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
July 31st, 2012 at 8:02AM
The whole “self-plagiarism” concept is dubious — there’s nothing wrong with multiple use of (substantive) material, and the question of how different its expression should be in each use is legitimate, but it’s about something other than plagiarism.
There ought to be a distinction between wishing someone had been more original and charging him/her with plagiarism. The case of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dissertation comes to mind — he was branded a plagiarist for over-reliance on (a) the work of one of his professors , (b) a recent dissertation in his department, and (c) the subjects of his dissertation. None of this represented an attempt to pass off as his own the work or thought of others, which I take to be the meaning of “plagiarism.” His committee knew what they were signing off on; the safest conclusion is that the standards in the theology program at BU in the early ’50s were not high.
July 31st, 2012 at 12:24PM
I think the self-plagiarism thing mainly matters to magazines because they’re paying for something they may think is exclusive only to find out it has been barely rewritten. I think of the similar problem of the folks who deliver the same conference paper over and over and over again.
August 1st, 2012 at 3:36AM
[…] here, in this Jonah Lehrer post, because I’ve always loved Gore Vidal’s phrase “a […]
August 1st, 2012 at 5:43AM
I agree that ‘self-plagiarism’ doesn’t really capture what’s wrong with submitting two pieces of identical work, whether as a journalist or as a student. It’s better to think of it as a form of double-dipping – of demanding compensation (pay/a letter grade) for something that’s already been compensated.
August 1st, 2012 at 8:53AM
I am in a part-time program at Harvard. According to a couple of my professors, a student in the program in writing a paper extensively used material from a paper the student wrote while he was at another institution without citing his own paper. He was expelled from the program for plagiarism.