Paid sick leave and ethics.
Category: Academia
Being an able-bodied member of the workforce is not a permanent position. What are your duties if you're collecting sick-pay?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:42 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.
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Category: Academia
Being an able-bodied member of the workforce is not a permanent position. What are your duties if you're collecting sick-pay?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:42 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
From what exactly is the First Amendment supposed to protect me when I include a piece of my writing in a dossier on the basis of which my job performance is to be evaluated?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:51 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academic integrity
When the evidence available to you is limited, it's probably better to draw the weak conclusion is supports rather than an overly strong one.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:57 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academic integrity
When you're investigating charges that a scientist has seriously deviated from accepted practices for proposing, conducting, or reporting research, how do you establish what the accepted practices are? In the wake of ClimateGate, this was the task facing the Investigatory...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academic integrity
The ethics investigation of Michael Mann turns on what counts as accepted practices for proposing, conducting, and reporting research. How does a committee establish what those accepted practices are?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:55 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
But will those calling for the boycott protect faculty who join it from impact factor fallout?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:42 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Women and science
The title of John Tierney's recent column in the New York Times, "Daring to Discuss Women's Potential in Science", suggests that Tierney thinks there's something dangerous about even raising the subject: The House of Representatives has passed what I like...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:23 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
If you're not trustworthy, why assume that your study-buddy is?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:23 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Current events
First, let me refer you to Sharon Astyk's excellent post on what has become of Earth Day. If I had the time or energy to pay much attention to Earth Day as a particular day of observance, I think I'd...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:13 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
I'll confess that I am not one who spends much time reading the reviews of books posted on the websites of online booksellers. By the time I'm within a click of those reviews, I pretty much know what I want....
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:08 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks