Oh absolutely 💯 - a common refrain in my genetics course is “biology loves a spectrum” …And “biology loves to break the rules we set for it”
Absolutely!
Happy to provide what I used for Intro Genetics (3000-level) at the end of the course
Shoutout to the Undergraduate Genetics Education Network (UGEN) for their resources on the topic from last year's virtual conference... which I cannot find any evidence of on the internet to post here 🤷♀️
STEM students want and need to get the real picture of how science is (mis)used in our every day life. I wanted everyone who left my genetics class to not reduce humanity to genes, while still seeing the power in that knowledge. Not to mention how our humanity drives study decisions.
"Now would be a good time for this reminder: ... While football revenue can help subsidize other sports, money from athletics rarely flows to the educational side; it is often the opposite.... Most major universities subsidize athletics, not the other way around."
What Does College Football Have to Do With College: "does a multibillion-dollar sports enterprise, attached to American universities, make any sense?"
The question isn’t new. But seismic changes to college sports, embraced by Coach Deion Sanders and his University of Colorado Buffaloes, have made it more relevant than ever.
That one has come out a lot, yes
Me every day in fungal biology as students bring me mushrooms to ID - "well I'm not really a mycologist"
