In our newish building all of the inside walls for offices are frosted glass to increase light infiltration into the rest of the building (the old biology building had almost no windows). But it also means you can almost always tell if someone is in the room and the wall is made of glass.

Agreed!

Wolves
Blandings turtles
Fairy shrimp
Grizzly bears
Wood storks

I echo bethynyc and also send you good wishes for today.

These are beautiful!

I agree, as I’m preparing to teach about all the definitions of sex in biology (including design from your paper - thank you!) and how we will use them with plants. And I teach papers that include plants with sexes such as strong hermaphrodite, weak hermaphrodite, and female.

I think the shame list reframed - books you think are important to get to soon?

Could you please post the information instead of a link to Instagram? Anyone without an instagram account cannot access the information. Thanks!

Yes, and along with that, this misses things like critical thinking skills. Having a PhD isn’t about being able to spit out facts, as much as it might seem like it when I try to explain succinctly the ecosystem reasons for why there is no swimming in the lake we live near (at 8,000’).

The podcast I posted seems particularly effective at getting bio students entrenched in “science as unbiased” to start understanding how yes we can all learn to use a ruler the same way but there is so much of the science process that is influenced by the doer.

You’re probably going a lot deeper into epistemology, but I use the 2nd half of this podcast
theanimalbehaviorpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1540180/epis...
and the “asters and goldenrods” ch.of Braiding Sweetgrass to talk about situated knowledge for intro bio. Happy to share my podcast transcription.