@rbreich did he claim the child tax credit for Barron?
In November, I'm teaching a North House Folk School class on hand drawn map making and needed to scan example maps for the course description and catalog. Here's a page from one of my travel journal with a map on it. I really like this one.
Frosty birch
We had a great day of fog the other day. It coated everything in rime ice.
Cook County, Minnesota, USA
#photography #LandscapePhotography #FotoMontag #Minnesota #Nature #NaturePhotography
@stefanbaeurle Stunning!
I want to add more intentional note-taking to my undergrad gen ed this fall and am trying to decide between doing the occasional "share and compare" exercise, vs create a collaborative google talk for folks to be tasked to contributing to on different days. Does anyone have experience with these methods and/or preferences of one over the other?
@rob_nguyen Ah, this is super helpful, thanks! I can't decide if my learning objective is "help the students develop complete notes and work together" or "learn to take quality individual notes" which I think is making it hard for me to decide.
@KateClancy I've done something like the latter on a shared Word doc for a gen ed lit course. Each week a different student summarized our meetings and posed a question we'd discuss early the following week. I didn't have a sense of whether it helped students take more intentional notes (unless they were the ones covering that week), but I believe the sort of baton passing it structures helped us identify the discussion threads that were important to us over the course of the semester.
@KateClancy @rob_nguyen for my genetics class and for an undergrad Gen Ed human bio class I have handouts for every lecture with my learning objectives. They fill these out individually and can get points for turning them in, in batches. Because of the volume, I don’t evaluate them so much for accuracy (which may be a flaw). Many students use these during lecture to take notes and answer the questions in real time. Together these form a study packet for them.
@wrigleyfield Yeah, that article was... something.
*whispers* Pay attention to the #denominator...
"‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why"
@wrigleyfield I don’t think this will hold up. Someone else on here pointed out that two of the major developments in molecular biology in the past 50 years aren’t considered disruptive by their measure. Like, Nobel Prize stuff that has an enabled the molecular revolution.
If you want to view all photos and art in their native format, you need to turn off a default setting in Mastodon's Appearance settings.
Make sure that you uncheck the box next to "Crop images in non-expanded posts to 16x9."
That way you'll be able to enjoy the photos and art on Mastodon without having to click on the image.
My lab is looking for a postdoc to work on NGLY1 deficiency. In particular, we are looking to test a bunch of candidate therapeutics in preclinical models. Fully funded, though all our postdoc have received independent funding. DM or email me! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5586048de4b00e437dfae87d/t/63a0953f5d8db34ca5ee0f9b/1671468351274/Postdoc_ad_2022.pdf
long post on accessibility advice from a blind screen reader user
OK #Mastodon. I've seen several toots on #accessibility for #screenreader users, however, I've not seen one from a screenreader user (as far as I know). I've used ZoomText, Outspoken, JAWS (AKA JFW), Supernova, NVDA (Windows), and VoiceOver (both on Macs and iPhone). I don't have experience with Windows Narrator or TalkBack. I would like to rectify and clarify a few small things.
First off, any awareness of accessibility issues, and endeavours to make things more accessible is great. Keep going!
But…
Blind/low-vision people have been using the internet as long as everyone else. We had to become used to the way people share things, and find workarounds or tell developers what we needed; this latter one has been the main drive to get us here and now. Over the past decade, screen readers have improved dramatically, including more tools, languages, and customisability. However, the basics were already firmly in place around 2000. Sadly, screen readers cost a lot of money at that time. Now, many are free; truly the biggest triumph for accessibility IMHO.
So, what you can do to help screen readers help their users is three simple things.
1. Write well: use punctuation, and avoid things like random capitalisation or * halfway through words.
2. Image description: screen readers with image recognition built-in will only provide a very short description, like: a plant, a painting, a person wearing a hat, etc. It can also deal with text included in the image, as long as the text isn't too creatively presented. So, by all means, go absolutely nuts with detail.
3. Hashtags: this is the most commonly boosted topic I've seen here, so #ThisIsWhatAnAccessibleHashtagLooksLike. The capitalisation ensures it's read correctly, and for some long hashtags without caps, I've known screen readers to give up and just start spelling the whole damn thing out, which is slow and painful.
That's really all. Thanks for reading!
@tony does it also lock out other browser windows, track eyes and keystrokes? We don’t use any of this type of software, and I think it’s creepy. I also know that I have low confidence in the validity of most online assessments I do, so I do most of my assessments in the classroom on paper.
"Bernard Kalb, a veteran correspondent for CBS, NBC and The New York Times who also made a brief and unhappy foray into government as a State Department spokesman, died on Sunday at his home in North Bethesda, Md. He was 100." #journalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/business/media/bernard-kalb-dead.html?action
@jason_ritt @manlius @neuroscience @networkscience @complexsystems @PessoaBrain @WiringtheBrain @kordinglab @ricard_sole @c4computation
Great question, not sure. Top or my mind is Nick Strausfeld’s paper describing the origin of the insect’s glomerular organisation of both the antennal lobe and optic tuberculum in the ancestral leg neuropil of the crustacean biramia segment. So yes hox genes and their A-P diversification, also evident in the human brain (rhombomeres and also cerebral cortex).
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