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Thursday, March 11, 2021

Who should write you a letter of recommendation?

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[this was originally posted as a Medium article ] There are a few times every year when faculty members are bombarded with requests to write...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Ecovacs Deebot OZMO T8 AIVI and Auto-Empty Station: It's the good kind of suck!

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I think most anyone who has heard of a robotic vacuum cleaner has heard of the industry leader, iRobot . However, I've noticed that the ...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Looking for MediaAmp, Course Links, or Files in Canvas's "Enhanced" Rich Content Editor (RCE)?

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Recently, my university has changed things so that faculty using Canvas LMS will now encounter the “Enhanced Rich Content Editor (RCE)” by d...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Evolution and Evolutionary Algorithms: Selection, Mutation, and Drift

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A guide to the three pressures that shape innovation in living and non-living systems. (a version of this article has also been posted to Me...
Tuesday, December 01, 2020

Low-cost, Convenient, Portable Lighting Solution for Video Conferencing

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There's nothing worse than bad lighting on a video call or while recording a video. Experts will tell you that you should buy a nice rin...

Seeing All Canvas LMS Submission Comments in One Place

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I hate submission comments in Canvas LMS. Students are given the impression that these are nice ways to send questions or comments to the in...
Friday, September 04, 2020

Advanced Zoom: Using Slides as Virtual Background

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There is a beta feature in Zoom (version 5.2.0 and higher) that is easy to miss but can make for a slightly more exciting way to share slide...
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Thursday, July 30, 2020

Voting: Should It Be Hard?

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An argument for how more access to voting (not less) is not only fair but makes for a more deliberative voting population (also posted on M...

How to Read Epidemiological Parameters: Going from R0 to Predicting Number of Deaths

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Basic guide for using CDC data to understand how many people must die for a society to reach herd immunity (also posted on Medium ) David J....
Friday, June 12, 2020

Animal Behavior virtual conferences for Summer/Fall 2020 that are free (or nearly free)

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A silver lining of COVID-19 is that amazing conferences have become far easier and far cheaper to attend. For interdisciplinary researcher...