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    STEM as Culture: Exploring exclusion and inclusion in mathematics and biology
    This is a paper given as a plenary lecture at the second CalcConf in Bergen, Norway, June 2023. The paper explores how marginalization in society & living between worlds becomes a superpower in...

    Keywords: calculusbiocalculusrule of fivemarine biologyco2Microagressionsmauna keamauna loafeministtestimonioindigenous epistomologyanzalduagutierrezdisciplinary microaggressions

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    Case Study — The Gender gap in 100-meter dash times
    In 2004, the journal Nature published a short tongue-in-cheek paper by Tatem and colleagues meant to critique common abuses in linear modeling while fitting data from the Olympic gold medal times...

    Keywords: calling bulltrack and fieldreproducing resultslinear modelingcritique

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    Evaluation Findings for EDSIN OEC Program
    Evaluation findings from interviews with fellows, mentors and staff of the 2019-20 EDSIN OEC Fellows Program

    Keywords: evaluationoecSTEM Evaluation

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    Scientists Offering Solutions through Sprints
    Our BIOME Fall Working Group, Scientists Offering Solutions through Sprints, explains the process of putting together a Science sprint in your community. A science sprint is a one-day event in...

    Keywords: collaborationengagementScience Sprints

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    Collaborative case writing and field testing with Molecular CaseNet brings together discipline specific expertise for innovative pedagogical tools in the classroom
    Molecular case studies (MCS) use an interesting story as a hook , followed by exploration of biochemistry of one or more molecules of interest.  They can be useful in teaching about macromolecule...
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    DCS 105 F24 Reading List Bates College
    The reading list for DCS 105 Calling Bull: Data Literacy and Information Science is curated to enhance students' understanding of misinformation and its impact on society.

    Keywords: datalearningmisinformation#readinglistDCS 105Calling BullshitBates College

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    Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record. Produced by Project EDDIE.
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    Inclusive Pedagogy for Life Science Education Tagging Ontology
    Inclusive Pedagogy for Life Science Education Tagging Ontology

    Keywords: ontology

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    Opioid crisis: exploring the neurophysiology of opioid receptor signaling
    Using this dataset, we explore how opioids affect the electrical activity of neurons when exposed to different opioid receptor agonists and antagonists.

    Keywords: opioid epidemic

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    Open Science and Education Practices Ontology
    Definitions and references for the Open Science and Education Practices tagging ontology
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    SARS-CoV-2: Understanding, Applying and Communicating Science
    The ability to integrate process of science training with necessary skills in applying and communicating core theories in biological science and biology quantification, has been brought into focus...

    Keywords: process of science#COVID19 #SARSCOV2 #SciComm #studentdiscovery

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    SARS-CoV-2: Understanding, Applying and Communicating Science
    The ability to integrate process of science training with necessary skills in applying and communicating core theories in biological science and biology quantification, has been brought into focus...

    Keywords: #COVID19 #SARSCOV2 #SciComm #studentdiscovery

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    BioGraphI - Biologists and Graph Interpretation: Professional development for an online curriculum to foster data literacy and value diverse identities (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    Biologists and Graph Interpretation (BioGraphI) is an RCN of faculty who work collaboratively to increase student persistence in biology through improving representation of diverse scientists in...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Visual Datasets
    This downloadable module features imaginary animals and plants, and is meant to aid students in thinking about questions of evolution, classification, and phylogeny.

    Keywords: moduleEvolutionResources @ BioQUESTonlinephylogenyonline learning

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    Bates College DCS 105 Calling Bull: Data Literacy and Information Science Course Slides
    Slides that accompany the Course DCS 105 Calling Bull: Data Literacy and Information Science from Bates College

    Keywords: datamisinformationslidesCalling BullshitBates CollegeCourse Material

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    DCS 105 Calling Bull F24 Schedule
    Schedule overview for Bates College Course DCS 105 Calling Bull

    Keywords: datacalling bullmisinformationBates CollegeSchedule

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    Actually, Data Science CAN Be Accessible: Barriers to inclusion of people with disabilities in the data science workforce pipeline and ideas for lowering them
    Will draw on personal experience as a student and professional with a severe visual impairment and knowledge gained from colleagues and friends during ongoing efforts in the area of accessible...

    Keywords: Video

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    Learning Frameworks Aid Goal-oriented Course Design
    As a new instructor it can be hard to know where to begin. Thankfully, CourseSource's learning frameworks (https://www.coursesource.org/courses) shaped my approach to teaching as a first year...

    Keywords: backward designlearning goalscourse design

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    A class activity on classification
    Within the sciences, we are often talking of phylogenetic classification; hominin and non-human primate phylogenetic trees are often introduced in a course in biological anthropology. Students are...

    Keywords: hands-onphylogeny and classification

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    A CRISPR/Cas Guide RNA Design In Silico Activity
    CRISPR biotechnologies inspired by the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat RNA-guided nuclease adaptive bacterial immune system have revolutionized biology research and become...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsgene expressiongenetic basis of diseaseCRISPR/Cas9genetic engineeringin silico

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