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A departmental retreat from another dimension | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. A departmental retreat from another dimension. I once participated in a departmental retreat from the Twilight Zone. Or it might have taken place in an alternate-universe wormhole. Details are fuzzy, but when I searched my google calendar, I found it still sitting there, way back from Spring 2006. There I remember a few things with uncommon clarity, on account of the weirdness. For most of the retreat, we discussed pedagogical challenges and the particu...
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. NSF’s Water Man award. When I was a tween, a cutsey feel-good book was a bestseller:. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. If we learn to solve problems as kids, that should help us solve similar problems as adults. Let’s do a kindergarten-level exercise in math and pattern recognition. Can you figure out what shape comes next? Let’s do another one. What shape do you expect to find next? Let’s look for another pattern:. If an agency want...
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site grants | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. Using a grant writer. This entry was tagged funding. The folly of expecting institutionalized funding. When a child is raised, we provide them with a home, food, education, love and encouragement. Within a couple decades, give or take, the kid grows up and is expected to care for itself. You can’t really expect the same of federally funded ventures. If an agency wants something, then they can fund it. But when they stop funding it, then they’r...Blog at...
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Do all of your undergrads know what grad school is? | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. Do all of your undergrads know what grad school is? How many undergrads in your department want to go to grad school? Do all of them know what grad school is about? Are there any students who might benefit greatly from grad school but aren’t even aware of the option? Other students don’t have any specific professional goals, and might be interested in grad school if they knew what it is. Undergraduates typically don’t know what happens in grad sch...
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Job seeking | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. This is a list of posts from this site designed to advise and inform those who are applying for positions at teaching-centered institutions. What kind of faculty job do you want? Teaching universities as the farm league. If you’re thinking of taking a job at an institution mostly with the hope or thought of leaving for somewhere else later on). It’s not easier, just different. Also on the same topic, Teaching is for people who have imposter syndrome?
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Best of | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. Are you a fighter? A women in science post. My all-time favorite scientific paper. What kind of faculty job do you want? Keeping seven people out of your head. Student “quality”. Useful science communication resources. Is innovation stifled by overwork? The case of Iceland. Let’s stop mixing up education and social capital. Writing a review: thoughts from the trenches. Is grad school a good time to have a baby? Tenure denial, seven years later. The Good...
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open access | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. 8220;Open Science” is not one thing. 8220;Open Science” is an aggregation of many things. As a concept, it’s a single movement. The policy changes necessary for more Open Science, however, are a conglomerate of unrelated parts. I appreciate, and support, the prevailing philosophy of Open Science: “the movement. This entry was tagged communication. I’m going to stop ignoring ResearchGate. I was like, huh? Continue reading →. Get Small Pond by email.
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social media | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. Serious academics take the media seriously. Chose to publish a piece from a “serious academic”. Who made an argument that we shouldn’t share our work on social media. So who is this “serious academic? 8221; Well, we have no idea. They are an anonymous “young” PhD student. Does this mean they’re some kind of whistleblower, warning the world about the rampant public sharing of academic information? Here are some half-guesses:. 8220;I’m such a pedant...
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publication | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. What limits productivity at teaching institutions. It’s not the time, it’s the people. The popular conception is that scientists at teaching-focused institutions have lower research productivity primarily because they spend so much time teaching. I disagree. Continue reading →. This entry was tagged collaboration. Using blogs for sharing negative results. This entry was tagged blogging. Impatience with the peer review process. It’s been argued tha...
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