Rebecca Brewer
@brewerbiology.bsky.social
High School Biology Teacher, Biology Now Textbook Author, Educational Resource Developer, Science Editor, and Teacher Ambassador
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@brewerbiology.bsky.social
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Meet the SCL Educator Ambassadors! 👩🔬👨🏫🌟
These award-winning #STEMTeachers are using film + storytelling to bring real-world science into classrooms through freely accessible films & resources.
Learn more: bit.ly/sclambassadors
#ScienceEd #NGSS #SCLAmbassador #SCLAmbassadors
These award-winning #STEMTeachers are using film + storytelling to bring real-world science into classrooms through freely accessible films & resources.
Learn more: bit.ly/sclambassadors
#ScienceEd #NGSS #SCLAmbassador #SCLAmbassadors
SCL Educator Ambassadors
Meet the 2025 SCL Educator Ambassadors—high school biology teachers bringing real-world science to classrooms through storytelling, collaboration, and innovative lesson design.
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Honored to be selected for the first cohort of SCL Educator Ambassadors! I love how the films are centered on getting to know the scientist behind the science, storytelling at its best! Thanks for the opportunity to uplift scientists. I am enjoying authoring for you & getting to know the SCL team!
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"...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...
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...
What Can Singing Frogs Teach Us About Evolutionary Tradeoffs? — Galactic Polymath
Will female frogs be attracted to males who produce many short calls or to males with fewer, longer calls? This evolutionary tradeoff was the question my high school biology students investigated in t...
www.galacticpolymath.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"...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...
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...
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
They ended the experiment when either copulation or cannibalism occurred with the pair! 😂
Female Jumping Spiders Of Two Species Prefer The Sexy Red Males Of One, Leading To Hybridization
Female Jumping Spiders Of Two Species Prefer The Sexy Red Males Of One, Leading To Hybridization
Females of both species preferred the males with sexy red legs.
www.iflscience.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
They ended the experiment when either copulation or cannibalism occurred with the pair! 😂
An inspiring workshop in Long Beach on ocean plastics hosted by Algalita Marine Research and Education. Highlights were collecting beach nurdles, seeing urban sea 🐢, & a homegrown dinner @ Captain Charles Moore's house, who raised the alarm on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
#nurdlestoturtles
#nurdlestoturtles
August 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
An inspiring workshop in Long Beach on ocean plastics hosted by Algalita Marine Research and Education. Highlights were collecting beach nurdles, seeing urban sea 🐢, & a homegrown dinner @ Captain Charles Moore's house, who raised the alarm on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
#nurdlestoturtles
#nurdlestoturtles
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July 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Looking to bring real-world stories into your classroom?
I’ve been using free films + classroom guides from @scicommlab.bsky.social, and they have changed how I teach science.
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/scleducators
✍️ Sign up: bit.ly/sclsignup
🎥 Explore films: bit.ly/freesciencef...
#SCLAmbassadors
I’ve been using free films + classroom guides from @scicommlab.bsky.social, and they have changed how I teach science.
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/scleducators
✍️ Sign up: bit.ly/sclsignup
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Spent a week in Oregon w/ Project ICE & COLDEX-Center for Oldest Ice Exploration. From holding 5,000 year old ice & seeing the gases trapped is inside, to sampling a 60,000 year old ice core (& keeping it afterward!), to seeing foraminifera fossils as climate indicators…it was an amazing week! ❤️🧊
June 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Spent a week in Oregon w/ Project ICE & COLDEX-Center for Oldest Ice Exploration. From holding 5,000 year old ice & seeing the gases trapped is inside, to sampling a 60,000 year old ice core (& keeping it afterward!), to seeing foraminifera fossils as climate indicators…it was an amazing week! ❤️🧊
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They’re popular, they’re polarizing, and at this point, we’ve all heard about them: GLP-1 medications like Ozempic. Here’s how they actually work, from the former FDA commissioner who’s taken them.
How Do GLP-1 Drugs Override Our Biology?
In his new book, a former FDA commissioner unpacks the latest science on metabolism, weight loss, and how GLP-1 drugs actually work.
www.sciencefriday.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
They’re popular, they’re polarizing, and at this point, we’ve all heard about them: GLP-1 medications like Ozempic. Here’s how they actually work, from the former FDA commissioner who’s taken them.
