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Small Pond Science’s Greatest Hits of 2017

Recommended reads #119

Skype A Scientist (Skype a Classroom!)

Academia selects against community ties

Sending campus exchanges the other way

Recommended reads #118

Is grading an effective teaching practice?

On the need for public academic blogs

Recommended reads #117

The long game against an anti-science, anti-education government

What are the top 100 must-read papers in ecology?

Starting experiments with a “nut fig”

Recommended reads #116

Deserting students after graduation

The BA/BS distinction is BS

Recommended reads #115

Academic blogging as “inreach”

Time limits and test anxiety

Recommended reads #114

Scientific identity crisis

Mary Talbot, pioneering ecologist and myrmecologist

Bringing ecology blogging into the scientific fold

Are REU programs as amazing as their reputations?

Recommended reads #113

Service as leadership

What does “undergraduate research” mean to you?

Recommended reads #112

Recommendations for making science inclusive, and how to talk about it with others

Deadlines for undergraduates in research

Not waiting for the dinosaurs to retire

Recommended reads #111

To ban or not to ban laptops?

Censorship or business as usual?

EEB Mentor Match to help underrepresented students get graduate fellowships

Deadline awareness for everybody

Recommended reads #110

Requiem for a sabbatical

What are best ways to learn R?

Recommended reads #109

The campus free speech issue isn’t about free speech

What’s up with preprints?

Recommended reads #108

The writing curse of negative data

Safety in the field

Recommended reads #107

Thinking critically about the ways we help our students

We need to stop calling professional development a “pipeline”

Recommended reads #106

The people you work with predict whether you’re happy at work

How bad is the loss of NSF dissertation improvement grants?

Recommended reads #105

Drop everything and check your page proofs, or else

Are there universities that care about both research and teaching?

Recommended reads #104

Making scientific conferences more engaging

Keeping data readable in the long run

Recommended reads #103

Handling bad reviews

When scientists are dishonest

The deficit model of STEM recruitment

Recommended reads #102

An introduction to writing a peer review

I am complicit

Recommended reads #101

So, you want to start a science blog?

Building a Network as an Introvert

Genomics is natural history

More stats, less calc

Recommended Reads #100

What the heck are the liberal arts?

Hosting a family research day

Recommended reads #99

A new human organ, and the ignorance of experts

Taxonomist Appreciation Day is coming up

Do model systems work at teaching-focused universities?

Recommended reads #98

I’m not expecting unreasonable time commitments from other academics

Knowing your animal and your question

Recommended reads #97

Should scientists write Wikipedia pages for their study species?

Building a better faculty orientation

Let’s talk about mental health in academia

Taking action at this critical moment

Recommended reads #96

In teaching, less is more

Good popular books about ecology?

Recommended reads #95

Knowing something really well doesn’t mean you can teach it well

Lessons from serving on NSF panels