Has academia brainwashed you into living your life later?
This is a guest post by Stefanie Robel, PhD. Most of my academic career I have been working toward big longterm goals: my masters degree,…
Tag: academia
Peer review, self-publishing, and blowhards
Should I self-publish my work? This is a question many academics and authors ask themselves these days. I had a discussion the other day on…
The cost of information being “free”
I think that there’s plenty of room in this world for good, free information. But for deep information that requires a real investment of time and energy to develop and keep up to date, the “free” model doesn’t work well.
Are science administrators trembling in their boots over the recession?
The dreaded R word. Here, I’ll say it: recession! Administrators in academia seem to be freaking out about it. I understand why… the big budget…