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21
Oct

Recommended reads #89

A couple truly spectacular reads have already made the rounds in social media in the last week, but in case
6 min read
19
Oct

Towards better titles for academic papers: a hermeneutic approach from a blogging perspective

I think a lot of academic article titles are pretty bad. What do I mean by bad? The title doesn’
3 min read
17
Oct

A student-centered academic conference

The national SACNAS conference came through LA again. SACNAS is an organization that fosters diversity in higher education and runs
6 min read
10
Oct

Bias in graduate admissions

Yesterday, I received an epic comment on a recent post of mine about minority recruitment. I want to share it:
8 min read
07
Oct

Recommended reads #88

Without tenure, professors become terrified sheep. The terrorist inside my husband’s brain. This piece by Robin Williams’s widow,
6 min read
03
Oct

Open source software doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll have better stats

Let me tell you a little story about data analysis and peer review, that’s giving me a little pause.
5 min read
26
Sep

How should the shape of your grade distribution change the way you teach?

I’ve received a number of comments about one of the recommended reads from last Friday. It was about the
3 min read
23
Sep

Recommended reads #87

A ban on bans against laptop bans. Or something like that. Folks often think their grades are bimodally distributed when
5 min read
21
Sep

Please nominate colleagues to be selected as ESA fellows

This one is for the ecologists. There are a lot of people who have made outstanding contributions to the field
2 min read
19
Sep

Networking from scratch

I’ve been writing regularly for Vitae, the careers section of The Chronicle of Higher Education. This piece was published
3 min read