Margins for error in policy
We’re operating without water in my building for today and tomorrow, at least until the lab reports come back after the drop in pressure overnight. Faculty and staff know, so they’ll get to know their colleagues in nearby buildings. I feel sorry for students who run to the right (usual) place and then hope to […]
Research blog started
For those who want to walk into the weeds with me on a new research project, feel free to follow my new research blog hosted at USF. Dorn’s dangerously public research blog has the subtitle “conducting research without a net,” and I am likely to fail in public view. [Update 4/20/09: the blog server’s database […]
More on Sansom and Richburg indictments
The Northwest Florida Daily News coverage of the Sansom and Richburg indictments is more extended than that of any other Florida paper other than the Times and Herald, and it has the coverage of local reaction that other papers couldn’t provide; it’s clear that while many have sympathy with Sansom (not all!), NWFSC President Bob […]
Four hours
It took me four hours today to write and polish a disposition e-mail to the author(s) of a submission. This was a manuscript that I enjoyed very much but for a variety of reasons could not publish, and I owed the author(s) some good advice, or at least the best advice I could give. When […]
If you’re an unemployed teacher or academic, run for office!
By Sherman Dorn on April 18, 2009
Which unemployed or underemployed people could plausibly run for office in 2010? The budget outlook in Florida is better than it used to be, thanks to the federal recovery funds that have already flowed and are likely to flow; essentially, federal funds are plugging about half of the gap legislators were facing for the next […]
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