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Some doodles from last night, in pencil. Sketched while watching the hilarious Catastrophe and winding down from the week.
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Happy New Academic Year!
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American academics all know about FERPA. Basically, in college, a student’s education records are not to be disclosed to anyone but the student without the student’s explicit consent. In day-to-day operations, that means we should not be sharing information about the students’ grades on homework or exams with anyone but the student. I am more careful than…
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Are you a “super recognizer” of people? https://greenwichuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3xDuCccGAdgbfT h/t to Clarissa’s blog.
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I had great plans for this week. I was finally going to take a week off work, sleep in (younger kids’ last week at camp) and take daily walks, take care of some long-standing errands, and recuperate after an exhausting summer, in order to be refreshed before going into what promises to be a very busy school year.…
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The most obnoxious comment I have seen in a long time showed up in a review of a proposal for someone’s young investigator award. A colleague from a highfalutin institution (whose name shares 2/3 of its characters with the agency that James Bond works for) has written not once but twice in the same report that the candidate did…
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A long-time reader (LTR), who just finished her second year on the tenure track in a STEM field at a major research institution, wrote to me, asking: “I would love to see a post on mentoring male postdocs, or more generally male trainees who aren’t much younger than you, as a starting professor. How do…
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Breaking news: Professors procrastinate! There is a book chapter that I need to work on. I really don’t want to, but it’s one of those things that you do because you promised, and you promised because you want to do a favor to the person who asked, but in reality it’s a lot of work,…
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When I first moved here with Eldest in 2004, he was 4. We rented an apartment for a couple of years, and Eldest started going to the local public school. We bought a house near the end of his Kindergarten; the house is in the neighborhood associated with another elementary school, but is still geographically closer to the…
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