Firing scientists for sexual misconduct is not enough
When Jason Lieb was a professor at the University of North Carolina, he was sleeping with one of his own
Shooting down a widely held scientific myth
Bullet ant image by Benoit Guenard
Science is full of ideas that people somehow accept to be true, just because
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Here’s a profile of Vojtech Novotny that makes him look great, because he is.
America’s climate refugee crisis
Blurred lines in academia–what is work?
While navigating the unemployment system in Sweden, I’ve discovered that I need to report every month what I’ve
The tyranny of the 9-month position
I’m convinced that 9-month positions are bad for pretty much everybody. Especially driftwood faculty.
This week I was having
Can on-line networking replace the traditional kind?
A few weeks ago Terry wrote about going to conferences, networking and social capital. The post struck home for me
It gets busier.
I couple years ago, there was a careers-in-science discussion on an OTS field course. (I was visiting faculty — I am
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A lecture from the lectured. This is a superb piece from students responding to that op-ed piece in the New
First week off the job-life as an unemployed academic
This week I am officially unemployed. What does life as an unemployed academic look like? Well, in the first place
Yet even more sincere answers to stupid questions
People write the craziest things into google, and then land on Small Pond Science.
Here’s a selection of some
