Heather Bergan-Roller, PhD
@drberganroller.bsky.social
New pub out today!
A simple solution to the complex problem of biases in student evaluations of teaching doesn’t reliably work at the department scale.
www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...
@sabercommunity.bsky.social
#BBERGroup
Bbergroup.org
A simple solution to the complex problem of biases in student evaluations of teaching doesn’t reliably work at the department scale.
www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...
@sabercommunity.bsky.social
#BBERGroup
Bbergroup.org
August 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
New pub out today!
A simple solution to the complex problem of biases in student evaluations of teaching doesn’t reliably work at the department scale.
www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...
@sabercommunity.bsky.social
#BBERGroup
Bbergroup.org
A simple solution to the complex problem of biases in student evaluations of teaching doesn’t reliably work at the department scale.
www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...
@sabercommunity.bsky.social
#BBERGroup
Bbergroup.org
A wonderful trip to #SABER2025 for the bbergroup.org with friends new and old 🥰
@sabercommunity.bsky.social
@sabercommunity.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A wonderful trip to #SABER2025 for the bbergroup.org with friends new and old 🥰
@sabercommunity.bsky.social
@sabercommunity.bsky.social
Some of the amazing #scientists I got to work with in my lab bbergroup.org this year and a fraction of their work in the posters behind us. They are a special group that I am so thankful for 🥰 #NIU #dber @nicolescheuerfrau.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Some of the amazing #scientists I got to work with in my lab bbergroup.org this year and a fraction of their work in the posters behind us. They are a special group that I am so thankful for 🥰 #NIU #dber @nicolescheuerfrau.bsky.social
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🧪 funding alert! www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🧪 funding alert! www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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Undergrad biology instructors! Want to participate in a paid research study to test the impacts of highlighting scientist role models in instructional materials? We are looking for you! #edusky 🧪
See more information and apply here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@cissyballen.bsky.social
See more information and apply here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@cissyballen.bsky.social
Recruitment instructors_IUSE2.docx
Which elements of scientist role model stories are effective in improving equity and success in undergraduate STEM education? Interested? Fill out this poll! We are searching for undergraduate bio...
docs.google.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Undergrad biology instructors! Want to participate in a paid research study to test the impacts of highlighting scientist role models in instructional materials? We are looking for you! #edusky 🧪
See more information and apply here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@cissyballen.bsky.social
See more information and apply here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@cissyballen.bsky.social
Reposted by Heather Bergan-Roller, PhD
“The program is called ‘safe place for science,’ and will provide 15 million Euros in funding for some 15 researchers over a 3-year period.”
French University to Fund American Scientists Who Fear Trump Censorship
The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.
www.404media.co
March 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“The program is called ‘safe place for science,’ and will provide 15 million Euros in funding for some 15 researchers over a 3-year period.”
Reposted by Heather Bergan-Roller, PhD
I loved doing an REU and have mentored several of my own REU students. This is such an invaluable program to foster the next generation of scientists.
"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates
Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science
www.science.org
March 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I loved doing an REU and have mentored several of my own REU students. This is such an invaluable program to foster the next generation of scientists.
Reposted by Heather Bergan-Roller, PhD
Local politics time: flood our legislature with disappointment and shame that they voted to deny children school lunches. Perhaps remind them that they get PAID for lunch, to the tune of $45 per day (okay, for all meals). Children get $0. act.prairieactionnd.org/letter/north...
ND House Rejects Free School Meals—They Must Hear from You!
act.prairieactionnd.org
February 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Local politics time: flood our legislature with disappointment and shame that they voted to deny children school lunches. Perhaps remind them that they get PAID for lunch, to the tune of $45 per day (okay, for all meals). Children get $0. act.prairieactionnd.org/letter/north...
Reposted by Heather Bergan-Roller, PhD
My perspective on the travesty of firing ~10% of NSF employees last week aired on my local @npr.org station but you all can read it and listen here. www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/20... 🧪.
I highlighted some of the kudos for the terminated POs that @mdcarling.bsky.social spearheaded.
I highlighted some of the kudos for the terminated POs that @mdcarling.bsky.social spearheaded.
Perspective: What's science worth to you?
Holly Jones says cuts at the National Science Foundation will hurt us all.
www.northernpublicradio.org
February 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
My perspective on the travesty of firing ~10% of NSF employees last week aired on my local @npr.org station but you all can read it and listen here. www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/20... 🧪.
I highlighted some of the kudos for the terminated POs that @mdcarling.bsky.social spearheaded.
