Also this week: is Gödel, Escher, Bach overrated, nonlinear dynamics of love, and more.
Category Archives: Linkfest
Friday links: #LGBTSTEMDay edition!
All this week’s links are related to #LGBTSTEMDay (including links explaining why such a day is needed):
Friday links: surprising (in)tractability of scientific problems, remembering Emmy Noether, and more
Also this week: [color of your study species] is the new black, zombie idea about plant dispersal, code sharing vs. #?!*$%, LeBron James vs. reviewer three, preprint servers are not a democracy, and more
Friday links: current events vs. David Lodge novels, is logistic regression a zombie idea, and more
Also this week: even simulated evolution is cleverer than you are, what kids today think scientists look like, myths of academic time management, and more.
Friday links: overwork and mental health in academia, Liam Neeson vs. teaching, and more
Also this week: Rapid Ecology’s latest experiment, new ESA Fellows, and more.
Friday links: Daphnia theme song, RIP PubMed Commons, Joy of Cooking vs. p-hacking, and more
Also this week: 50 shades of grey green, the best (?) pedagogical technique you’ve never heard of (?), and more.
Friday links: link to ALL the geeky things!
This week: Meghan and I play “Can you top this?” with geeky links. In seriousness, research universities vs. teaching (but not how you’d think), and more.
Friday links: how to have a writing day, and more
Also this week: Stephen Heard vs. Paul Erdős, your PhD vs. you, and more.
Friday links: inreach vs. outreach, Steinbeck vs. the title of your next paper, and more (UPDATED)
Also this week: the realized niche is “all shit”, world’s greatest faculty job application cover letter, the sixth mass extinction speciation, MIT diplomas vs. Bitcoin, debating systematics, scientific mavericks, Rand Paul vs. peer review, and more. Lots of good stuff this week! Stick around to the end for a joke involving Shirley Jackson and Peter Chesson. Like our tagline says, “the fox knows many things”–and he also likes to show off his half-remembered liberal arts education by making weird jokes. 🙂
Friday links: how to argue for basic research, Andrew Gelman vs. Amy Cuddy, and more
Also this week: missing Jane Lubchenco, Gilbert & Sullivan vs. digital humanities, the mysterious behavioral ecology of joggers, nerd sniping Stephen Heard, and more.