I’ve been a university professor for ten years. Yep, TEN muthafrackin’ years. And I’m proud to report that, as of May 1st of this year, I finally secured the grandest of academic boons, the much sought-after status of tenured professor. (more…)
CATEGORY / academia
21May
2018
Tenure, Bitches
20May
2018
Professors’ Trivia Night, 2018
Trivia Master Wat with Jason, Jeff and Pascal
May 16, 2018, saw the second annual installment of our department’s trivia contest, held in a dank pub basement, and featuring solely the professors in our School…. and the daughter of one of said professors. (more…)
15Mar
2018
A Tale of Two Fallacies: the Insanity of Progressive Stacking
As I write this (on a plane en route from Cuba to Toronto), I’m thinking in an undisciplined manner about some recent developments in public intelligentsia. I’m not quite sure how best to describe what I’m calling something of an “academic rift”, as its nature is only dimly formed in my frontal lobe. But it has something to do with the value of evidence and the extent to which we are willing and able to allow evidence (or what passes for evidence) to dictate our view of social and physical reality. Even as I write those words, I am aware that there will be disagreements about what constitutes “evidence”, and a full appreciation that almost nothing exists in an objective vacuum, immune from the infection of personal bias and value. (more…)
02Feb
2018
Skills That All Students Should Acquire
Last night, I attended a public meeting of various government science advisors, hosted at the University of Ottawa. As is my wont, I kept myself engaged by frantically live tweeting every innocuous thought that came into my monkey brain. (more…)
- PAGE 2 OF 18 -
