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Alysa and our women’s hockey team showing the world how you do it. Incredibly proud of our U.S. athletes. 🇺🇸
Geophysicist Marcia McNutt was elected the first female President of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) #OTD in 2016. #WomenInSTEM #geophysics
Escaping Walled Chat Gardens-A chat history converter.
www.rodneydyer.com/escaping-wal...
I’ve often thought that no matter how advanced artificial intelligence becomes, there may still be unseen layers beneath the surface
#AcademicSky #Science #dev #AcademicSky #SciComm #Software#dev #AI
Developing a semantic layer above our teaching materials that make pedagogical connections visible, measurable, and improvable over time.
BloomSpread: A Course Design Framework for Quantifying Cognitive Scaffolding. #academicsky
www.rodneydyer.com/bloomspread-...
"What is required, then, is the radical reimagining of pedagogy. Higher education must reclaim academic freedom, dissent, critical thought, and democratic governance not as abstract principles but as urgent practices of resistance." #HigherEd
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/h...
I use Resources instead of Research. This is where I store all templates stuff (People, Organizations, Templates,etc)
Brazilian officials running high-level United Nations climate talks are readying a preliminary agreement that ignores demands from about 80 nations to further develop plans to transition away from fossil fuels.
🧪 NSF spending held at $8.17 billion. Yet the agency awarded 20% fewer grants while increasing their size. This defensive pivot limits future obligations ahead of substantial budget cuts proposed for 2026. #AcademicSky
We summarized the Drain paper in an LSE Impact blog post this week. Please share in your networks, ideally with those we are calling to action: research funders and university leadership
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm
Happy Fall
For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
Isn’t that his job? It is hard enough getting a NSF grant in our disciplines, now it is OUR responsibility to also tell the public in addition to do the work, train the student, publish the paper, etc.?
Windows?
We used the Unreal engine years ago to visualize landscape scale pollen movement in forest trees. I gave a presentation to the board of visitors and the app crashed. The startup screen for Unreel at that time had ‘Barbarian men and women’ in states of skimpy outfits…. Embarrassed…
Admin-speak…
Primatologist, conservationist, animal advocate, and educator Jane Goodall passed away today. We lost a true champion. #AcademicSky #Edusky
Please spread widely and quickly - the more signatures we get the better chances we have of cajoling NSF into changing course on this small but very impactful item
Wow!
What a breakthrough moment for these women.
#WRWC2025 #RWC2025 #RUGBY
Received a truly classic Reviewer #2 comment today: "Having read the revised manuscript and my review from the first round, I am surprised that my first review was as positive as it was."
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The successor to Trycycler. Another great piece of kit from @rrwick.bsky.social
github.com/rrwick/Autoc...
I think the last thing that I would like to have is my grubby little fingerprints all over my Mac laptop screen the way are over my tablet screen. I don’t get it.
You would think that a story like this would be outside the paywall…
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Cora Ella Hind travelled 10,000 kilometres every year to survey crops in Western Canada.
She was so good at her predictions, farmers called her the Oracle of Wheat.
To them, she was the most trusted voice in agriculture.
This is the story of her fascinating life.
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