Jeff Grant
@jeffgrantscience.bsky.social
Science Teacher. Nature Explorer. Pathological Optimist. Illustrator. Dad-Joke-Teller. Partnership Specialist in the Science Education and Outreach Program at NCSE
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What can we do as scientists? One thing: mentor the habits of seeing and thinking scientifically, and cultivate interest in the world. From @botsocamerica.bsky.social Plant Science Bulletin, a clip of high-school students' responses to @plantingscience.bsky.social mentorship:
January 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
What can we do as scientists? One thing: mentor the habits of seeing and thinking scientifically, and cultivate interest in the world. From @botsocamerica.bsky.social Plant Science Bulletin, a clip of high-school students' responses to @plantingscience.bsky.social mentorship:
Attempting to put a Cooper’s hawk skeleton back together.
January 4, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Attempting to put a Cooper’s hawk skeleton back together.
Coyote prints and cardinals in the backyard
December 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Coyote prints and cardinals in the backyard
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Great final day of AP Biology with @mortonarboretum.bsky.social-Systematics-Lab-Member-&-teacher-&-collaborator-since-2013 @jeffgrantscience.bsky.social! Students reasoned well, wrestled w/ data, presented their experiments eloquently.
& one poster had pressed plants!
#herbarium connections...
& one poster had pressed plants!
#herbarium connections...
December 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Great final day of AP Biology with @mortonarboretum.bsky.social-Systematics-Lab-Member-&-teacher-&-collaborator-since-2013 @jeffgrantscience.bsky.social! Students reasoned well, wrestled w/ data, presented their experiments eloquently.
& one poster had pressed plants!
#herbarium connections...
& one poster had pressed plants!
#herbarium connections...
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The @mortonarboretum.bsky.social NSF REU program is open for summer 2026! $7500 stipend + housing / travel. Apply by 31 Jan 2026 and share with your networks!
Details at https://mortonarb.org/science/opportunities-in-science/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-program/
Details at https://mortonarb.org/science/opportunities-in-science/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-program/
December 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The @mortonarboretum.bsky.social NSF REU program is open for summer 2026! $7500 stipend + housing / travel. Apply by 31 Jan 2026 and share with your networks!
Details at https://mortonarb.org/science/opportunities-in-science/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-program/
Details at https://mortonarb.org/science/opportunities-in-science/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-program/
Sandhill cranes on the move.
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Sandhill cranes on the move.
Trout are hatching. Can’t wait to see how much they grow over the Thanksgiving break.
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Trout are hatching. Can’t wait to see how much they grow over the Thanksgiving break.
The quantity of starlings perched on the power lines off I-88 was stunning. I’d like to think the slow traffic was because everyone was watching the murmuration like me…but I doubt it.
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The quantity of starlings perched on the power lines off I-88 was stunning. I’d like to think the slow traffic was because everyone was watching the murmuration like me…but I doubt it.
Just started The Year Science Changed Everything by Mark O’Connell. One of the three author/presenters that will be at our teacher conference in February. Tinyurl.com/ClimateOfHOPE2 We will have over 30 presenters for an exciting action packed day.
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Just started The Year Science Changed Everything by Mark O’Connell. One of the three author/presenters that will be at our teacher conference in February. Tinyurl.com/ClimateOfHOPE2 We will have over 30 presenters for an exciting action packed day.
A great morning smashing pumpkins and sending them to compost instead of a landfill. @downersgrovenorth.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
A great morning smashing pumpkins and sending them to compost instead of a landfill. @downersgrovenorth.bsky.social
The colors today were beautiful.
November 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The colors today were beautiful.
A podcast that I did an interview for got turned into an article. www.dw.com/en/what-us-s.... @melissaarctic.bsky.social and @ncse.bsky.social were also a big part of this great discussion on the importance of climate change education.
What US school kids are learning about climate – DW – 10/31/2025
As the long arm of the fossil fuel lobby enters the classroom, some US science teachers are finding their job requires more than simply imparting knowledge and wisdom.
www.dw.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A podcast that I did an interview for got turned into an article. www.dw.com/en/what-us-s.... @melissaarctic.bsky.social and @ncse.bsky.social were also a big part of this great discussion on the importance of climate change education.
