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This week I wrote graduate school recommendation letters for two students whom I don’t know very well at all. One received an AB and another a B in the classes they took with me. When they asked me for letters (they did so separately and are in no way connected), I explained to each that I…
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http://idealist4ever.com/this-comic-will-forever-change-the-way-you-look-at-privilege/ Thanks to DH for sending a link to this one.
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(To men who are not mansplainers: I know you are out there and I promise that this is not about you. But, there are many dudes whom the shoe fits. ) A while ago, I met with a visitor who had come to give a talk in a department I am affiliated with. Last minute, a new faculty…
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There should be a special place in academic hell for: Expat academic scientists who only talk with, advise, and collaborate with people from their own home country. This is wrong on many levels. I know quite a few such specimens, from several different locales. Professors who work at research-intensive, PhD-granting institutions, yet cannot be bothered to train graduate…
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One of these days, I will have to have a talk with a colleague, who has an administrative role in a physical science field. His heart is in the right place and he is one of the men who really support women and their advancement in the physical sciences, as evidenced by him propelling his female…
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I have been blogging since early 2010, for about 4 years on Academic Jungle and nearly 2 years (!) here on Xykademiqz. For a while now, I have been mulling over the idea of collecting “The Best Of” or something along those lines into a book, simply because I think I have done some nice writing over the…
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Bad blogger, went back on own promise to blog daily. No excuses… Just shame. (No, not really. OK, maybe a little.) A few examples of academic once bitten, twice shy: When I was a wee assistant professor, I had a single-author paper at the pearly gates of a high-profile journal. I made a stupid mistake of dismissing (i.e., not carefully…
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