Political action and the miseducation of scientists
From David Roberts: You’ll be shocked to hear that Socolow, who spends his life in a world of ideas and explanations, concludes that the answer is better ...
Category: Academia
Your research in perspective
A dated but still wonderful slideshow from Matt Might that should help you keep some perspective: [scribd id=68924406 key=key-18s1ggdjuv9b6i6oyfbw mode=list]
The blogosphere cont.
To offer some final thoughts on the blogosphere, here’s Freddie yet again: I guess I just wish that the blogosphere (and forgive the collective indictment...
I sometimes feel sorry for the humanities
If more people appreciate the similarities between much basic research and the humanities, we might hear more scientists defending themselves like Stanford prof...
Yet another call for interdisciplinary education
The mild sarcasm in the title notwithstanding, I think what Johns Hopkins is doing is fantastic (emphasis added): Currently, most biomedical graduate programs t...
There is more to science than climate change
I understand the Zack Beauchamps out there apply a national politics filter to almost everything they write. I get why they spend time on climate change and ste...
America’s vanishing science jobs
Josh Bloom in the New York Post reports on the difficult job market facing chemistry PhDs: After earning my PhD, in chemistry, I worked in drug-discovery resear...
The future of the PhD
Nature has a special feature on the future of the PhD. Mark Taylor, professor of religion at Columbia, has some especially strong words: Universities face growi...
Is academia even supposed to be useful?
If you’re wondering why I keep harping on basic research, it’s because I want to write an essay on the topic and I’m using this venue to hash ...