Syndicated – The Contemplative Mammoth

Poll: where do you stand on asking for feedback on unsuccessful job applications? — Scientist Sees Squirrel

A couple of weeks ago, one of us (Steve) posted “How to write, and read, a (job) rejection letter”. One piece of advice to job candidates got some interesting pushback on Twitter, including from […] Ecologist Stephen Heard of Scientist Sees Squirrel and I are teaming up on a post about getting […]

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Social Darwinism, the survival of the fittest, and the intersection of science and politics: A BlogHer guest post

A cartoon of Darwin kicking out a business man labeled "Laissez-Faire" and an old man labeled "eugenics" saying, "Get out of my house!"

The wonderful folks at BlogHer asked me to write a guest post on Social Darwinism, after President Obama’s speech last week where he evoked the phrase to critique the GOP budget. “Given the long history of racist stereotypes about poverty, and the fact that the public has a lot of misconceptions about […]

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