Jayme Dyer, PhD

Community College Biology Instructor. #scicomm #firstgen #LGBTQ Experimenting with alt grading / fighting for classroom equity / not perfect. She/her

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

It's supposed to be a "Graphical Syllabus," but every time I say it in my head it's a "Graphical Abstract."

If science articles can have graphical abstracts, why not a science course? #GraphicalSyllabus #AcademicTwitter

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

@DrCJSobers 1) that's ridiculous, you have to eat!! I second @SusanDebraBlum's advice to take a lab break for everyone
2) why the "but whatever" for Gen Chem 1? Think about all those fresh minds you get to touch! I think the Intro courses can be the most impactful, my 🪙🪙

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

@lkurtz_ggc Also, this particular course is very data-based - we examine figures from the literature every day in class. More here: https://t.co/ko1HqgWzdg

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

Anonymous student comment on my Gen Bio course:

"I love this class, I love the teacher, I love the content, I love the style of teaching, and I hope to GOD that more students will be as lucky as I’ve been to experience
this style of teaching"

😭😭😭

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

@lkurtz_ggc Lots and lots of team-based discussion around prompts that I provide during "lecture" (I don't really lecture).

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

They are getting cuter! (And greater in number...)

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

Not science or teaching-related, but y'all, I'm hatching duck eggs and WHYYYYYY are they so cute? These guys are ~5 hours old.

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

Not science or teaching-related, but y'all, I'm hatching duck eggs and WHYYYYYY are they so cute? These guys are ~5 hours old.

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

@LGBacteria Wow!!! I'm so proud and excited and happy for you!!

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

@thewordninja_bk @BresockCalculus @thewordninja_bk your list includes some of my favorites, I'm adding the books I've haven't read to my to-read list right now, thx!

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

@davecormier What was good? Less good? How would you change it for the future?

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

Student: Is this graded? No? Great! I am more able to learn when I do something that's not graded.

Me: But, remember last week's non-graded assignment that was only for feedback? Why didn't you submit it?

Student: Because it wasn't graded? 😬

>> Grades are complicated, y'all

[Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social @katiemattaini]

Please RT!

Our dpt is updating our DEIJ statement & doing associated work. These Qs came up: What are the unique challenges faced by neurodivergent faculty (esp autistic) that we should be mindful of? Are there resources that would be helpful for these faculty?

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

@davecormier 💯 on grading non-assessment assignments using a pass/fail, completion-only approach!

I guess I'm learning that the threat of a large project is not enough for them* to submit mid-semester check-ins, they need the completion pts

(*not all! ~1/3 Ss turned in the work w/o grades)

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

@vanessarosaphd Props to you for asking the question!

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

On the exam (which I'm grading today), in response to the question How do you think the skills and content you are learning in this class are going to benefit you in your future? one student wrote:

"it's nice knowing how to read graphs finally." 🙌

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

An amazing thing happened in my Gen Bio course this week:

Students explained science stories to each other BY POINTING AT DATA FIGURES, not text.

THEY USED EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT CLAIMS. TO EACH OTHER. I didn't even tell them to do it that way.

😭😭😭 I'm so happy... 1/2

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

More details here: https://t.co/ko1HqgWzdg

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

@vermivormax Like this one, which has students use Natural History data to answer a question https://t.co/TgUulJXSFZ

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

@vermivormax I've used several of these activities https://t.co/8vEp60X35E

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

@markabelan +1 for Substack

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

@Archaeon_Alex "Adaptation" wrt evolution
1) It is often associated w/ intentionality (as in, a species *tried* to survive, resulting in the adaptation)
2) It gets easily confounded w/ the common usage of the term, where an organism changes in response to the environment (i.e. not evolution)