@rpenton
UG curriculum and faculty developer (neuro, cell bio, & immuno!); frequent conference attendee; pedagogy & andragogy nerd; former neuroscience teaching faculty; intuitive abstract & process artist; posts my own
My former department is hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join the faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455
#Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
Person in a party hat giving a presentation and it says The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out
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An exciting collaboration is underway. @thetransmitter.bsky.social is partnering with @neuromatch.bsky.social to serve the computational neuroscience community and help connect neuroscientists across all career stages.
www.thetransmitter.org/neuromatch-p...
#neuroskyence
make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!
Think worked examples are the key to learning? Think again! In a large active-learning genetics class, students believed worked examples were most useful—but actual test gains came from prediction-based exercises. From Elise Walck‑Shannon, Washington University 👩🔬 www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...
May every single human being on this planet be safe.
May every single person be protected from harm.
May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.
Most higher ed #BiologyEducation research is done at 4 year institutions even though most biology education in higher ed happens at #CommunityColleges. Presented by Noah Courtney at the @alleninstitute.org in the #OpenScience in Undergrad Educ symposium.
The amazing Carlos Goller speaking about #metagenomics at the @alleninstitute.org #OpenScience in Undergraduate Education Symposium! @rioscommunity.bsky.social
Sam Donovan delivers an awesome keynote at the Allen Institute #OpenScience in Undergraduate Education Symposium. A brilliant articulation of the Open Ecosystem as connections between networks, gateways, community, science ed reform, #OER, #OpenScience & #OpenEducation providers, and so much more.
Science is for everyone.
Our Education & Engagement program empowers students, educators, and scientists to harness the power of real-world #OpenScience tools and data.
📽️ youtu.be/uDnCFnzDLec
#EduSky #iTeachBio #Neuroskyence
Name tag from the Open Science in Undergraduate Education Symposium.
Looking forward to day 2 of the Open Science in Undergraduate Education Symposium at @alleninstitute.org. So much great discussion about #openscience and #openeducation from @karencang.bsky.social Carlos Goller Davida Smyth Melissa Aikens @rpenton.bsky.social and many others.
The AAUP wholly condemns this punitive weaponization of federal grant funding. This attempt to discipline & control a university campus is a transparent hallmark of authoritarian rule & harshly violates the central mission of education to serve the public good.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...
In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”.
https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It
"Universities must be spaces of learning, not intolerance. It’s time to take action to protect and support the trans community."
This is very bad. “A panel of scientific experts that advises the Food and Drug Administration on vaccine policy — and has been the target of criticism from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — learned on Wednesday that its upcoming meeting to discuss next year’s flu vaccines has been canceled.”
Nothing runs like a Deere, but they don’t back down either.
NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot.
by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
Abstract deadline extended to March 3 for consideration for a talk! (And still 4/1 for posters!)
#Neuroskyence students! We're brainstorming ways to support your development over this summer break, esp. given the changes in summer intern programs across our fields. What other opportunities would you like to see?
Some ideas: undergrad-focused webinars, self-paced courses, challenges, etc.
The landscape of diversity and inclusion in science funding has shifted. David Barker explains how neuroscientists must adapt and take action or risk losing ground on all of the progress made.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/adap...
imagine WANTING to receive two million emails
Transgender Youth Have Better Emotional Health After Taking Hormones, New Study Finds www.scientificamerican.com/article/tran...
i wrote about the impact of Trump’s DEIA shutdown across the sciences earlier this month. but i wanted to do a deeper dive into what it means to explicitly target accessibility — both for supporting scientists with disabilities & broader disability research itself:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/s...
Great write up at @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the seeming erasure of SABV in the new era of NIH. Gotta say The Transmitter is killing it the last few weeks, first to report on the Federal Register block and now this. Leading the charge! 💪 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
STAT story is up about study section restart.
www.statnews.com/2025/02/24/s...
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
Ever thought about writing for @thetransmitter.bsky.social? You should! It’s a great way to spread your message across the neuroscience community.
Here’s how it works:
1️⃣ Read this:
www.thetransmitter.org/editorial-po....
2️⃣ Email a pitch: www.thetransmitter.org/contact-us/
New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...
1/n
i can only assume this is a film about a 20-year journey to find a lost cat