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Delaware associate professor of marine science faces sacking after top journals retracted her articles, but she claims a faculty report exonerates her
A University of Delaware associate professor of marine science says a faculty panel ruled in her favor after another committee found her guilty of research misconduct. She says the president is still planning to fire her. Danielle Dixson, an associate professor of marine science at the University of Delaware, received blow after blow last year. On July 8, Proceedings of the Royal Society B issued a correction to a 2016 article she co-authored. It was on how anemonefish respond to bleached versus unbleached host anemones—an important question regarding coral reefs.
Many of us stumbled into the advantages of teaching online. Now let’s hope our teaching will never be the same as it was before. Although 2020 produced many downsides, the year also yielded some benefits. We made fewer commutes to work. We had more abundant time with our kids and pets. And we saw rapid improvement in the quality of online courses. To be clear, the skills of novice online instructors are likely still behind those of professors who have taught virtually for years. However, if we were to compare the quality of online classes delivered in spring 2020 and those d...