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
January 5th, 2014 at 6:58PM
Perhaps you and your family have done this or are doing this. But, if this were my place, I’d revisit my childhood hobby and buy a telescope with a computer-driven equatorial mount and enjoy the skies, largely unpolluted by man-made light. Jupiter and Saturn, with stripped planetary discs, moons and — in the latter case — rings, are sublime in the earlier literary sense, as opposed to the delicious gelato sense. My first glimpse of Saturn through a 12″ reflecting telescope, remains a chillingly beautiful memory. Perhaps a 127mm Celestron cassegrin. But, if you are interested do some, looking and computer research first.
I have no idea what to do about the drones.
January 5th, 2014 at 7:00PM
Greg: Those are all excellent ideas! Thank you for them. We’ll look into them as the summer approaches. UD
January 5th, 2014 at 7:54PM
Perhaps some inventor will start marketing a large electro-magnetic variant on the midwestern bug catcher and instead of the buzz and splat of cicadas the warm summer evening can be punctuated with the metalic clatter of downed drones.
January 5th, 2014 at 8:09PM
you need one of these:
http://www.newmuseumstore.org/browse.cfm/anti-drone-burqa/4,6059.html
January 5th, 2014 at 8:31PM
dmf: Yes – combines my love of the burqa with my paranoia about drones… But it’s expensive!
January 5th, 2014 at 8:31PM
Jeremy: The Drone Swatter!
January 5th, 2014 at 11:57PM
High in the sky the drone is alone.
If it were hit, ‘twould fall like a stone,
With no one to guide it
And no one to ride it,
Nose cone all wrecked by UD’s flung scone.
January 6th, 2014 at 2:07AM
adam: Good one. I’ve been playing, off and on, with drone rhymes (there are too many!) for a few days. I too smell a limerick.