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
February 1st, 2010 at 5:48PM
I note that people staying in a British hotel will be similarly unable to make a good cup of coffee.
February 1st, 2010 at 6:17PM
I think that should read “..staying in Britain will be similarly unable to get a good cup of coffee.”
February 1st, 2010 at 8:19PM
And most coffee-makers in the U.S. (although fewer than before) are situated in the bathroom, where there is an aerosol effect from other human activities that occur in the same confined space. Take the sealed coffee packets home, and bring back good coffee from the lobby. But I just spent a couple of days in Las Vegas and there was no way to make coffee in the room even if I’d wanted to, so the lobby coffeeshop had the monopoly. Luckily my wife won $19 and we bought coffee with it.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:20AM
Tea in coffee makers? Coffee makers in bathrooms? Where are people staying these days?
The Westin chain has this problem solved. Each room has a coffee maker, which is operated by placing a sealed coffee pod into a removable plastic basket—the part with the protruding tab in the linked photo—through which the machine then runs hot water.
This plastic basket is the only part of the contraption ever touched by coffee. Remove it, and your coffee maker provides unsullied hot water for your tea.
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:39PM
The pod system has the additional benefit for the hotel that so few people in the US have their own pod coffeemakers (I did, but gave it away) that guests don’t walk off with the pods. Pods are big in the Netherlands, though – I went into a supermarket in Leiden and found a whole aisle of pods for every imaginable coffee variety.