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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · 18d

Capturing the morning sun beams

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · 24d

Alternate link to fb to see video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=bccq...

American Conversations: Senator Doug Jones

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · 24d

www.nps.gov/articles/16t...

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963) (U.S. National Park Service)

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963)

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · 24d

An important part of our American history that must be remembered. www.facebook.com/share/p/1BBS...

Redirecting...

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Aug 28

Check on your friends (students, faculty, staff) at all these universities that have had "hoax" active shooter lock downs in the past 2 weeks. Their experiences were real and they are possibly not okay.

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Aug 27

I spent a long time appreciating the engineering feats of spiders this morning before I was able to face my hectic Wednesday workday.

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Aug 24

Another paper is out from my Buffalo River colleagues. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Two million years of climate-driven cave-sediment aggradation and valley incision in the southern Ozark Plateau from Fitton Cave, northern Arkansas, USA | Quaternary Research | Cambridge Core

Two million years of climate-driven cave-sediment aggradation and valley incision in the southern Ozark Plateau from Fitton Cave, northern Arkansas, USA

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Aug 20

A new short paper about our work developing the curriculum for AUTeach is out!

doi.org/10.32674/k53...

How science teacher educators reconceptualize writing within their curriculum: A self-study | American Journal of STEM Education

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Aug 1

HWY 64. NE Arkansas

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Jun 24

Another good reason to get a new passport...

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Jun 23

Camped in a cave this weekend with my son's cubscout pack. I was a good mom and did not explain Karst processes except when asked. Also show caves are weird.

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Jun 10

Maps! There is something about printed maps that is so much more powerful than looking at a computer screen (in my opinion).

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Jun 5

Messing about in streams in the rain with a very energetic group of high school students! Hopefully they know a little bit more about Geoscience, urban streams, and the fun of field research.

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · May 29

Field season has commenced!

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · May 16

Thanks at @seaicebeth.bsky.social for sharing such an amazing project - vimeo.com/1032126421?s... This is why we need the USGS, NPS, and NSF.

Beneath the Sea Floor: Unearthing the Bering Land Bridge

ATMI youth producer Natalie Buttner gained a media internship on board the RV Sikuliaq, where scientists extracted core samples from the bottom of the Bering Sea…

vimeo.com

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · May 1

On my last day as AUTeach Co-Director I taught the last class in the Science Teaching Classroom in Haley Center. It was also the first semester I had the privilege of co-teaching a new class SCMH 3010: Inquiry Experiences for Science Teachers to the first graduating class of AUTeach students.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · Apr 19

The same is true for NIH, btw, so when they cancel grants like mine bc they are no longer interested in promoting careers in biomedical research, they are violating their congressional mandate to diversify the field.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Apr 18

A reminder that NSF is explicitly breaking the law if/when they attempt to cancel grants that focus on promoting participation in science by underrepresented groups on that basis, incl women in science programs like NSF ADVANCE. Congress expressly directs the NSF to grant funds for this purpose. 🧪

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jan 31

LAWLESS NSF:
Every NSF employee who is following the director on this funding freeze and fishing expedition is in violation of US code.

per the post below, this language has been reauthorized twice, most recently by Biden in 2022 as the CHIPS Act.

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Apr 18

AARGH! My poor postdoc who was hired and then almost not hired in January and now may be unhired again... And that is just a drop in the bucket of faculty, post docs, and students that are currently and will be impacted. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants

The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

www.nature.com

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Apr 17

WTF.... I just can't.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · Apr 17

Let's be clear: Ed Martin has no power here.

The government has no business demanding information about a journal's editorial decisions or its positions on "misinformation."

CHEST should let Ed Martin know that the cavity he should stick it in is not within their remit.

Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Apr 16

Teaching future science teachers is fun! Especially when you break out the bowling ball.

Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Apr 7

My geomorphology students discovered a new wonder on our field trip to Providence Canyon... Dung Beetles. We were stopped in our tracks more than once watching these amazingly industrious creatures.

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Mar 15

Expecting storms tonight, hoping all our trees are healthy and strong.

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · Mar 1

I am pretty tired of this argument. Journal articles and books are sometimes not widely accessible (although some are), but academics speak much more often to the public now, through the media, op eds, trade books, and public lectures, than in the past and anti-intellectualism has grown.

Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · Feb 23

The failure of academia to explain things in layperson terms (up until some efforts recently) is one of the reasons for anti-intellectualism.

When you make science inaccessible, people will opt for those who sell easier solutions.

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Feb 28

Today is Rare Disease Day! I love and care for someone with a rare disease, CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder (CDD). CDD is a genetic epilepsy with no cure and current treatments only manage the symptoms. Most individuals with CDD have intractable epilepsy as well as intellectual and physical disabilities.

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Stephanie L. Shepherd @stephlshep.bsky.social · Feb 27

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