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
March 30th, 2009 at 12:55PM
There’s a metaphor in there somewhere. Scathing online maggots maybe?
March 30th, 2009 at 1:03PM
This kind of stuff is really smart. The main obstacle to its widespread adoption is that Big Pharma can’t patent it. (If I can treat a patient with a $1000 bottle of pills from which I get a kickback, or a $5 vial of maggots for which I get none, well — I have boat payments to make!)
Worm therapy is going to be big, too. Mark my words. 🙂
March 30th, 2009 at 1:23PM
francofou: One of the names my siblings used to call me was Maggot (variant of Margaret).
March 30th, 2009 at 2:33PM
I think RJO is a maggot-o-phobe. To say that a vial of maggots costs only $5 is an insult to maggots everywhere. Be glad, RJO, that you didn’t make this assertion in Canada. You’d be up in front of a maggot rights commission in no time…. (big legal costs, no due process, in camera proceedings… just like they treat people here.)
March 30th, 2009 at 3:21PM
Being nibbled by maggots is painful? Who knew?
March 30th, 2009 at 4:10PM
I have a feeling, RJO, that these are not $5 maggots. I suspect that they are more like $500 maggots (i.e., the college presidents of maggots) who need $5000 worth of staff time to apply and remove.
March 30th, 2009 at 4:50PM
> the college presidents of maggots
As long as they’re not the football coaches of maggots I’m ok with it. Healthcare reform has to start somewhere. And given how easy they are to replicate, a flourishing black market will drive the price down pretty quick. ("Hey, buddy, wanna buy some maggots? No prescription needed. Imported from Canada where the maggot-manufacturing standards are as good as ours.")
March 31st, 2009 at 7:49PM
My father recently had maggot therapy for a leg ulcer, and (in his case) it was successful. This in Canada, by the way, though the maggots came from California!
March 31st, 2009 at 8:18PM
Susan: I’m glad to hear it was successful. And fresh maggots from California! There’s a poem in there somewhere.
May 14th, 2009 at 8:01AM
Actually the maggots usually cost under $100.00 for 300-500. Usually need three or four treatments. Any doctor would use maggot therapy to save their limbs or those of a loved one. Then why not on a patient?? If it works, it works. Or is it all about money and not about helping the patient?