Newsletter

26
Feb

When you are asked to review a paper that you’ve already reviewed for another journal

This situation can be a bit of a conundrum if you haven’t dealt with it. Let’s say you
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23
Feb

Recommended reads #123

Got milk, must conference Bioinformatics skills – How to get them and not get scared Being an academic after experiencing personal
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20
Feb

Efficient teaching: Crowdsourcing class notes

I’m writing this entire blog post to share one cool tip: Protip for professors: create a googledoc to crowdsource
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12
Feb

How often are you cited correctly?

Sometimes, I get cited incorrectly. I have some feelings about this. When I started doing science, the Science Citation Index
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09
Feb
Recommended reads #122

Recommended reads #122

This is wonderful: NSF is now requiring awardee institutions to report findings of sexual harassment by personnel on NSF grants,
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02
Feb

When the trash gets passed

The term “passing the trash” is commonly used to describe when sexually abusive K-12 teachers and priests get quietly shifted
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29
Jan

Science has an atheism problem

An alternative title for this post might be: Atheism has a jerk problem. Our scientific communities do not fully accept
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26
Jan

Recommended reads #121

Things that are useful to know when you’re teaching with active learning What I’ve learned from my 4
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22
Jan

If you love teaching, a research university might be perfect for you

“I like teaching, and I didn’t want the same stress-packed life as the professors in my PhD program, so
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16
Jan

What a good recruitment weekend looks like

What should departments do when running a grad student recruitment weekend — and what should they avoid? Many departments invite a
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