Heather Toomey Zimmerman
heather2mezimm.bsky.social
Heather Toomey Zimmerman
@heather2mezimm.bsky.social
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Professor and learning scientist at Penn State. Informal and family learning; science and environmental education; museum education; augmented reality and learning technologies. My personal account.
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We are hiring Teaching-Focused Postdoctoral Scholars for our academic programs at Penn State: a) Lifelong Learning and Adult Education, b) Workforce Education and Development / Organizational Development and Change, and c) Learning, Design, and Technology. Apply by July 11. tinyurl.com/22cv7z9u
Teaching-Focused Postdoctoral Scholar in Education
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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Academic friends: Penn State is hiring an Assistant/Associate Teaching Professor for our Doctor of Education Program. This is an online teaching position with a flexible, mostly remote work arrangement (with some required travel to the University Park campus). Apply by July 10: tinyurl.com/3cxf493d
Our Penn State College of Education research team was excited to present our work about supporting family talk and learning in informal settings with augmented reality at NARST 2025. I had great conversations with my Strand 6 and Strand 14 colleagues. @narst.bsky.social @psuedu.bsky.social
Education researchers: REMINDER—we have an assistant professor position in our LDT program! Apply by Nov. 14th for full consideration at psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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@lendami.co @thefarmerjones.bsky.social @billdifilippo.bsky.social made a Penn State starter pack, grabbed who I saw immediately that I recognized. Even @ankitj.bsky.social but feel free to maybe tag people I might have missed. go.bsky.app/RQe8HJD
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Please please, GIVE ME A SIGN YOU'RE REAL!
"1. Fill out your profile BEFORE you start following people: issue is that accounts with generic avatars and no biography or introductory text are perceived as likely to be bots, so users not only eschew following back but they may even automatically block"
We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky!

It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...

>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...

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The Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog
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Science education research (and adjacent) folk! There aren’t a ton of us here yet — let’s find each other! Who am I missing?

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#SciEd #NARST
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Community for Education Scholars in all areas and concentrations looking to find each other!
Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #EducationScholars

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Learning Sciences scholars: We're hiring an Assistant Professor in our LDT program. Apply by Jan. 15, 2024 for full consideration! Job posting: bit.ly/PSULDTJob