Profile avatar
elenabrayspeth.bsky.social
Biology professor and lifelong learner. Often found in rabbit holes, marveling at life and science. ♥️ teaching, coffee shops ☕️ , libraries 📚, plants 🌱, dogs 🐶, zentangling, stitching and audiobooks.
55 posts 37 followers 54 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 28 Comments 22

Rules have always been my “safety guard” and comfort zone. But I get this, now. When the rules are hurting people, when the rules break moral code… rules can be bad and rules can be wrong

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

www.nature.com/articles/d41... In case anyone was wondering if anything bad happened to scientists today… 😓

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you for saying all of this! It’s a very good ‘rant’… open.substack.com/pub/emilypit...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

“The scientific literature is an essential ocean of knowledge, in which floats an alarming amount of junk. Think of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but the trash cannot be identified without special knowledge and equipment.” - The Atlantic

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

This thread. Moonstruck and fruit. I can pick my fruit, can I? It will be ripe persimmons and figs. And books, all the books 🌙😶‍🌫️ Thank you

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

This is devastating

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

😂

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I couldn’t find better words. This hits straight to the core of the issue. This whole thread says it all. The love, the heartbreak, the loss, the anger. It’s about one’s core values and identity ❤️‍🩹

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

This website shows you how many jobs NIH funding creates for your state along with the overall economic activity generated. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 42 days ago • 9 comments

Some awesomeness to counter the devastation

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Guess I found a perfect use case for generative #AI. Writing descriptive alt texts. (all samples below unedited) Guess this means there is no excuse anymore of posting without adding #AltText

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Just a couple of weeks since fire took out half of my town, Altadena. Zero stories about it in the national news today. We are already forgotten. 😢

submitted 55 days ago • 6 comments

This. A little every day.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Wonderful thread! Now of course I need to go and read about Vavilov…

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

#highered I didn’t go to Medical School, didn’t even ever think about it. Still, I write dozens of letters in support of former students’ applications for med school. Honest question: how does one rate a student’s “suitability for medical/health studies” on a Likert scale??? (1/ )

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

submitted 64 days ago • 351 comments

When a student from your new course (which has only met twice so far) stops by to say hello and cheerfully informs you that they *hate* both Notion and Perusall, but you literally built the entire course on them 😬😰. We’re going to be fine, we’re going to be fine…..

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

😢😢😢

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Saving this awesome graphic for my course on Living Systems and Complex Questions!

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Classes start tomorrow, and I have literal butterflies about my new upper level course on SSIs and wicked questions. The structure is mostly set, but I am leaving a few things open for discussion in the syllabus (TBD ON Day one) 🦋🦋🦋

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

This 👇🏼

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

This is a brilliant perspective! We didn’t stop assessing children’s ability to do math just because calculators could get it done faster and better! Assessment needs to drive student learning and growth.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

We lost our home and everything we own in the Eaton Canyon fire. Climate change is real and it’s a bitch.

submitted 72 days ago • 362 comments

Quoting from Paul Hanstedt’s book, what I want for my students is “that they be capable of changing the world” 🥹 🧙🏼‍♀️ www.routledge.com/Creating-Wic...

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Setting up my new adventure in teaching, this spring: "Living Systems and Complex Questions", an elective seminar course. I am going to chronicle the journey, starting with an article that really resonates with me right now www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

#HigherEd

submitted 120 days ago • 4 comments

Words of wisdom. Block a troll, save a gosling ✌🏼

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

💡Reposting to save on my feed - I need to learn how to use this to create learning materials for my biology courses!!!

submitted 122 days ago • 1 comment