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
April 1st, 2010 at 8:16AM
Correcting pronunciation 41 times a day? An interesting choice of number.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:25AM
Has to be an April Fool’s joke, don’t you think?
April 1st, 2010 at 8:48AM
I understand that the Ohio State University also has squads of cheerleaders out telling the community that it is OK to call the place Ohio State.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:58AM
Driving to Baltimore early this AM in the old pickup. Got the air compressor and jack hammer in the back. Stopping off at Tractor Supply for a new chisel blade. I’ll make Hopkins before noontime. Gonna get me one of them big, fat S’s.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:59AM
Clever. Particularly like the use of “41,” which is up there with “37” and “17” as among the funniest-sounding numbers.
Happy April Fool’s.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:07AM
And here I thought it was the gratuitous article “The” that was the stumbling block.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:36AM
And the University of Nebraska is adopting the motto “N is for NOWLEDGE!”
About time.
April 1st, 2010 at 10:19AM
Can consonants just disappear?
Damn right, in a tough fiscal year.
A budget’s pulled from the brink
By the savings on ink.
Hopkin: get your S out of here!
April 1st, 2010 at 10:20AM
Jeff: LOL.
April 2nd, 2010 at 6:20PM
All those spare s’s should be offered at a discount to Silver Spring.
April 7th, 2010 at 1:14AM
In related news, revered JHU prof Richard Macksey will replace the “cks” with an “x” and forget seven of the thirteen languages he reads, “Because journalists keep saying ‘half a dozen’ anyway.”