Working away from work and making work home
Guest post by Rosie Burdon, a PhD student at Uppsala University in Amy Parachnowitsch’s lab. She is studying interactions
Universities that work hard to subvert student rights with FERPA waivers
Imagine this scene: A professor at work gets a phone call.
Phone Voice: Hi, I’m the parent of Bill
Recommended reads #54
Here’s a post from Methods in Ecology and Evolution with the Top Ten Tips for Reviewing Statistics. I do
The acceptances that weren’t acceptances
Chatting with people at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica, the topic from a recent post came up: that
This one simple trick to help fight the male scientist stereotype
This week, I did my one of my first ever phone-interviews with a reporter for a story about black widows
Academic Hazing
A recent conversation* on twitter made me think about academic customs. The conversation centered on PhD comprehensive exams (PhD candidacy
Receiving an FOIA request for your grant
Update, 02 September 2017: An article came out today in a well-known semi-journalistic website, for which I was interviewed. I’
Recommended Reads #53
You know the spam from fake conferences and predatory journals? Wouldn’t it be interesting if someone collected those emails
What ever happened to “major and minor revisions?”
Since I started submitting papers (around the turn of the century) editorial practices have evolved. Here’s a quick guide:
Words can be powerful: encouraging young women in science.
I’m writing this post because I have been thinking about my career goals and how they have changed since