I’m sure that research paper will be interesting, too.
Via Academic Productivity, who got it from whythatsdelightful.
I’ve just learned that I messed up. I was supposed to choose WHICH roundtable session to forward those incoming papers to . According to Kendra at ASA, I should have known this because last October I received an email that says “second priority organizers are responsible for forwarding unused acceptable papers to the appropriate roundtable [...]
I wonder how many academics who read the Inside Higher Ed account of the Constantine plagiarism case at Teachers College will turn immediately against the lawyer upon reading this paragraph:
As an example of how wrong the charges are, [Constantine's lawyer] noted that in one case an institutional review board memo for some work in dispute [...]
wicker
coconut
bats
SPSS/war criminals (tied)
the new york yankees
almost everything having to do with ’superdelegates’*
* main exception: public denunciations of superdelegates
As I suggested in response to the thread about picking an advisor, it is a mistake to view an advisor as a commodity for which you comparison shop, as you might select a new dress. Rather, it is a two-sided process of building a long-term relationship. Your own behavior and characteristics are just as important [...]
No one is their job, you say. People are more than the sum of their professions. What a limited view of humanity. Blah blah blah. This is certainly true. But then why do people introduce themselves as their professional roles? “Hi, I’m a doctor.” “I’m a lawyer.” “I’m a teacher.” Etc., etc.I was thinking about [...]
Our question of the week: How do you “break up” with your adviser? If you feel like the relationship isn’t going well, and you’ve already made the decision to go with someone new, what is the best way to do this without upsetting the adviser?
Spotted on American Idol this evening, it seems that a certain sociologist has taken on a second job.
Or maybe he has embarked on his next big project: a covert ethnography of the 12-boy runoff competition.
Some additional research reveals that Dr. Healy has also been designing lighting for The Man Show and The Swan. There is [...]
Tonight I participated in one of our residence hall’s “dinner in a dorm” events. This is actually my second time, but it was different because I was invited by one of my lovely students. Previously, when I — along with other new faculty — attended a similar event, I was paired with a hall official. [...]
Finding a time for the meeting when all members are available! In many cases, the time and effort that goes into such planning is more taxing than the meeting itself. The level of incompetence around issues of this sort is staggering.
Quick question. ASA’s session organizer site appears non-functional. First no response, then administrator’s login where it has never heard of me. Anybody know what is going on? ASA isn’t answering email; I did not try calling. (I’m almost done, just need to forward 1 paper to round tables if it gets released by its first [...]
Hopefully if you are a Stata user, you are not printing your output and then re-typing it into a table by hand. Hopefully you are already at least using outreg, which is an add-on program that writes regression output into a nicely formatted text file. But: if you are using outreg, you should [...]
…I come back to find an Obama backlash appearing now to be fully underway. The core of it seems to have affinities to the classic problem of falling for quiet pretty people: that one can project whatever positive qualities one wants upon them without direct disconfirmation.
(Something that this election has brought home to me, [...]
Like many others, I’m cheating on this blog. That’s right. I’ve joined another group blog. It’s not you, fellow scatterbrains; it’s me. Anyway, I’ll be blogging there about the kind of food stuff I once mentioned here. The new blog is critical eating. And I particularly like the bio line: “all the sociology you can [...]
In the comments of the very first question of the week - now ask a scatterbrain (thanks Kieran!) - several of the comments talked about questions of advising for faculty (not how to pick and adviser, but instead how to be a good one - a question raised by newsocprof). At the time my response [...]
So this morning I’m calling to set up an appointment to get my hair cut.
Shamus: I need a hair cut.
Salon: Great! [Details...] Oh! And we’re having a special right now. With a hair cut you get a free make-up consult.
Shamus: Um… I’m single. [Meaning: there's no one in my life who could use [...]
Another of my pet peeves is starting an academic paper by referring to the dictionary definition of something. “According to Webster’s Dictionary, X is defined as…” How many times have you read that sentence in your life? I suppose it is a lousy, boring, but minimally acceptable way for an undergraduate to start [...]
For those following this series, here’s the next.
Update by Jeremy (the embed, not the video itself):
Do pay especial attention to the woman signing.
(Jeremy, thanks for the embed!)
News today of two new dinos. Both are meat eaters, lived 110 million years ago, and may have hunted together.
Euocarcharia dinops was the main hunter, and joins the long list of unpronouncable dinosaurs that I can never remember. Kryptops, on the other hand, is a great name, and will become one of my handful of [...]
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