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Welcome to Your PhD! Now Choose a Lab.
Our Experimental Error columnist shares strategies for making one of the most important decisions of graduate school.
Meeting Students Where They Are Doesn’t Mean Lowering Academic Standards
Our Experimental Error columnist explores professors’ responsibilities to students—and vice versa.
Criticism of Witticism: Does Humor Belong in the Science Classroom?
Our Experimental Error columnist considers a recent preprint about instructors making jokes.
So, Academics, Whatcha Doin’ for Summer Break?
Our Experimental Error columnist reflects on the well-meaning but misguided questions that can plague university researchers.
Digesting Scientific Papers Is Hard. Can AI Help?
Our Experimental Error columnist looks at a recent paper that helps answer this question … sort of.
Many Thanks for the Anti-Acknowledgments
Ph.D. graduates can find catharsis in subverting the traditional acknowledgements section, our Experimental Error columnist writes.
The Games Scientists Play: How Fun Can Help Preserve Our Humanity
With everything going on, a little frivolity may be just what you need, our Experimental Error columnist writes.
How to Share Science with the Public When Your Research Is a Secret
Outreach is always an option, our Experimental Error columnist writes.
