A day’s agenda
- Scott’s got us going on aR package forPLoS API, released Tuesday. Checked over the package and did some basic reorganization to put it in R package form.
- lots of feedback on my FF question on pw vs private for delayed-disclosure entries.
- warning signals manuscript package, figures, writing 9-11a
- Going through Peter’s revisions 11-1p
- Meeting with Peter & Graham 1-2p
- Meeting with Mikaela, Betta for GTC 2-4
- PDG on Brian’s Autoparts paper 4-5:30
Colored git diff’s etc (from progit.org):
`git config --global color.ui true`Reading:
Mostly education stuff:
- Excellent New Yorker piece on the value of a college education.
- Kandace sent this wonderful piece in Science, in which 7 HHMI fellows outline 7 initiatives for changing the balance of research and teaching (Anderson et. al. 2011):
- Educate faculty about research on learning
- Create awards/named professorships supporting outstanding teachers
- Require excellence in teaching for promotion
- Create teaching discussion groups (of colleagues)
- Create cross-disciplinary programs at college-level learning
- Provide ongoing support for effective science teaching (i.e. NSF grants)
- Engage chairs, deans, presidents
- Better still is this nice lecture response to the paper, addressing (1).
- Should the Culture of University Science Education Be Changed?
References
- Anderson W, Banerjee U, Drennan C, Elgin S, Epstein I, Handelsman J, Hatfull G, Losick R, O’Dowd D, Olivera B, Strobel S, Walker G and Warner I (2011). “Changing The Culture of Science Education at Research Universities.” Science, 331. ISSN 0036-8075, https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1198280.