Poll: What is your risk/reward preference in science funding?
Funding rates in the US are declining. Even if NSF gets a little boost to its budget, the situation will
Should ecologists teach writing?
I could start this post with a back-in-my-day story and bemoan the state of student writing today but I think
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What happens when you get paid 18 grand from NASA to stay in bed for two and a half months?
What are our academic blind spots?
Here’s a notion: When we discover a big new thing, this often requires an abandonment — or at least serious
Two years of Small Pond Science
Small Pond is exactly two years old. Here’s a reflection on how this site has affected me. Some might
Browsing the tables of contents
This is going to make me sound not young, but here it goes.
Library Stacks from Purchase College Library
When
A conversation that can help protect your students
A student recently dropped by to tell me about an exciting opportunity. She was going to spend a few weeks
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This video clip showing aggressive mimicry by the Persian Horned Viper is amazing.
University Signs Slavic Languages Professor to Five
Is it harder, or easier, to publish in your field?
It takes time and effort to publish a paper. After all, if it were really easy, then publications wouldn’t
The academic cold contact
A lot of science that gets done these days results from collaboration. Collaborations can come about it a multitude of
