Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
September 17th, 2009 at 9:05PM
GHOSTS DOWN UNDER
Once a jolly bagman signed on to an article.
Somebody else had prepared it for him.
And he sang as he watched and waited till it was in print
This will be a beaut right there on my CV.
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And he sang as he watched and waited till it was in print
This will be a beaut right there on my CV.
Up came an editor, looking for the telltale signs.
Ghost writing’s hard to cover up, you see.
And he found them in the document, tracking changes to their source,
So, Pharma paid to make this up and pass it off on me.
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And he found them in the document, tracking changes to their source,
So, Pharma paid to make this up and pass it off on me.
Up jumped the bagman, pointing fingers right and left,
You’ll never prove I didn’t write it, said he.
And his ghost may be heard as you wander through the library,
Could have been a beaut right there on my CV.
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And his ghost may be heard as you wander through the library,
Could have been a beaut right there on my CV.
September 17th, 2009 at 9:19PM
This is fantastic, Barney. I actually considered titling my post Ghosting Matilda… But you’ve gone me so much better!
September 17th, 2009 at 10:06PM
I like that. Go ahead and change the refrain to Ghosting Matilda. Barney.
September 18th, 2009 at 9:41AM
Here is a reworking, along with Margaret’s title.
GHOSTING MATILDA
Once a jolly bagman signed on to an article.
Corporate ghosts even promised him a fee.
And he sang as he watched and waited till it was in print,
This will be beaut right up there on my CV.
Ghosting Matilda, ghosting Matilda,
Who’ll come a-ghosting Matilda with me?
And he sang as he watched and waited till it was in print
This will be beaut right up there on my CV.
Up came an editor, looking for the telltale signs.
Ghost writing’s hard to cover up, you see.
And he found them in the document, tracking changes to their source,
Somebody paid for this and passed it off on me.
Ghosting Matilda, ghosting Matilda,
Who’ll come a-ghosting Matilda with me?
And he found them in the document, tracking changes to their source,
Somebody paid for this and passed it off on me.
Up jumped the bagman, pointing fingers right and left,
You’ll never prove I didn’t write it, said he.
Now his ghost may be heard as you wander through the library,
Could have been beaut right up there on my CV.
Ghosting Matilda, ghosting Matilda,
Who’ll come a-ghosting Matilda with me?
Now his ghost may be heard as you wander through the library,
Could have been beaut right up there on my CV.
September 18th, 2009 at 10:30AM
Absolutely brilliant commentary! I plan to send it to the pharma company that just asked me to be an author on a paper they are preparing.