I knew Elie would not disappoint. Nailed it.

Let's remember that the vast majority of higher ed students are in non-elite colleges & unis. Improving ed outcomes at community colleges, tribal colleges, MSIs & regional public unis is even more critical to our future as a nation and society. @pulseducation

Agree! Also high-quality #openeducation and low-cost resources to reduce disparity in access.

Indeed, the challenges bested, skills built and lessons learned depend on skin color.

In 2021, the US rate of maternal deaths that occurred while pregnant < 42 days of being pregnant was 32.9 per 100 000 live births—more than 10 times the estimated rates for other high-income countries including Australia, Israel, and Spain, which all hover between 2 to 3 deaths

Something to think about today

1/ Do you want to know if a variant will affect the structure and function of a protein? We’ve got lots of tools and #data in Ensembl to help you investigate and we’re here to show you how! A thread...🧵 #genomics #bioinformatics # #tweetorial #Ensembltraining🧬

After attending 4 conferences in the last 4 months, my notebook is chock full of ideas I want to implement in my classes! 📒 I plan to collect and share them on my blog in the coming days. Keep an eye out! Photo of me presenting my poster at the GRC on Undergrad Bio Ed Research

Prof Michael E. Mann This is a GREAT thread on visibility in the new 2023 algorithm: "Negative signals matter a ton. A Tweet Report is the largest weight in the algorithm: -369x! You also get a massive 74x ding if the algorithm predicts a · Show less often · Block · Or Mute." x.com/aakashg0/statu…

Has anyone developed a scraper that collects and displays all the posts from all the people you follow on multiple social platforms?

"The state's headline expert witness’s testimony was canceled -- and other twists from the landmark trial." via Climate Connections #ClimateAction#SciComm buff.ly/44eKYv6

Folks who do bird rehab- are there any young-kid-appropriate crafts that you might need, or items kids could collect to help? I got this question and am stumped on things. Please retweet, and thanks!

Over the moon to have my paper with Mandy Frake, @AleciaCarolli, and Brad Jennings included in this latest issue of oSoTL! We investigated whether formative quizzes at different timepoints in a course are predictive of final exam grades. Check it out! 👉 osotl.org/index.php/osot…

A coda to the 1982 Tylenol poisoning case npr.org/2023/07/10/118…

#immunology retrieval practice Q: nature.com/articles/s4158… This HLA-B allele encodes what class of MHC molecule? Hint: it binds a 9-mer peptide with a hydrophobic C-terminal residue.

This site now is just another "X" - after my X-finity isp, Ed-Ex courses, and now this garbage. Looking at other options.

Hannah Choi's PhD seminar: methane cycling in the oceans. UGA dept marine sciences

Methane hydrate in oceans is largest reservoir of methane, but release to atmosphere is minimal due to microbes

npr.org/2024/01/28/122… The most interesting part of this story is the correction at the end: "The headline for this story has been corrected to add the omitted word 'off'."

Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics Across Cells, Organisms, and Populations available soon along with 3 different versions of computational companions: Python, R, MATLAB. Textbook + companion guides designed for upper-division undergrad and 1st year grad courses.