I echo bethynyc and also send you good wishes for today.

These are beautiful!

I agree, as I’m preparing to teach about all the definitions of sex in biology (including design from your paper - thank you!) and how we will use them with plants. And I teach papers that include plants with sexes such as strong hermaphrodite, weak hermaphrodite, and female.

I think the shame list reframed - books you think are important to get to soon?

Could you please post the information instead of a link to Instagram? Anyone without an instagram account cannot access the information. Thanks!

Yes, and along with that, this misses things like critical thinking skills. Having a PhD isn’t about being able to spit out facts, as much as it might seem like it when I try to explain succinctly the ecosystem reasons for why there is no swimming in the lake we live near (at 8,000’).

The podcast I posted seems particularly effective at getting bio students entrenched in “science as unbiased” to start understanding how yes we can all learn to use a ruler the same way but there is so much of the science process that is influenced by the doer.

You’re probably going a lot deeper into epistemology, but I use the 2nd half of this podcast
theanimalbehaviorpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1540180/epis...
and the “asters and goldenrods” ch.of Braiding Sweetgrass to talk about situated knowledge for intro bio. Happy to share my podcast transcription.

I too am excited to see your talk, and what everyone else submits!

I am very excited about your new book! I cited your first book in the paper I was finishing minor revisions for while I was reading the book, and I referenced it in conversation most recently last Friday when a student tried to use physics/atoms as an example of “universal scientific truth.”