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@thurstoncounty.bsky.social
Scientist, Professor, Programmer, Fermentation Enthusiast, Sailor
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I’ve often thought that no matter how advanced artificial intelligence becomes, there may still be unseen layers beneath the surface
#AcademicSky #Science #dev #AcademicSky #SciComm #Software#dev #AI
#AcademicSky #Science #dev #AcademicSky #SciComm #Software#dev #AI
January 7, 2026 at 12:36 AM
I’ve often thought that no matter how advanced artificial intelligence becomes, there may still be unseen layers beneath the surface
#AcademicSky #Science #dev #AcademicSky #SciComm #Software#dev #AI
#AcademicSky #Science #dev #AcademicSky #SciComm #Software#dev #AI
Developing a semantic layer above our teaching materials that make pedagogical connections visible, measurable, and improvable over time.
BloomSpread: A Course Design Framework for Quantifying Cognitive Scaffolding. #academicsky
www.rodneydyer.com/bloomspread-...
BloomSpread: A Course Design Framework for Quantifying Cognitive Scaffolding. #academicsky
www.rodneydyer.com/bloomspread-...
BloomSpread: A Course Design Framework for Quantifying Cognitive Scaffolding
Bloom Spread is a novel metric that quantifies cognitive complexity in educational design by aggregating Bloom’s taxonomy classifications from individual assessments through learning objectives to cou...
www.rodneydyer.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Developing a semantic layer above our teaching materials that make pedagogical connections visible, measurable, and improvable over time.
BloomSpread: A Course Design Framework for Quantifying Cognitive Scaffolding. #academicsky
www.rodneydyer.com/bloomspread-...
BloomSpread: A Course Design Framework for Quantifying Cognitive Scaffolding. #academicsky
www.rodneydyer.com/bloomspread-...
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"What is required, then, is the radical reimagining of pedagogy. Higher education must reclaim academic freedom, dissent, critical thought, and democratic governance not as abstract principles but as urgent practices of resistance." #HigherEd
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Higher Education in the Time of Fascist Plague
What is at stake is far more than a rejection of gangster capitalism and the global misery it produces. The deeper danger lies in recognizing that education has become the primary battlefield in the c...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"What is required, then, is the radical reimagining of pedagogy. Higher education must reclaim academic freedom, dissent, critical thought, and democratic governance not as abstract principles but as urgent practices of resistance." #HigherEd
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/h...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/h...
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Brazilian officials running high-level United Nations climate talks are readying a preliminary agreement that ignores demands from about 80 nations to further develop plans to transition away from fossil fuels.
Brazil Readies COP30 Deal Without New Shift From Fossil Fuels
Brazilian officials running high-level United Nations climate talks are readying a preliminary agreement that ignores demands from about 80 nations to further develop plans to transition away from fossil fuels.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Brazilian officials running high-level United Nations climate talks are readying a preliminary agreement that ignores demands from about 80 nations to further develop plans to transition away from fossil fuels.
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🧪 NSF spending held at $8.17 billion. Yet the agency awarded 20% fewer grants while increasing their size. This defensive pivot limits future obligations ahead of substantial budget cuts proposed for 2026. #AcademicSky
Despite Trump chaos, NSF avoided feared dip in research financing
Number of new grants fell by 20%, but got larger, as funder braced for potential budget cut
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November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🧪 NSF spending held at $8.17 billion. Yet the agency awarded 20% fewer grants while increasing their size. This defensive pivot limits future obligations ahead of substantial budget cuts proposed for 2026. #AcademicSky
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We summarized the Drain paper in an LSE Impact blog post this week. Please share in your networks, ideally with those we are calling to action: research funders and university leadership
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We summarized the Drain paper in an LSE Impact blog post this week. Please share in your networks, ideally with those we are calling to action: research funders and university leadership
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm
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For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
Primatologist, conservationist, animal advocate, and educator Jane Goodall passed away today. We lost a true champion. #AcademicSky #Edusky
October 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Primatologist, conservationist, animal advocate, and educator Jane Goodall passed away today. We lost a true champion. #AcademicSky #Edusky
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Please spread widely and quickly - the more signatures we get the better chances we have of cajoling NSF into changing course on this small but very impactful item
NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
and please spread the word!!!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
and please spread the word!!!!
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
September 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Please spread widely and quickly - the more signatures we get the better chances we have of cajoling NSF into changing course on this small but very impactful item
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September 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Received a truly classic Reviewer #2 comment today: "Having read the revised manuscript and my review from the first round, I am surprised that my first review was as positive as it was."
September 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Received a truly classic Reviewer #2 comment today: "Having read the revised manuscript and my review from the first round, I am surprised that my first review was as positive as it was."
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The successor to Trycycler. Another great piece of kit from @rrwick.bsky.social
github.com/rrwick/Autoc...
The successor to Trycycler. Another great piece of kit from @rrwick.bsky.social
github.com/rrwick/Autoc...
Autocycler: long-read consensus assembly for bacterial genomes
AbstractMotivation. Long-read sequencing enables complete bacterial genome assemblies, but individual assemblers are imperfect and often produce sequence-l
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September 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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The successor to Trycycler. Another great piece of kit from @rrwick.bsky.social
github.com/rrwick/Autoc...
The successor to Trycycler. Another great piece of kit from @rrwick.bsky.social
github.com/rrwick/Autoc...
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UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
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September 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Cora Ella Hind travelled 10,000 kilometres every year to survey crops in Western Canada.
She was so good at her predictions, farmers called her the Oracle of Wheat.
To them, she was the most trusted voice in agriculture.
This is the story of her fascinating life.
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She was so good at her predictions, farmers called her the Oracle of Wheat.
To them, she was the most trusted voice in agriculture.
This is the story of her fascinating life.
🧵 1/13
September 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Cora Ella Hind travelled 10,000 kilometres every year to survey crops in Western Canada.
She was so good at her predictions, farmers called her the Oracle of Wheat.
To them, she was the most trusted voice in agriculture.
This is the story of her fascinating life.
🧵 1/13
She was so good at her predictions, farmers called her the Oracle of Wheat.
To them, she was the most trusted voice in agriculture.
This is the story of her fascinating life.
🧵 1/13
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Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University #ScienceJobs #AcademicSky
Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University
Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!
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September 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University #ScienceJobs #AcademicSky
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Florence Seibert | American biochemist
She earned her PhD in biochemistry from Yale in 1923 and is best known for her work in the 1930s that enabled the development and use of a reliable TB test. She died #OTD in 1991 at age 93. #WomenInSTEM
She earned her PhD in biochemistry from Yale in 1923 and is best known for her work in the 1930s that enabled the development and use of a reliable TB test. She died #OTD in 1991 at age 93. #WomenInSTEM
August 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Florence Seibert | American biochemist
She earned her PhD in biochemistry from Yale in 1923 and is best known for her work in the 1930s that enabled the development and use of a reliable TB test. She died #OTD in 1991 at age 93. #WomenInSTEM
She earned her PhD in biochemistry from Yale in 1923 and is best known for her work in the 1930s that enabled the development and use of a reliable TB test. She died #OTD in 1991 at age 93. #WomenInSTEM
Vacation location
August 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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I appreciate it's cliche and pointless to note this, but I don't think that six months into her term a hypothetical President Kamala Harris would be suing MSNBC, Bill Gates and The Guardian for reporting on her close personal friendship with a paedophile.
July 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I appreciate it's cliche and pointless to note this, but I don't think that six months into her term a hypothetical President Kamala Harris would be suing MSNBC, Bill Gates and The Guardian for reporting on her close personal friendship with a paedophile.