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My comics pull list
I’m a big comic book fan. I have been since I was a little kid. To give you an idea of my mania: when I was in college at the University of Tennessee, I discovered that I could buy comic books with my meal plan money… I went through a phase, as many comic book […]
You can only have three hobbies as a scientist. And you should!
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. That’s because blogging trades space in the third of my three hobbies. You’ll understand if you read to the end. The title of this post might sound like I’m going to prescribe three hobbies from which scientists must choose. Nope. Instead, I want to suggest that as a […]
Jobs for July 24
OK, so I’ve let this job-trolling business go for a month. I have excuses: my computer broke (sob!) and I had to work on summer NSF proposals for July deadlines (weep!). But in the end, I think doing this job posting work once a month will fit my temperament better. I’m putting blogging into the […]
Jobs for June 26
I’m going to take the first lines of these job postings to ruminate and/or rant on my insights as I compile listings. Today, I wonder about the diversity of titles applied to both tenure-track and non-tenure-track positions. This week I have a ‘fixed-term’ position listed as ‘Assistant Professor’ and another position listed as ‘Biology Instructor’ […]
Jobs for June 19
Sorry, this week’s 4Dbio jobs report is three days late. I’m going to still try to publish these on Wednesdays, and this report will cover June 13-19. On June 26 I’ll have another report. I’m late this week because: 1) My wife, Samantha Hopkins, needed the home PC to prep for the 2013 Evolution Meetings, […]
Science Writing Pet Peeves
Science writing is best when it is concise and precise. Good science writing is full of explicit details, devoid of vagueness, and strictly adheres to a narrative. In fact, a good scientific paper has a lot in common with a short story. Like Edgar Allan Poe wrote, “In the whole composition there should be no word written, […]
Jobs for June 12
Scanning SVP and Chronicle of Higher Ed, I have found eight postings that are current, three on the tenure-track. There were no appropriate Science, GSA, ASM, SICB or SSE jobs this week. OK, so for the third week running ESA has no jobs listed at all. Either it’s the wrong time of year for Ecology jobs, or the […]
Jobs for June 5
In addition to posting links to the positions I find, I’m also compiling a spreadsheet of the number and type of positions posted each week. At the end of a year, I’ll write some sort of semi-insightful post about my findings. Scanning GSA, Science, Chronicle of Higher Ed, I have found 15 postings that are […]
Paper review #1: McGuire (2011): OMG vole ranges are shrinking!!!!
McGuire, J.L. 2011. Identifying California Microtus species using geometric morphometrics documents Quaternary geographic range contractions. Journal of Mammalogy 92(6). Introduction To mark the first of my collegial paper reviews, I’ve chosen a recent paper by my good friend Jenny McGuire. I chose her work in honor of her recent wedding to another excellent scientist, Simon […]
Jobs for May 29 2013
Scanning GSA, SVP, SICB, ASM, Science, Chronicle of Higher Ed, I have found 18 postings that are current. There were no appropriate ESA jobs this week. This is my first jobs posting, so I’m not surprised to find so many. As we move forward, I’m going to try to put up a compilation each week, so the […]