Category: Academia
Life has an interesting symmetry to it. No I'm not talking about bilateral symmetry or any Endless Forms Most Beautiful. I've just completed my orientation for a 1 year position at my undergraduate alma mater, where I'll be replacing the...
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Posted by Evil Monkey at 4:10 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Even kids in jr high can figure out that we've been spoon-fed some misconceptions of how scientists look and act. I wonder where they get these ideas from. Certainly not the media. They would never create caricatures of real people....
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Posted by Evil Monkey at 4:21 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
(I had this whole post ready talking about flexible representations, but now my computer is borked -- stupid monitor! -- so this is going to have to do.) Tyler Cowen over at Marginal Revolution links to a piece by a...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:52 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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You attended 5 classes of your Brain and Behavior course out of an 8 week summer session that meets daily, and stop going after the first exam. Which you failed. Repeating the exact same pattern from the previous semester when...
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Posted by Evil Monkey at 9:03 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
One of my close colleagues got on eRA Commons and downloaded the challenge grants she was to review before eRA Commons went down for major upgrades in a majorly untimely fashion. This was a prudent move on her part since...
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Posted by Evil Monkey at 9:22 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Why you need to quit screwing around and get your challenge grants
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Posted by Evil Monkey at 9:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
My illustrious coblogger points out that by taking part in research studies, a graduate student can actually afford to do things like, well, eat. Normally relegated to scraping the crumbs off the post-seminar cookie tray, or sneaking into a urology...
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Posted by Evil Monkey at 4:20 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
The semester is finally winding down. Kudos to Scicurious for holding down the fort. After teaching 3 courses on top of my 40+ hour-a-week lab job, I'm rather grateful. No wait, I'm frakkin' ecstatic. Possibly rapturous. Don't get me wrong,...
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Posted by Evil Monkey at 3:22 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Here's a summary of life as an academic.
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Posted by Evil Monkey at 11:03 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
The downside of this semester is that I am dog tired. Having 3 classes with exams all at once wasn't a good idea when I still have to work 40+ a week. I haven't had a day off in weeks....
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Posted by Evil Monkey at 6:36 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks