Academic Garden

"Explain 2024 for you in one word,"  demands my social media timeline.  Conciseness is not my strongest quality.  So, I am going t...

An experience that most functioning adults face is that of building up a routine with great effort, only to have it come crashing down in th...

Some time in the middle of January, after concluding a three-month long stretch of nearly back-to-back travel (mostly for conferences), I wa...

The other day, a friend, while preparing for a trip to a city in USA, mentioned that he was nervous about the travel. This was surprising to...

A few days ago, I realized that I have now been teaching for 20 years. I taught my first course in the Spring of 2004, as a 23 year old PhD ...

I do not have many new things to write about from my part of the academic garden. Instead, I would like to put together some of my older X/T...

In the last few posts, I have been sharing thoughts around academic reviews: is research productivity the only criterion that matters to a r...