Mike Fowler
@theorecol.bsky.social
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecologist. Dad. Whisky lover. Football coach. Relearning the drums. Not necessarily in that order.
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I see it every year in M-level reports. I suspect those who put legends underneath are not reading enough to get the point/develop the habit.
January 23, 2026 at 6:17 PM
I see it every year in M-level reports. I suspect those who put legends underneath are not reading enough to get the point/develop the habit.
I'd go with the same explanation I give for p = 0.05.
Convention.
There's enough of it out there that you need to be prepared for it. You (they) can attempt to change your (their) approach once they discover and understand the reasoning for it, and persuade everyone else to change behaviour too.
Convention.
There's enough of it out there that you need to be prepared for it. You (they) can attempt to change your (their) approach once they discover and understand the reasoning for it, and persuade everyone else to change behaviour too.
January 23, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I'd go with the same explanation I give for p = 0.05.
Convention.
There's enough of it out there that you need to be prepared for it. You (they) can attempt to change your (their) approach once they discover and understand the reasoning for it, and persuade everyone else to change behaviour too.
Convention.
There's enough of it out there that you need to be prepared for it. You (they) can attempt to change your (their) approach once they discover and understand the reasoning for it, and persuade everyone else to change behaviour too.
I can lend you both some of my marking if you need a distraction?
January 21, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I can lend you both some of my marking if you need a distraction?
Ask a Finnish speaker to tell your about Lake Vesijärvi 😉
(Then move on to Bodominjärvi and get your headphones out.)
(Then move on to Bodominjärvi and get your headphones out.)
January 20, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Ask a Finnish speaker to tell your about Lake Vesijärvi 😉
(Then move on to Bodominjärvi and get your headphones out.)
(Then move on to Bodominjärvi and get your headphones out.)
Protecomiss is close enough to Protecomics that now I just want to read some graphic novels.
January 20, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Protecomiss is close enough to Protecomics that now I just want to read some graphic novels.
Looking more closely I see you've got lined graph paper. I definitely need to try that, making students sketch it freehand is making it harder that it needs to be 🤣
January 17, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Looking more closely I see you've got lined graph paper. I definitely need to try that, making students sketch it freehand is making it harder that it needs to be 🤣
Lovely!
What level of class are you doing this with? We try it with 2nd year undergrads and have ~variable success.
What level of class are you doing this with? We try it with 2nd year undergrads and have ~variable success.
January 16, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Lovely!
What level of class are you doing this with? We try it with 2nd year undergrads and have ~variable success.
What level of class are you doing this with? We try it with 2nd year undergrads and have ~variable success.
There must be some data out there by now around how successful student engagement with this plan is.
January 15, 2026 at 8:48 PM
There must be some data out there by now around how successful student engagement with this plan is.
Good luck – flipping the classroom like this can work really well if all/most students do the prep work...
January 15, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Good luck – flipping the classroom like this can work really well if all/most students do the prep work...
Right! Justification of choices is a great method to encourage/force students to engage with the material, even if it's LLM output. I'll need to remember that.
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Right! Justification of choices is a great method to encourage/force students to engage with the material, even if it's LLM output. I'll need to remember that.
Set problems that don't have a solution?
January 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Set problems that don't have a solution?
Yeah – good strategy.
50% of my coursework is based on an analysis of a free choice of (published) data, which works very well for ensuring independent working. But there's a trade-off with the additional time required to mark it compared to standardised questions.
I need to get more creative!
50% of my coursework is based on an analysis of a free choice of (published) data, which works very well for ensuring independent working. But there's a trade-off with the additional time required to mark it compared to standardised questions.
I need to get more creative!
January 14, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Yeah – good strategy.
50% of my coursework is based on an analysis of a free choice of (published) data, which works very well for ensuring independent working. But there's a trade-off with the additional time required to mark it compared to standardised questions.
I need to get more creative!
50% of my coursework is based on an analysis of a free choice of (published) data, which works very well for ensuring independent working. But there's a trade-off with the additional time required to mark it compared to standardised questions.
I need to get more creative!
Nice!
This is coursework, and there is only really one cluster. The bureaucratic work involved to follow up (suspected) Academic Misconduct here is so great (as is the administrative pushback on appropriate punishment) that it often isn't worthwhile doing anything 😔
So much for quality assurance.
This is coursework, and there is only really one cluster. The bureaucratic work involved to follow up (suspected) Academic Misconduct here is so great (as is the administrative pushback on appropriate punishment) that it often isn't worthwhile doing anything 😔
So much for quality assurance.
January 14, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Nice!
This is coursework, and there is only really one cluster. The bureaucratic work involved to follow up (suspected) Academic Misconduct here is so great (as is the administrative pushback on appropriate punishment) that it often isn't worthwhile doing anything 😔
So much for quality assurance.
This is coursework, and there is only really one cluster. The bureaucratic work involved to follow up (suspected) Academic Misconduct here is so great (as is the administrative pushback on appropriate punishment) that it often isn't worthwhile doing anything 😔
So much for quality assurance.