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
February 9th, 2020 at 4:43PM
I said “orthogonal” once in conversation, and Mrs. Polish Peter nearly divorced me. Never again.
February 9th, 2020 at 9:08PM
Polish Peter: If the Monty Python lads were still in business, you figure they’d feature orthogonal in a sketch. In one of their pretentious “the arts” interviews maybe…
February 10th, 2020 at 11:58AM
“Orthogonal” should score extra points in Pedantry Scrabble because it goes back to a Greek root rather than just to Latin.
February 10th, 2020 at 12:20PM
The term is commonly used in science and engineering. We usually learn its original mathematical context in linear algebra courses. It can also be shaded to mean “useful but cross to present purposes.” Surprised by the surprise.
February 10th, 2020 at 2:14PM
Indeed, I picked it up from my engineering colleagues, but they were already employing it outside its traditional mathematical usage.
February 10th, 2020 at 3:04PM
Yes, that’s what I had intended to convey. Have heard/used the alternate context for 35+ years.
February 10th, 2020 at 6:15PM
I first encountered said adjective in a work of literature, a novella by John Crowley, where it’s used literally, in a mathematical sense. Since then I have impressed high school students who are in advanced math classes as well as my English courses; they probably think it’s remarkable that I know any mathematical terms at all.
February 10th, 2020 at 8:22PM
Ask ’em how many sides in an orthogon.