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Apply to grad school for free A good argument for checking email less frequently. How I learned to stop worrying

I just read this piece in Science yesterday and I was floored. It’s the story of what’s happening

Among my peeves is when people say that science is not a liberal art. (Like this former president of Missouri

I was chatting with colleagues about the mechanics of handing back papers to students. How do you do this? As

For all the concern about pipeline problems, we seem to be fond of creating bottlenecks that filter out the people

We did a thing that worked. Maybe you could try it. It’s something that I’ve suggested before, but

To groom better scientists, harness the power of narrative. Applying for faculty jobs and don’t know what an institution

This Small Pond is approaching carrying capacity. (There are some good analogies involving allochthonous and and autochthonous production, but I

We still have generations of academics who are still in denial about how social media has changed how we are

This is going to be a quick or poorly edited post because it is extremely late, as I just uploaded