Stay warm! We are excited that we didn’t lose power with the ice down here!

No idea!

Advice | Feeling Depleted? A Guide to Faculty Renewal How to reconnect with purpose to what brought you into this profession.

New by me (and my boss Jennifer Herman!) in @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/feel...

"If you are a university, you may have to figure out, are we in fact doing things right? Have we in fact violated our own values, our own code, violated the law in some fashion? If not, and you're just being intimidated, well, you should be able to say, that's why we got this big endowment. We'll stand up for what we believe in, and we'll pay our researchers for a while out of that endowment, and we'll give up the extra wing or the fancy gymnasium - that we can delay that for a couple of years because academic freedom might be a little more important." - Obama

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

This was a good distraction from everything today. Entertaining and

Tsilly listen for #highered nerds. Plus, UNC Chapel Hill controversy that played out for so many years while I was there is affirmed as a BIG one! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Students stand in solidarity with teacher told to remove "Everyone is Welcome Here" poster YouTube video by KTVB

When the students stand up for inclusion in the classroom. youtu.be/Jsn3INWTDGw?...

Over the weekend, nearly 50,000 protesters gathered at Tesla locations worldwide, demonstrating the growing strength of our movement. Tesla is facing mounting challenges, with sales plummeting across multiple countries.

“Free speech..If one guy talks over everyone else in my class My job as teacher is to keep him engaged, but not let his engagement make it less likely that others will learn. Ideally, he will see fairness in this,others will be encouraged to play roles in the convo. This is what equity looks like”

Column: UNC has a housing problem. Older adults can help fix it. "While this solution isn't an end-state fix, it would allow instantaneous improvement to a problem which requires massive amounts of investment and construction to solve. A temporary, imperfect soluti...

Interesting: Pairing older adults w extra rooms w university students! www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...

UNC System president backs Trump appointee. What about political ‘neutrality’ rule? “I’m certainly not taking a position on any political issue,” the university president said of his letter supporting Linda McMahon.

UNC System president backs Trump appointee. What about political ‘neutrality’ rule?
@koriedean.bsky.social 👏🏼

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Want to join the UNC Biology teaching faculty team? We’re hiring a new TAP! Please share. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...

@aoc.bsky.social needs PollEverywhere upvote classroom technology!

Survey gauges whom college students trust most Student Voice survey data indicates that students trust professors most and the president and other senior leaders least. What makes students trust certain campus groups more than others and how can t...

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Students trust professors and advisors most on campus.

Awww thanks! In these chaotic and dark times, thanks for supporting me and @vijisathy.bsky.social and all your students with an inclusive mindset!

Thanks for posting this. It is helpful. Trying to see the light.

I did a mini discussion two weeks ago about what indirect costs were all about, so this will be a little follow up to keep them engaged. This was the pre/post Q

an official website of the US government. NIH National Library of Medicine. 503 Service unavailable.

Do students know that science is literally disappearing before our eyes? I wanted to show my students the description of a gene we are studying on the NIH site. Poof. Gone. I will be making this clear to them.

Office desk without any personal items or decor

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭

It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.

At the nation’s scientific and public health agencies, panic set in as officials braced for a wave of layoffs. The Trump administration is now embracing forced resignation of officials at CDC and NIH.

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.

This was the final nail. I won’t have work after next semester.

I thought I might be safe with private funding.

No more business as usual in higher ed.

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it.

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What does it mean when a student clicks while learning in the digital landscape of a course? What does it predict? Find out by taking the students out of the wild (classroom/course) and into the lab! I provided the learning envy & students— the rest of the folks brilliant design/analysis!

"Please list any nominations for internal awards or external awards you led this year on behalf of colleagues." Part of our faculty annual report questioning...a nice way to encourage collegiality, I think!

Three different kinds of chocolate

When you tell colleagues and students you like dark chocolate…lucky me! Happy Monday!

A Call to Use Cultural Competence When Teaching Evolution to Religious College Students: Introducing Religious Cultural Competence in Evolution Education (ReCCEE) | CBE—Life Sciences Education Low acceptance of evolution among undergraduate students is common and is best predicted by religious beliefs. Decreasing students’ perceived conflict between religion and evolution could increase the...

Love this approach: www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...