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
December 21st, 2010 at 8:13AM
There was a total lunar eclipse a few years ago– visible in the DC area, in the evening, and not so cold. In fact, lunar eclipses aren’t rare– and, as you might expect, Wikipedia has the whole story, including separate entries on each recent eclipse.
I watched that one outside the Bethesda Row Barnes & Noble and explained to people about the moon first being eaten by the dragon, and then… coming out of the dragon’s other end.
December 21st, 2010 at 8:23AM
MattF: Funny – about the dragon’s other end.
It must have been a good eclipse if you could see it clearly with all the lights of ‘thesda twinkling about you.
December 21st, 2010 at 11:46AM
it was cold and wet and cloudy here on the west coast
decided to just check out the live NASA Ustream links
but it didn’t hold my attention
with your account now I’m bummed I didn’t throw open the door and go outside
but it was so cozy inside- watched Holiday Inn – had a great sleep- priceless.
wish it could have been like the time I watched Mars at its closest point while doing a midnight swim and 80 degrees in the wine country- talk about oranges and reds!
Last night apparently Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted it was long and boring to him too– so, I don’t feel too bad. Glad you (in the east) got to enjoy it
and still
A reverence for the starry skies.
a deep one.
December 21st, 2010 at 12:02PM
Yum. Almost as good as an eclipse.
December 10th, 2011 at 1:24PM
[…] which UD, marooned on the east coast, will not be able to see (she saw one last December), Sylvia Plath’s The Moon and the Yew Tree. Since I’m interrupting the poem with […]