Scientists, you can still share your story with a 3 min video (easy lift) AND enter to win cash prizes and #scicomm acclaim! Submit by Nov 3 😁🧪

Time to stop doom scrolling & check out some AMAZING 3 min science videos. Your thumbs up could decide who wins the #MySciJourney challenge! 🧪🐸🪶🔊 Thanks to lead funder @ncse.bsky.social & organizers @mattwilkins.galacticpolymath.com @scitalker.bsky.social 🙌 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij...

Check out some cool science (and great science communication) happening at @towsonu.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ9C... Josh's video is part of a sci-comm competition sponsored by @galacticpolymath.com. If you learned something new by watching, please "Like" the video on YouTube!

Teachers, check it out! Andrew's awesome video is part of our growing collection of short, classroom-ready videos. Watch them and vote with likes to decide who wins the #scicomm competition! #edusky

Dive into the fascinating world of #Genetics with our new cluster! This collection of 10 pathways takes you from Mendel’s landmark studies with pea plants to modern-day applications. Explore genetics, from chromosome to phenotype: https://f.mtr.cool/bfkrbcozso

DEADLINE EXTENDED to Oct. 12!✨ I don't need to tell you that public support is crucial to sustaining science. #SciComm has never been more important, so don’t miss this chance to give the public a window into how science really works—and why it works so well. Join the #MySciJourney Challenge!

Scientists, here's your chance to remind the public about the beauty of science & why your work matters! Make a 3min presentation with a template; cash prizes! 💰 Deadline extended to Oct 12. www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij... Funded by @ncse.bsky.social Plz repost! 🧪🪶🐸🔊 #scicomm #MySciJourney

Friends—1 week left! If you use science in your job (undergrad, in academia, in industry...anything!) & you want to help students understand what it's really like & why it's important—here's your chance! 🧪 from @galacticpolymath.com & @ncse.bsky.social 👉 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij...

Scientists, only 2 weeks left to share your work, why it matters & win up to $500! It's as easy as making a slideshow with our template. This #MySciJourney challenge sponsored by @ncse.bsky.social #scicomm 🧪🔊🐸 👉https://galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scijourney-scicomm-competition-2025

"...it checks all the boxes — authentic science, student-led inquiry, & ready-to-go NGSS-aligned materials..." 😊 Check out this guest post from @brewerbiology.bsky.social after teaching our free unit about @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's research 🐸🔊🧪 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/what-ca...

Scientists, here's your chance to share your work, why it matters, and win up to $500! It's as easy as making a slideshow and recording it. We made templates and examples to make it easier. Our #MySciJourney challenge sponsored by @ncse.bsky.social & @civicscimedia.bsky.social sky.social #scicomm

🎉 We're so excited to announce the 2025 #MySciJourney Challenge: A #scicomm competition for researchers to share their authentic journeys in science with students, teachers, & the broader public! 🧪 💸 $1k in cash prizes, thanks to @ncse.bsky.social! 👉 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij...

This project came together thanks to @scitalker.bsky.social & @mattwilkins.galacticpolymath.com planning for months and reaching out to build partnerships with like-minded organizations. #SciComm needs to be about collaboration. We're all in this together!

🎉 We're so excited to announce the 2025 #MySciJourney Challenge: A #scicomm competition for researchers to share their authentic journeys in science with students, teachers, & the broader public! 🧪 💸 $1k in cash prizes, thanks to @ncse.bsky.social! 👉 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij...

Who played Carmen Sandiego as a kid? You're gonna love our latest video series helping students be observant and ask good questions! #NGSS #EduSky youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Check out these #bird scientists showing how to be observant and ask good questions! 🤩🪶 Featuring Drs. Allison Johnson & Dai Shizuka, and some adorable Australian fairywrens! #NSF -funded research and #BroaderImpacts 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjve...

Check out these #bird scientists showing how to be observant and ask good questions! 🤩🪶 Featuring Drs. Allison Johnson & Dai Shizuka, and some adorable Australian fairywrens! #NSF -funded research and #BroaderImpacts 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjve...

Who played Carmen Sandiego as a kid? You're gonna love our latest video series helping students be observant and ask good questions! #NGSS #EduSky youtube.com/playlist?lis...

THIS! 🔥👇 "We’re not going to fix education with more technology... we’re putting too much emphasis on what looks innovative, and not enough on what’s actually effective." #EduSky #EdTech Wonderful guest blog by Michelle Blanchet of The Educators' Lab! 👏 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/stop-ch...

When I began studying bird song 16 yrs ago, my daily experience of the world changed forever. Since then, I've wanted to help others get curious about croaks, chirps & whistles at the edge of their hearing. What's making that? Why? What are they saying? Plz check it out & share! 👇🐋🐦‍⬛🐸🔊 #EduSky

Woot!🎉 We've now passed 100 registered teachers with a combined class size of over 10,000 students!!🙋‍♀️🍎 Let's keep going! Teachers, get access to very high quality free #NGSS -aligned science resources developed with scientists for grades 6-college 👇 www.galacticpolymath.com/for-teachers #edusky

This is an excellent tool, I'm really happy to have contributed to its development! I think it will be especially useful for teaching #bioacoustics

Good news! After almost a year of development, we're so pleased to share SoundLab: An #openaccess tool for *seeing* & analyzing sounds. Intended as a teaching tool for middle school to college—introduce students to #bioacoustics & the science of sound 🧪🔊🐋🪶🎶🐦‍⬛ www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/dive-in...

