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
March 20th, 2012 at 4:29PM
Wow…that’s as dumb as it comes. And it doesn’t make much sense. A first time visitor, I suppose. Otherwise, he would know that whatever you can get in Buenos Aires is much cheaper than what you can get in the United States. Pure economics.
It reminds me of how I couldn’t stop laughing when former Governor Mark Sanford was caught right out of the plane coming from Buenos Aires, and his first explanation was that he was stressed so he had gone to Buenos Aires to drive through the Buenos Aires coastline (2 miles of muddy river, at most), and relax (Buenos Aires driving habits are probably second to none in how dangerous they are).
March 21st, 2012 at 4:41AM
Rate my professor… this guy has been around 30 years (the site has not) and there are not even a dozen ratings. Can this possibly be meaningful data?
For instance, my own PI has been on the scene for 11 years, a whopping 9 students have rated him on that site, and no rating is more recent than 2005. (Recently he has been teaching at the graduate level only, hasn’t lectured to undergrads since, wait for it, 2005. The “insert-big-oil-company-that-still-won’t-hire-his-students-name-here” chair allows him to avoid the peons.)
For UD’s continued dismay:
http://www.pharmalot.com/2012/03/clinical-trials-exaggerated-antipsychotic-benefits/
http://www.pharmalot.com/2012/03/retraction-antidepressants-suicide-prevention/