Done properly, mentoring engenders a lifetime commitment – on both sides.
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A riposte to the Red Queens
No regrets (a salute to all my students)
I might be leaving academia, but I’ve no regrets about staying as long as I did.
Continue readingMasters and apprentices
PhD students are essential components of junior research groups – but who’s really the master, and who’s the apprentice? Continue reading
Mentoring the next generation
My lab might be closing soon because of insufficient research productivity. Is it really because I supervised too many undergraduate students? And if so, should I regret it? Continue reading
No more years of hurt
The capacity to forget past trauma can be an impediment to productive change. Continue reading
Potential Difference
Recruitment is also about screening for potential, and not just for finding finished products. Continue reading
Manumission
“It was a fact of life that there was no crueller master than an ex-slave” (Robert Harris, “Pompeii”). Continue reading
Bringing up baby
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