The six stages of #lockdown: 1. Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance 6. Re-creating likenesses of your favourite scientists* *involving wine #WomenInSTEM #AcademicChatter #chemtwitter #AcademicTwitter #NobelPrize #COVID19Aus

Your novel is grand, @susie_dent. The lines "What if Alex and her readers had never found each other? How long would she have stayed hopeful, optimistic enough to plant geraniums, without back-up.?" is masterful. May we all be strong enough to plant geraniums without back up.

Today I met #science and #maths teachers across the ACT and presented on school outreach and assessment in the age of genAI from a. @UCSciTech perspective @seaact's conference at the @BiologyANU. Such a good conversation about the need for learning validation.

Every flipped classroom lesson: "OK did you all watch the video?" *Crickets* "Okay, let me just teach it again anyway."

This is brilliant.

In every language, the most frequent word occurs twice as often as the 2nd-most-frequent word, and that occurs twice as often as the 3rd-most-frequent word, and so on. This pattern is called Zipf’s Law, and because it applies to every natural language, scholars can even use it on undeciphered texts to determine whether the writing system is a real language. This is how we know that the mysterious Voynich manuscript, for example, likely contains a real language. Constructed languages often deviate from Zipf’s Law. Linguists are still uncertain why Zipf’s Law holds, however. The most prevalent idea is that it helps us be as efficient as possible in our communication.

"Without clear standards and appropriate consequences, students cannot identify weaknesses, learn from mistakes, or develop the resilience needed to improve. Efforts to minimize discomfort in the short term create long-term deficits in knowledge, behavior, and life skills."

Today @UCSciTech @UniCanberra and @RACInational hosted 90 #school #Chemistry students for a #murdermystery. To access a casefile they cracked a locker code. The final clue was this: 7, 10, 11, 28, 41, ___ what is next is the number? Can you solve it? #onlyconnect @VictoriaCoren

Final session of #ACSME2024 before Discipline Day - an important panel conversation about how the feeling of belonging improves success and wellbeing for students. @UniCanberra @ourANU Thanks also to all our online delegates who have been so engaged throughout - you belong too!

Dear @UCSciTech students, some of your conveners are running #ACSME2024 where @ALeighMP is speaking of the importance of data literacy in the era of misinformation, and it's use to enhance wellbeing. We're so glad you're with us @UniCanberra on your #science and #maths journeys.

#acsme2024 keynote #2 Louise Ainscough (UQ) discussing the journey of education-focussed #academics. Discussing how we can value all staff equally in #HigherEd so we all belong. @UCSciTech @UQ_News

On thinking time: ↓

"The promise that students can magically learn to think while having nothing in long-term memory to think about is the 21st-century equivalent of selling snake oil." edmontonjournal.com/opinion/…

Drawing by Frèdèric Forest. Saturday

The basic finding is that working memory capacity can't be increased by much, if at all. We make our students smarter by enriching what is in long-term memory, so they can do more sophisticated things in their limited working memory.

This was a wonderful opportunity - thank you @UCSciTech, @FranklinWomen and our Dean, Janine. This program helped me see a much more colourful, authentic and adventurous #womeninSTEM future. Onwards and upwards #AcademicChatter