A Fake Scientific Literature
The success or failure of academia revolves around the integrity of its journals – the “trade mags,” so to speak, of each academic area. Which makes it all the more disturbing that major academic...
Category: Professorship
Where Is the Divide: I vs O vs HR vs OB
A recent myriad of discussions across the I/O blogosphere on the status of I/O psychology as a science had led me to notice something peculiar about people in these discussions – the tendency of...
It Is Impossible to Schedule Six People Simultaneously
Well, not impossible. But very difficult! Especially if the five people that you are e-mailing don’t all check their e-mail at least every day or two. But after 31 total e-mails over the course of a week, I have a defense date – May 6…
Textbook Publishing
PZ Meyers recently commented on an older article about how primary and high school textbooks get chosen and why Texas has overwhelming power in nationwide adoption rates. It’s really quite… well… disturbing. I won’t...
Networking in Academia
I am currently at the 24th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists (SIOP). I think most non-academics think of conferences as something like a roving wedding or auto show, but...
Leadership in the Classroom
I’ve been following a recent exchange over at RYS. For those of you that don’t know, RYS is a sort of sounding board for disgruntled academics, created in partial response to ratemyprofessors.com, referred to...