Tag: advice
Pseudonyms are essential online
[Trigger warning for discussions of online and IRL abuse and violence]
How To Deal with Blog Spam
Sometimes you just need to amuse yourself.
Social Media Tips and Tricks #2: Read Smarter
Welcome to part 2 of the series on social media! This series of tips will focus on how to make your online reading more efficient. Social Media Tip #4: Work Smarter, not Harder. I love […]
Social Media Tips and Tricks #1
Hi All! I have been super busy, but there is such an awesome online entomology community of blogs and commenters, I know you aren’t starved for bug info. I wanted to pass on some tricks […]
An experiment with Online Reputation Trackers
You may know that in my regular life, when I’m not Bug G. Membracid, I have a job advising students, among other things. In the spirit of “do as I say, not as I do” […]
Teaching advice: what to do when a student loses it
Quite a few people, including PZ, have posted this video of a student completely loosing it in a classroom. From the school paper: “Associate Professor Stephen M. Kajiura was reviewing with his evolution class in […]
Transcript of my ESA talk about Social Media
Sorry this took so long to create! This is the transcript of my Entomological Society of America talk that I posted last week. I have taken the liberty of editing and prettifying things up, and including […]
I’m off to the ESA
If you aren’t a major bug nerd, you may not know what goes on at a big scientific meeting like the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. It is the largest insect meeting […]
Anonymous Entomological Punditry on the Internet
[This is part of a series of posts about writing, entomology, and career development that are linked to my upcoming Entomological Society of America talk in November.] I get a surprising number of emails from reporters asking […]
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