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I believe in science

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My new chapter "Providing Feedback on Student Laboratory Reports: Issues in the Formative Assessment Practices of Preservice Science Teachers" is now available (if you have access to Springer books through your uni).... link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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For the better part of a century, the US has been enormously enriched by emigrant scientists from around the world. Under Trump, the brain drain is reversing. If you like long-format radio, I had a great conversation with @nvpatel.bsky.social (NYtimes) and Libby Denkmann (KUOW) this morning.

submitted 53 days ago • 7 comments

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submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

A powerful lesson the Church today can learn from Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the inseparability of faith and action. True discipleship demands costly grace and courageous resistance to injustice. Following Christ means showing up, speaking out, and often paying a price. That’s the cost of real grace. ⚓

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.

submitted 72 days ago • 2490 comments

So much of what seems to be going on in the academics of science education, the Academy, seems to be same old-same old. After the pandemic & the reactions of many of the public to science during that are we really in same old-same old times? Are we? Really? IMHO a radical re-think is needed.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Access for disabled people is not an advantage. It is an equalizer.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Jay Bhattacharya is a very smart, accomplished, and well educated man. It's important to note, though, that while he has an MD, he has never practiced medicine or done a residency. His PhD & expertise are in ECONOMICS. The methodology of his health research papers is shallow. Beware expertise creep.

submitted 73 days ago • 11 comments

Sources say that this was the first time JD Vance realized Greenland wasn’t actually green.

submitted 76 days ago • 229 comments

“Universities must defend their truth-seeking and educational missions. They can point to obvious benefits, including economic ones….But universities must also insist that one cannot pick and choose research, as in: say medical research OK, but climate research not.“

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Cowardly US universities, institutions with vast endowments and independent financial resources, are refusing to host the Berkshire Conference, the largest US gathering of women historians. Northwestern U ($14.3 billion) cancelled, no one else would agree in time. The 2026 Conference is cancelled.

submitted 88 days ago • 6 comments

Nothing screams "isolationist" policy quite like this. I guess it's the other side of the pariahist policies of the current gov't.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Mike has been a friend of mine since we were young reporters at the @washingtonpost.com in the 1980s. He brims with talent, integrity and commitment to the truth. This is exactly what I expected and he had hoped he could stave off, which is a trash move by trash people. Throw them out.

submitted 91 days ago • 591 comments

With apologies to my few male friends & colleagues this would apply to, if I never again heard or read a single word from a white male over 53 years of age (ya, Elon's age) for the rest of my existence I think that on balance the quality of my life would be dramatically improved.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

submitted 102 days ago • 1798 comments

1/2: "What Teachers Want to Know About Teaching Climate Change delivers on the promise of its title."

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

I've decided to not attend the NARST @narst.bsky.social Conference this year. I've got better things to do with Canadian taxpayer money than funnel it into an economy that's trying to destroy ours. I'm the 5th Canadian that I know that's cancelled attending NARST this year.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

RIP to one of the bona fide greats

submitted 110 days ago • 588 comments

My new book is now officially out. May this be useful to people getting their bearings in this growing field. Available on Amazon, Barnes and noble web, publisher website, etc

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

A profoundly empathetic book on #homelessness. Kevin Fagan’s new work moves beyond predictable policy critique to examine the moral side of the crisis. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l... via @newyorker.com

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Unlike other drooling, power-hungry ghouls like Smith, Ford, & Trump, N.S. Premier Tim Houston manages to present himself as the affable guy next door, but he's not. Power Grab: Tim Houston is dismantling democracy in the birthplace of responsible government www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Power Grab: Tim Houston is dismantling democracy in the birthplace of responsible government www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file... Morning File by me

submitted 113 days ago • 10 comments

Moves to undermine public education in the U.S. should concern Canadians

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Research shows that LGBTQ+ inclusion can drive economic activity. Open For Business’ latest report shows the economic case for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Poland: open-for-business.org/poland

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The erosion of democratic norms www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file... Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

submitted 115 days ago • 2 comments

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

submitted 115 days ago • 2339 comments

Ok that made me laugh

submitted 116 days ago • 633 comments

The Lost Estate: How to put the local back in local news. Rebuilding a flourishing ecosystem of local news will require a strengthened web of connections linking news organizations to the communities they cover. ppforum.ca/publications... @ppforumca.bsky.social #cdnmedia #journalism

submitted 120 days ago • 3 comments

Very cool! Submissions open now!

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

Very well-done story from Angus Chen about impacts of the ongoing attack on US science and technology. Here is (IMO, since I said it) a key point about cuts to NIH.

submitted 122 days ago • 15 comments

Russia attacked Kyiv, Ukraine with ballistic missiles and drones, specifically targeting apartment buildings, office spaces, and civilian infrastructure while people slept at night. Firefighters worked bravely throughout the night to rescue victims and put out the emerging fires. #StandWithUkraine

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A lot of educators ask us how they can incorporate ideas about climate change in the classroom. Here are some great ideas from Dr. Elizabeth Bagley, our Managing Director at Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social drawdown.org/insights/10-...

submitted 122 days ago • 3 comments

When do we stop treating UCP ventures to Washington as diplomatic missions, and start recognizing them as field trips? thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

submitted 123 days ago • 18 comments