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Last week when I was in a cafe waiting for my mediumskimicedmocha, I overhead one student say to another, "Of course it's true tha...

A colleague recently commented to me on the tendency for graduate students to introduce their talks at conference by telling the audience t...

Below is an e-mail message. It seems to refer to a comment (or two) that I did not see, perhaps because they got sent to the spam-box, whic...

From an interview of Rita Colwell (former NSF Director) by National Geographic : Are you still treated differently as a woman? Cert...

Question from a reader: In your experience in faculty search committees, with respect to hiring an assistant professor, are postdoc pos...

Yes, I know that Acceptance is Stage 5 in the evolution of grief, but in the academic context of graduate admissions, it is Stage 2(ish), i...

It was not inevitable, but once it happened, no one was surprised. This is particularly strange because even just a few years ago it would ...

A reader asks the perennial painful questions about why others were interviewed for a tenure-track faculty position and not them, despite t...

It comes as no surprise that (according to my unscientific poll) the two most-disliked questions that students ask professors are: Did I ...

Here it is: the poll based on your responses to my request for annoying questions and behaviors related to student-professor interaction. T...

This has surely been written about 57 million times before, but somehow it would be nice to get the message out to students about the peril...

The results of the Fake-CV Contest are in. I think we should call it a tie between Fake CV #2 (A. Lex) and #4 (Magical Robot Unicorn), wi...

It is indeed time to vote for your "favorite" CV (you can of course define "favorite" however you want: most entertain...

We are almost ready for the vote on your favorite Fake CV, but I just wanted to check and see if any major CV-issues have remained unexplo...

Another cautionary tale, writ in a CV: DEE S. PERATE Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-present PhD., 2008, Femtoscience, Genius Institute of ...

This (partial?) CV contains at least two possibly-puzzling elements one may encounter in publication lists. Depending on the (sub)field, th...

OK, this one may be a bit off-putting at first, but if you read beyond the name, there are some informative aspects of it. The author of th...

This is a very interesting fake CV, in part because of the reasons why it was created. Says the author: I decided to .. make the CV of t...

This one is from EuropeanFemaleScienceProfessor. Apparently most of it is based on a real CV, with the exception of the duck thing. Note ...

Here's another one. If the author wants to claim authorship in a comment, they are of course welcome to do so. I should have mentioned ...