Lecturer at UBC-Okanagan, CMPS Department. Physics PhD, interested in STEM EDI initiatives, learning analytics, science communication and data science!
Joined February 2009
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1 Sep 2020
Excited to finally share my Jupyter Book course template!
firasm.github.io/jupyterbook…
In just 3 steps you can have your very own course website deployed and ready for your Jupyter Notebooks and markdown content! 😅whew!
Thanks @ProjectJupyter and Executable Books project!
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We’ve updated our terms of service (in section 10.4) to further confirm that we do not use audio, video, or chat customer content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent. blog.zoom.us/zooms-term-serv…
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Firas Moosvi, PhD retweeted
5 Aug 2023
✨Introducing our 2023-24 Contributors! Can't wait to learn with these educators! ✨🤩 Check out more: teachersgoinggradeless.com/2…
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27 Jul 2023
I have a few Bluesky invite codes available for folks in the #Altgrading sub community !
Let me know…
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21 Jul 2023
Super exciting to see this out!
@simonpbates and I co-authored two chapters 😁! So much fun.
I’m published in a book!!
20 Jul 2023
I'm absolutely delighted to be able to reveal the book cover for my forthcoming edited collection - Effective Teaching in Large STEM Classes. Look out for leaflets at @ViCEPHEC
And thank you to the wonderful selection of authors who contributed:
ALT Book cover which reads IOP Series in Physics Education Effective Teaching in Large STEM Classes Edited by Anna Wood. Icons show light bulb moment, thought cloud, pencil and paper, talking heads, question marks and speech bubbles.
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21 Jul 2023
I made it in to Bluesky (thanks to @AstroDino)!
Will help any #altgrading Twitter friends migrate when I get invite codes 💪🏽
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Firas Moosvi, PhD retweeted
14 Jul 2023
The UBCO community is saddened to learn of the sudden death of Devyn Gale, a School of Nursing student.
Devyn, working as a B.C. wildland firefighter this summer, lost her life battling a wildfire near Revelstoke.
For more, including resources: bit.ly/3OcIbgC
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Firas Moosvi, PhD retweeted
10 Jul 2023
↕️ Sorting: an often overlooked, but absolutely crucial aspect of charts.
Good sorting (and grouping) can make it so much easier for your audience!
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10 Jul 2023
This is much needed ! Thanks for everyone maintaining this.
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Firas Moosvi, PhD retweeted
Bad news: RWU lost a brilliant teacher and scholar in @hsmiceli due to their own stupidity.
Good news: You might be able to hire her! (You'd be VERY lucky.)
Welp. Today is my official last day at RWU.
Two years ago, I finally landed a FT position - I expected some level of security.
Nope.
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Firas Moosvi, PhD retweeted
29 Jun 2023
Before you begin your thinkpiece, the Supreme Court DID NOT strike down Affirmative Action
Admission preferences for legacies, donors, employee families and special recommendations are still allowed
The Court struck down Affirmative Action For everyone except WHITE PEOPLE
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Firas Moosvi, PhD retweeted
9 Jun 2023
Let's take a moment to appreciate those first two responders to scheduling polls, who do the work of collapsing like 100 possible options down to 2-3 options that the rest of us select between.
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Firas Moosvi, PhD retweeted
7 Jun 2023
Our new paper on "Lessons from debiasing data for fair and accurate predictive modeling in education". #machinelearning models may greatly improve prediction fairness (66%) with only a small sacrifice (<1%) in prediction accuracy. #AI #learninganalytics sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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1 Jun 2023
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS and KUDOS to my friend, colleague, mentor, and hero @cleander for winning the West Coast Teaching Excellence Award! 🎉
Keep being amazing!! You're a source of genuine inspiration and wonder!
academic.ubc.ca/academic-com…
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Firas Moosvi, PhD retweeted
"AI-art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history. "
artisticinquiry.org/AI-Open-…
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