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
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:10PM
Phalacrocorax symposium:
The common cormorant (or shag)
Lays eggs inside a paper bag,
You follow the idea, no doubt?
It’s to keep the lightning out.
But what these unobservant birds
Have never thought of, is that herds
Of wandering bears might come with buns
And steal the bags to hold the crumbs.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:36PM
I’d long thought that it would be nice to live in Old Town Warsaw, or perhaps around the "New Town" rynek just to the north, but then three years ago my wife and I were taken by friends to visit some of their friends who lived in an enormous old apartment with high ceilings in Kraków overlooking Plac Dominikański, and we immediately put that on our dream list, along with West Cork, Tuscany, and Bermuda.
October 3rd, 2009 at 11:36PM
Polish Peter: Mr UD explains: “My choice of Warsaw is not because it’s the most beautiful and charming place in Poland. I grew up in Old Town, in an apartment on ‘Crooked Circle.'”
He used the Polish for Crooked Circle, but I can’t spell it…
October 4th, 2009 at 7:08AM
Indeed, I know the street. This looks like a nice pad:
http://www.travbuddy.com/Old-Town-Apartments-Krzywe-Kolo-Sky-v11155. Don’t get me wrong, I like Warsaw a lot. I’d keep Key West in the picture, though. Last November my wife and I took a walk in Lazienki Park at 3 PM. When darkness set in at 3:30, it had a real Hansel-and-Gretel feeling. Then the snow started…
October 4th, 2009 at 7:42AM
Cormorants are working their way rapidly up the list of nuisance birds around here. Their "you can’t hunt me–nyah, nyah, nyah!" attitude is awfully annoying.