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Math Geek Mom: Making Mistakes (Sometimes in Public)
When I was in graduate school, one of our teachers suggested to those of us planning to go on to...
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Dinner meet-ups in Portland
This year's conference of SCUP (the Society for College and University Planning) is in Portland, OR next week. I'll be...
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Motherhood After Tenure: our parents' stories
My daughter is at the age where she likes to hear stories about my childhood. “Tell me a story about...
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The Inadequacy of Increased Disclosure
Increasing what scientists must report about their financial conflicts of interest won’t affect misconduct, writes Brian Hanley. Scientific fraud is the root problem that needs to be addressed.
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Salary Compression
In the discussion after the post about counteroffers a couple of days ago, several commenters raised the issue of salary...
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STYLES OF RADICAL WILL
Scott McLemee's recent consideration of the writer Isaac Rosenfeld in his IHE column, Intellectual Affairs, reawakens my own long fascination...
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Confounding climate
According to a paper appearing in the International Journal of Global Warming, the problem isn't greenhouse gases. To be more...
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ABC's and PhD's: Thoughts on time and change and shifting baselines
My husband and I got a babysitter a couple nights ago and we went for a walk around a popular...