18
Jan
Recommended reads #143
“Lessons from a postdoc gone wrong” makes sense in other domains as well.
A year of being a science mama
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Newsletter
16
Jan
Going exam-free
Are you preparing for the new semester? Are you sitting in the position of academic freedom guaranteed by tenure?
Here’
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14
Jan
We can create useful student evaluations of teaching. Here’s how.
Student evaluations are here to stay. And that’s the way it should be. I think universities owe it to
3 min read
07
Jan
What experimental artifacts are you ignoring?
Collectively, as a scientific community, we have so many blind spots. I remember running into one of these blind spots
4 min read
04
Jan
Recommended reads #142: back to work edition
That was a restful two weeks. Now, back to business.
The Green New Deal, explained
Why do scientists reinvent wheels?
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20
Dec
The Top 9 Small Pond posts of 2018
I can’t say that 2018 has been a good year, but it has been a good one for Small
1 min read
17
Dec
The power of small teams
If you search up the phrase “power of small teams,” you’ll find lots of conventional wisdom.
I just would
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14
Dec
Recommended reads #141
Don’t spend your holiday break writing.
Did you know about the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876?
The power of
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10
Dec
“How do we diversify our seminar series?”
Last week, I got a request for some advice, and thought I’d share a version of my answer with
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05
Dec
Science twitter highlights #4
A 36-year-old man was admitted to the ICU with an acute exacerbation of chronic #heartfailure. After a ventricular assist device
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