07
Nov
Recommended reads #39
There’s a site named Shit My Reviewers Say. Which has a bunch of heartless and unsubstantiated zingers that folks
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Newsletter
06
Nov
Social media: what is it good for?
For better or worse, I am the only person in my department who engages regularly in social media. Blogging here,
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03
Nov
What to do if you’re facing tenure denial
A nontrivial fraction of tenure-track faculty are denied tenure, well over the standard 5% threshold for Type I errors that
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31
Oct
The conference hangover
This week I definitely had a ‘hangover’. Two weeks of meetings* left me a strange mixture of excited, enthusiastic, invigorated
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28
Oct
The statistics of busy, or the management of approachability
In one Seinfeld episode, George puts on an annoyed busy-all-the-time act at work. Consequently, nobody bothered him with work.
Academia
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24
Oct
Recommended reads #38
Ecologist Timothée Poisot has what I think is a remarkable insight about the myth/cult/phenomenon of busy in academia.
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22
Oct
Conference report: SACNAS
Here is a detailed report on my brief experience with the SACNAS meeting, aggregated as an unordered set of observations
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21
Oct
Taxonomy vs research theme based conferences: which do you attend?
These two weeks are allowing me to contrast two very different kinds of meetings. As a member of the Linnean
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20
Oct
Having “The Talk” with students
Recently, I posted on my regular blog about two separate incidents at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
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15
Oct
Does your campus allow Federal Work Study awards for undergraduate research?
I used to have Work-Study students doing research in my lab, when I was visiting faculty at Gettysburg College. Then
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