Stacey Kiser
@staceykiser.bsky.social
I teach biology at a community college in Oregon. I am also a past president of the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT).
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I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.
Almost makes me want to preemptively bug my neofascist administration about my biology lessons on biological sex and global patterns of lactase persistence. Race and gender all over the place!
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Almost makes me want to preemptively bug my neofascist administration about my biology lessons on biological sex and global patterns of lactase persistence. Race and gender all over the place!
Pick a random part of your teaching bookshelf and consider the books you keep and have yet to read (but you bought them for some reason).
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Pick a random part of your teaching bookshelf and consider the books you keep and have yet to read (but you bought them for some reason).
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Comments are now enabled on my piece.
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Comments are now enabled on my piece.
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I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
Ask your friends and you will discover that many people presenting as female have been groped by a stranger, usually starting in teenage years.
The thing about being a woman and navigating the world, is that you are never safe from being sexually harassed by strangers even if you are a freaking head of state.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mexico president to seek charges after being groped on street
Claudia Sheinbaum says she is pressing charges because "a line must be drawn" against the harassment of Mexican women.
www.bbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Ask your friends and you will discover that many people presenting as female have been groped by a stranger, usually starting in teenage years.
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss.
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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'
Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'
In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'
Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'
In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss.
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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'
Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'
In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'
Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'
In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
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This is true—Bessent owns $25 million of farmland in North Dakota—and a reminder of why farm bailouts are nothing more than a giveaway to feudal lords who demand the government grossly distort agricultural economics to make their tax haven "farms" even more valuable to them.
Bessent on American farmers being hurt by tariffs: "Martha, in case you don't know it, I'm actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain too."
October 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is true—Bessent owns $25 million of farmland in North Dakota—and a reminder of why farm bailouts are nothing more than a giveaway to feudal lords who demand the government grossly distort agricultural economics to make their tax haven "farms" even more valuable to them.
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As U.S. wheat farmers face painful losses in the global market due to President Trump's policies, one domestic flour mill on a reservation in Oregon is expanding its production twelvefold. n.pr/4oaI5Wk
How the craft flour movement could be a boon to farmers and Indian Country
As U.S. wheat farmers face painful losses in the global market due to President Trump's policies, one domestic flour mill on a reservation in Oregon is expanding its production twelvefold.
n.pr
October 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
As U.S. wheat farmers face painful losses in the global market due to President Trump's policies, one domestic flour mill on a reservation in Oregon is expanding its production twelvefold. n.pr/4oaI5Wk
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As someone who is acutely aware of the very real barriers to pursuing a STEM career, I’m so happy to see these amazing and consistently brave leaders compose this important piece
@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
Scaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talent
Nature Cell Biology - Programmes that support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science are under attack in the USA. Data indicate that diversity in the scientific workforce increases...
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
As someone who is acutely aware of the very real barriers to pursuing a STEM career, I’m so happy to see these amazing and consistently brave leaders compose this important piece
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Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.
October 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.
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The revolution will be inflatable..
Incredible artwork by @4nikkolas.bsky.social.
October 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The revolution will be inflatable..
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I’m a scholar of social movement studies who has studied protests and conflict for over two decades and I agree with Dr. Corrigan’s points. Read her entire thread.
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I’m a scholar of social movement studies who has studied protests and conflict for over two decades and I agree with Dr. Corrigan’s points. Read her entire thread.
I lost the reimbursement link for today’s rally and would really like to get my money for the dinosaur inflatable I wore. Can anyone share the link please?
October 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I lost the reimbursement link for today’s rally and would really like to get my money for the dinosaur inflatable I wore. Can anyone share the link please?
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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I think this moment of people feeling nervous about something and doing it anyway could prove quite liberating and profound
My mother-in-law was nervous about wearing her #NoKings gear to the airport for her flight this morning, but she got *lots* of compliments. Even the TSA agent told her, "I like your shirt."
October 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I think this moment of people feeling nervous about something and doing it anyway could prove quite liberating and profound
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I told my intro bio students this week that I much prefer labs where I don’t know the answer. Then I can be a researcher along side them. (But we do have some labs . . .)
One of the best parts of teaching is saying to a student, "I've never thought of it that way. That's a really good idea for a project." We are giving them skills to push past what we know into new areas of research.
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
October 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I told my intro bio students this week that I much prefer labs where I don’t know the answer. Then I can be a researcher along side them. (But we do have some labs . . .)
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one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.
one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump
As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.
newrepublic.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.
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If you're going to the No Kings protest in your area on Saturday, you need to know your rights.
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU
The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exerc...
www.aclu.org
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
If you're going to the No Kings protest in your area on Saturday, you need to know your rights.
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
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this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
October 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system
We use concept maps a couple of times a quarter in our biology classes. I am excited to share this information and talk about it more with my colleagues.
Concept maps: simple but powerful learning tools. On the podcast this week, Dr. Kripa Sundar shares practices for making the most of them. Also joining us is Dr. Pooja Agarwal (@retrievelearn.bsky.social), editor of the book Smart Teaching Stronger Learning. www.cultofpedagogy.com/concept-maps/
October 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
We use concept maps a couple of times a quarter in our biology classes. I am excited to share this information and talk about it more with my colleagues.
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Sadly, with the cuts to Dept of Ed grants, there will be no money to pay for tech “solutions” to unfunded mandates. <insert ironic eye roll here>
Something I didn't appreciate until my kids started school was just how enmeshed the tech industry is in public ed. Attendance, school lunch, communication, calendars, testing, teaching tools--everything has its own app. There's a lot of money to be made there.
Meanwhile, ed tech companies are salivating--eager to sell "solutions" to families whose schools will now struggle (even more than they already have) to meet their kids' learning needs.
(Here are a few of the ed tech ads I've been tracking over the past few months)
(Here are a few of the ed tech ads I've been tracking over the past few months)
October 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Sadly, with the cuts to Dept of Ed grants, there will be no money to pay for tech “solutions” to unfunded mandates. <insert ironic eye roll here>