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You’re reading Small Pond Science right now — but a lot of our colleagues don’t read anything resembling a

Students might not be aware of the time horizons of applications for opportunities. Oftentimes, these things need more advance planning

I hear this a lot: “Bad behavior in academia comes from the guys who have been around for a long

Hope Jahren’s New York Times piece about the Norwegian summer is achingly gorgeous. The biggest misconception about today’s

Some folks want to ban laptops from their classrooms, and others are okay with laptops. This is a perennially annoying

There’s a screenshot of an email from the Department of Energy that is making the rounds. I’d like

I’ve griped about how undergraduates from wealthy private institutions and public research universities get the lion’s share of

I and my family are now up in Oregon to experience the total solar eclipse. Which will be amazing. This

This, I think, is ingenious and next-level stuff: Designing malware to hack bioinformatics software by coding it into the DNA

I haven’t had any service or teaching duties on my campus since May 2016. That ends today. I know,