Guest post: 8 lessons for teaching over Zoom

From Dynamic Ecology by Morgan Tingley, associate professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA It has been a long ten weeks. As SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, was spreading rampantly across the United States in late March, most colleges and universities were returning from spring break, looking forward to finishing the academic year and…

Scientists explain their research using emoji

From American Scientist’s blog Macroscope by David Shiffman Twitter hashtag games can be a great way for scientists to communicate their research in a fun—and often funny—way. The latest hashtag game, #EmojiYourPhD, challenges scientists to explain their research with the aid of emoji, the internet pictograms stereotypically associated with a teenager’s text messages.  “One of…