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The Effort Report

Sep 26, 2016

Elizabeth and Roger talk about the academic wardrobe and academic metrics for prestige-real and perceived.

Notes:

Getting email responses from busy people: http://simplystatistics.org/2011/09/23/getting-email-responses-from-busy-people/


Sep 16, 2016

Elizabeth and Roger talk about being woefully unprepared to build, manage, and mentor a research team.


Sep 13, 2016

Elizabeth and Roger talk about the role of gender in academic careers (and what it's like to feel like a fish out of water).

Show notes:

Guardian article on why women leave academia: 


Sep 5, 2016

Elizabeth and Roger discuss a recent opinion piece in PNAS as well as keeping the grant-to-paper ratio in check.

 

Show notes:

Science in the age of selfies http://www.pnas.org/content/113/34/9384.full

The Troubled Future of Colleges and Universities