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Monthly Archives: December 2011
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,200 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading
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How to get the best start-up package as a new professor
This is the first of many negotiations you will have with the department chair and/or the dean, so you don’t want to screw it up. … If you are joining a group of people doing similar work, ask them if there is something you could all use that they would like you to ask for in your start-up. Continue reading
Strategy for a successful academic career
The academic thoughts you read here may be interesting, but what a family member recently told me I really should be doing is helping people with designing a strategic career. So, I’ll try to begin with this entry. I have … Continue reading
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One reason it’s so hard to be a woman in academia: we have personalities
Did you disagree with a male colleague at a faculty meeting? Did you ask a question during a seminar? Did you laugh out loud at a joke in the hall? Are you an extrovert? If you are female, be careful! … Continue reading
What we look for in a new faculty candidate
I think we are generally pretty good at not just picking our friends, but we prefer that your advisors, or people on your committee, be people who have contributed to the field enough that we have read their work, or know their ideas. … If we think you are doing things just like your advisor, and have not branched out, have not read widely, we will worry about what you will be doing in five years. Continue reading
How do I get nominated for an award?
Prizes are a social endeavor, chosen by busy people, so do great science, and make it easy for those nominators to find you and write about you. At some point you will be as happy that someone you nominated got a prize as when you get one yourself. 
Boahemaa Adu-Oppong right after she received the Julian Huxley award for best undergraduate thesis in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, at Rice University. 
Stan Braude right before he receives the top teaching award from the Animal Behavior Society. Continue reading
