Goodnight, friends. It’s a time of transition, as I wrap up teaching for the semester. One class met earlier this evening, the other will meet tomorrow afternoon. It’s always bittersweet to bid farewell to the students I’ve shared this time with. I always learn so much from them. I love you.

Rules have always been my “safety guard” and comfort zone. But I get this, now. When the rules are hurting people, when the rules break moral code… rules can be bad and rules can be wrong

www.nature.com/articles/d41... In case anyone was wondering if anything bad happened to scientists today… 😓

Thank you for saying all of this! It’s a very good ‘rant’… open.substack.com/pub/emilypit...

“The scientific literature is an essential ocean of knowledge, in which floats an alarming amount of junk. Think of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but the trash cannot be identified without special knowledge and equipment.” - The Atlantic

This thread. Moonstruck and fruit. I can pick my fruit, can I? It will be ripe persimmons and figs. And books, all the books 🌙😶‍🌫️ Thank you

This is devastating

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I couldn’t find better words. This hits straight to the core of the issue. This whole thread says it all. The love, the heartbreak, the loss, the anger. It’s about one’s core values and identity ❤️‍🩹

This website shows you how many jobs NIH funding creates for your state along with the overall economic activity generated. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Some awesomeness to counter the devastation

Guess I found a perfect use case for generative #AI. Writing descriptive alt texts. (all samples below unedited) Guess this means there is no excuse anymore of posting without adding #AltText

Just a couple of weeks since fire took out half of my town, Altadena. Zero stories about it in the national news today. We are already forgotten. 😢

This. A little every day.

Wonderful thread! Now of course I need to go and read about Vavilov…

#highered I didn’t go to Medical School, didn’t even ever think about it. Still, I write dozens of letters in support of former students’ applications for med school. Honest question: how does one rate a student’s “suitability for medical/health studies” on a Likert scale??? (1/ )

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

When a student from your new course (which has only met twice so far) stops by to say hello and cheerfully informs you that they *hate* both Notion and Perusall, but you literally built the entire course on them 😬😰. We’re going to be fine, we’re going to be fine…..

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Saving this awesome graphic for my course on Living Systems and Complex Questions!

Classes start tomorrow, and I have literal butterflies about my new upper level course on SSIs and wicked questions. The structure is mostly set, but I am leaving a few things open for discussion in the syllabus (TBD ON Day one) 🦋🦋🦋

This 👇🏼

This is a brilliant perspective! We didn’t stop assessing children’s ability to do math just because calculators could get it done faster and better! Assessment needs to drive student learning and growth.

We lost our home and everything we own in the Eaton Canyon fire. Climate change is real and it’s a bitch.

Quoting from Paul Hanstedt’s book, what I want for my students is “that they be capable of changing the world” 🥹 🧙🏼‍♀️ www.routledge.com/Creating-Wic...

Setting up my new adventure in teaching, this spring: "Living Systems and Complex Questions", an elective seminar course. I am going to chronicle the journey, starting with an article that really resonates with me right now www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Words of wisdom. Block a troll, save a gosling ✌🏼

💡Reposting to save on my feed - I need to learn how to use this to create learning materials for my biology courses!!!

So true! It happened before, it can happen again!

Constant outrage disconnected from strategy is a bay leaf in the soup. I’ve never been able to taste it myself. Connecting outrage to strategic action is a dash of cayenne pepper. There’s no missing it. Season wisely!

Recovering from a day of technical failures and frustration with compiling and posting final grades… not an ounce of regret about my alt-grading approach, but if only Canvas wcould be an asset rather than an obstacle… 😓😓😓

Keep thinking “maybe today I can figure out how to express something worth saying about Gaza.” Then, an hour later, I have a series of crossings out and not enough time to do the things the world requires of me.

It goes on and on…. 😓

This resonates with me this morning 😂

I finally landed here! Hope to rebuild my friendly and nerdy bridges. 😊