20
May
Recommended reads #78
Who wore it better? David Bowie or nudibranch? This is fabulous, in the classic sense of the word.
This is
4 min read
Newsletter
16
May
A small private college financial bubble?
I bought a house in late 2001. People thought I was crazy to pay what I did, but still, in
5 min read
09
May
Self-funding your research program
In the last few months, something has been on my mind. I’ve brought up the topic a few times,
5 min read
06
May
Recommended reads #77
“Natural history: an approach whose time as come, passed, and needs to be resurrected.”
A reconsideration of “new conservation.” Also,
6 min read
05
May
What is press-worthy scholarship?
As I was avoiding real work and morning traffic, there were a bunch of interesting things on twitter, as usual.
3 min read
02
May
How does college selectivity affect the jobs of professors?
Sometimes when I talk about teaching — and interactions with students in general — folks don’t really get where I’m
5 min read
27
Apr
On the ballooning of spiders and deep evolutionary branches
To keep track of projects, I use a sophisticated app called Moleskine. But early on in grad school, when I
3 min read
22
Apr
Recommended reads #76
Cards against humanities. You read that right, not humanity, Humanities.
This Puliter Prize-winning story by Kathryn Schulz about The Really
4 min read
20
Apr
Impatience with the peer review process
Science has a thousand problems, but the time it takes for our manuscripts to be peer reviewed ain’t one.
5 min read
18
Apr
NSF’s Water Man award
When I was a tween, a cutsey feel-good book was a bestseller: All I Really Need to Know I Learned
2 min read