Sitemap - 2014 - Science For Everyone
Dead grandmothers no more: the equal accommodation classroom
Students say the darndest things!
Be a gracious winner and not a sore loser (or don’t be a jerk)
What I said about my blog in my promotion file
Efficient teaching: 5-second wait time
What ideas or discoveries have had the greatest impact on the science of ecology?
What reference manager is the best option?
Why I don’t use my campus email address
Setting formal expectations for lab members
New requirement for scientists: You cannot be a sexist pigdog
Even more sincere answers to stupid questions
Social media: what is it good for?
What to do if you’re facing tenure denial
The statistics of busy, or the management of approachability
Taxonomy vs research theme based conferences: which do you attend?
Having “The Talk” with students
Does your campus allow Federal Work Study awards for undergraduate research?
The Church of High Impact Practices
When are minority-focused conferences the best choice?
Which institutions request external review for tenure files?
Let’s stop mixing up education and social capital
Graduate training, missed opportunities and the good ol’ days
12 tips for talking to science faculty about new teaching strategies
Thinking about what we can do about sexual assault and harassment in the sciences
The two-body problem isn’t temporary
Active learning is flexible and designed to reach the reticent
Where do you eat lunch? And does it matter?
This device can improve your quality of life
Efficient teaching: Doing active learning an easy way
It’s nice to have administrators you can trust
History will not repeat itself (i.e. lessons learned as a first-year faculty member)
Scientific conferences, the too-slow movement of ideas, and giving an engaging talk
Why I teach on the first day of class
Conferences need students: make them affordable
Replacing the “academic pipeline” with the "subway"
Teaching Challenges: group projects
Parental care and scientific careers: a fish metaphor
What happens in the canopy stays in the canopy.
Respectful conversation at academic conferences
Field courses: a blessing and a curse
Between a rock and a hard concept: teaching multilevel selection
Journalistic bias in Science Magazine
Huge problems during research are totally normal
Conference report from a non-expert: Geochemistry
Preparing a talk for a conference
Chairing a search committee, in hindsight
LEGO makes more women in science!
Submitting abstracts for conferences without having the data
One person’s story about post-PhD employment
The interplay of science and activism
How much do you let students design projects?
Learning from a kindergarten teacher
Don’t go to grad school! and other fairy tales
“What’s going to be on the exam?”
I must be the worst statistics professor
A mountain of progress still needed for equity in science
Ant foraging diversity: a simple and elegant explanation
Public higher education is not a reward for hard work
Our expert advice remains unheeded
The first days of a new tenure-track faculty job
The field ecology of a gut microbe inside bullet ants
Driftwood faculty and decisions about course content
What kind of faculty job do you want?
Which classes should tenure-track faculty deprioritize?
Why I prefer anonymous peer reviews
Scientists know how to communicate with the public
Today is Taxonomist Appreciation Day!
Negotiating for a faculty position: An anecdote, and what to do
Retraction of a previous post about pseudojournals
Differences between the sciences and the humanities
Public thesis defenses are illegal in the USA
Avoiding bad teaching evaluations: Tricks of the trade
What do our grades measure? Academic savvy or actual learning?
All faculty need academic freedom to protect their students
Structural privilege in the world’s premier science fair
Putting faces to names: meeting fellow academics
Novels, science, and novel science
Faith, knowledge, respect and science education
How all ecology grad students can benefit from an OTS course
Natural history is important, but not perceived as an academic job skill
Assigning literature in a science class
More sincere answers to stupid questions
Flexibility is wonderful, and horrible.
Why students don’t raise hands in my classroom
Tenure denial, seven years later