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This case study of search committees demonstrates how downright sexist conduct is pervasive in academic job searches. When it comes

Some people will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid dropping the H-bomb. (This’ll be a short and less-than-grand post

A couple weeks ago, the students in our department bought lunch for the faculty. It was a nice catered takeout

I make a point to post at least once a week. Sometimes the blog posts are full essays, sometimes they’

Is peer review broken? No, it’s not. The “stuff is broken” is overused so much that it now just

Why I stopped writing on my student’s papers. Four very practical solutions to make conferences less difficult for scientists

I’d like to think I’m not a clueless ignoramus when it comes to navigating university bureaucracy, but sometimes

Three months and change ago, I wrote a post about how academic blogs have very few voices, and we need

Image: A sunset over probably Iowa, viewed from a carbon-emitting airplane Last week, an offhand remark in a radio story