So you want to be a biology professor
A poster should be a kind of tease to your research, an appetizer, not the whole meal. After all, people looking at posters do not want to spend more than about 4 minutes looking at your work. So pick something … Continue reading →
Recommendation letters are a large part of nominations for awards from academic societies. I write several of them each year. Often these awards allow for self-nomination. To me this is a cue that you can get help with the letter … Continue reading →
My daughter and her friend and colleague Kimberly just became full professors and Kim asked me what advice I had for them at this new stage in their careers as professors. It was a general question since they are sociologists … Continue reading →
I had to ask ten people just to find two willing to review a paper I serve as editor for. I wanted three people but decided to go with two. Everyone knows how hard it is these days to get … Continue reading →
Every promotion requires a stack of recommendation letters. I get asked all the time to write letters for colleagues at other universities who are up for tenure or for promotion from Associate Professor to Full Professor. These requests usually give … Continue reading →
Friends in the business world tell me that they do not write letters of recommendation any more. The most they will do is verify that a person worked in their company and give the dates. The reasons for this are … Continue reading →
The easiest thing is to write a recommendation letter for someone you know well. In an academic setting this is likely to be someone in your lab, an undergraduate applying to graduate school or medical school, a grad student applying … Continue reading →
If I’m not careful I could spend more than an hour a week writing letters of recommendation. There are generally three very different kinds of letters I write: letters for undergraduates who took a course or two from me, students … Continue reading →
Do you feel vaguely guilty when you get emails from your institution exhorting you to attend learning sessions for some new software? Right now I’m getting them often. They want me to learn new advising software called Student Sunrise. I … Continue reading →
Sometimes it isn’t just the project that attracts a postdo to a lab but it is the community. It isn’t easy to tell what that community is like sometimes, so here we share. Four of us are looking for postdocs … Continue reading →