Wandering Scientist

So, you probably all heard about Jonathan Chait's article decrying the rise of "identity politics" or some such thing. I did...

For some reason, I'm really itching to write a post tonight. But the post I had queued up to write next is beyond my mental capabilities...

This as been an interesting week. On Monday, I started to suspect that the sore throat I'd had for awhile might not just be allergies, a...

The discussions that led to my last post and the discussions that followed it kept skirting the issues of who should go to graduate school ...

I had a conversation on Twitter this morning about the purpose of a PhD. It made me think again about the role that graduate school and my P...