G. Michael Bowen
@gmbowen.bsky.social
University professor. Proud MSVUFA & NSTA member. Science & STEM Ed geek.
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G. Michael Bowen
@gmbowen.bsky.social
· Jan 30
My newest paper is out with my colleague Erin Sperling (in a journal that's "new" for both of us).
doi.org/10.1007/s424...
This is a full-text view-only link for the article (but also see comments)...
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doi.org/10.1007/s424...
This is a full-text view-only link for the article (but also see comments)...
rdcu.be/d7ZD5
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Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
My newest paper w Trish Hembree is now available...."Stories from and of the field: Developing teachers’ discursive practices of science"
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Stories from and of the field: Developing teachers’ discursive practices of science
| Forum for Education Studies
ojs.acad-pub.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
My newest paper w Trish Hembree is now available...."Stories from and of the field: Developing teachers’ discursive practices of science"
ojs.acad-pub.com/index.php/FE...
ojs.acad-pub.com/index.php/FE...
Four weeks ago we got a new cat. Named Sampson, nicknamed The Beast. He is a bit of a monster....2 cans of cat food a day, & a cup or so of dry food. And treats. Drinks water like a fish. Fills 4 litter genie bags every 2 weeks. A wonderful disposition. Very, very chatty.
A delightful new roommate.
A delightful new roommate.
November 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Four weeks ago we got a new cat. Named Sampson, nicknamed The Beast. He is a bit of a monster....2 cans of cat food a day, & a cup or so of dry food. And treats. Drinks water like a fish. Fills 4 litter genie bags every 2 weeks. A wonderful disposition. Very, very chatty.
A delightful new roommate.
A delightful new roommate.
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If you want expensive power a decade from now (that never arrives on budget), by all means choose nuclear. But if you want cheap power as soon as next year, choose wind, solar and storage. The economics are straightforward. #EnergyTransition
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Ontario power rates to rise on higher nuclear generation costs, conservation spending
Rate jump of 29% partly offset by higher provincial electricity rebate
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you want expensive power a decade from now (that never arrives on budget), by all means choose nuclear. But if you want cheap power as soon as next year, choose wind, solar and storage. The economics are straightforward. #EnergyTransition
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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I believe in science
May 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I believe in science
My new chapter "Providing Feedback on Student Laboratory Reports: Issues in the Formative Assessment Practices of Preservice Science Teachers" is now available (if you have access to Springer books through your uni)....
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Providing Feedback on Student Laboratory Reports: Issues in the Formative Assessment Practices of Preservice Science Teachers
This chapter focuses on the formative assessment practices of preservice science teachers (PSTs) in evaluating high school laboratory reports. In many Faculties of Education, PSTs typically have a cou...
link.springer.com
May 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My new chapter "Providing Feedback on Student Laboratory Reports: Issues in the Formative Assessment Practices of Preservice Science Teachers" is now available (if you have access to Springer books through your uni)....
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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For the better part of a century, the US has been enormously enriched by emigrant scientists from around the world. Under Trump, the brain drain is reversing.
If you like long-format radio, I had a great conversation with @nvpatel.bsky.social (NYtimes) and Libby Denkmann (KUOW) this morning.
If you like long-format radio, I had a great conversation with @nvpatel.bsky.social (NYtimes) and Libby Denkmann (KUOW) this morning.
As Trump cuts funding, researchers look for opportunities outside the U.S.
As researchers at American universities face an uncertain future, other countries are doing their best to lure scientists away. Is the U-S set to face a brain drain as top talent moves overseas or int...
www.kuow.org
April 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
For the better part of a century, the US has been enormously enriched by emigrant scientists from around the world. Under Trump, the brain drain is reversing.
If you like long-format radio, I had a great conversation with @nvpatel.bsky.social (NYtimes) and Libby Denkmann (KUOW) this morning.
If you like long-format radio, I had a great conversation with @nvpatel.bsky.social (NYtimes) and Libby Denkmann (KUOW) this morning.
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A powerful lesson the Church today can learn from Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the inseparability of faith and action. True discipleship demands costly grace and courageous resistance to injustice. Following Christ means showing up, speaking out, and often paying a price. That’s the cost of real grace. ⚓
April 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A powerful lesson the Church today can learn from Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the inseparability of faith and action. True discipleship demands costly grace and courageous resistance to injustice. Following Christ means showing up, speaking out, and often paying a price. That’s the cost of real grace. ⚓
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I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.
April 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.
So much of what seems to be going on in the academics of science education, the Academy, seems to be same old-same old.
After the pandemic & the reactions of many of the public to science during that are we *really* in same old-same old times? Are we? Really?
IMHO a radical re-think is needed.
After the pandemic & the reactions of many of the public to science during that are we *really* in same old-same old times? Are we? Really?
IMHO a radical re-think is needed.
April 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
So much of what seems to be going on in the academics of science education, the Academy, seems to be same old-same old.
After the pandemic & the reactions of many of the public to science during that are we *really* in same old-same old times? Are we? Really?
IMHO a radical re-think is needed.
After the pandemic & the reactions of many of the public to science during that are we *really* in same old-same old times? Are we? Really?
