Sociobiology

Normally I only go to one or two meetings a year, but this year was different.

A poster should be a kind of tease to your research, an appetizer, not the whole meal.

Recommendation letters are a large part of nominations for awards from academic societies.

My daughter and her friend and colleague Kimberly just became full professors and Kim asked me what advice I had for them at this new stage in their careers as professors.

I had to ask ten people just to find two willing to review a paper I serve as editor for.

Every promotion requires a stack of recommendation letters.

Friends in the business world tell me that they do not write letters of recommendation any more.

The easiest thing is to write a recommendation letter for someone you know well.

If I’m not careful I could spend more than an hour a week writing letters of recommendation.

Do you feel vaguely guilty when you get emails from your institution exhorting you to attend learning sessions for some new software?