The Australian's Higher Education supplement has a couple of articles on academic blogging. Andrew Leigh says that you should try it (and plugs this blog), while Bernard Lane tells us that the University of Sydney now provides blog hosting for all staff and students.
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As I approach my one year anniversary of blogging here on ScienceBlogs.com, I have been spending a lot of time thinking about the benefits and drawbacks of blogging. Being here on Sb has done a lot of good for me, from speaking engagements to opportunities to write academic & popular articles,…
This morning, I once again get to join in with a group of noted journalists, authors, educators, and all-around people-who-do-things-I-can't for the annual advisory board meeting of the M.S. in Medical and Science Journalism Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of…
I've written before about the problem of the Ph.D. glut, so I was pleasantly surprised (shocked, actually) to read several articles in a recent edition of Nature hitting the same themes. For those who don't think there's a Ph.D. glut, here are some data for you:
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During the discussion after my talk at the Science Blogging Conference, the question came up (and was reported here) of whether and when tenure and promotion committees at universities will come to view the blogging activities of their faculty members with anything more positive than suspicion.…
I get a lot of my Aus science & science policy news from Alex Reisner on www.the-funneled-web.com
Perhaps you might consider asking him to join ScienceBlogs? He's good.