Calculable

February 2, 2023 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

“Oh, this quantity in the summary looks like the perfect thing I need for my project!” (Reads paper more carefully and gets lost in the mathematics.) “And…maybe this isn’t so useful.”

Together

January 31, 2023 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

Don’t go at it alone because of the slight startup costs in gathering a team. Working with a great team is so rewarding.

Gist

January 29, 2023 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

Pro tip: To make it seem like you’ve read the whole thing, pick some random sentence deep in the paper and bring it up during your presentation.

The Good Stuff

January 26, 2023 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

Most papers would probably benefit from a dedicated “Caveats” section.

Sawtooth

January 24, 2023 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

Note to self: “Powering through” the breaks results in negative ambition at the beginning of the new semester.

Lifelong Learning

January 24, 2023 Raymond Nakamura Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia

Included a fish specimen from the collection of Louis Agassiz!

Productivity can kill us, but productivity still matters. 🤔Or, some thoughts on the piles of productivity advice.

January 24, 2023 Bethann Garramon Merkle Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia

I’m co-teaching a graduate course called Science Career Next Steps this semester. It’s a new course we’re piloting, and I’m thrilled to be leading a specific mindset and work-life-harmony thread of the course. I’m also coming to the course as someone who didn’t start in academia and only recently considered an academic career as a...