Brett Lane
@laneb14.bsky.social
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Plant Pathology and Microbial Ecology.
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sad news - Duke University decided to dump their herbarium, which has over 800,000 plant specimens, one of the largest among in America, and includes many type specimens of Lady Gaga ferns. What a shame. Please stop Duke admins for making this horrible mistake!!
February 14, 2024 at 4:40 PM
sad news - Duke University decided to dump their herbarium, which has over 800,000 plant specimens, one of the largest among in America, and includes many type specimens of Lady Gaga ferns. What a shame. Please stop Duke admins for making this horrible mistake!!
Reposted by Brett Lane
It's also worth saying that you can't do STEM without reading comprehension and critical thinking!!! Treating the humanities and arts as secondary to STEM is bad for everyone in general, but it's also short-sighted for STEM education.
I teach physics and my wife teaches literature and writing, and we see STRONG parallels between our students here. Physics students need literacy to be able to pick out important pieces of problems and to be able to see common elements across types of problems. It's reading comprehension! 🎢⚛️
February 11, 2024 at 3:37 PM
It's also worth saying that you can't do STEM without reading comprehension and critical thinking!!! Treating the humanities and arts as secondary to STEM is bad for everyone in general, but it's also short-sighted for STEM education.