Santa Clara U. is launching a new Center for Teaching Excellence this fall, and they're looking to hire a founding director for the new center. If you're interested in directing a teaching center on the west coast, please take a look at the position description. wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/s...

"My job is mostly rescuing children." "We will continue working until we die." — Hussein Mohsen, medic, killed in an IDF airstrike on Monday with two of his colleagues

I’m honestly so proud of myself. It’s hard to ask for help but I’ve done it again and again over the last year. I’ve learned that so many folks are so willing to share their knowledge and expertise and I’m just so grateful 😭😭😭

🌍 Gettysburg ranks No. 5 among small schools on the Peace Corps’ 2025 list of Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges! Seven alumni are currently serving in countries from Armenia to the Philippines. 🔗 Learn more: www.gettysburg.edu/about-the-co...

In other news:

My quote of the day We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. Elie Wiesel

I think I’m going to have to learn needlepoint to put this one on the wall.

I'll never say that again.

Still love this place.

Let's gooooooooo

Heading to Boise for the @boisestate.bsky.social Great Ideas for Teaching & Learning Summit! Looking forward to keynoting about the many, many, oh so many mistakes we make as a normal part of our effective teaching. www.boisestate.edu/ctl/eventsan...

Congratulations to Environmental Studies Prof. Randall Wilson P’20! Featured in today's New York Times, his book, A Place Called Yellowstone, was named the winner of the New York Historical’s 2025 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize. 🔗 Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/a...

Huge. A towering career at the Post. Ruth Marcus was the acting head of the Opinion section in 2022 (and hired me) — this could have been the person leading it now if Bezos had different priorities.

Two of my favorite things -- "yes, and" and sticking it to Bezos -- rolled into one!

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

I thought "book tour" was an absurdly exaggerated metaphor for inactivity. But noooope I was wrong, it's true and thus just absurd.

Spent a thoroughly enjoying morning working with folks from gustavusadolphus.bsky.social on how to prepare their grads for life in an AI world. Thanks for having us, and look forward to ongoing conversations!

Gettysburg’s student Leadership Educators connected with leadership educators at the 2024 Leadership Educators Institute to learn about empowering students as leaders. Read more: bit.ly/4hGfFQD

I am actively looking for a research scientist position in the East Lansing/Ann Arbor/Grand Rapids area. I have experience with in vivo stereotaxy, epifluorescence, confocal and light sheet microscopy. Please reach out if my background and skillset might fit your lab’s interests. #neuroskyence

Pssst — a secret message for German-speaking science friends: There’s an open slot in the curation schedule for @realscide.bsky.social next month. Get in touch with me via DM if you feel like taking over the account for a week!

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, Sociology, Saint Mary's University Areas of expertise can include, but are not limited to: sport, violence, immigration/migration, matters connected to science and technology, social/digital media, and emerging trends in AI. universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Just spent an enjoyable hour+ with colleagues at SUNY Plattsburgh talking about the productive use of generative AI in our learning spaces. Thanks for inviting me, @geekypedagogy.bsky.social !

Shoutout to faculty who send thank you notes to staff like me for our work. Trust me when I say it’s the best part of my day to hear that the stuff I do actually helps people!

Thought for the morning: Years ago, I thanked a student once for saying something nice about me, to me, and she replied with “It’s easy if it’s true!” I have not forgotten that since. It's easy to forget the impact a kind word can have. Spread the love, folks.

Folks - we'll soon start looking at applications for the TT position in Health Sciences at Gettysburg College. Please consider applying. We'd love to meet you and welcome you as the newest member of our department. Please reach out with questions and thank you for sharing.

Physiology friends: My colleague Dr. Melissa Forbes and I look forward to hosting a live session on teaching and learning in an age of generative AI tomorrow (Fri) at 1 PM EDT with the American Physiological Society. Please join us via this link:

I’m Gina Baucom (UMich EEB) and I am recruiting grad students for next fall! My lab studies rapid adaptation to environmental change in plants, often due to human-mediated selection from herbicides, but also including climate change and etc. Recent pubs: baucomlab.wordpress.com/publications/

Hi folks! Please share the position announcement below with my new colleague (so we can hire them). Feel free to reach out with questions. Thanks!

Repost for the Monday morning crowd. Come work with me!

Come work with me! The Health Sciences dept. @gettysburg is looking to add a new tenure-track colleague starting August 2024. Details here: gettysburg.peopleadmin.com/postings/5174 and you're also welcome to reach out to me. Thanks for amplifying!

My colleague Melissa Forbes and I spoke with Kevin Roose last week and awoke to the exciting news of seeing our genAI work (genai.sites.gettysburg.edu) at Gettysburg College featured in today's NYT: www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/t... How fun!

For the evening crowd: I talked with Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan on today's Intentional Teaching podcast about how they talk about inclusive teaching with different audiences, especially when "inclusion" can be so politically loaded. Listen here: intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/1344...

One of the more stressful things for an introvert who runs a Center for Teaching and Learning: creating a mailing list of close to 200 people, writing a message with lots of hyperlinks (do they work? is the content good?), and hitting send.

Geeky Pedagogy audiobook is on sale! Read by a wonderful voice actor, Randye Kaye.

Check out this great writeup of our new paper! IT was really fun chatting with Eberly about how we're thinking about SST, and all thing neuroscience. www.psu.edu/news/eberly-...

Wanna explore the ocean floor from Philly?! September 6th is your DAY! We're going to learn about deep sea weirdos, see a LIVE view of a research vessel, have a conversation with scientists DOING science & more. I'll even let you hold an anglerfish 😘 www.classy.org/event/deep-d...

This week on the Grading for Growth blog, a guest post reflecting on a first time using "ungrading" in a Crop Ecology class. gradingforgrowth.com/p/ungrading-...

Related: "Don't be an a$$hole." - Jane Margolis

I wrote a letter to the editor about those blog posts last week in Inside Higher Ed. Thanks Doug Lederman for publishing. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/letters/2023/08/20/blog-posts-disability-and-climate-change-miss-mark #HigherEd #FacDev #a11y #ClimateAction #Disability

EVERYONE start practicing your scone recipes now And remember no matter what no spoilers for the jam flavors until December 1, when I will begin telling you if you like them or not

Finally a restful weekend. And I joined the new place. Thanks for the invite, @nanopharmnc.bsky.social!