Sunday, February 23, 2014

Help, My Department Requires Graduate Students to Publish a Peer-Reviewed Paper!

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A colleague recently mentioned that her department is considering whether to require graduate students to have at least one paper from the...
Friday, January 10, 2014

A Slight Case of Sexual Harassment

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What would you do if someone made an inappropriate remark (of a sexual nature) to you—for example, during a professional meet-up to discus...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

It Is Important To Note That…And Other Unnecessary Phrases

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I recently received a manuscript that was overly wordy. Throughout the paper, the author had sprinkled completely unnecessary phrases or p...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Bizarre, Sexist Advert for Scientific Equipment

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In the "what were they thinking?" category:   http://ika.com/owa/ika/catalog.video?iProduct=dispersers Be sure to watch until 1:1...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Where's The Best Place To Be A Woman?

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The Global Gender Gap Report (2013) is out if you want to check. Or there is a nice interactive graphic  on the BBC World News site that su...
Friday, October 4, 2013

Dashed and Confused

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Confused about how to use hyphens, dashes (en, em), and minus signs? I receive lots of manuscripts to review and often see that the aut...
Monday, September 23, 2013

How To Write A Boring Scientific Paper

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Someone sent me a link recently to a 2007 paper entitled, "How to Write Consistently Boring Literature" , by Kaj Sand-Jensen (Un...