Another dark Friday at #NSF today. An entire Divison was RIF'd, many departures through the DRP and VERA programs, and IPA PD's like myself not being renewed. A massive but as yet not completely known restructuring of the agency is underway.
If you are a PI or prospective PI, please know that we are trying our best to be responsive to your needs and to process awards and actions, but it is going to take *a lot* longer right now. Our workloads are going through the roof with these reductions.
Glycoscience opportunities!
GlycoMIP Scientists on Screen: Quarterly virtual event on glycomaterials research
GlycoMIP 2025 Summer School @ VT: 4-day immersive learning on glycomaterials characterization
Details: https://lnkd.in/gxiGqRAa
This could be a pretty big deal.
National Science Foundation grant reviewers urged to think more about ‘societal benefits’ | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/national-science-foundation-grant-reviewers-urged-think-more-about-societal-benefits
Another great excerpt: "Most of the damage control I have to do in my introductory college courses involves disabusing students of the truisms they learned from a test-driven A.P. curriculum. One is that writing is a “soft” exercise of rhetorical flourish in which factual accuracy, sound reasoning, research & data-gathering, & appropriate treatment of evidence don’t matter."
Some of my university science classes were like this. All rote with less substance and thinking. #scienceed
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From @MCDuncanLab
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Here I propose that rather than possessing “good hands,” an innate and unlearnable aptitude for science, such scientists possess expert learning skills that can be effectively mastered. I share a straightforward approach to gaining and teaching expert learning skills in the research lab environment. I also discuss ongoing efforts by others to develop curricula that teach expert learning skills in laboratory courses.
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Congratulations to #SFUPhysics lecturer and Faculty of Science Associate Dean, Learning Sarah D. Johnson on receiving a 3M National Teaching Fellowship Award! Read more about her here: https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/media/issues-experts/2023/05/sfu-university-lecturer--associate-dean--sarah-d--johnson-awarde.html #sfuscience #ScienceEd #physics
Ya'll, I made a planetarium movie!!
It's about mapping the universe with DESI and includes a flight through the real positions of 14 million galaxies. For anyone without access to a planetarium, here's a flat version:
https://youtu.be/bYKUb05mnPk
#astronomy #scicomm #cosmology #astrofun #science #ScienceEd #ScienceEngagement #darkenergy #film
I am modifying this curriculum to fit with my storyline about local fossils from the Fairmead fossil site.
The students love it and fossils are such a great way to blend geoscience and biology!
New article of interest to #LearningSciences, #ScienceEd, #CriticalTech, #Design: "Jamming power: Youth agency and community-driven science in a critical technology learning program" by Dr. Sepehr Vakil, Ally Reith, and Natalie Araujo Melo.
Paywalled :( at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/tea.21843
And for more on the Young People's Race, Power, and Technology Project, visit: https://tree.northwestern.edu/projects/yprpt
Time to sign up for the spring 2023 semester of Skype-a-Scientist!
https://www.skypeascientist.com/
#scicomm #Scienceoutreach #scienceed
Tuesday night is #Antarctica night! I'm writing a plain language summary for educators about #SWAIS2C Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Celsius (of warming).
We'll drill through 2 sites on the Ross Ice Shelf and into the sediment below. Analyzing this sediment will help us learn more about past melting of the WAIS (West Antarctic Ice Sheet) when Earth was warmer and global sea levels were higher.
📸 Me, Ross Ice Shelf 2017
#scicomm #scienceed #scienceeducation #WAIS
#microbiology #scienceteaching One of the most rewarding #scienceed projects I have participated is Tiny Earth: https://tinyearth.wisc.edu/ a way for students to learn biology (and #chemistry and #genomics) through research: isolating and identifying #antibiotic producing bacteria from the soil. Besides teaching courses with the framework, there is plenty of opportunity for student #research. Those were the cultures I was handling so they'd survive over the holiday break.
Yesterday I explained to a grade 3/4 class that female solitary bees lay their eggs underground or in a hollow stem, give the eggs lots of food, and then leave them to hatch and develop on their own.
One little girl asked, "Does the mother bee ever come back to visit them?"
Oh, my heart...🥹
#bees #pollinators #ScienceEd #STEM #STEMed #scicomm #kids #school #authors #science #insects #teachers
One more time for this … A cold Sunday… unless you’re too busy, here’s some reading:
2 added posts in this searchable collection of links to free access of new & older educational content
https://saraslistofedresources.wordpress.com/
Thanks @AlexJQuigley & @physicsnews (+those who pointed to these)❣️
Enjoy & please further‼️
Now ☕️…
#EduTooters @edutooters #education #skolmasto #scienceed #equity #teachinggoals #skolan #equality
A cold Sunday… unless you’re too busy, here’s some reading:
2 added posts in this searchable collection of links to free access of new & older educational content
https://saraslistofedresources.wordpress.com/
Thanks @AlexJQuigley & @physicsnews (+those who pointed to these)❣️
Enjoy & please further‼️
Now ☕️…
#EduTooters @edutooters #education #skolmasto #scienceed #equity #teachinggoals #skolan #equality @edutooter
SO happy that my #Antarctica E&O work is ramping up again for real. Can’t believe I’m paid to share my passion for the most beautiful place on Earth!
I took these pics in McMurdo Sound just before we entered a force 10 gale with low visibility and icebergs all around. Wheeee!
A recent article in the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education reports on a study where a cohort of students from a high-ranking Japanese university were asked to solve a series of problems relating to probability and statistics. The catch: the problems were chosen so that the most obvious common sense answer would diverge from the correct solution provided by probability theory and statistics. Read more: https://www.mondegoscience.com/pages/uncommon-sense #statistics #science #ScienceEd
