Tenure criteria are the levers to change culture
You want people to behave differently? Let's change the rewards and the costs.
Welcome to the Resistance
You signed up to be a scientist, to go to college, to work in a university. You didn't join the fight against authoritarian malfeasance. But here we are, together.
What are your collaboration dealbreakers?
What kinds of risks are you willing to make?
Why are we all teaching ancient statistics?
If we taught molecular biology the way we teach statistics, we'd still be arguing whether proteins or nucleic acids were genetic material.
How I've been thinking about all of the rapid horrible changes in the United States
I'm not telling you how to think or feel, but maybe letting you know where I'm at might be useful to you.
What was the best part of being a professor is now the worst part of being a professor
We get to do it all. Which means we have to do it all.
Why I don't like arguments and debates
I keep a perennial list of topics that had made me think, “ooh, that would make a good post.” The