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Grading and some reports tonight, so I will be back tomorrow with a regular post and a response to the questions that people have posted in the comments today… Also, I have received several new cool requests for blog topics, so those will be coming over the next few days… But not tonight. Instead, random
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LTR asked: I’ve heard that men get outside offers all the time, but women rarely do, leading to huge discrepancies in pay and prestige at R1s that go all in on retention and poaching. At least that’s what our provost says. How does one solicit outside offers? Especially if one kind of wants/needs to leave…
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Today I went to see Thor: Ragnarok, for the second time. DH and I saw it a week or so ago, as a date; today, I took Middle Boy (MB) and two of his buddies. The movie is great! It’s really funny, on top of all the expected cool action and the always welcome displays
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We had guests over. It’s a couple I’ve known since my college years, and they’d ended up within a two-hour drive from us. Their visit means a whole-day cooking extravaganza for me and cleaning for DH, even though we tried to take it easy this time. The couple and their kids had just spent a
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From Diabolical Plots. http://www.diabolicalplots.com/the-skill-of-critiquing/ Applicable to reviewing grants and papers, too.
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When I was an assistant professor, I was very anxious about every new hire, because so much rode on every group member—money was scarce and the pressure to produce NOW was immense. I did have to let go several students in the first few years, of which in hindsight only one might have been a
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I promise I’ll be back with the second part of yesterday’s post, but not today. It’s been a long day, and a good one—I received an honor today, and the number of colleagues from the department who showed up to the celebration was amazing. I was really touched by the turnout. Until tomorrow, here are
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anonP: “How can you tell if someone will be a motivated and productive student when you interview/select applicants?” RFon asked: “If this is the official “request thread” I’d like to echo anonPs question from the comment section of “Working with grad students .. pt1”: How can you tell if someone will be a motivated and
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I am giving myself 17 min for this post, and then I have to go to bed so I’d have a fighting chance to get up at 4:30 tomorrow. So forgive lack of editing etc etc. I know many of you don’t care for my fiction-related pursuits, but I have it on good authority (mine;
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By way of Athene Donald, Lisa Emerson’s The Forgotten Tribe: Scientists as Authors (open access). PDF here.
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