How about alternating online and travel conferences?
Now that many of us know what an online conference is like, it appears there’s increased demand for more
Are recommendation letters a bad thing?
In the past couple years, we have made progress in dropping the GRE, and now the pandemic has come through
Recommended reads #178
A landmark paper about gender inequities in academic advancement and funding by Rissler et al. just came out in Bioscience.
What’s up with the new NSF GRFP priority areas?
The new solicitation for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program arrived last night with NSF’s daily digest bulletin. There
Making sure your online course has what it needs
For a lot of us, this Fall will be our first experience teaching fully online. This shouldn’t be like
Recommended reads #177
Rich Lenski’s excellent guide: “How to write a response to reviewers in ten easy steps.” (As an author this
Sign up now for EEB Mentor Match 2020
Not everything about 2020 is horrible: We’re running EEB Mentor Match again! More than ever this year, undergraduates from
The balancing act of risk management and protecting long-term welfare of the institution
It must be so difficult to be in charge of a university right now. This is a critical moment for
Thoughts on the absurdity of teaching on campus in the Fall
Over the past several months, higher education has been a theater of the pragmatic and the absurd. At this writing,
Recommended reads #176
An extremely helpful guidebook to HyFlex teaching. (Which is when courses are delivered both in person and online at the
