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15 février 2015

Combating Shiny Object Syndrome

By Katie Shives. In graduate school it is extremely important to know when you are putting your time towards professional activities that are directly beneficial to your dissertation progress versus activities that are interesting or fun but do not contribute to moving you forward. In terms of time and resources spent on experiments, staying on task is a serious consideration or else you run the risk of falling victim to Shiny Object Syndrome. Read more...

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15 février 2015

Career Resources for the Academic and Non-Academic Job Search

By Jason McSheene. Many graduate students are well aware that the tenure-track career path is no longer the “default.” Where a postdoctoral research position was once the expected norm, the current climate for stable academic careers after that postdoc has become increasingly perilous to early-stage researchers. Thankfully, this is no secret. To the contrary, it is the beginning point to many discussions and writings concerning the current state of PhD programs in context of a proper job training. There is a major downside to the “default tenure-track mindset”. Read more...

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15 février 2015

Coffee: Words from a Grad Student/Addict

By Erin Bedford. In terms of drug addictions, addiction to caffeine is a pretty easy one to have—our drug dealers are everywhere and they let the stuff go for pretty cheap. In general, it’s also not a bad one to have. Research shows that there aren’t too many health risks (although it can worsen conditions like anxiety and insomnia) and even some evidence of health benefits, like lowered risk of type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, and liver disease. While caffeine can be found in many forms, my personal favorite source is coffee (tea drinkers, check out our post on making good tea). Read more...

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15 février 2015

Standing Calvin on His Head

By Matt Reed. The New York Times had an unusually thoughtful and well-written piece this week (by Kristin O’Keefe) on the wide acceptance of the distinction between community college and “real” college. It’s heartbreaking in its content, and in the fact that it had to be written at all. Read more...

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15 février 2015

Shocker: Quick Fix Doesn’t Work

By Matt Reed. There’s plenty to say about Politico’s story about Pearson, but I’ll leave most of it to people who are better versed in the details. Instead, I’ll pick out one lesson that jumped out at me, even though it was only one element of the story. Read more...

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15 février 2015

Hidden in Plain Sight

By Matt Reed. Back in 2000, when George W. Bush was trying to select a running mate, Dick Cheney chaired the search committee to find one. Eventually, of course, Cheney declared the search unsuccessful, and Bush put Cheney himself in the role. Read more...

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15 février 2015

“Dad, Is the University of Phoenix a Good School?”

By Matt Reed. This weekend The Boy and I went on a brief roadtrip in service of a robotics tournament that wound up being cancelled. (New England is under its third repent-your-sins storm warning in the past two weeks.) A few hours in the car each way gave us a chance for some free-ranging conversation. When you have hours of free-range conversation with a thirteen-year-old, you never know what you’re going to get. Read more...

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15 février 2015

We're Destroying Higher Education for Future Generations

By John Warner. On Wednesday, the New York Times asked, “Is Your First Grader College Ready?”
Also on Wednesday, we learned that if Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposed cuts to higher education go through we can expect massive contraction of faculty and courses at the flagship LSU campus, which will get off lucky, because it will at least stay open, unlike some of the other colleges and universities of the Louisiana system. Read more...

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15 février 2015

#ELI2015 Attendee Device Tech: 5 Observations

By Joshua Kim. Now that we are all back from #ELI2015 it is time to talk about what really mattered at the Conference - the gadgets. The whole world is watching the personal tech choices of the elite globe trotting opinion makers who flock each year to the glamorous global ELI confab. Today’s ELI attendee tech is tomorrow’s must own device. Read more...

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15 février 2015

#ELI2015 in 7 C’s

By Joshua Kim. What showed up for you as the big stories of #ELI2015? This is a hard conference to get a handle on. ELI is small enough that you think you should be able to keep track of the important discussions and key sessions, but too big to actually participate in anything but a small number of the discussions and sessions swirling all around. Read more...

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