January 01, 1991

Learned Folly

Academic life, especially in its sillier and more exasperating aspects.

The Professoriate Considered as a Super-Critical Branching Process
The Presentation Exchange for Workshops and Classes
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2020
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Lyotard)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2018
Save the World on Your Own Time (Fish)
Practical Peer Review
Some Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, or, Strange Memories of the Recent Past
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2018
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (Nichols)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2017
Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (Sedgwick)
On the Ethics of Expert Advocacy Consulting
A Statement from the Editorial Board of the Journal of Evidence-Based Haruspicy
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2014
The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss (Drury)
These are my preprints; also, publishers are to be destroyed
If Peer Review Did Not Exist, We Would Have to Invent Something Very Like It to Serve Highly Similar Ends
On Refereeing a Manuscript for PNAS with Roughly a Hundred Hypothesis Tests
Signs I Will Not Recommend Your Manuscript Be Published As Is (No. 891)
Scientific Community to Elsevier: Drop Dead
"Can't seem to face up to the facts"
Power Law as Poetic Justice
A Scientific Prediction, Uninfluenced by Sentiment or Wishful Thinking
Lyric Poetry in Pluto's Republic
Aporias of the Efficiency Frontier (Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Academic Publishing System?)
Why I Am So Uncannily Prescient
The Neutral Model of Inquiry (or, What Is the Scientific Literature, Chopped Liver?)
Consilience of Inductions
Power Law Swag
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2010
In which Dunning-Krueger meets Slutsky-Yule, and they make music together
One Must Imagine Liberman Happy
The Visual Display of Morally Obligatory Consequences
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in your Fur, January 2010
Salins's SAT Sokaling
A Note to My Alma Mater
Assorted Link Roundup, May 2008
From Your Lips...
Solvitur ambulando
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2008
Career Advising Day
Clothes Make Working for the Man Easier
Fluctuations and Invariants II
Fluctuations and Invariants
Physics Wrestling
I Read These Papers So You Don't Have To
Posthumous Preprints in Emergence
Via Dolorosa
Eigenfactor (Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Academic Publishing System? Dept.)
Friday Abominable Snowman Molecular Phylogenetics Blogging
The Rest Is Commentary
Further MLA-Blogging Now Superfluous
We Can Have a Better Academic Publishing System
A Triumph of Socialist Realism
On the Superiority of Sociology to String Theory
Parasites and Reintermediaries of Death
Chronicle on Cole
George Hersey's The Monumental Impulse: A Declaration of Defeat
The Sharks of DARPA
Signs I Will Not Recommend Your Manuscript Be Published As Is (No. 734)
Strike-Breaking at NYU
All of Peer Review
An Operational Test of "Mathematical Maturity"
A Sociological Exercise
The Structure and Strangeness of Interdisciplinary Research
Networks and Netwars
Popular Delusions of Distributed Multi-Agent Systems
Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Academic Publishing System?
Friday Cat Blogging (It Always Pays to Read the Annals of Improbable Research Carefully Issue of Science Geek Edition)
Victorian Sociophysical Instruments
PhDMeatMarket.com, or, Favoritism and Intrigue Mechanized
Persecution and the Art of Neoconservative Writing
"Now Barabbas was a publisher"
I Don't Know You People II
I'm Going for Number 8, Personally
This Is Going to Be Fun
Recognition at Last
I Don't Know You People
Mate Choice, or, You Don't Always Know What You Want
The Literary Theory of a Midwestern Maître à Penser
Conceits and Argufmentation
Cleaning the Stove
Fish is Brain Food
The Impotence of Positive Thinking
"I'm afraid I've committed an egregious foucault"
Life Considered as a Series of Multiple Choice Questions

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