Jeannette Whitton
@jeannettewhitton.bsky.social
Plant evolutionary biologist 🧬, 🇨🇦 voter, proud parent 🏳️🌈, herbarium supporter, policy geek, slow hiker, slower reader, lover of ⛰️ 🌊 🏜️ 🐶 🐈
What course did you take, and would you recommend it?
August 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
What course did you take, and would you recommend it?
Great list! Many of these pieces are already in the syllabus, but I think the project management framework is missing.
August 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Great list! Many of these pieces are already in the syllabus, but I think the project management framework is missing.
We can then undertake a guided, collaborative development of core research conduct principles for the course.
These principles can then centre the treatment of components like project development, collaboration, data management, analysis, writing, literature review, citation, and presentation.
These principles can then centre the treatment of components like project development, collaboration, data management, analysis, writing, literature review, citation, and presentation.
August 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We can then undertake a guided, collaborative development of core research conduct principles for the course.
These principles can then centre the treatment of components like project development, collaboration, data management, analysis, writing, literature review, citation, and presentation.
These principles can then centre the treatment of components like project development, collaboration, data management, analysis, writing, literature review, citation, and presentation.
I agree. Communicating with integrity means reviewing the evidence that supports our statements, and crediting those who produced that evidence.
Maybe a first step could be a workshop to collectively consider the what, why, and how of responsible conduct in various components of research.
Maybe a first step could be a workshop to collectively consider the what, why, and how of responsible conduct in various components of research.
August 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I agree. Communicating with integrity means reviewing the evidence that supports our statements, and crediting those who produced that evidence.
Maybe a first step could be a workshop to collectively consider the what, why, and how of responsible conduct in various components of research.
Maybe a first step could be a workshop to collectively consider the what, why, and how of responsible conduct in various components of research.
I'd appreciate that - thanks!
August 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I'd appreciate that - thanks!
...and how it manifests at different scales and stages?
I think misconduct is probably perceived to be egregious falsification or misrepresentation. For new researchers, I want them to consider poor note-keeping, error-prone approaches to labelling, using information without attribution...
I think misconduct is probably perceived to be egregious falsification or misrepresentation. For new researchers, I want them to consider poor note-keeping, error-prone approaches to labelling, using information without attribution...
August 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
...and how it manifests at different scales and stages?
I think misconduct is probably perceived to be egregious falsification or misrepresentation. For new researchers, I want them to consider poor note-keeping, error-prone approaches to labelling, using information without attribution...
I think misconduct is probably perceived to be egregious falsification or misrepresentation. For new researchers, I want them to consider poor note-keeping, error-prone approaches to labelling, using information without attribution...
One topic I know I want students to grapple with is collective and individual responsibility in research. Maybe this could be called Research Ethics, but the slant to 'responsibility' might help emphasize the day-to-day standards we uphold, rather than a (potentially abstract) set of principles.
August 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
One topic I know I want students to grapple with is collective and individual responsibility in research. Maybe this could be called Research Ethics, but the slant to 'responsibility' might help emphasize the day-to-day standards we uphold, rather than a (potentially abstract) set of principles.
Thank you my friend!
July 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Thank you my friend!
That’s very kind, Katherine. Thank you!
July 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
That’s very kind, Katherine. Thank you!
Thanks, Megan, including for helping me decide to go forward with applying.
July 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Thanks, Megan, including for helping me decide to go forward with applying.
Thanks for your kind words, Justine 😊
July 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Thanks for your kind words, Justine 😊
Thanks, Judith! Looking forward to catching up (though not necessarily to the end of sabbatical).
July 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Thanks, Judith! Looking forward to catching up (though not necessarily to the end of sabbatical).
Thanks, Darren! I appreciate your support and friendship.
July 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Thanks, Darren! I appreciate your support and friendship.
Typos like "I was got" may have delayed my promotion 😜
July 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Typos like "I was got" may have delayed my promotion 😜
For those in positions to lift or exclude others, remember that you did not succeed in a vacuum. Think about who and what made your path possible and/ or easier. Consider your path without these privileges. Membership indeed has its privileges; use yours for good.
July 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
For those in positions to lift or exclude others, remember that you did not succeed in a vacuum. Think about who and what made your path possible and/ or easier. Consider your path without these privileges. Membership indeed has its privileges; use yours for good.
If you doubt your value, I urge you to work on your inner voice. Outer voices are whimsical, often ill-informed, and impossible to control. Believe in diverse paths and measures of success. Whenever possible, emphasize what you value, and help broaden what we value collectively.
July 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
If you doubt your value, I urge you to work on your inner voice. Outer voices are whimsical, often ill-informed, and impossible to control. Believe in diverse paths and measures of success. Whenever possible, emphasize what you value, and help broaden what we value collectively.
I am also grateful for affordable higher education; generous and kind mentors; ridiculous good luck; excellent public healthcare; reliable childcare, secure and safe housing; the very best students, friends and colleagues; the devotion of good dogs; and the boundless support of human loved ones.
July 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I am also grateful for affordable higher education; generous and kind mentors; ridiculous good luck; excellent public healthcare; reliable childcare, secure and safe housing; the very best students, friends and colleagues; the devotion of good dogs; and the boundless support of human loved ones.
I’m not great at some things that are expected for progress through the ranks. This is not humility; you can check ‘my numbers’. I am grateful that those who supported and evaluated my case found value in what I do.
July 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I’m not great at some things that are expected for progress through the ranks. This is not humility; you can check ‘my numbers’. I am grateful that those who supported and evaluated my case found value in what I do.
I set aside self-doubts, so easily seeded by offhand comments, ever-amplified by my deafening inner critic. I finally decided I would be strong enough to handle the possibility of rejection. [Insert lots of personal growth, and the stable, unflagging support of loved ones here.]
July 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I set aside self-doubts, so easily seeded by offhand comments, ever-amplified by my deafening inner critic. I finally decided I would be strong enough to handle the possibility of rejection. [Insert lots of personal growth, and the stable, unflagging support of loved ones here.]
I finally decided to apply for promotion last year. I looked at UBC’s collective agreement and judged that I met the criteria, despite my meandering journey through academia while single parenting, encountering mental health challenges, and rescuing one too many figurative and/ or literal kittens.
July 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I finally decided to apply for promotion last year. I looked at UBC’s collective agreement and judged that I met the criteria, despite my meandering journey through academia while single parenting, encountering mental health challenges, and rescuing one too many figurative and/ or literal kittens.