G. Michael Bowen

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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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.

Ontario power rates to rise on higher nuclear generation costs, conservation spending Rate jump of 29% partly offset by higher provincial electricity rebate

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
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I believe in science

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...

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)....

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It's more like 1D chess. Without pieces. Without a board. With a trajectory that can be illustrated by the formula
y=(rnd(Huh?)^2)/wtf?

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.

Screen Time and the Developing Brain: Research, Benefits, Risks, and Policy - CSPC Description / Abstract: The goal of this panel is to discuss the impacts of digital technology, or screen time, on children and youth and the policy opportunities to address these impacts. More speci...

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Maybe an unrecognized benefit of being a Canadian? Dunno. :)

I'm a "professional class liberal" in the social sciences and I literally can not remember when I last heard someone end a sentence that way. Six months? Ten? Longer?

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. ⚓

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.

Access for disabled people is not an advantage.
It is an equalizer.

I've taught Media Literacy before. When I did so I had a hand out on how to establish the expertise of a source.
Having said that, imho responsible & ethical "professionals" self-censor and restrict their pronouncements to those that are explicitly linked to their credentials/area(s) of expertise.

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.

Happens all of the time in Education research, individuals platformed in news media being quoted on issues they have no expertise in. Zero.
Exasperating.
Seriously distorts the public's understanding of issues.

News media need to do better.

THAT'S what you teach? I did not know that. You seem more interesting than that. ;)

JD Vance in icy field confused from lack of vegetation

Sources say that this was the first time JD Vance realized Greenland wasn’t actually green.

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

“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.“

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.

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.

(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.

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...

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.

They should "focus on Teams", it needs a lot of work imho. Bringing on all those software engineers who work on Skype is probably a good idea.

I think what would have been interesting, study wise (because I find their actual findings unremarkable & unsurprising) would be to give the analyses of different groups to other groups & see how that feedback about the practices of others might inform what they did, if they change their analyses.

That title sounds like a title from The Onion (or, in Canada, The Beaverton).