Sitemap - 2016 - Science For Everyone

Recommended reads #94

There are many ways to be a publicly engaged scientist

Recommended reads #93

Summer research internships for professors

How many rejections should scientists aim for?

NSF Graduate Fellowships and the path towards equity

Recommended reads #92

Teaching in a time of professor watchlists

On the shrinkage of polar ice caps

Recommended reads #91

Negotiate authorship before collecting data

Diversity creates stability and resilience

Confessions of an unemployed academic

Negative results, weird results, and other secrets

Recommended reads #90

Is social media ruining everything?

Creating an academic environment hostile to sexual misconduct

In defence of taxon-specific conferences

Recommended reads #89

Towards better titles for academic papers: a hermeneutic approach from a blogging perspective

A student-centered academic conference

Bias in graduate admissions

Recommended reads #88

Open source software doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll have better stats

How should the shape of your grade distribution change the way you teach?

Recommended reads #87

Please nominate colleagues to be selected as ESA fellows

Networking from scratch

An academic conference with $1000 registration

To teach better, boost student confidence

Recommended reads #86

Recruiting underrepresented minority students

Small Pond summer recap

What a fake turkey sandwich taught me about teaching

Recommended reads #85

Conference travel awards that you can’t apply for until after the travel is done are bad

On absurd tenure requirements at small institutions

Let’s nominate folks for NSF’s Waterman award, including women

Accessibility isn’t the key to mentorship

Recommended reads #84

We need to stop putting diversity in a box at conferences

Serious academics take the media seriously

Advice for department chairs

Recommended reads #83

What limits productivity at teaching institutions

Religious scientists as a component of STEM diversity

Recommended reads #82

Respecting the expertise of amateurs

Small institution vendor discounts?

Recommended reads #81

Twelve museums I loved that you might not know about

How can track record matter in double-blind grant reviews?

Recommended Reads #80

Saying “see you later, sometime” to the rainforest

Why not double-blind grant reviews?

Recommended reads #79

The lost opportunity cost of overcommitment

Using blogs for sharing negative results

Recommended reads #78

A small private college financial bubble?

Self-funding your research program

Recommended reads #77

What is press-worthy scholarship?

How does college selectivity affect the jobs of professors?

On the ballooning of spiders and deep evolutionary branches

Recommended reads #76

Impatience with the peer review process

NSF’s Water Man award

Using a grant writer

Recommended reads #75

Education research denialism in university STEM faculty

Recommended Reads #74

NSF Graduate Fellowship timing doesn’t help the undergrads who need the help

My path to science

Recommended Reads #73

What are office hours for?

“Open Science” is not one thing

Recommended reads #72

NSF makes its graduate fellowships more accessible

The case for open book exams

Natural history, synthesis papers and the academic caste system

Recommended reads #71

I think I might be a successful nag

Image attribution in presentations

There are many pathways to becoming a great teacher

Recommended reads #70

What is creativity and how creative are scientists?

Do you write your recommendation letters?

Firing scientists for sexual misconduct is not enough

Shooting down a widely held scientific myth

Recommended reads #69

Blurred lines in academia–what is work?

The tyranny of the 9-month position

Can on-line networking replace the traditional kind?

It gets busier.

Recommended reads #68

First week off the job-life as an unemployed academic

Yet even more sincere answers to stupid questions

Who you know really matters

Undergraduate research is many things