

Friday Recommended Reads #9

Efficient teaching: Rubrics for written assignments

Collected observations from travels among universities

Teaching Tuesday: Writing in Ecology

A snapshot of the publication cycle

Friday Recommended Reads #8

The conflict-cooperation model of faculty-admin relations, Part 4: Consequences of our social interactions

What happens when you don’t know anything about the subject you’re teaching?

Teaching Tuesday: How do ecologists teach and are there barriers to change?

This attempt to create an inclusive professional blog

Friday Recommended Reads #7

Why host a speaker?

Hittin’ the lecture circuit

Teaching Tuesday: teaching tools ecologists find effective

Why give a seminar?

A response to censorship by Scientific American [updated]

Friday Recommended Reads #6

Efficient teaching: class needs to end on time

Biology departments need an accreditation body

Friday Recommended Reads #5

The conflict-cooperation model of faculty-admin relations, Part 3: How our universities run like social insect colonies

Two Tenure-Track positions in Biology at CSU Dominguez Hills

Efficient teaching: Getting metacognitive

Teaching Tuesdays

Friday Recommended Reads #4

The conflict-cooperation model of faculty-admin relations, Part 2: We are social animals

On being a tenure-track parasite of adjunct faculty [updated]

Please don’t hold out-of-class review sessions

Friday Recommended Reads #3

The conflict-cooperation model of faculty-admin relations: Part 1: Know Your Bosses

Remembering what it’s like to be a college student

Friday Recommended Reads #2

Sincere answers to stupid questions

Is innovation stifled by overwork? The case of Iceland

Advising undergraduates on applications for grad school

A little literature on how pseudonymity may alter reach or impact

What faculty really need: Time

More female LEGO scientists, please!

So, teaching is for people who have imposter syndrome?

How a research institution can mentor undergrads better than an undergraduate institution

Taking a chance on the premed

Friday Recommended Reads #1

Extra credit is unfair to students

“Time management” is just a way to sell how-to books

Efficient teaching: grading schemes

What do our “Overly Honest Syllabi” remarks say about how we approach our craft?

How it is hard to remove useless pap from GE curricula

Service obligations attack!

Percent effort measures are a bunch of bunk

Welcome back! Changes for Fall 2013!

On pseudonymity and making a difference in the world (updated)

On the ethics of juggling job offers

Are trees the lawns of the future?

Do you want an office connected to your lab?

Model systems don’t work at teaching universities

On the speciousness of “work-life balance”

What is the filter in NSF preproposal review?

It’s okay to not fund all faculty researchers equally

Changing families are behind the decline of field station culture

Supervising students from afar

Broader impacts ≠ reaching underrepresented groups

Applying for a faculty position at a teaching institution: the research statement

On specialization: don’t research your way into obscurity

The Education-Industrial Complex

The cover letter for a faculty position at a teaching institution

Holding my own with the big boys and girls

Applying for faculty positions at teaching institutions: interpreting research culture and opportunities during an interview

Stop using “silverback” to describe scientists. It’s sexist.

Applying for positions at teaching institutions: identifying opportunities for serious research

Efficient teaching: how to use the course management system

Field courses need more units

Top seven reasons to read this listicle

Attending conferences as a professor from a teaching institution

First, let’s remove all the desks

On not liking teaching

Juggling summer parenting and research

Pretending you planned to test that hypothesis the whole time

Letters of recommendation for a faculty job: teaching observations

We’re teaching the scientific method incorrectly

Open question: sabbatical funding?

Teaching universities as the farm league

Less valid complaints about not getting a tenure-track faculty position

The safety talk with students in your lab

What do students call you? Professor, Ms., Mrs., Mr., Dr., Sir?

A method to develop scientists from underrepresented groups: Research Recruits

“What are you doing for vacation?”

Deadwood or Driftwood?

A recommended summer read: How People Learn

Drifting towards deadwood, or not: learning to use R (updated)

On attending graduation

Summer is approaching: beware the pit of crocodiles

The relationships among fame, impact and research quality

Efficient teaching: marking down for grammatical errors

Applying for faculty positions: the teaching philosophy

How much space do faculty at teaching campuses take up in journals?

Getting and running a big site grant in a small institution: how collaborations fail

Getting past the comic stereotype of grad student life

How to run a summer undergraduate research lab

What really is “excellence” in teaching ?

Don’t waste tenure

Ant science: how avoiding modeling led to a cool discovery

What it takes to get tenure: ambiguity of the teaching criterion

Not using the microphone at conference talks

Teaching efficiently: the muddiest point

Advice on whether to do an M.S. before the Ph.D.

“Student quality”

Overhead rates on grants, and prize money of the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars

Thanksgiving; a state of the blog report

Research in community colleges?

Efficient teaching: ungraded quizzes

“Release time” vs. “Reassigned time”

Glamour publications: the view from a teaching campus

Transparency in research: publish your reviews

Science, math skills, and high school students

This is water: focusing on what matters

My all-time favorite scientific paper

Keeping tabs on pseudo journals [retracted]

Tribalism in the sciences: empiricists vs. theoreticians

It’s horrible to be able to do research in your own lab

A field course about ants this summer (some self-promotion)

Science is real

Consequences for those who assault our students

Negotiating for reassigned time when writing a grant

Making the telephone less annoying

It’s not easier, just different

A confession about service obligations

Startup needs for researchers in teaching schools

How tinkering can work as a research program

Accessing the articles you need (or not)

Efficient teaching: after academic dishonesty happens

I got me the travelin’ blues

Lab meetings: the publication process

Tinkering around is the best way to do research

It’s taxonomist appreciation day!

How to figure out if you want to work at a teaching university

Online learning is the ghetto of higher education

Ant science: Thievery persists in a world of plenty

Theoretical bandwagons are for big labs

Mentorship = Training?

On gender, parenting and academic careers

What happens off campus stays off campus

Efficient teaching: exam writing vs. exam grading

About face

Making ideas or evaluating them? Climbing aboard theoretical bandwagons

Undergraduate research offices: what makes one work well?

We exist.

A formal model for undergraduate authorship

Ant Science: litter ants follow sunflecks

Class duration and time for research

Why you should get to know grad students

What do you do in lab meetings?

The Science Research – Education Research Divide

People not understanding your job

The elevator pitch: more harm than good?

Training vs. productivity. What’s your currency?

Calling in The Wolf

The Evolution of Pseudojournals

Undergraduate first authorship?

Making time by teaching efficiently

Nobody with whom to share cool discoveries

The importance of lacking necessary equipment

Taking a chance on the pre-med

A little pool of cash

Work on the grant or the manuscript?

A rationale for existence