No excuses
I’m exhausted after a week of only eight meetings, but more than half were important meetings. I wish I had pithy thoughts, but I think the last pithy thought I had was on Tuesday, when I drafted a bunch of items for the union e-mail newsletter. Adieu, cruel week. No, it wasn’t cruel: just there […]
Wake up and go to sleep with AERA
This says nothing about my personal life but instead about my often-fragmented day: I started work early this morning at the auto dealer’s working on a paper I’m co-presenting at AERA with Stephen Provasnik, and I’m closing out my local coffeehouse by… working on the paper. I only wish I could have spent hours and […]
Florida Board of Education members earn a B on science standards, and their spines earn a C in principled decisionmaking
The Florida Board of Education approved science standards with evolution, but if still appending the words “scientific theory of” before the word “evolution.” The department staff earns enormous credit for giving the standards-writing project to a large team of scientists and science teachers, who firmly put evolution in the center of the standards, only to […]
Gorillas split on teaching of evolution in Florida
CAMEROON–The Cross River Antievolution Primate (CRAP) organization announced today that it was splitting from the Western Lowland Coalition Mediating Evolution (WeLCoME) in the controversial topic of science standards in Florida. While it is not clear why western gorillas are arguing about the curriculum standards of a geopolitical entity thousands of miles away, they are clearly […]
On eprints at Harvard and Full Monty open-access
I’m still trying to figure out the consequences of Harvard’s Arts and Science faculty voting last week to push open-access publication of faculty work. This is fundamentally different from the occasional individual boycott of subscription-based journals. Harvard’s faculty move is closer to Congress’s push for a mandate that all grant-funded articles etc. be accessible to […]