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 23rd, 2012 at 10:14PM
you’ll probably find this interesting:
“The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 1: conceptual and definitional issues in psychiatric diagnosis”
Phillips et al. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2012, 7:3
http://www.peh-med.com/content/7/1/3
20 some odd contributing authors, seems orchestrated by Frances, includes First (who worked on “The research agenda for DMV-V” published in 2002), many others, even Szasz.
Also, related content at AAPP Bulletin
http://alien.dowling.edu/~cperring/aapp/bulletin.htm
April 23rd, 2012 at 10:18PM
re my earlier comment,
clearly that should read “The research agenda for DSM-V”
April 23rd, 2012 at 11:29PM
Please make it clear that the “APA” that publishes the DSM is the American PSYCHIATRIC Association. I think many are more familiar with APA standing for American Psychological Association, and, given the topic of the DSM, it is easy for people to assume “psychology” is behind the DSM, when it is not.
April 24th, 2012 at 4:22AM
Good point, James. I’ll fix it.
April 24th, 2012 at 11:32AM
of course the psychological assoc. uses whatever DSM the psychiatrists invent…
April 24th, 2012 at 12:40PM
Maybe that’s because the DSM is primarily an administrative scheme for classifying disorders for the purpose of reimbursement. DSM-III and DSM-IV made no claim to be the products of clinical science and they adduced no evidence of their own validity beyond ad hoc consensus with an eye to public relations.