IMHO a radical re-think is needed.
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Access for disabled people is not an advantage.
It is an equalizer.
It is an equalizer.
April 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Access for disabled people is not an advantage.
It is an equalizer.
It is an equalizer.
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Jay Bhattacharya is a very smart, accomplished, and well educated man. It's important to note, though, that while he has an MD, he has never practiced medicine or done a residency. His PhD & expertise are in ECONOMICS. The methodology of his health research papers is shallow. Beware expertise creep.
April 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Jay Bhattacharya is a very smart, accomplished, and well educated man. It's important to note, though, that while he has an MD, he has never practiced medicine or done a residency. His PhD & expertise are in ECONOMICS. The methodology of his health research papers is shallow. Beware expertise creep.
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Sources say that this was the first time JD Vance realized Greenland wasn’t actually green.
March 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Sources say that this was the first time JD Vance realized Greenland wasn’t actually green.
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“Universities must defend their truth-seeking and educational missions. They can point to obvious benefits, including economic ones….But universities must also insist that one cannot pick and choose research, as in: say medical research OK, but climate research not.“
Academic freedom in America needs to be defended. Here’s how | Jan-Werner Müller
To begin with, universities should not be intimidated by the claim that public opinion is turning against them. That’s not necessarily true
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
“Universities must defend their truth-seeking and educational missions. They can point to obvious benefits, including economic ones….But universities must also insist that one cannot pick and choose research, as in: say medical research OK, but climate research not.“
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Cowardly US universities, institutions with vast endowments and independent financial resources, are refusing to host the Berkshire Conference, the largest US gathering of women historians. Northwestern U ($14.3 billion) cancelled, no one else would agree in time. The 2026 Conference is cancelled.
March 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Cowardly US universities, institutions with vast endowments and independent financial resources, are refusing to host the Berkshire Conference, the largest US gathering of women historians. Northwestern U ($14.3 billion) cancelled, no one else would agree in time. The 2026 Conference is cancelled.
Nothing screams "isolationist" policy quite like this. I guess it's the other side of the pariahist policies of the current gov't.
March 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Nothing screams "isolationist" policy quite like this. I guess it's the other side of the pariahist policies of the current gov't.
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Mike has been a friend of mine since we were young reporters at the @washingtonpost.com in the 1980s. He brims with talent, integrity and commitment to the truth. This is exactly what I expected and he had hoped he could stave off, which is a trash move by trash people. Throw them out.
March 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Mike has been a friend of mine since we were young reporters at the @washingtonpost.com in the 1980s. He brims with talent, integrity and commitment to the truth. This is exactly what I expected and he had hoped he could stave off, which is a trash move by trash people. Throw them out.
With apologies to my few male friends & colleagues this would apply to, if I never again heard or read a single word from a white male over 53 years of age (ya, Elon's age) for the rest of my existence I think that on balance the quality of my life would be dramatically improved.
March 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
With apologies to my few male friends & colleagues this would apply to, if I never again heard or read a single word from a white male over 53 years of age (ya, Elon's age) for the rest of my existence I think that on balance the quality of my life would be dramatically improved.
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
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1/2: "What Teachers Want to Know About Teaching Climate Change delivers on the promise of its title."
What Teachers Want to Know About Teaching Climate Change
The book gives busy teachers the tools they need to incorporate climate change education across disciplines and align the content with existing standa...
www.corwin.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
1/2: "What Teachers Want to Know About Teaching Climate Change delivers on the promise of its title."
I've decided to not attend the NARST @narst.bsky.social Conference this year. I've got better things to do with Canadian taxpayer money than funnel it into an economy that's trying to destroy ours. I'm the 5th Canadian that I know that's cancelled attending NARST this year.
March 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I've decided to not attend the NARST @narst.bsky.social Conference this year. I've got better things to do with Canadian taxpayer money than funnel it into an economy that's trying to destroy ours. I'm the 5th Canadian that I know that's cancelled attending NARST this year.
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RIP to one of the bona fide greats
NEW YORK (AP) — Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer known for 'Killing Me Softly With His Song' and other intimate hits, dies at 88.
February 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
RIP to one of the bona fide greats
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My new book is now officially out. May this be useful to people getting their bearings in this growing field.
Available on Amazon, Barnes and noble web, publisher website, etc
Available on Amazon, Barnes and noble web, publisher website, etc
February 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
My new book is now officially out. May this be useful to people getting their bearings in this growing field.
Available on Amazon, Barnes and noble web, publisher website, etc
Available on Amazon, Barnes and noble web, publisher website, etc
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A profoundly empathetic book on #homelessness. Kevin Fagan’s new work moves beyond predictable policy critique to examine the moral side of the crisis.
www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l... via @newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l... via @newyorker.com
A Profoundly Empathetic Book on Homelessness in the Bay Area
Kevin Fagan’s new work moves beyond predictable policy critique to offer a powerful reminder of the moral side of the crisis.
www.newyorker.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
A profoundly empathetic book on #homelessness. Kevin Fagan’s new work moves beyond predictable policy critique to examine the moral side of the crisis.
www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l... via @newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l... via @newyorker.com