-
Join 4,887 other subscribers
Sign me up for RSS!- behavioral ecology Collaboration Communication Creativity Ethics Experimental design Graduate school Grant proposals Grants Interviewing Jobs Life in a biology department Managing an academic career Mentoring New assistant professor New ideas NSF Presentations and seminars Public Communication Publishing your work Research Scientific community Scientific meetings Social interactions Teaching The joy of teaching Uncategorized Undergraduates Writing Your lab group
Top Posts & Pages
Blogroll
Archives
Meta
Category Archives: Refereeing
Reviewer declines assignment
Happy to receive, happy to give? Or doesn’t it work that way any more? Why is it so hard to find people willing to referee? I’m serving as editor for a few things right now and am getting very tired … Continue reading
Posted in Managing an academic career, Publishing your work, Refereeing
Tagged Charles Darwin, freeloader, freerider, Peer review, referee, reviewer
5 Comments
A sting on bogus publishers! Watch out!
Do you get invitations to publish nearly every day? Are most of the places inappropriate and unheard of? How do you sort it out? If you think this is not a big problem, just look at a news report on … Continue reading
How to review a grant proposal
There are only four things that you should consider when you review a proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation. You should weight them more or less equally. By that, I mean that weakness in any one of these elements … Continue reading
Posted in Grant proposals, Refereeing
Tagged broader impacts, creativity, grant proposal, methods, National Science Foundation, new ideas, NIH, NSF, Peer review, productivity, Research, science, United States
7 Comments
Sociobiology 