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What to do about a low GRE verbal score
How can you fix a low GRE verbal score when it is dependent on a lifetime of reading, listening to complex language, and writing? Little children have no control over the richness of language they hear. They don’t get to … Continue reading
Journal club extended to research planning for students at the Gulbenkian in Portugal
Did you drift from one project to another during your first year in graduate school? Did your program have you do rotations? Did you continue something you began as an undergrad? Or did you simply join one lab, get on … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate school
Tagged Education, Graduate school, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, journal club, Research, rotations
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What E. O. Wilson got right, what confused him, and what he disrespected
The brilliant conservation and ant biologist E. O. Wilson wrote a bizarre piece for the Wall Street Journal recently. It is modified from an upcoming book of advice for young students. It has inspired an intense flurry of highly negative … Continue reading
How to get a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, a SURF
If you aren’t going to change your life by studying at a biological field station, there are few better things to do with an undergraduate summer than research. One of the more interesting programs is called SURF, Summer Undergraduate Research … Continue reading
Posted in Grant proposals, Research, Undergraduates
Tagged Biology, Colleges and Universities, Education, fellowships, National Science Foundation, NSF, Research, Research Groups and Centers, Research proposal, REU, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, SURF, Undergraduate education, undergraduate research, Washington University in St. Louis
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Do you know you can post prior to publication at arXiv?
Long had I heard that in mathematics sharing and crediting of new ideas happened outside of the normal publishing routes, recently through online channels prior to review. Even journals like Science and Nature tolerate this kind of posting. As others … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing your work
Tagged ArXiv, Education, open access, Peer review, sharing
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A favorite meeting, small but open, posters, a single talk session
If someone invited me, back in the days I was working on wasps to a meeting that focused entirely on one species, perhaps my much-loved Polistes exclamans, I would have gone readily. That meeting might have covered behavior, ecology, phylogeny, … Continue reading
Posted in Microbes, Presentations and seminars, Scientific meetings
Tagged cell biology, collegial, Dictyostelium, Education, evolution, international, Madrid, plenary
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Why I like the separation of academic departments and colleges
One of the best things for creative scholarship is to feel you are in the company of others also striving for understanding and clarity. That company is often best if it is quiet, even dead. This is because we need … Continue reading
Lab meeting talks
She began with a couple of figures taken from someone else’s paper. They showed exactly what that other study measured. Sara Mitri told us what motivated that study. She then went on to clearly explain how her study would be … Continue reading
Are you writing and revising 2000 words a month?
Do you choke when it comes time to write? Do you write a paragraph, then clean your desk, order supplies, go for a run, or can a hundred pounds of tomatoes? If writing is a part of your daily life, … Continue reading
