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Joel Schneider
@joelschn.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Science ed, qualitative research, LGBTQIA+ studies, antiracism, disability justice // Postdoc with Sarah Eddy @ University of Minnesota // Lover of tea, treats, and any tasty thing to drink or eat 💜
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I'm so excited that we got the @dbersit.bsky.social account up and running! Join us, DBERites! 😃
DBER-SiT, part of the @sabercommunity.bsky.social, is thrilled to finally join Bluesky! ⭐ We're a community of early career scholars in #BER and #DBER. Let's connect for chats about research, social and professional events, and a growing community of early career scholars!
July 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Are you an undergraduate biology instructor? We are developing a tool to aid teaching about race and genetics, and we would love for it to reflect your students’ perspectives! Let us know if you’d like to include your course(s) in the survey pilot for this UMN research study!
z.umn.edu/BRSurvey
January 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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New research from the group published just today in collab with Norwegian friends!

Studied the experiences of mentors for science student internships with implications for program development. Lead by @joelschn.bsky.social & including @arielsteele.bsky.social #DBER

doi.org/10.1186/s405...
Creating better internships by understanding mentor challenges: findings from a series of focus groups - International Journal of STEM Education
Background Despite demands to make higher education more relevant beyond academia, and a growing body of work testifying to the benefits of work-relevance programs (e.g., work-placements, or internshi...
doi.org
December 5, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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New work from my research group led by @emilydriessen.bsky.social $ Keenan Walker

A pilot study of how 4 faculty teach sex/gender in their bio classes. We looked at their teaching approaches, resources used, and how they learned to teach more inclusively. #DBER

www.lifescied.org/doi/full/10....
www.lifescied.org
December 4, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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Results from British Academy's experiment of randomized awarding of research grants to proposals which all have passed a high quality threshold indicates that random selection increases diversity dramatically.

#academicsky @academic-chatter.bsky.social 🧪

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promisi...
November 17, 2023 at 8:39 AM
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The “corporate university” as an analytical lens may become less useful as funding and operations decisions become increasingly political acts and “partial defenses” in the face of deinstitutionalization.
University admins claim to be "data-driven" and "run universities like a business," but when study after study finds liberal arts majors get good outcomes, are cheap to run, and are in fact profit centers, admins cut them anyway for ideological reasons.

ncnewsline.com/2023/11/16/n...
November 19, 2023 at 3:02 PM