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 5th, 2009 at 9:31AM
Nobody except Homer SImpson. When, meaning to call Professor Frink, the Nobel Committee got Homer instead and informed him that he had won, he just said, "Finally!"
October 5th, 2009 at 9:50AM
Alan: LOL.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:53AM
When Richard Feynman got The Call he hung up on the dude.
Then he bought a beach house in Baja.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:19PM
Our two weapons are logic and curiosity…and the scientific method…. Our *three* weapons are logic, curiosity, and the scientific method…and an almost fanatical devotion to the truth…. Our *four*…no… *Amongst* our weapons…. Amongst our weaponry…are such elements as logic, curiosity…. I’ll come in again.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:23PM
I’m laughing way out loud, GTWMA.
October 5th, 2009 at 4:52PM
Except Kary Mullis:
"People don’t realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so."
K. M. received the Nobel Prize for discovering PCR, the polymerase chain reaction. This discovery allows the amplification of minute quantities of DNA for purposes such as identification of people who leave minute samples at, say, crime scenes…
October 5th, 2009 at 5:56PM
And my favorite part of that skit is the "..Amongst our weapons..Amongst our weaponry…"
October 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
Can I just mention here how much I hope the upcoming Chemistry Nobel is given to actual chemists this time, and not biologists or medical types? That approach is an ex-parrot.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:51PM
I hope that this finding leads to further research. It would be nice to see some advancements on disease, aging (especially the brain) and most of all cancer. It is about time.