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
May 28th, 2017 at 10:36AM
It could even feature cameo appearances by the CEO of Mylan, West Virginia’s very own pharmaceuticals predator (she of EpiPen fame) and her double speaking father Senator Joe Manchin from WVa.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/epipen-price-hike-controversy-mylan-ceo-heather-bresch-speaks-out/
May 28th, 2017 at 2:44PM
Barney: I love the idea of special guest appearances. There are also many non-WV possibilities. Martin Shkreli’s still not in jail, right?
May 28th, 2017 at 8:38PM
But just as the character is ready to pick up her life-saving prescription at the pharmacy, she learns that her evil twin beat her to it. Little does the evil twin know, but the possible side effects of the drug include vomiting, nausea, shortness of breath, and erections lasting more than four hours, three of which she experiences just as she is about to seduce the heroine’s unsuspecting husband. As the closing credits play, we see the heroine barely holding on to life at General Hospital as the monitor beeps her irregular pulse. The handsome doctor turns to his nurse, with whom he is having a torrid affair, and remarks, “Forget it. She’s got a pre-existing condition now.”
May 28th, 2017 at 9:27PM
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Ginsberg/11-3-75/Ginsberg-Terkel-Burroughs_Burroughs-and-Ginsberg-on-Addiction_Drury_Word-of-Mouth_11-3-75.mp3
May 29th, 2017 at 5:35AM
Bernard, UD, TAFKAU: your “script” is actually working for me. I’m about an hour north of WV. Lots of Scots-Irish hill country folks who’d come here for factory work. Now they’ve got nothing to do. Plenty of ethnics, too, to mix it up.
The special guest appearances by global Big Pharma trash is big-time good. Toss in the rest of Big Medicine’s Iron Pyramid. (“You need to make better health care choices, Jimbob.”)
Chuck Lorre’s production folks?
June 1st, 2017 at 3:59PM
BTW-Ohio’s AG Mike Dewine indicted five Big Pharma companies a day or so ago. Opioids. Fraudulent this and that. Dewine used to be a standard-issue Republican corporate arse-kisser. Don’t know if he’s getting political “guidance” from any national entity.
The annualized death rate from all ODs in my county is about 68/100,000 so far. (Not a misprint.)