October 2018

  • I’ve neglected the blog over the past few months, so what better way to re-engage with academic readers than through daily blogging in November! As in years past, this is my unofficial contribution to NaBloPoMo, a companion to NaNoWriMo. I’d like to invite you to suggest topics that you’d like to read about. I know…

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  • Icktober

    I am feeling very grumpy about work. Several of my group members graduated or finished their postdocs and left for jobs — some of them the best people I’ve ever worked with — and the remainder are virtually untrained folks who, I fear, won’t be nearly as good (definitely true now, and perhaps true forever).…

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  • What Type of Procrastinator Are You? (Tweet by Raul Pacheco-Vega; comic by 20Pix.com) Comic by 20PX.com

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  • Howdy, Strangers!

    *cough, cough* Someone needs to dust in here. Hi everyone, it’s been a while! I lay low this summer, busy writing fiction and enjoying it, as well as just immersed in the literary Twitter community. But I would never abandon my academic blogosphere! I hope to go back to writing in this space more regularly, once or…

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