Category: Professorship

Do You Have the Right Style?

Growing controversy has been created by nine pages of corrections to the APA style manual, with responses ranging from demands for free reprints to dropping APA in favor of other styles.

Acronyms: SIOP’s Worst Enemy

I thought it might be a useful exercise to list the other organizations and techniques that share the new possible names for SIOP, courtesy of Acronym Finder. My favorites are “SWP: Socialist Workers Party” and “SWOP: Sex Workers Outreach Project.”

Academic Publishing on the Internet

You would think that institutions priding themselves on sharing knowledge would embrace the freedom of expression that came with sharing online. You’d be wrong.

A Plain-English Explanation of Correlation

It came to my attention recently that there are no (or at least few) easy-to-understand plain-English explanations of what a correlations is or how to appropriately interpret them. So I provide one!

College Courses for $99/month?

A company called straighterline offers a $99/month subscription to its services: online college courses with no time constraints on course completion. But not everyone is happy about it.

My Lab’s New Logo

My lab’s new logo is designed, and thus we gain some momentum. Check it out!