Stephanie L. Shepherd

Unpaid protestor doing my democratic duty. 400-500 folks lined a main artery into Auburn, AL to catch gameday traffic. We received far more honks and waves than birds.

Capturing the morning sun beams

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson American Conversations: Senator Doug Jones

Alternate link to fb to see video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=bccq...

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963) (U.S. National Park Service) 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963)

www.nps.gov/articles/16t...

An important part of our American history that must be remembered. www.facebook.com/share/p/1BBS...

Check on your friends (students, faculty, staff) at all these universities that have had "hoax" active shooter lock downs in the past 2 weeks. Their experiences were real and they are possibly not okay.

I spent a long time appreciating the engineering feats of spiders this morning before I was able to face my hectic Wednesday workday.

Another paper is out from my Buffalo River colleagues. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A new short paper about our work developing the curriculum for AUTeach is out!

doi.org/10.32674/k53...

HWY 64. NE Arkansas

Another good reason to get a new passport...

Camped in a cave this weekend with my son's cubscout pack. I was a good mom and did not explain Karst processes except when asked. Also show caves are weird.

Maps! There is something about printed maps that is so much more powerful than looking at a computer screen (in my opinion).

Messing about in streams in the rain with a very energetic group of high school students! Hopefully they know a little bit more about Geoscience, urban streams, and the fun of field research.

Field season has commenced!

Beneath the Sea Floor: Unearthing the Bering Land Bridge ATMI youth producer Natalie Buttner gained a media internship on board the RV Sikuliaq, where scientists extracted core samples from the bottom of the Bering Sea…

Thanks at @seaicebeth.bsky.social for sharing such an amazing project - vimeo.com/1032126421?s... This is why we need the USGS, NPS, and NSF.

On my last day as AUTeach Co-Director I taught the last class in the Science Teaching Classroom in Haley Center. It was also the first semester I had the privilege of co-teaching a new class SCMH 3010: Inquiry Experiences for Science Teachers to the first graduating class of AUTeach students.

The same is true for NIH, btw, so when they cancel grants like mine bc they are no longer interested in promoting careers in biomedical research, they are violating their congressional mandate to diversify the field.

Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

AARGH! My poor postdoc who was hired and then almost not hired in January and now may be unhired again... And that is just a drop in the bucket of faculty, post docs, and students that are currently and will be impacted. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

WTF.... I just can't.

Teaching future science teachers is fun! Especially when you break out the bowling ball.

My geomorphology students discovered a new wonder on our field trip to Providence Canyon... Dung Beetles. We were stopped in our tracks more than once watching these amazingly industrious creatures.

Expecting storms tonight, hoping all our trees are healthy and strong.

I am pretty tired of this argument. Journal articles and books are sometimes not widely accessible (although some are), but academics speak much more often to the public now, through the media, op eds, trade books, and public lectures, than in the past and anti-intellectualism has grown.

Today is Rare Disease Day! I love and care for someone with a rare disease, CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder (CDD). CDD is a genetic epilepsy with no cure and current treatments only manage the symptoms. Most individuals with CDD have intractable epilepsy as well as intellectual and physical disabilities.

Not going to lie, one of the few reasons I haven't just laid on the floor moaning like Tina Belcher, is teaching. SCMH 3010 students running an experiment with pocket labs.

And the budget vote has me at...

Having trouble deciding which candle to light.

Stephanie's Life with Isobel (age 7) Podcast Episode · CDKL5 in Color · 02/21/2025 · 32m

I am an educator, a mentor, a geoscientist. I am also a caregiver and a mother. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...