Hey teachers! 👋 In the last 7 months, our collective classroom size has grown to 9,000 students! Let's get to 10k!📈 Please sign up for free and get access to 100+ teacher resources developed with scientists, thanks to NSF funding! #SaveNSF 🧪 🔗 www.galacticpolymath.com/for-teachers #EduSky #NGSS

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Though our recent #NSF grant was terminated, the @datanuggets.bsky.social program still continues through support from the @kbslter.bsky.social and other sources! We're searching for future funding opportunities and will continue to help share authentic datasets and science stories with students!

Teachers, we have lots of PD opportunities coming up for you this summer! Hope you can join us! All the various links with details and registration to each of these events can be found on our Linktree page - linktr.ee/ncse_science #ForTeachers #ProfessionalLearning #EduSky #NGSSchat

How a lettuce becomes a salad (and isn't destroyed by pests) schoolhouse rock edition. 🧪 🌱 #AgSky

So stoked to announce this free, NSF-funded unit for middle school & above! Help your students build #dataliteracy & #climateliteracy as they dive into data from @ourworldindata.org! Developed w/ @scitalker.bsky.social at @unlincoln.bsky.social 🧪 #SaveNSF teach.galacticpolymath.com/units/en-US/17

This vid supports @galacticpolymath.com's "Future Foods" unit coming out tomorrow! The vid & lessons connect middle schoolers to underlying climate data using this awesome resource from @ourworldindata.org (by @hannahritchie.bsky.social & @maxroser.bsky.social) ourworldindata.org/environmenta...

🍲🫘🐮🥬🐔🦐 ➡️ 🌎🌡️❓ Test your knowledge! Which foods release the most greenhouse gases during production from farm to table? 🧪 youtube.com/shorts/Ev0xe...

New blog + video about why I've spent the last 4 years w/ @galacticpolymath.com trying to connect academia to K-12 & how we're threatened by cuts at NSF🧪. We need more #openaccess curriculum for all! #SaveNSF #EduSky www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/the-bac...

🎉We have a new site & a blog! Dr. Emilie Snell-Rood kicking it off with a guest post about the Bioinspired Design unit we co-designed with U Minn researchers. Supports student redesigns of products using organisms' adaptations as inspiration! 🧪#SciEd 🍎 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/bioinsp...

🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for... 54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381) 75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M) The next generation of scientists is being targeted. #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF

We love it! 🤩🐸 Great to see students diving into data in our Balancing Act unit based on @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's NSF funded research! #SaveNSF 🧪

Students listened to 🐸 calls and analyzed their spectrograms to learn about tradeoffs in nature: frogs can have long calls or frequent calls, not both! Then tried to figure out which call attracts more ladies. Great lesson set called Balancing Act by Galactic Polymath! www.galacticpolymath.com

Pretty much every free lesson and video we've created has been funded by NSF. We are heartbroken for the labs that are losing funding, for the teachers and students that will miss out on future resources, & the American people who don't yet recognize what they will lose by defunding science🧪

I've put in ~60 hrs over the last 8 months trying to develop a free web tool for sound analysis & visualization. I get $0 from this. Every $80 we raise funds a skilled web dev for 1 hour to check off these tasks. Despite all that's happening, we can still create nice things for the public good 🧪🔊🐦‍⬛

Two days left to support SoundLab: an #openaccess web app for visualizing & analyzing sounds. This will be a useful & fun tool for all, especially if you're a #bioacoustics researcher, a birdsong or music fan, or teach about sound waves! 🐸🐦‍⬛🐋 Small donations help! 👉 www.indiegogo.com/projects/sou...

Rank these common foods by the amount of greenhouse gases emitted during production. 🧪 #scicomm Visual for our upcoming FutureFoods unit that helps students dive into the carbon footprints of their fav dishes! Prepares students to explore @ourworldindata.org resources by @hannahritchie.bsky.social

Help students build #dataliteracy to succeed in this life! 🔥▶️ New trailer for our #openaccess unit for grade 9–college! Introduces the PPSTT framework for making sense of figures & supported w/ scientists modeling the approach. Free to you, thanks to NSF🧪🍎. Unit link 🧵👇 youtube.com/shorts/2q3xr...

Super useful and important tool here for the bioacoustics community - check it out and consider contributing!

A video introduction to the Scopes trial from the Associated Press. apnews.com/video/a-cent... #ScopesSunday

Help us open up the world of sound for anyone, anywhere to explore for free! No installation, no login, but we need your support 🙏🧪🐸🐦🔉

Teaching chemistry and want to dive deeper into plastics? In “Working to reduce the plastics problem,” students learn about research where Nick and a team of undergrads tested biodegradable elastomers. #DNOTW #edusky 🧪 datanuggets.org/working-to-r...

🐦🎶🔉 Spring is here and the bird's are singing! But what species?! @galacticpolymath.com worked w/ Dr. Nicole Creanza's lab to make a pop culture intro to birding by ear. Play along by yourself (with the longer video) or with an interactive presentation (unit link 👇) 🧪 youtube.com/shorts/A2FBO...

Q: How do we grow #dataliteracy skills? A: We worked with scientists to develop the PPSTT framework to help students make sense of graphs & figures. Part of a free unit for grades 9–uni; #openaccess thanks to NSF funding to Dr. Tom Luhring at WSU 🧪 #scicomm #edusky youtube.com/shorts/zDRqw...

🎉We're very excited to release "DataStreams: A crash course in #dataliteracy using stream ecology." This unit is the product of many months of development with scientists, teachers, artists & filmmakers. It's free for all thanks to NSF funding!🧪 www.galacticpolymath.com/lessons/en-U...

Excited to share this video & the #dataliteracy unit we created for grades 9–college! Free, thanks to NSF funding 🙌 I think students will gain so much confidence by practicing the art of making sense of data visuals alongside scientists! #scicomm 🧪📈

This is a very well done short video and full-length lesson plan around data literacy and interpreting graphs. It's designed from 9th grade on up, and I think it would work nicely in our college course as well.