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Q: Why do undergraduates flounder at generating research ideas? A: Productive curiosity is a skill that needs to be taught. My first Twitter thread! (1/11) #PsychTwitter #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #ScienceTwitter

Search your name in gifs and show me the one that best sums up your year so far. Here’s mine:

That might be the prettiest lizard I’ve ever seen. That vibrant blue is something 🤩

Anyone who has touched a shark would say they feel smooth going in one direction and rough going the other. Why you might ask? WELL, it’s because elasmobranchs have dermal denticles, a type of placoid scale that no other fish have. #SharkWeek 1/

Profs teaching w/Zoom this semester who also use PPTs: download the latest Zoom update. Then you can select "use slides as a virtual background" & it makes your video a part of your PPT (rather than having your students need to manage two separate windows + shrunken slides).

Do you have questions about the #SICB2021 virtual meeting in advance of the 2 Sept abstract deadline? Check out FAQ sicb.burkclients.com/meetings/abstr… and register for Q&A Webinar with the SICB leadership this Friday, 21 Aug at 1400 Eastern time register.gotowebinar.com/register/22288… (will be recorded)

This is an amazing resource for converting common (in-person) active learning activities to different physically distant scenarios. It was created by Dr. Jennifer Baumgarner of LSU: docs.google.com/document/d/15Z…

Never thought I’d call a syllabus pretty. Syllabus goals right here 👇🏻

Bats 🦇 no problem. I can think of other visitors I’d be MUCH less thrilled about finding. Like cockroaches? No thank you 😬 I’m out 🏃🏻‍♀️

How are patterns along the PD axis of fin rays properly placed and spaced as fins grow? THYROID HORMONE! Changing TH concentration fundamentally changes axis identity, and creates proportions and patterns that mirror fin ray diversity across species: dlvr.it/RdwhCP

New paper alert! Dr. Andria Harkey, PhD in #MudayLab published a new paper from her PhD Wake Forest University! Learn about a new tool to discover transcription regulators in root development of #plants! academic.oup.com/insilicoplants…

Zoom is down which is a good opportunity to remind everyone that the first rule of teaching with technology is that eventually your technology will fail.

To help our presenters working on abstracts for #SICB2021, we are happy to extend the deadline to Monday, September 14. This extension is official. We pushed the date out as far as we could, to give you as much time as possible. We hope this is helpful to everyone. SICB

We’re excited to have you, Josh!

dear incoming/younger students, please don't EVER feel like you're annoying us (senior students), bothering us, distracting us or wasting our time by asking questions, even questions you think are stupid or simple, and HERE'S WHY:

“if you had to choose an old picture of yourself as an album cover, what would it be?”

Excited for the first publication of my dissertation to be out soon!

Next week is a celebration of Black microbiologists: #BlackInMicro week! We spy Wake Forest University professor Regina Joice Cordy on the Black in Parasitology Panel Wednesday Sept. 30th at 6 pm. 👀 Follow @BlackInMicro to find out about all these great events and how to join in!

Really thankful for the students who make it feel less like I’m teaching into the void 👩🏻‍🏫 whether that’s by turning on their cameras, sending chat messages, speaking up during class, or chatting before/after class. I 👀 you