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EngProf asked: “Hi! I’d be interested to hear your thoughts about postdocs. Although postdoctoral experience is practically required to be considered as a top-notch applicant for junior faculty positions in most fields now-a-days (and no longer a niche practice of the biomedical field), I find that most engineering and physical sciences departments aren’t exactly sure
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The Miracle of the Mundane On the Thickness of Skin Boite Fantome (short fiction) Bingo (short fiction) The Woman in the Refrigerator (short fiction) https://twitter.com/myth_vs_facts/status/1048637269450608642
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Saturdays are always stupid online. Nothing happens, as folks are mostly busy doing laundry, mowing lawns, shopping, or attending kids’ sporting activities. I’ve scheduled a couple of social events with some moms and found a speculative-fiction discussion group to join. I’m sick and tired of living an isolated friendless life and will do more to find
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A couple of weeks ago, I took an older colleague to lunch. He’s in a different area so we’d never interacted too much, but to the extent we had, I’d always thought he was pretty cool. Anyway, he’s 70, retiring, and moving cross-country to take up a research-only position elsewhere. I’d missed his farewell party,
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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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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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*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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A nice piece of flash fiction that academic readers will enjoy — “Grade Book” by Cheryl J. Fish in Cheap Pop: http://www.cheappoplit.com/home/2018/7/26/grade-book-cheryl-j-fish
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