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Parentification Paper
Each spring, our home institution the University of Central Florida (UCF) sponsors the “UCF Libraries Annual Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research” for the most outstanding student research essay published during the previous calendar year. The recipient of this year’s … Continue reading
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Our favorite research poster
We have been celebrating Research Week at our home institution, the University of Central Florida (UCF). Our Research Week culminated today with the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence, featuring over 300 student poster presentations, representing over 50 majors. One of … Continue reading
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Reblog: “Punctuation in novels”
Corrected (2/18): In case you’re wondering, via Adam J. Calhoun this is what two different English-language novels look like if you were to take out all the words and sentences and just leave the punctuation marks behind: Punctuation in Blood Meridian by … Continue reading
“Syllabus of the month”
That is a new feature from the Open Syllabus Project, an online database of university syllabi. (What a great idea, by the way!) Last month’s featured syllabus, which is just one page long (!!!), is for Professor Kieran Healy’s graduate-level course “Social Theory Through Complaining.” (Dr Healy teaches … Continue reading
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End of year review: 2015
It’s that time of year again … In addition to my regular teaching duties, here is what we were working on (outside the classroom) during the previous year (2015): (a) Research fraud as tort, Science, Vol. 349, No. 6255 (25 … Continue reading
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Good vs Evil (legal citation edition)
https://twitter.com/DrRimmer/status/681988034603036672 Hey there … We just found out–via James Creedon and Matthew Rimmer (above)–that two of our colleagues (professors C.J. Sprigman and Carl Malamud, to be more exact) are working on an open source (i.e. free) version of legal citation … Continue reading
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New Research on Divorce and Feminist Pedagogy
Earlier this semester, we published our first two student articles in our capacity as faculty editor of the Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of Central Florida (the UCF URJ), a peer-reviewed journal for student authors. One article explores possible … Continue reading
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Self-deception primer
Hat tip: Cathy O’Neil (via mathbabe.org)
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Illiberal Yale?
Ivy League sentences to ponder: “It is therefore remarkable that no fewer than 13 [Yale] administrators took scarce time to compose, circulate, and co-sign a letter advising adult students on how to dress for Halloween, a cause that misguided campus … Continue reading
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Legal liability of “innocent” co-authors for research fraud
Last week, we published a short letter in the journal Science in which we proposed extending the intentional tort of fraudulent misrepresentation to the most egregious cases of research fraud. After all, why should alleged academic fraudsters like Michael LaCour (political science) … Continue reading
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prior probability 