New pub out today!
A simple solution to the complex problem of biases in student evaluations of teaching doesn’t reliably work at the department scale.
www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...
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A wonderful trip to #SABER2025 for the bbergroup.org with friends new and old 🥰
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Amazing #science from extraordinary scientists who each worked at least a year on these projects and shared them with the #NIU community on Tuesday. So incredibly proud of them
Some of the amazing #scientists I got to work with in my lab bbergroup.org this year and a fraction of their work in the posters behind us. They are a special group that I am so thankful for 🥰 #NIU #dber @nicolescheuerfrau.bsky.social
Undergrad biology instructors! Want to participate in a paid research study to test the impacts of highlighting scientist role models in instructional materials? We are looking for you! #edusky 🧪
See more information and apply here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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“The program is called ‘safe place for science,’ and will provide 15 million Euros in funding for some 15 researchers over a 3-year period.”
I loved doing an REU and have mentored several of my own REU students. This is such an invaluable program to foster the next generation of scientists.
Local politics time: flood our legislature with disappointment and shame that they voted to deny children school lunches. Perhaps remind them that they get PAID for lunch, to the tune of $45 per day (okay, for all meals). Children get $0. act.prairieactionnd.org/letter/north...
My perspective on the travesty of firing ~10% of NSF employees last week aired on my local @npr.org station but you all can read it and listen here. www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/20... 🧪.
I highlighted some of the kudos for the terminated POs that @mdcarling.bsky.social spearheaded.
![Plaintiffs, who have easily established their standing to bring this case and irreparable harm, have shown they are likely to prove the Termination and Enforcement Threat Provisions are unconstitutionally vague on their face.
But it is not just the vagueness of the Challenged Provisions that renders them
unconstitutional. There is a label for government action that seeks to "deter ... principles," J21 Order § 4(b)(iii), that the government disagrees with: "restrictlion]" of
"expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content." Reed v.
Town of Gilbert, 576 U.S. 155, 163 (2015). And the most "blatant" and "egregious form of content discrimination" is viewpoint discrimination. Id. at 168-69. The Certification and Enforcement Threat Provisions squarely, unconstitutionally, "abridgel] the freedom of speech." U.S. Const. amend. I.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiajsania5b4autc37hef2rgzapikhjfn5jrfsn34jcvek5rculypy)
Plaintiffs, who have easily established their standing to bring this case and irreparable harm, have shown they are likely to prove the Termination and Enforcement Threat Provisions are unconstitutionally vague on their face. But it is not just the vagueness of the Challenged Provisions that renders them unconstitutional. There is a label for government action that seeks to "deter ... principles," J21 Order § 4(b)(iii), that the government disagrees with: "restrictlion]" of "expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content." Reed v. Town of Gilbert, 576 U.S. 155, 163 (2015). And the most "blatant" and "egregious form of content discrimination" is viewpoint discrimination. Id. at 168-69. The Certification and Enforcement Threat Provisions squarely, unconstitutionally, "abridgel] the freedom of speech." U.S. Const. amend. I.
NEWS: Federal judge blocks parts of two of Trump’s anti-diversity executive orders, finding that some provisions violate the First Amendment and are unconstitutionally vague.
* preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
These inclusive zines are produced by Queer Sex Ed Community Curriculum, an LGBTQ-led project that is developing inclusive, trauma-informed, and sex-positive resources for use with youth.
It is. For all of us.
Happy Black History Month
First they came for transgendered individuals and then they came for. . .
How does animal sex work? Are males always larger? Do females take care of the young? Consider what assumptions your students bring in from human society.
In this lesson, students observe and chew on diverse patterns of reproduction in 9 animal species.
Hey all! Please share this opportunity far and wide! We are recruiting post bac students for our RaMP program. More details online - and bonus! I'm recruiting a student in Biology Education Research!
www.ndsu.edu/researchgrou...
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