This sucks! If you wanna chip in to help us tackle this again in November... follow: www.facebook.com/togetherfors...

Yeah! Getting our (informal) science on!

Oh look! Evidence!!

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I don't have a large following, but if you're reading this... hop off Bsky, look up your local commissioners, mayor, etc and write to ask them to publicly denounce ICE, to take a stand saying ICE is not welcome in your town, and they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Repeat daily.

I’m headed to SICB next week for my first time ever, and I’m excited to give the Moore Lecture. If you’re there, join me to learn all about systems thinking in undergraduate biology!

Hot on the heals of that amazing publication (srsly, go read it!), I am thrilled to teach a VIP course this spring! VIP = Vertically Integrated Project. We will integrate undergraduates into a project exploring study strategies across STEM. It's a CURE on steroids! #DBER #BER

Huzzah! @elhackerson.bsky.social and I have a new paper out on scrum in a CURE course. Read it because it's amazing and then use it because students need to develop these skills! qubeshub.org/community/gr...

But what if I really lay into the carbs and couch sitting?! Then could I be a sea slug?!

This is legit tempting. She said as a tenured full professor.

Apparently data don’t matter? We know long term housing is effective! This federal change in funding will have dire impacts in all communities. From folks who are unhoused to women escaping abuse - all could find themselves without a place to go.

This Thanksgiving, I braved a literal winter wonderland to get to our dinner. Enjoy this one good image I snagged at 70 mph on US 94.

Welp.

Some days I really appreciate past Jenni who forgot she tucked a little treat into her backpack and left it for me to discover today.

Irony on my desk.

I curled for the first time in about five years. Definitely rusty! But I managed to win the tie breaking skip’s rocks!

Absolute perfection!

Masquerading as my esteemed colleague and giving sheet to everyone here!

Worst name for a service ever: PaperCut. Absolutely no one wants a paper cut - an injury that hurt an inordinate amount for how small they are. After installing PaperCut, printing just got inordinately more difficult for no good reason. I guess it's an apt if crap name.

My cat excels at escape rooms in a box.

Cher Louvre…

“There is no place in American higher education for death threats against professors,” Todd Wolfson, the president of the American Association of University Professors and a Rutgers faculty member. If you are so moved, please sign.

If you’re an alumni… sign. This is absolutely wild.

Updates! We have misconceptions in SciFi, misconceptions in the media, green energy, taste (!), meal planning, measurement in science. Quite a wild range - I'm excited to see what they come up with!

Well this is infuriating. Hope my bookstore has postcards…. And stamps!

Spell check recommending I add a comma after Dr. as in: Dear Dr., Smith. Is this a new kind of comma I didn't learn about? Like we have the Oxford comma and now the AI comma?

I have always wanted my grad class on teaching STEM to work in cross-disciplinary groups to design a kick-ass interdisciplinary out-of-the-box instructional modules and folks, I think this is the year I figured out how to make this work... Stay tuned - I will share the teaching topics soon!

As an "AI hater", this article resonated with me. Since we are starting an honors college centered on the ethics of AI, it's also timely. Bring the AI haters on board!

With no national search, the ND higher education system just appointed a new chancellor, er, commissioner. This is now 100% a political appointment. northdakotamonitor.com/2025/09/23/b...

He FAILED to tie autism to Tylenol use in pregnancy because the evidence is inconclusive. Don’t give this claim an inch. Call a duck a duck.

I’ve been following the GRFPs kinda closely and at this point, if they don’t move the deadlines, it’s game over for our students. We just don’t have the resources to whip a proposal out in four weeks.

Teaching Intro to College STEM Teaching and trying out some new things. Today we started our first SoTL project: using observation protocols to ask/answer questions about teaching.

What in the evolution is this?! Eggs that hatch into two species?! "These males also had the nuclear genomes of M. structor but the mitochondria of M. ibericus, proving the males had hatched from eggs laid by M. ibericus queens."

You know what wasn’t sweet enough?! Candy corn! Now we’ve added more sugar and air to get… candy corn marshmallows!

If you ever need a quick little story, I suggest A Small Fiction. It's always the third tab on my home tab group (Mail > Calendar > A Small Fiction). www.asmallfiction.com/election/

"A Small Fiction" really hitting it hard: www.asmallfiction.com/election/

Turns out data don’t care who the bureau chief is. Data gonna tell the story they tell!

A helpful read... and as a healthy middle-aged woman, I think I can reasonably say I'm losing my damn mind right now with the anti-vac movement. Does that qualify me to get a vaccine?!

Oh look! The dictator is HURTING our country.

Will we have elections in 2028? Heck, I'm doubting the 2026 elections. We are on a speeding train to fascism with absolutely no plan to derail this travesty.

We are HIRING! The Department of Psychology at NDSU is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology (broadly defined) to begin August, 2026. Full details here: tinyurl.com/3sjknmxn Questions can be directed to me. Please share widely!

Savage! And I’m loving it!!

Our Natural Grocery store has the most unhinged hours.

I am here for this mud flinging! Damn, that's a take down.

The world sucks right now, but you can do something good. Sign up to be the Scientist in SkypeAScientist!

Who had “repeal the 19th amendment” on their 2025 bingo card?! (

"[S]ending out Nazi push alerts may not have been the company’s goal. But it is more of a feature than a bug." So yeah, Substack may not be the garden folks want it to be.

This is a great article that every intro bio student should read and dissect this year. Students should be empowered to use their knowledge to pick apart these lies.

This is an epic tale of quite possibly the worst bank robber in history.

I just enrolled in an undergraduate course... first time in many decades! Here's to learning all about textiles!