Reposted by Rebecca Brewer
Did you know that sea slugs steal chloroplasts from algae as portable snacks?! Neither did I, but a new Cell paper demonstrates that they do. 🐌🧪
My favorite part is the researchers called the storage for these stolen hors d’oeuvres “kleptosomes” 😂🥰
Summary from Nature & Cell paper linked below.
My favorite part is the researchers called the storage for these stolen hors d’oeuvres “kleptosomes” 😂🥰
Summary from Nature & Cell paper linked below.
‘Wildest thing’: solar-powered slug steals chloroplasts and stores them for emergencies
Marine creatures house contraband structures in special organelles, which the animal raids for food in times of need.
www.nature.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Did you know that sea slugs steal chloroplasts from algae as portable snacks?! Neither did I, but a new Cell paper demonstrates that they do. 🐌🧪
My favorite part is the researchers called the storage for these stolen hors d’oeuvres “kleptosomes” 😂🥰
Summary from Nature & Cell paper linked below.
My favorite part is the researchers called the storage for these stolen hors d’oeuvres “kleptosomes” 😂🥰
Summary from Nature & Cell paper linked below.
Reposted by Rebecca Brewer
BIG NEWS! We’ve found that ash trees are fighting back against ash dieback disease! 🌳💪
Scientists at Kew & QMUL @qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍
Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
#PlantScience #SciNews
Scientists at Kew & QMUL @qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍
Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
#PlantScience #SciNews
June 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
BIG NEWS! We’ve found that ash trees are fighting back against ash dieback disease! 🌳💪
Scientists at Kew & QMUL @qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍
Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
#PlantScience #SciNews
Scientists at Kew & QMUL @qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍
Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
#PlantScience #SciNews
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If, like me, you wore glasses in school, you're gonna have some empathy for our #FishOfTheWeek. In the photo below, the four-eyed fish doesn't look very strange at all. But trust me, these guys are far stranger than they seem at first glance
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June 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If, like me, you wore glasses in school, you're gonna have some empathy for our #FishOfTheWeek. In the photo below, the four-eyed fish doesn't look very strange at all. But trust me, these guys are far stranger than they seem at first glance
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Reposted by Rebecca Brewer
Reposted by Rebecca Brewer
A new study confirms race and ethnicity are not valid substitutes for ancestry in genetic studies. scim.ag/3SNgwEo
Race, ethnicity don’t match genetic ancestry, according to a large U.S. study
Data from the All of Us program confirm what many geneticists have long promoted
scim.ag
June 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A new study confirms race and ethnicity are not valid substitutes for ancestry in genetic studies. scim.ag/3SNgwEo
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RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process.
So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel.
Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.
So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel.
Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.
apnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process.
So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel.
Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.
So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel.
Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.
One of the most thoughtful end of the year gifts from a student that used to live in Hawaii and he made it himself, so talented! Happy Summer everyone! 🥰 😎🌺
June 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
One of the most thoughtful end of the year gifts from a student that used to live in Hawaii and he made it himself, so talented! Happy Summer everyone! 🥰 😎🌺
Students examined plastics in our environment by sampling the air for microfibers (there were lots!), viewing H2O samples from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, sifting through ocean beach sand (many nurdles & microplastics). Looking forward to learning more of the impacts this summer with Algalita!
May 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Students examined plastics in our environment by sampling the air for microfibers (there were lots!), viewing H2O samples from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, sifting through ocean beach sand (many nurdles & microplastics). Looking forward to learning more of the impacts this summer with Algalita!
Honored to be selected for the first cohort of SCL Educator Ambassadors! I love how the films are centered on getting to know the scientist behind the science, storytelling at its best! Thanks for the opportunity to uplift scientists. I am enjoying authoring for you & getting to know the SCL team!
Meet the SCL Educator Ambassadors! 👩🔬👨🏫🌟
These award-winning #STEMTeachers are using film + storytelling to bring real-world science into classrooms through freely accessible films & resources.
Learn more: bit.ly/sclambassadors
#ScienceEd #NGSS #SCLAmbassador #SCLAmbassadors
These award-winning #STEMTeachers are using film + storytelling to bring real-world science into classrooms through freely accessible films & resources.
