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Urggle asks: How about a post about the merits of travel – we scientists fly endlessly around the world, at great cost to the environment and our families. Personally, I would like to just stop travelling for work. It’s hard on my kids and on my time and well-being. But the invitations are insistent and
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A slow period in the blogosphere; I guess everyone in the US is digesting Thanksgiving turkey. I’m trying to catch up on some work. More tomorrow.
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MC3 asked: “Far too many candidates are indistinguishable in that they don’t have original ideas at all; instead, they regurgitate what they’ve heard at conferences or in group meetings to be the next obvious steps.” I agree with this. But to be honest, I think the reason many people just regurgitate what they’ve heard at
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Had work to do, so links. We will finish November strong with responses to query posts, but for now — web humour from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-the-person-on-the-internet-who-likes-fighting-with-me https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-of-thanks-to-my-absentee-students https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-white-people-in-need-of-a-token-brown-person https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dantes-nine-circles-of-hell-reimagined-for-linguistic-transgressions https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/signs-that-you-are-a-gen-xer-going-through-menopause
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Disgruntled postdoc asked: Faux pas you see during faculty interviews, especially the chalk talk. I know you’ve written about the interviews (on site and Skype) overall in general but specific things during the chalk talk would be nice since from the outside postdocs have never seen any other than their own I am not
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Great selection, go read them all: https://mariahaskins.wordpress.com/2017/11/19/my-2017-suggested-reading-list-in-all-its-flawed-limited-glory/ Too busy for a full post today, tomorrow for sure, Scout’s honor!
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To editor of a scientific journal: After you’ve been sitting on my manuscript for over a week after the reports had come in, without making a decision, I may not take kindly the fact that you wrote to me to hurry up with my own review of another manuscript in your journal. Favorite time of
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Emily asked: A problem I’ve been having recently. I’m newish faculty (in my second year!) at an R1, and one of very few women in my department, which makes it hard to go to other people for advice on this. I have a new student this year, and she’s, well, brilliant. I think of theory
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lyra211 had a question after a recent post on moving in academia: Do you have any sense of whether similar advice applies for lateral moves between liberal arts colleges? I genuinely do love my current department, and would be sad to leave, but there’s pretty much squat for job opportunities for my husband where we
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