Category Archives: academic life

Writing Challenge, Week 2: Define progress.

It’s been two weeks since I issued the initial challenge to join me in a month-ish of intense writing activity. Last week, I told you what I was doing and how it was going, and 13 brave commenters shared (and … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, by Anne

Writing Challenge, Week 1: Are you making progress?

It’s been a week since I issued the initial challenge to join me in a month-ish of intense writing activity. I’ve seen use of the #sciwrite hashtag pick up on Twitter, and 41 of you have now publicly committed to … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, by Anne

A writing challenge

Are you up for a challenge? A writing challenge? A friendly, mutually-supportive writing challenge?* I need to write some papers. My tenure portfolio goes out for review in May, and I want to get a couple more papers into review … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, publication

Wisdom from the Geoblogosphere School of Learning & Doing (Accretionary Wedge #38)

Welcome to the Geoblogosphere School of Learning & Doing. Let’s begin with a story by one of our students, Michael Klaas of Uncovered Earth. He writes… “On a warm evening in May of 2008 I sat upon a cinder cone … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, geology, science education

Show me the data!

Some of my favorite memories of interacting with my Ph.D. advisor involve long sessions at our conference table, looking at data. I’d come to these sessions armed with many graphs showing data I’d collected and different ways of displaying relationships … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, by Anne