Learn more: bit.ly/sclambassadors
#ScienceEd #NGSS #SCLAmbassador #SCLAmbassadors
SCL Educator Ambassadors
Meet the 2025 SCL Educator Ambassadors—high school biology teachers bringing real-world science to classrooms through storytelling, collaboration, and innovative lesson design.
bit.ly
May 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Honored to be selected for the first cohort of SCL Educator Ambassadors! I love how the films are centered on getting to know the scientist behind the science, storytelling at its best! Thanks for the opportunity to uplift scientists. I am enjoying authoring for you & getting to know the SCL team!
Reposted by Rebecca Brewer
Believe it or not, all three of these fish are the same species… the bluehead wrasse. Wrasses are protogynous hermaphrodites, meaning they transition from female to male over the course of their lives. Each phase can look radically different from each other as evidenced here #coralcitycamera
May 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Believe it or not, all three of these fish are the same species… the bluehead wrasse. Wrasses are protogynous hermaphrodites, meaning they transition from female to male over the course of their lives. Each phase can look radically different from each other as evidenced here #coralcitycamera
Using remote sensing, students tracked bats in the woodlot behind our school and learned about WNS (white-nose syndrome), a fungus spreading among native 🦇 populations, interrupting their hibernation and killing bats in Michigan and other states. #place-basedteaching
May 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Using remote sensing, students tracked bats in the woodlot behind our school and learned about WNS (white-nose syndrome), a fungus spreading among native 🦇 populations, interrupting their hibernation and killing bats in Michigan and other states. #place-basedteaching
AP Bio learned about parental care to discover mom & dad pigeons make milk by performing a mock brain biopsy & ELISA test for the presence of prolactin. Then modeled prolactin gene activation & learned of other lactating non-mammals. The 3rd case study I authored for Science Communication Lab! 🙂
May 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
AP Bio learned about parental care to discover mom & dad pigeons make milk by performing a mock brain biopsy & ELISA test for the presence of prolactin. Then modeled prolactin gene activation & learned of other lactating non-mammals. The 3rd case study I authored for Science Communication Lab! 🙂
Ss predicted the “flashier sex” in Mexican boulder spiny lizards to learn females court males! Then did a dating card mingle w/ other examples & read abstracts before
modeling how both nature (hormones) + nurture (nematode load) influence coloration. A case study I wrote for @scicomlab.bsky.social
modeling how both nature (hormones) + nurture (nematode load) influence coloration. A case study I wrote for @scicomlab.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Ss predicted the “flashier sex” in Mexican boulder spiny lizards to learn females court males! Then did a dating card mingle w/ other examples & read abstracts before
modeling how both nature (hormones) + nurture (nematode load) influence coloration. A case study I wrote for @scicomlab.bsky.social
modeling how both nature (hormones) + nurture (nematode load) influence coloration. A case study I wrote for @scicomlab.bsky.social
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Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
Look forward to this day every year where my students get to learn suturing from a real cardiac surgery PA. Thanks Dr. Jose Valdez, Dr. Thomas Meitzler, and Annie Meitzler, RN for teaching my AP Biology classes this skill!
May 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Look forward to this day every year where my students get to learn suturing from a real cardiac surgery PA. Thanks Dr. Jose Valdez, Dr. Thomas Meitzler, and Annie Meitzler, RN for teaching my AP Biology classes this skill!
AP Bio students determined why okapi at the local zoo are not breeding by analyzing their urine cortisol levels, examining their zoo enclosure, modeling the HPA-axis, & redesigned their zoo enclosure to reduce their stress & encourage breeding. Based on @BeccaCalisi research & a @scicommlab film.
May 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
AP Bio students determined why okapi at the local zoo are not breeding by analyzing their urine cortisol levels, examining their zoo enclosure, modeling the HPA-axis, & redesigned their zoo enclosure to reduce their stress & encourage breeding. Based on @BeccaCalisi research & a @scicommlab film.
Fun day having students listen and view 🐸 call spectrograms then calculate the call durations and frequencies to determine who will attract the most frog ladies! Students learned about tradeoffs, either long calls or frequent calls, you can’t have both! Great lessons by @galacticpolymath.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Fun day having students listen and view 🐸 call spectrograms then calculate the call durations and frequencies to determine who will attract the most frog ladies! Students learned about tradeoffs, either long calls or frequent calls, you can’t have both! Great lessons by @galacticpolymath.com
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
Great lesson set called Balancing Act by Galactic Polymath! www.galacticpolymath.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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
Great lesson set called Balancing Act by Galactic Polymath! www.galacticpolymath.com