Sitemap - 2013 - Science For Everyone
Are you taking a real holiday? A poll.
NSF mostly overlooked teaching institutions for Presidential Early Career Awards
Teaching Tuesday: Interpreting figures
Coming out of the closet, tenure denial edition
Disadvantaged students come from disadvantaged universities
Teaching Tuesday: talking about teaching
Income inequality predicts science test scores, but not the way you might imagine
Conflicting interests of faculty and administrators
On creating your own path through life
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
Why I don’t take high school students into my lab
Teaching Tuesday: Incorporating primary literature into courses
Efficient teaching: Rubrics for written assignments
Collected observations from travels among universities
Teaching Tuesday: Writing in Ecology
A snapshot of the publication cycle
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
Teaching Tuesday: teaching tools ecologists find effective
A response to censorship by Scientific American [updated]
Efficient teaching: class needs to end on time
Biology departments need an accreditation body
Two Tenure-Track positions in Biology at CSU Dominguez Hills
Efficient teaching: Getting metacognitive
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
The conflict-cooperation model of faculty-admin relations: Part 1: Know Your Bosses
Remembering what it’s like to be a college student
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
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
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
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
Top seven reasons to read this listicle
Attending conferences as a professor from a teaching institution
First, let’s remove all the desks
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?”
A recommended summer read: How People Learn
Drifting towards deadwood, or not: learning to use R (updated)
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 ?
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.
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)
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
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
On gender, parenting and academic careers
What happens off campus stays off campus
Efficient teaching: exam writing vs. exam grading
Making ideas or evaluating them? Climbing aboard theoretical bandwagons
Undergraduate research offices: what makes one work well?
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?
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