Not of General Interest

I'm not always a fan of Stanley Fish's columns in the New York Times , but his recent ones on student evaluations are interesting: ...

I'm calling these repeated lessons because they seem to occur to me anew every time I get to an archive. When I'm reading letters, ...

This feels like a strange place after nearly three weeks. Actually, since I haven't visited this blog or any other in that time, it may ...

I will be in the Land of No Internets for a while, so posting will be spotty. The Land of No Internets is a place where I spend a lot of tim...

Over at Inside Higher Ed, Marc Nouri writes about "premature promotion" . As best I can tell, being promoted to full professor mea...

I shouldn't even be posting this, but I really need the writing inspiration. From Rachel Toor's "The Habit of Writing" at ...

"I'll skip this part in the interests of time, but in it I discuss this idea . . ." "How many of you have read Mildly Obs...

Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Planned Obsolescence) has a good post up at ProfHacker, " The First Half-Hour of the Morning" : This is a le...

Profgrrrl , Dr. Crazy , Historiann , and Female Science Professor have some great posts about issues that Dr. Crazy grouped together as ...

The first week of the "pay yourself" plan went pretty well. I finished the edits on an accepted article and got it sent back, made...

Since September, I've been putting some money in the bank each paycheck because I wanted the time to write this summer instead of teachi...

Lessons I'm glad I learned from my mother (although she didn't put them in these words), with commentary: A person who treats you ab...

that sometimes their papers are so interesting that I have to set a timer so that I can stop commenting and go on to the next one. that some...

"A Gentle Reminder to Special Collections Librarians" is not for the many friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable Special Collection...

I've been talking this semester about my class in "flying dinosaurs studies," which has just ended, so I thought I'd share...

When I was in junior high, I used to walk to school with a sort-of friend. Every day I'd stop by her house to pick her up, and sometimes...

After a ridiculously busy week, I visit the blogosphere and discover that instead of celebrating April with daffodils and bunny pictures, ev...

Just to clarify: I don't really believe that there's a mystic connection between machines and human beings, since (sorry, Tracy Kidd...

If I had a dollar for every review and blogpost I've read about the iPad over the past two weeks, I would have enough to buy--well, not ...

From the Chronicle comes this heartwarming story of a professor with seven (!) teaching assistants who was still just too oppressed to grad...