22
Jan
Some ideas for better office hours
Welcome back to a new semester! I don’t know about you, but I am often generally unpleased with how
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Newsletter
18
Jan
The deficit model of science communication
This is central concept for science outreach. Some interactions today have led me to wonder whether we are all on
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15
Jan
Help us to diversify and humanize biology courses!
a guest post by Project Biodiversify (www.projectbiodiversify.org @biodiversifying)
We contain multitudes. Our courses should reflect this.
We contain
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13
Jan
A time portal journey to the pre-internet era
I inadvertently created my own archive of pre-internet academic life, and spent some of this weekend exploring it.
The year
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06
Jan
How university endowments predict, and don’t predict, teaching loads
It’s typically exciting to find out that your hypothesis is wrong – and I was wrong! Here’s my back-of-the-metaphorical-envelope
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24
Dec
Recommended reads #162
Would your cat eat your dead body? Now there’s peer-reviewed science to answer this question.
An exceptional obituary for
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18
Dec
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Why do some places have high teaching loads and others have low teaching loads? [poll]
Of course, institutions with more money have lower teaching loads. I have a specific hypothesis: Endowment size predicts teaching loads,
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10
Dec
Reporting plagiarism and cheating to the university
Some folks are surprised to learn that cheating is extremely common. I mean, it’s the norm.
On the other
02
Dec
Preventing students from having copies of the exam
I know a lot of people who prevent copies of their exams from leaving their classrooms. I think this is
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27
Nov
Recommended Reads #161
Teaching more by grading less, or differently
Here is a sublime profile of biologist Art Shapiro. And apparently, everybody I
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