20
Jan
Why I’m a little sour on crowdfunding
Here’s an idea for a new way to fund science: We can just create websites about our projects, and
3 min read
Newsletter
16
Jan
Recommended reads #44
If you haven’t read it yet, Terry Wheeler’s post, “20 Years in the Professor Game: things I did
4 min read
13
Jan
Authorship when the first author is the senior author
Authorship conventions are based around assumptions that research was done under the umbrella of a research institution.
It’s often
2 min read
07
Jan
Experiments can sell your science, even if they’re not going to work
We typically need manipulative experiments to truly know how a biological system works.
Nevertheless, on most days, I feel that
4 min read
05
Jan
Standards-based grading
As we start up the new semester, this is an apt time to evaluate, and update or change, our grading
2 min read
02
Jan
Recommended reads #43
In an intentional experiment in peer review, the organizers in a computer science conference discover that half of the papers
2 min read
29
Dec
Dead grandmothers no more: the equal accommodation classroom
Let me tell two anecdotes to put the Dead Grandmother Syndrome in perspective.
I remember when I was a student
5 min read
19
Dec
Recommended reads #42
I’ve mentioned this before, but it bears re-mentioning. NSF’s Division of Environmental Biology has a superb and informative
3 min read
18
Dec
Students say the darndest things!
Oftentimes, professors make sport of sharing humorously incorrect exam answers. I’ve seen a bunch of these during this end-of-semester
6 min read
16
Dec
Be a gracious winner and not a sore loser (or don’t be a jerk)
There are a bunch of life skills that come in handy in academia. Some are obvious and discussed a lot
3 min read