Plant scientists call for renewed focus on empowerment of trainees
Blog, Careers, Careers - Blog, Education, Education General, Mentoring, Plant Science Research Network, Skills and Advice, Work-Life Balance, Workplace DiversityPreparing graduate students and postdocs for diverse careers
Changes in the workforce are challenging academia to prepare scientists to be adaptable and adept at communicating across boundaries. To meet these demands, the Plant Science Research Network (PSRN, plantae.org/PSRN) is shifting the focus…
Images for Impact – How-to tips. Created for the Plantae Seminar Series
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Earlier this year I gave a Plantae seminar on "Images for Impact" - simple, free tips about how to source and create images to use in your science writing and communicating.
Here is the text of the handout I created to accompany the seminar. You can get this as a PDF here. You can download the…
The SingAboutScience.org database: An educational resource for instructors and students
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Setting something to music is a well-known method for supporting learning (think about the alphabet song that you learned as a child). Gregory J. Crowther has assembled a searchable database of science-themed songs, along with lesson plans and suggestions for how to use songs in your teaching.…
Alan Alda's Experiment: Helping Scientists Learn To Talk To The Rest Of Us
Blog, Careers, Education, Education General, Skills and Advice, Writing/Reviewing/Publishing/CommunicatingAn NPR interview with Alan Alda about his efforts to help scientists learn to communicate.
"People are dying because we can't communicate in ways that allow us to understand one another," he writes. "It sounds like an exaggeration, but I don't think it is. When patients can't relate to their doctors…
Australia's giant parasitic Christmas tree, with blades sharp enough to cut telephone wire
Blog, Education, Education General, Education General PublicHere's a fascinating plant in honor of Fascination of Plants Day #PlantDay
By Tim Low, published in Australian Geographic
AUSTRALIA HAS A PARASITE believed to be the largest in the world, a tree whose greedy roots stab victims up to 110m away. The Christmas tree (Nuytsia floribunda) has blades…
Plant Scientists in the Wild (#FoPD)
Blog, Education, Education General, Education General PublicGuest post by Emily Larson @erlarson_phd and Maria Papanatsiou @m_papanatsiou, postdocs at the University of Glasgow, Scotland
If there is one stereotype about some scientists that contains a shred of truth it is that we are definitely indoor kids – at least professionally speaking. We spend a…
How to make a DNA Bracelet
Activities, Activities, Blog, Education, Education General, MHS Activities, Middle & High School, UndergraduateCross-posted from Kelsey Wood with permission. Kelsey is a PhD student at U.C. Davis.
How to make a DNA bracelet, from any organism and any gene!
I study plant-pathogen interactions, so I chose to make a sequence from a wild tobacco gene that is important for plant defense against pathogens.
What…
Are GMOs good or bad? From the video series "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell"
Education, Education General, Education General Public, GP Multimedia, Multimedia, MultimediaAmazing - over 1.5 million views in less than 24 hours - this is a popular video series!
Here is a list of sources from the YouTube page:
SOURCES:
#What is natural:
GM insulin:
http://bit.ly/2ncHaW5
Genetic engineering for thousands of years:
http://bit.ly/2eCHKfi
http://bit.ly/2mLCvPm
CRISPR:
http://bit.ly/2ncI2uN
#…
New Competition! Teaching Tools in Plant Biology pre-proposals: April 30, 2017
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Have you got a passion for plant science that you are eager to share? Do you have a favorite paper, experiment, topic, or method that you like to share with undergraduates? Have you found a clever way to engage students and stimulate their curiosity?
We want to hear your ideas for new content…