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Surprising best gift to my undergraduate students
This is the time of year when I start to wonder if I’ve done a good enough job with my large undergraduate class. Have I really shaped a great learning experience for the 46 students in Biology 472, Behavioral Ecology? … Continue reading
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Tagged colleagues, friends, high school, learn, teach, teams, Wikipedia
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Why you shouldn’t hire your colleague’s child, or be asked to do so
The whole reason we do experiments blind, have rules against nepotism, and worry about inadvertent bias is that we are humans and these things go with the species, no matter how fair we try to be. Even though there has … Continue reading
Posted in Department politics, Ethics, Social interactions, Tenure
Tagged conflict of interest, high school, nepotism, summer job, tenure
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