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Hivestorm1 year ago in Pleiotropy
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The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site1 year ago in Catalogue of Organisms
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The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site1 year ago in Variety of Life
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Does mathematics carry human biases?3 years ago in PLEKTIX
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Daily routine3 years ago in Angry by Choice
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A New Placodont from the Late Triassic of China4 years ago in Chinleana
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Posted: July 22, 2018 at 03:03PM5 years ago in Field Notes
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Bryophyte Herbarium Survey6 years ago in Moss Plants and More
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Harnessing innate immunity to cure HIV7 years ago in Rule of 6ix
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WE MOVED!7 years ago in Games with Words
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post doc job opportunity on ribosome biochemistry!8 years ago in Protein Evolution and Other Musings
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Growing the kidney: re-blogged from Science Bitez8 years ago in The View from a Microbiologist
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Blogging Microbes- Communicating Microbiology to Netizens9 years ago in Memoirs of a Defective Brain
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The Lure of the Obscure? Guest Post by Frank Stahl11 years ago in Sex, Genes & Evolution
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Lab Rat Moving House12 years ago in Life of a Lab Rat
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Goodbye FoS, thanks for all the laughs12 years ago in Disease Prone
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Slideshow of NASA's Stardust-NExT Mission Comet Tempel 1 Flyby12 years ago in The Large Picture Blog
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A plant pundit comments on plants, the foibles and fun of academic life, and other things of interest.
Can blogging get you in hot water?
On several occasions readers and others have asked, "Phytophactor, why blog under a pseudonym?" Why never mention the name of your state (Lincolnland) or institution directly? Do you abuse the public trust by using state resources to blog? Well, at first the use of a pseudonym was simply because it amused the Phactor to do so after labeling himself a plant pundit. Writing in the third person and never directly naming dopey administrators or the institution was part of the fun; others just might wonder if that could be their dean being so aptly described. And no, the time and resources are my own, at least by my accounting. But it is no easy matter to decide where an academic's job ends and his personal life begins. After all part of the service component of our jobs, part of our educational charge, is outreach, educating the public, and to a great extent this blog helps fulfill that role, except it's not confined to just our state. Restricting email to only university business is a way more difficult thing to figure out, and the Phactor has his own email, but still friends and relatives email me at work because the email address has been mine for over 20 years going back to times when there was no other internet access around. Nothing from my official life connects to this blog, and when it comes to time, when you average over 50 hrs a week working, and the state says we have a 37.5 hr work week, a few minutes used during the day now and again doesn't come close to offsetting the unpaid overtime worked. Who's getting shorted? But given the potential for trouble and entanglements, it's probably a good idea to have remained a pseudonym. Look at the trouble a U. Wisconsin historian is having for having the temerity to use his professional expertise to look at the current political situation in their state. It's quite a blog.
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