David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

p-Valorum Reducio! 🪄

Alt Headline: Process focused generation mad when students become hyper focused on processes. 🙄

Today’s Side Quest: Learning how to program a microcontroller to store sensor data in a CSV file. 🤓 #arduino #microcontroller

Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

Wild. 🤯 “More than 20% of chemistry researchers have deliberately added information they believe to be incorrect into their manuscripts during the peer review process, in order to get their papers published.” cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

Sample size: 12 undergrads Conclusion: Humans behave this way Journal: publishes it

IRB peer-review should always be publicly available for every published study (without requesting it). Even if it’s exempt. Transparency matters. But mostly I want to know how the hell you got that study approved. 😂

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love that the heart of this story was based on a rambunctious rescue dog. #Superman

Well, shit. Maybe computer science can solve all our life science problems. www.science.org/content/arti...

The more you know. 🌈

“Doing research means discovering something no one else knows and it’s fun. It moves us forward. It reveals what’s surprising or strange in our world, and teaches us how things work.” www.inforum.com/opinion/lett...

Things my PhD did not prepare me for: addressing the IRB’s concern in a full board meeting that our participants will NOT be eaten by alligators! 🐊

Let’s collect some data! #research #phd

Interesting discussion around assessment from the @timeshighered.bsky.social Campus podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

This article hits home & reflects a lot of my teaching philosophy. I’ve spent little time teaching, but I’ve spent a ton of time being a student. It wasn’t until my instructor education toward the end of my didactic career that I understood how to learn. theeffortfuleducator.com/2025/02/10/o...

Fargo. 😂 “At least the people are nice.”

Totally blew some students' minds last week with the fact that Bluetooth was named after King Harald Bluetooth who united the tribes of Denmark into a single kingdom (bc Bluetooth technology connects devices) AND the Bluetooth symbol is a bind rune that combines his initials, H (ᚼ) and B (ᛒ).

✅ Abstract Submitted. 😤💪

As educators, are we teaching soft skills or just facilitating environments in hopes the students will develop them? #edusky

Truth. #PhD

Grant proposal submitted! 💪 🥂

Is it pronounced Likert or Likert?

Okay, #academicsky and #phd friends… leading zero or no zero on decimals? The general #APA rule is if the number can be higher than 1, use a lead zero. I imagine journal styles vary. Examples: p=.051 p<.001 ES=0.32 R^2=.29 µ=0.96

Facts.

An interesting qualitative study of Long-Term Athletic Development. Highly competitive environments too early in athletic career can have lasting negative consequences. “Learning from Youth Voice: Student Reflections on Common Approaches in Youth Sports” doi.org/10.3390/yout... #LTAD #YouthSports

😂 www.instagram.com/sarah_keyworth #PhD

Day of growth: I created a shortcut to our IRB instead of Googling it for the 537th time. #GrowthMindset

My opinions are my own and my opinion is heavy sigh. “The superintendent shall provide teachers with instructional materials demonstrating intelligent design is a viable scientific theory…” 🤷

The more you know. 🌈

This is a great article example for teaching basic scientific literacy. N=1 Study Splashy Headline Who doesn't love Oreos?! Good Study Design Considering the sample size Ethical considerations (n=1 self-experiments are exempt apparently!) Questionable Publisher www.mdpi.com/2647410

Qualtrics behind the scenes when the spinning circle thing is going.

I've been asking researchers (in my small circle) how they find articles. Almost all cite Google Scholar as their primary search engine. In the age of Google Scholar, do the other databases/search engines matter? (e.g., Web of Science, Scopus, Pubmed) #AcademicSky #PhD #Research

Just taking a moment to appreciate that I live in a time when I can listen to Pearl Jam’s MTV Unplugged whenever I want. www.youtube.com/watch?v=llOp...

No school. Ridiculous cold weather.🥶 7am. My kiddo wants to play a board game. Let's go! ☕

I scheduled my last two PhD classes so well that I overlapped them by a half-hour. 🫠 #PhD

An interesting narrative review of the current pedagogy of teaching undergraduate statistics. "Introductory Statistical Pedagogy Should Be Reformed: Transitioning from a Hypothesis Testing to Modeling Framework" (preprint) doi.org/10.31234/osf... #statsky #academicsky

How to make money in the upper Midwest: 1) Take a handful of plain ripple potato chips. 2) Coat chips in milk chocolate. 3) Sell chocolate-coated chips at 1000% mark-up. 4) Profit.

Colleges really need to stop using expensive commercial software to teach statistics. #RStats #AcademicSky #PhD

A rough-legged hawk (I think) and a snowy owl (right) snacking on a rabbit carcass. A few minutes later a bald eagle swooped in and took off with their meal. 🦅 My backyard is wild. #NorthDakota

Just a reminder that SMART goals are not as empirically sound as you might think they are (at least for physical activity and exercise). Full article: The (over)use of SMART goals for physical activity promotion: A narrative review and critique www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What universities pay for journal access is wild. #AcademicSky

“Just as it would be incorrect to claim that 10 to 12 sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy result in full remission of depression, it is equally misguided to suggest that exercise alone can resolve deeply complex mental health issues.“ #exercise #mentalhealth doi.org/10.1123/jpah...

Last day of lecture for Exercise Testing & Prescription. On to final student presentations! 💪 #AcademicSky #PhDChat

Walking around #NDSU today was a treat. Regaining my undergrads’ attention after every phone in the classroom went off with a Snow Squall warning was even better. 😂

My fav unit in Exercise Testing & Rx: My students learned how behavior models are developed & then created an Exercise Avoidance model. They collaborated, debated, & refined it to a few factors. Then they developed a questionnaire to test it, all interleaved with why people avoid exercise. 🤌 🤌 #edu

Harry Potter and

I think error detection is an overlooked skill. How can we teach students to zoom out and ask, "Does this make sense?" Exercise Science students often calculate energy expenditure in terms of Watts. Few know what a Watt of effort feels like, so 50, 500, or 5000 Watts has no bearing. #academicsky