New by me (and my boss Jennifer Herman!) in @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/feel...

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

This was a good distraction from everything today. Entertaining and Tsilly listen for #highered nerds. Plus, UNC Chapel Hill controversy that played out for so many years while I was there is affirmed as a BIG one! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

When the students stand up for inclusion in the classroom. youtu.be/Jsn3INWTDGw?...

Over the weekend, nearly 50,000 protesters gathered at Tesla locations worldwide, demonstrating the growing strength of our movement. Tesla is facing mounting challenges, with sales plummeting across multiple countries.

“Free speech..If one guy talks over everyone else in my class My job as teacher is to keep him engaged, but not let his engagement make it less likely that others will learn. Ideally, he will see fairness in this,others will be encouraged to play roles in the convo. This is what equity looks like”

Interesting: Pairing older adults w extra rooms w university students! www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...

UNC System president backs Trump appointee. What about political ‘neutrality’ rule? @koriedean.bsky.social 👏🏼 www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

Want to join the UNC Biology teaching faculty team? We’re hiring a new TAP! Please share. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...

@aoc.bsky.social needs PollEverywhere upvote classroom technology!

Students trust professors and advisors most on campus.

Do students know that science is literally disappearing before our eyes? I wanted to show my students the description of a gene we are studying on the NIH site. Poof. Gone. I will be making this clear to them.

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.

At the nation’s scientific and public health agencies, panic set in as officials braced for a wave of layoffs. The Trump administration is now embracing forced resignation of officials at CDC and NIH.

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

This was the final nail. I won’t have work after next semester. I thought I might be safe with private funding. No more business as usual in higher ed.

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...

What does it mean when a student clicks while learning in the digital landscape of a course? What does it predict? Find out by taking the students out of the wild (classroom/course) and into the lab! I provided the learning envy & students— the rest of the folks brilliant design/analysis!

"Please list any nominations for internal awards or external awards you led this year on behalf of colleagues." Part of our faculty annual report questioning...a nice way to encourage collegiality, I think!

When you tell colleagues and students you like dark chocolate…lucky me! Happy Monday!

Weekend project making low tech “clickers” for our lab sections.

Moving institutions allows you to see impact of small tweaks in system level decisions. Previous: waitlisted students not in LMS Current: are in LMS Impact- 1) waitlisted students actually have access to announcements/materials in case they get enrolled. 2) Fewer instructor emails

Love that @vijisathy.bsky.social and I get to meet super fans of our book. What an honor! Thanks for hosting us Clemson!!

Excited to keynote today and meet book club readers at Clemson today! No ❄️ here!

I bought my subscription and encourage you to support independent journalism In NC too. Founded by a former UNC student I always knew would make an impact!

“I made friends” (or something similar) was a common answer to a reflection question I asked my students in a large lecture STEM course. After COVID, I don’t take this for granted!

and counting…Incentives work.

I enjoyed listening to this alot too @derekbruff.bsky.social! Fun to learn about other university large scale initiatives from faculty who take on leadership roles.

I love this time of year when students reflect on what they’ve learned (usually skills not content) and they give shout outs to peers and instructional team members (importance of community and representation). Informal polls might get you more of this than standard end of course evals. #AcademicSky

Good news: trust in scientists is high relative to other job categories. Bad news: we need to communicate more clearly, and with more humility

Please share w folks that want full time teaching career: Teaching Assistant Professor for Biochem at UNC Chapel Innovative teaching spanning the biochemistry curriculum, including capstone biochemistry lab course. Review of applications begins Dec. 10, 2024 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/290...

Took a quick peek at summary and can’t wait to dig in and apply it to my department leadership role as a start. Most intriguing is the piece a lot of this leaves out- what students can do!

Yeah where is @ass_dean? We need them here, not THERE!

Looking for HigherEd or STEMed conferences in Europe in the summer. Any recommendations for conferences you’ve attended or REAL conferences I might look at? (There are some weird scams out there!) #highered

Work with me! The Dept of Bio at Duke invites applications for an Ecologist or Evolutionary Biologist for a 3-year, non-renewable, non-tenure track Assistant Research Professor position. This is a teaching-focused position. Two courses each semester academicjobsonline.org/ajo/Duke/Bio...

Thanks Duke Faculty Advancement for suggestions about approaching this! facultyadvancement.duke.edu/resource/tea...

Got some compliments and had some nice conversations about my mug and tea with my students and colleagues today! Thanks @johnkane.bsky.social and Tea for Teaching podcast!

As the “Day After Election Day” gets closer, I’m picturing myself at 10:00 am w my students.I’ll acknowledge the world event and offer my class as a respite from news but w relaxed participation goals to give everyone space to do what they need. You?? #highered cteresources.bc.edu/documentatio...

NYT giving us an incredible story and it turns into a math growth-mindset example at the end! Hee hee.

@youtoobio.bsky.social love to see you in the book I’m reading by @josheyler.bsky.social! Also @lindsaymasland.bsky.social!!

Just got a copy of @josheyler.bsky.social new book and I got a bonus jacket cover! Looking forward to diving in after also hearing previews of the book in flash talks, conversations with Josh, and podcast interviews with @bonni208.bsky.social !

I like some background noise when I work— sometimes coffee shop sounds make me productive. coffitivity.com

Come join me on my teaching team at Duke. Lots of great early career teaching training and great benefits. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28512

Enjoyed a dinner with @vijisathy.bsky.social and Jose Bowen last night followed by his workshop based on Teaching with AI. What learned? I have a lot more to learn. Would love to know one small task you used AI for in the last week related to teaching, learning or admin work!

Do you write reflections like a journal entry after each lesson you teach? I always MEAN to but this semester I’m finally doing it more consistently! Future me will be happy when I teach this again!

I often refer to @vijisathy.bsky.social as my workwife. She’s my pedagogy partner! We met in a faculty learning community. We observe each other, write together, etc. We’re curious if you have a pedagogy partner and how did you meet?

Put together a classroom safety and lockdown kit for my lecture hall classroom for the fall at Duke. Hoping not to ever need it but nice to know it will be there.