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I'm honored to be giving the Ethel Belk Lecture at @miamiuniversity.bsky.social, 7 p.m. on Weds, Nov 6. It is a public lecture, so please join us if you can! It is also live-streamed if you can't make it in person. Either way, I hope to see you... details below:
events.miamioh.edu/event/copy-o...
events.miamioh.edu/event/copy-o...
“Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life” Belk Lecture
events.miamioh.edu
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I'm honored to be giving the Ethel Belk Lecture at @miamiuniversity.bsky.social, 7 p.m. on Weds, Nov 6. It is a public lecture, so please join us if you can! It is also live-streamed if you can't make it in person. Either way, I hope to see you... details below:
events.miamioh.edu/event/copy-o...
events.miamioh.edu/event/copy-o...
It was such a pleasure to help @ncse.bsky.social with the evolution symposium. Always a good time sharing my love of evolution with other science teachers. Better yet was meeting the scientists that made the discoveries I talk about in class!!!! @nabtbio.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It was such a pleasure to help @ncse.bsky.social with the evolution symposium. Always a good time sharing my love of evolution with other science teachers. Better yet was meeting the scientists that made the discoveries I talk about in class!!!! @nabtbio.bsky.social
@evoexplorer.bsky.social absolutely crushing his presentation on microsafari. @nabtbio.bsky.social A privilege to call this talented man my friend.
November 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
@evoexplorer.bsky.social absolutely crushing his presentation on microsafari. @nabtbio.bsky.social A privilege to call this talented man my friend.
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My colleague AP bio teacher @jeffgrantscience.bsky.social in @science.org (10/9/25), on the now-shuttered climate.gov: "I always provide [students] with the latest research."
By contrast, Donald Trump on climate change: "the biggest con job ever perpetrated." Plus side? Jeff is the one teaching.
By contrast, Donald Trump on climate change: "the biggest con job ever perpetrated." Plus side? Jeff is the one teaching.
October 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
My colleague AP bio teacher @jeffgrantscience.bsky.social in @science.org (10/9/25), on the now-shuttered climate.gov: "I always provide [students] with the latest research."
By contrast, Donald Trump on climate change: "the biggest con job ever perpetrated." Plus side? Jeff is the one teaching.
By contrast, Donald Trump on climate change: "the biggest con job ever perpetrated." Plus side? Jeff is the one teaching.
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Woolly bear time!
September 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Woolly bear time!
So cool! “Hard-skin” what forms them? Is it a fungus or bacteria interaction?
September 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
So cool! “Hard-skin” what forms them? Is it a fungus or bacteria interaction?
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Downers Grove N AP bio students collecting data in the bur oak common garden experiment, asking: what traits vary betw OK, MN, and IL plants? What traits are correlated? Do gall wasps of 5 spp have preferences?
A great start to the semester!
@jeffgrantscience.bsky.social @cavenderg9.bsky.social
A great start to the semester!
@jeffgrantscience.bsky.social @cavenderg9.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Downers Grove N AP bio students collecting data in the bur oak common garden experiment, asking: what traits vary betw OK, MN, and IL plants? What traits are correlated? Do gall wasps of 5 spp have preferences?
A great start to the semester!
@jeffgrantscience.bsky.social @cavenderg9.bsky.social
A great start to the semester!
@jeffgrantscience.bsky.social @cavenderg9.bsky.social
So much good out of this partnership. I wish all teachers could be as fortunate as I am to work with brilliant scientist like you.
June 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
So much good out of this partnership. I wish all teachers could be as fortunate as I am to work with brilliant scientist like you.
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I'm very happy to have this article published in The American Biology Teacher w/ @jeffgrantscience.bsky.social & colleagues, conveying lessons learned in 12 years co-mentoring high school AP bio students in practices of plant biodiversity research.
Please share!
online.ucpress.edu/abt/article/...
Please share!
online.ucpress.edu/abt/article/...
June 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I'm very happy to have this article published in The American Biology Teacher w/ @jeffgrantscience.bsky.social & colleagues, conveying lessons learned in 12 years co-mentoring high school AP bio students in practices of plant biodiversity research.
Please share!
online.ucpress.edu/abt/article/...
Please share!
online.ucpress.edu/abt/article/...
Beautiful pictures. I love the Virginia waterleaf. The patch in my backyard is blooming as well.
May 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Beautiful pictures. I love the Virginia waterleaf. The patch in my backyard is blooming as well.
Trout are just about ready to find their new home in Lake Michigan.
May 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Trout are just about ready to find their new home in Lake Michigan.