I highlighted some of the kudos for the terminated POs that @mdcarling.bsky.social spearheaded.
Reposted by Heather Bergan-Roller, PhD
NEWS: Federal judge blocks parts of two of Trump’s anti-diversity executive orders, finding that some provisions violate the First Amendment and are unconstitutionally vague.
* preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Plaintiffs, who have easily established their standing to bring this case and irreparable harm, have shown they are likely to prove the Termination and Enforcement Threat Provisions are unconstitutionally vague on their face.
But it is not just the vagueness of the Challenged Provisions that renders them
unconstitutional. There is a label for government action that seeks to "deter ... principles," J21 Order § 4(b)(iii), that the government disagrees with: "restrictlion]" of
"expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content." Reed v.
Town of Gilbert, 576 U.S. 155, 163 (2015). And the most "blatant" and "egregious form of content discrimination" is viewpoint discrimination. Id. at 168-69. The Certification and Enforcement Threat Provisions squarely, unconstitutionally, "abridgel] the freedom of speech." U.S. Const. amend. I.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiajsania5b4autc37hef2rgzapikhjfn5jrfsn34jcvek5rculypy@jpeg)
February 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
NEWS: Federal judge blocks parts of two of Trump’s anti-diversity executive orders, finding that some provisions violate the First Amendment and are unconstitutionally vague.
* preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Reposted by Heather Bergan-Roller, PhD
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
February 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
Reposted by Heather Bergan-Roller, PhD
These inclusive zines are produced by Queer Sex Ed Community Curriculum, an LGBTQ-led project that is developing inclusive, trauma-informed, and sex-positive resources for use with youth.
Inclusive Zines from the Queer Sex Ed Community Curriculum — Gender-Inclusive Biology
The Queer Sex Ed Community Curriculum is an LGBTQ-led project that is developing inclusive, trauma-informed, and sex-positive resources for use with youth. Their resource library includes zines,…
buff.ly
February 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
These inclusive zines are produced by Queer Sex Ed Community Curriculum, an LGBTQ-led project that is developing inclusive, trauma-informed, and sex-positive resources for use with youth.
It is. For all of us.
Happy Black History Month
Happy Black History Month
Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay.
They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence!
Mustard on the [Be][At] bro.
Happy Black History Month!
They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence!
Mustard on the [Be][At] bro.
Happy Black History Month!
February 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
It is. For all of us.
Happy Black History Month
Happy Black History Month
Reposted by Heather Bergan-Roller, PhD
First they came for transgendered individuals and then they came for. . .
“The fearmongering is all the more disproportionate, given how few people identify as transgender. They are a minuscule less than 1 percent of the American population. And they are 0.002 percent of college athletes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Shameful Campaign Against Transgender Americans
Trump’s attacks on trans people are on the wrong side of history and humanity.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
First they came for transgendered individuals and then they came for. . .
Reposted by Heather Bergan-Roller, PhD
How does animal sex work? Are males always larger? Do females take care of the young? Consider what assumptions your students bring in from human society.
In this lesson, students observe and chew on diverse patterns of reproduction in 9 animal species.
In this lesson, students observe and chew on diverse patterns of reproduction in 9 animal species.
Lesson Plan: Animal Patterns of Reproduction — Gender-Inclusive Biology
In this lesson, students learn briefly about the reproductive strategies nine different animal species. Student use a tally to track what strategies are most common - for example, male competition,…
buff.ly
February 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
How does animal sex work? Are males always larger? Do females take care of the young? Consider what assumptions your students bring in from human society.
In this lesson, students observe and chew on diverse patterns of reproduction in 9 animal species.
In this lesson, students observe and chew on diverse patterns of reproduction in 9 animal species.
Reposted by Heather Bergan-Roller, PhD
Hey all! Please share this opportunity far and wide! We are recruiting post bac students for our RaMP program. More details online - and bonus! I'm recruiting a student in Biology Education Research!
www.ndsu.edu/researchgrou...
Great things happening @ndsu-biosci.bsky.social
www.ndsu.edu/researchgrou...
Great things happening @ndsu-biosci.bsky.social
NDSU ramp | NDSU
www.ndsu.edu
January 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Hey all! Please share this opportunity far and wide! We are recruiting post bac students for our RaMP program. More details online - and bonus! I'm recruiting a student in Biology Education Research!
www.ndsu.edu/researchgrou...
Great things happening @ndsu-biosci.bsky.social
www.ndsu.edu/researchgrou...
Great things happening @ndsu-biosci.bsky.social