As usual, the academic blogosphere has had plenty to offer in the last week or so. Here's my latest round-up of interesting posts by academic bloggers.

Despite being a regular Chronicle reader, or maybe because I'm a regular Chronicle reader, I always enjoy posts criticising it. The Little Professor offers the funny-because-it's-true How to Write a CoHE "First Person" Essay: A Handy Multiple Choice Guide. My favorite is #6. At The Paper Chase, Lisa responds and adds a couple of points of her own. Finally, Jason at Pattern Recognition points out the recent Chronicle article about the future of scholarly communication is "woefully behind the times."

Dr. Crazy has a great idea for blog posts. Check it out.

And then I thought to myself, "Hey, and wouldn't it be great if we chose a day - sort of like Poetry Friday, but instead something like Reading for Pleasure Wednesdays or something - and on that day people would post about a book that they've read recently that's NOT RELATED TO WORK. AT ALL.

Research is supposed to be my beat, but I always appreciate good writing about teaching. In her thoughtful way, Ancarett points out the problem of conflating history with a modern parallel.

When you go to history with the express purpose of justifying your own or others actions and viewpoints in the present, that should raise a red flag. You’re not doing history, you’re using history and while that use may be educational and helpful in the present, it often ends up hopelessly skewing any understanding of the original society.

Over at Fumbling Towards Geekdom, StyleyGeek wants to know if there is a blog carnival for graduate students? Anybody?

How's this for unusual? Russian Violets recently found a dissertation in which the author thanks her pets.