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 28th, 2009 at 3:11PM
I smell another of UD’s headline contests…
January 28th, 2009 at 3:20PM
As the Beeb’s article notes, anyone who knows how a ‘cello is played would find this highly implausible.
January 28th, 2009 at 3:33PM
"My cello’s degrading my scrotum,"
said Rostropovitch unto his factotum.
"Yo-Yo Ma’s yo-yo
Has withered in toto,
Yet science refuses to note ’em."
January 28th, 2009 at 3:35PM
I know a challenge when I see one, Dave. Hold on a minute.
January 28th, 2009 at 3:37PM
And I THOUGHT of yo-yo, I assure you. I rejected it as, you know, too vulgar…
January 28th, 2009 at 3:46PM
Backward glans on the other hand…
January 28th, 2009 at 4:01PM
And there was a vas deferens between the cellist’s bridge and the timpanist’s fleshhoop.
January 28th, 2009 at 4:04PM
that ‘in toto’ is fine fine fine!
January 28th, 2009 at 4:16PM
Ever since I contracted c. scrotum
My f-hole’s become a mere totem.
Only thing I can play
Is Auber’s Bal Masque.
I’ll have to begin to regrow them.
January 28th, 2009 at 5:08PM
With apologies to Edward Lear, Terry McMillan, the Man from Nantucket, and cellists everywhere:
There once was a cellist named Zack,
alarmed about losing his sac,
after a vigorous chokehold,
he knew he’d been Sokaled,
so spicattoed and bowed his groove back.
January 28th, 2009 at 5:48PM
Can you tell I’m putting off grading?
Brahms lost his to a misapplied flute.
Gonorrhea shrank Mahler’s, to boot.
I’m blaming my cello
For the sickly and yellow
State of my forbidden fruit.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:27PM
Limericks are hard! Here’s one:
A scrupulous cellist named Krupp
Bought a rockstop that came with a cup.
When asked, "Why the addition?"
he cited physicians
and said, "So my endpin stays up."
January 29th, 2009 at 6:50PM
Melanie: Wonderful!
January 30th, 2009 at 4:58PM
A bit late, but here’s another:
An inscrutable cellist from Little Rock
loved to play preludes (J.S. Bach).
His wife? She had fits
from the touch of his pizz.
And his metronome-rhythmical tik-tok.