Joel Schneider

I'm so excited that we got the @dbersit.bsky.social account up and running! Join us, DBERites! 😃

Are you an undergraduate biology instructor? We are developing a tool to aid teaching about race and genetics, and we would love for it to reflect your students’ perspectives! Let us know if you’d like to include your course(s) in the survey pilot for this UMN research study!
z.umn.edu/BRSurvey

Creating better internships by understanding mentor challenges: findings from a series of focus groups - International Journal of STEM Education Background Despite demands to make higher education more relevant beyond academia, and a growing body of work testifying to the benefits of work-relevance programs (e.g., work-placements, or internshi...

New research from the group published just today in collab with Norwegian friends!

Studied the experiences of mentors for science student internships with implications for program development. Lead by @joelschn.bsky.social & including @arielsteele.bsky.social #DBER

doi.org/10.1186/s405...

New work from my research group led by @emilydriessen.bsky.social $ Keenan Walker

A pilot study of how 4 faculty teach sex/gender in their bio classes. We looked at their teaching approaches, resources used, and how they learned to teach more inclusively. #DBER

www.lifescied.org/doi/full/10....

Results from British Academy's experiment of randomized awarding of research grants to proposals which all have passed a high quality threshold indicates that random selection increases diversity dramatically.

#academicsky @academic-chatter.bsky.social 🧪

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promisi...

The “corporate university” as an analytical lens may become less useful as funding and operations decisions become increasingly political acts and “partial defenses” in the face of deinstitutionalization.

I don't personally have that detailed information, but you could ask the department! Bluesky doesn't have direct messages yet, unfortunately, so contact info I'll post here you can reach out to is btl @ umn .edu (remove the spaces). The admin is super nice and hopefully can answer some of this.

Absolutely! The dept of Bio Teaching and Learning here teaches a large number of the bio classes (including the intro and non-majors courses), and active learning classrooms are core! An entire biosciences building is full of active learning classrooms, and we love using them for conferences too. 😍