From @MCDuncanLab
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Here I propose that rather than possessing “good hands,” an innate and unlearnable aptitude for science, such scientists possess expert learning skills that can be effectively mastered. I share a straightforward approach to gaining and teaching expert learning skills in the research lab environment. I also discuss ongoing efforts by others to develop curricula that teach expert learning skills in laboratory courses.
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My lab studies the evolution and diversity of the eukaryotic endomembrane system. Its earliest origins and how it has evolved and adapted in the many independent transitions from heterotrophy to parasitism are of particular interest. I am a protistologist, cell biologist, and a molecular evolutionist. I also aspire to be an scholar, an ally, a colleague, and a supporter.
#UAlberta #Division of Infectious Diseases #Department of Medicine #Department of Biological sciences
Recommended by a great scientist and great person, @jekely, I'm giving this platform a try.
Please follow or connect or whatever we do here :) Say hi!
#SCOTUS rulings for sale: New report reveals the depth of Clarence Thomas' corruption by conservative ultrawealthy billionaires. https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court
I'd ordinarily post this on the ex-birdsite (see what I did there) as it's my largest audience, but I am trying to go cold-turkey on it.
At any rate, check out these amazing art of science entries!
Our paper on how even experts confuse inferential uncertainty with outcome variability is out today in PNAS! https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2302491120
For a summary, see this amazing thread from @ct_bergstrom https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/110267907188002904
A special thank-you to all of the faculty who participated in this study.
No, academics do not "forget" to answer emails. They remember and feel bad about them, the guilt slowly building up, until the only way out is to fake their own death and move far, far away under a different identity to build a new life, a better one, with inbox zero and no shame
Anyways, I owe you an email.
This is a great round-up @focalplane_jcs of Advances in Expansion Microscopy by Victoria Alonso. There's so many variations on the method now, I am completely lost (despite the folks in my lab doing one of them!)
https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/08/04/advances-in-expansion-microscopy/
@theosysbio whoops forgot the link! https://goldsteinlab.weebly.com/diymicroscopeworkshops.html
@theosysbio our lab had a lot of fun using this with middle schoolers. Each scope costs about $10, hard to break, and easy to use (you use your phone camera to visualize). It was esp fun with iPads because students could easily crowd around and see the same thing and all participate!
Doom is a privilege we can’t afford.
“Some days I think that if we lose the #climate battle, it’ll be due in no small part to this defeatism among the comfortable in the global north, while people in frontline communities continue to fight like hell for survival. Which is why fighting defeatism is also climate work.” - Rebecca Solnit
An opioid expert from Texas A&M gave a guest lecture and mentioned that Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick’s policies were costing lives. Within hours, Patrick’s office got her suspended, formally censored, and nearly fired.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/
Instead of just writing the damn program we’re being sold a vision where we will engage a mischievous Djin to do our work for us, and we shall expend our energy desperately trying to spot the ways it has contrived to simultaneously be true our word, and fuck us over.
Sounds exhausting.
The cost of being a non-native English speaker in science
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-non-native-english-speaker-science.html
Hello everyone, I am a graduate student in Derda Lab at University of Alberta in Edmonton, AB. We use genetically-encoded phage libraries to discover ligands using next-gen sequencing. My research has been focused on creating genetically-encoded multivalent liquid glycan array and probing cell surface glycan binding proteins. My research interests includes glycobiology, bioothgonal chemistry, phage, DEL, and next-gen DNA sequencing. #Glycotime #ChemicalBiology #NGS
Our society treats liberal arts education as a luxury good. Think: Which K12 schools cut supposedly inessential programming to focus on “practical” learning? And which K12 schools still have that supposedly inessential stuff like, say, robust music ensembles?
That is the •same• question as, “Which students does society view as fully privileged, free humans beings, and which does it view as cut out for a life of servitude?”
⚠️ The ⚠️ same ⚠️ question ⚠️
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Cell biologist and biophysicist studying evolutionary cell biology.
I'm interested in how amoebae divide, especially relatives of the "brain-eating amoeba"
I study this with microscopy, image analysis, and comparative genomics.
Postdoc at UMass Amherst Biology, PhD in Biophysics from Stanford.
I also love jazz and nature photography!
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