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The Book is Here! | What I Made Today
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What I Made Today. Chicago writer Greg Landgraf's home for citizen science, comedy, music, and miscellany. August 18, 2013. The Book is Here! The big excitement of my past couple of weeks is this:. It took a surprising amount of wrangling with UPS for it to actually get to me, but yes, that is my book, and it’s published and released and ready for reading. There’s even a press release. Which is pretty exciting. You can, of course, order. Investigating the Spotted Tussock Moth →. I got my copy from Amazon...
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Investigating the Spotted Tussock Moth | What I Made Today
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What I Made Today. Chicago writer Greg Landgraf's home for citizen science, comedy, music, and miscellany. September 2, 2013. Investigating the Spotted Tussock Moth. It can be tough to make things happen and keep them happening without an institutional framework. In writing the book, I was really impressed by the projects that developed independently, just because some individual was interested in something and wanted to learn more. Spotted tussock moth and caterpillar varieties. While Ken has formal sci...
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A departmental retreat from another dimension | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. A departmental retreat from another dimension. I once participated in a departmental retreat from the Twilight Zone. Or it might have taken place in an alternate-universe wormhole. Details are fuzzy, but when I searched my google calendar, I found it still sitting there, way back from Spring 2006. There I remember a few things with uncommon clarity, on account of the weirdness. For most of the retreat, we discussed pedagogical challenges and the particu...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: A very forgiving Pigmy Rattlesnake – Overlooked Nature
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Celebrating the scaly, the slimy, and the many-legged. Welcome to the Hobbit House. Not a single cloud. Be careful - it's a long way down! Why Evolution is True. It's Okay to be Smart. Follow Overlooked Nature on WordPress.com. Weekly Photo Challenge: A very forgiving Pigmy Rattlesnake. This week’s photo challenge was “Beneath Your Feet.”. Pigmy rattlesnakes always look disgruntled, but this one has a really good reason! Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window). Click to email (Opens in new window).
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We Can Do It! There are a ton of biology blogs and a multitude of gardening blogs, but few that seem to link the two together in a way that is satisfying to me as both a biologist and gardener. Garden Rant. And the Biology Professors. Are on the right track, but deal mostly with horticultural science. Your Wild Life. Is a great place to learn about the ecology of humans and their houses, but what about garden ecology? Are you obsessed with science, history, video games, or books? We Can Do It:. Aurora To...
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awards | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. NSF’s Water Man award. When I was a tween, a cutsey feel-good book was a bestseller:. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. If we learn to solve problems as kids, that should help us solve similar problems as adults. Let’s do a kindergarten-level exercise in math and pattern recognition. Can you figure out what shape comes next? Let’s do another one. What shape do you expect to find next? Let’s look for another pattern:. If an agency want...
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site grants | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. Using a grant writer. This entry was tagged funding. The folly of expecting institutionalized funding. When a child is raised, we provide them with a home, food, education, love and encouragement. Within a couple decades, give or take, the kid grows up and is expected to care for itself. You can’t really expect the same of federally funded ventures. If an agency wants something, then they can fund it. But when they stop funding it, then they’r...Blog at...
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Do all of your undergrads know what grad school is? | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. Do all of your undergrads know what grad school is? How many undergrads in your department want to go to grad school? Do all of them know what grad school is about? Are there any students who might benefit greatly from grad school but aren’t even aware of the option? Other students don’t have any specific professional goals, and might be interested in grad school if they knew what it is. Undergraduates typically don’t know what happens in grad sch...
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Job seeking | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. This is a list of posts from this site designed to advise and inform those who are applying for positions at teaching-centered institutions. What kind of faculty job do you want? Teaching universities as the farm league. If you’re thinking of taking a job at an institution mostly with the hope or thought of leaving for somewhere else later on). It’s not easier, just different. Also on the same topic, Teaching is for people who have imposter syndrome?
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Best of | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. Are you a fighter? A women in science post. My all-time favorite scientific paper. What kind of faculty job do you want? Keeping seven people out of your head. Student “quality”. Useful science communication resources. Is innovation stifled by overwork? The case of Iceland. Let’s stop mixing up education and social capital. Writing a review: thoughts from the trenches. Is grad school a good time to have a baby? Tenure denial, seven years later. The Good...
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