Dan Shay

Found my 5 year old squeezing out a tube of Aquaphor into a bowl of water because he was "doing an experiment". We ended up doing solubility tests in water, hand sanitizer, and oil. Then we saw how soap dispersed it in water. He really enjoyed it and learned all about polarity and micelles 🧪👩‍🔬🍎🥽⚛️🧬

I’m so sorry for you loss Kirsten. 😔

Just submitted my first publication! Please clap- and cross your fingers!

This email made my day today. If you feed them, you should always feed them.

#edusky

Everyone does Staff vs Student basketball games, but who’s brave enough for Staff vs Student WRESTLING matches?

Someday he’ll die.

Collaborative discussions around sense making tasks. Involves reasoning, argumentation, collaborative learning, conceptual change… it’s got it all!

As someone who doesn't do research on fire, but has to talk about--more and more--in courses on environmental science and environmental change, the insight available from people in these starter packs is invaluable: bsky.app/starter-pack... and bsky.app/starter-pack...

Mark Zuckerberg looks like his sit down air stinks🙄🙄🙄🙄

Kevin kohl, a tall handsome man in a green sweater, talks with his hands in front of a pretty slide of a stag and tree artistically overlaid with microbes in many colors

Last morning of #SICB2025 and we’re starting off bright and early with @kevindkohl.bsky.social

Kevin studies the bacteria that live on and within animals.

He’s giving us a history of the study of the holobiont- the collective of organisms that live together as a unit (e.g. you & all your bacteria)

This should be obvious, but judging by the claims of education traditionalists, it may bear repeating: Successful contestants on Jeopardy! may also happen to be highly smart, but we can't assume that's true just because they've managed to memorize a lot of information.

The tendency to conflate […]

That whole “Get your final projects in now, cause I’m going to grade them over break” line is really biting me in the ass now isn’t it?

#Edusky

Seriously. I sue drug companies, you don't have to tell me they suck, nor explain to me the risks of pharmaceuticals.

But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.

The Militia and the Mole Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias.

He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social.

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My kid is eating a tub of feta cheese with a spoon for lunch.

I think we all may be ready for a school routine to start back up again.

Public service hot sauce

The combined net worth of America's twelve wealthiest people passed $2 trillion last year.

12 people. $2 trillion.

Meanwhile, U.S. homelessness increased 18% in 2024.

Our problem isn’t an issue of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding wealth inequality.

Fuck that guy.

Yep. This is one of the most radicalizing pieces I ever wrote, about my own high school.

Silver-bullet, top-down Bold New Ideas are never going to work. Effective approaches are slow, make significant investments and ask teachers what they need.
psmag.com/features/the...
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

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A bald eagle in a dumpster screaming to the heavens is probably the most fitting image to send us into 2025.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

19/20

Scientists warn of growing danger from supervolcanoes Some volcanoes lurk in silence, biding their time, and hold the potential for eruptions so vast they could reshape the world.

Not now, scientists.

www.thebrighterside.news/post/scienti...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

18/20

Federal Voucher Bill Offers Big Returns For Wealthy The Educational Choice for Children Act of 2024 is the federal school voucher program that Betsy DeVos always dreamed of, combining the privatization of education with a sweet tax shelter for the weal...

Federal Voucher Bill Offers Big Returns For Wealthy open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

17/20

I’m writing a paper and I’m curious about something:

How many biology teachers out there teach any form of bioinformatics?

What tools do you use?
Which unit?

Also curious if you just don’t teach it at all.

(I miss polls)
#scied #skyenceteacher #biologyteacher #iteachbiology

Toy Story has made me more considerate of my kids’ toys’ feelings…

and I’m not sure I like that about myself.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

16/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

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