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Celeste with the Hex

@drceleste.bsky.social

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Friendly neighborhood biology teacher working on better assessment and grading practices (UBC). Permanently under construction. Say hey to your dog for me! 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @ubc

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Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 5h

The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion) was overindulged rich white lady BS.

(And I love her other work)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 18h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 5h

Beautiful. I feel intimately connected to these roots

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 5h

I just learned about turning off AI on Google searches - so helpful

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 9h

Oooo do it!! I love this series 🍎

Reposted by Celeste with the Hex

Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app · 1d

RIP Tanqueray

Rest Well Queen.

Stephanie Johnson aka Tanqueray by Humans of New York

Tanqueray by Stephanie Johnson & Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York)

Inside Jacket of Tanqueray’s memoir showing a personals ad

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Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 1d

This is a very niche collection and I will now be on the lookout for you

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck. Jane Goodall, Diane Keaton, and now Tanqueray? 😩

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 1d

I’m actually pretty non tech, too. I semi reluctantly use our course management system, but that’s about it.

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 1d

Yes- I think this makes sense, and thank you. I’m not sure that it’s always the best decision, even for research. There’s got to be a cost/benefit consideration. But early days still.

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 1d

(To be clear, this is not my personal research. I research learning. These are my students doing their own projects that do not inform my work one way or the other.)

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, definitely. We’re building a course on AI and these are the most crucial decisions in play, IMO

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmm. Tell me more.

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 1d

Now it’s in writing, so it’s legit

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 1d

Which means my students can do way more sampling which leads to much more significant results.

This work helps inform water quality and ecosystem health

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Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 1d

I know, I already know …

But #AI 🤖 is doing my students a huge miracle. They’re doing a plankton survey, which takes forever and is marginally complete because lots of cells are fragmented or overlapping so they can’t be ID’d.

AI can give much more accurate abundance and diversity estimates

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 1d

Following with high hopes you become this large account

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Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 1d

Goddamn house flies 🪰

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 1d

Rip says Happy Thanksgiving 🍁 🇨🇦

An Australian Shepherd sitting in a colorful field of leaves

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Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 1d

Hosted vegetarian gluten-free Friendsgiving last night which was actually great - highlight = chocolate cake made in the pressure cooker.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

A short chocolate cake on a plate someone is carrying down a path.

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 2d

Just get on up in there 🙄🫠

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 8d

Trick or Teat! 🎃

A wood surface with an anotomical model of a boob in front of a small drawing of a person in a skirt with no shirt, mismatched boobs, and a pumpkin on her head

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 9d

Today, 3 or so years later, I was bringing the 🐰 out to the yard and glimpsed a faint web. Another widow is there this year, under the same railing. In my charlotte’s web story, I’ll claim it’s her granddaughter setting out to continue the web of life. I wish her well. ❤️

Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 9d

Anyway, she eventually had egg sacks and I could tell she’d gotten smaller. I frantically googled the lifespan of black widows (1 year, but up to 3 if lucky.) She disappeared sometime in the cold and dark of late winter.

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Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 9d

A few years ago, a black widow made her home under the front porch railing. Away enough from where hands would grasp, I decided she was safe there. Shy and reclusive by nature, I never saw her out and about - but I would frequently check on her in her home under the railing. 🧵

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Celeste with the Hex @drceleste.bsky.social · 10d

Oh I’m on my way 🏃‍♀️