Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D.

biomechanics and behavior of wild birds insects crawfish humans fish with undergrads | scientific consultant | co-author argus | tweets my own etc.

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

Convergent evolution

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

@BrightspeedHelp Internet is down at home, with no cell service. Had to drive 10 minutes report to @gobrightspeed , but no problems reported no chat agents online. Tried to report but "technical difficulties." No phone number. Can't run online troubleshooter without internet!

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

@sarahesilverman I’ve gotten similar feedback from one of my courses in which I have similar policies. I think they definitely engage more with this style of ungrading.

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

@hankgreen In evolutionary biology terms, this would be like an “ultimate” answer to the where question. The parallel where question, something like “what caused it, genetics or environment?” is looking for a “proximate” answer. Same simple question. Lots of correct and unknown answers.

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

@amtcastle Congrats! And you’re welcome.

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

@amtcastle Testing a new camera. Thought you’d enjoy! https://t.co/WEN5BElwo5

[Longwood BES @Longwood_BES]

The BES Department recently sponsored the Heart of Virginia Beekeepers Conference (Jan, 2023).Attendees were provided with close-up images of their bees taken using Longwood's scanning electron microscope. Click the link below to learn more about the SEM! https://t.co/2qKk2vrAud

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

@amtcastle It’s so much better. I’m working on Python code now so that I can manage my entire canvas courses in markdown files, then push to canvas. And I’m writing my next paper in #Rmarkdown.

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

@amtcastle Since I switched to writing everything in markdown.

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

@CallieHCrawford Virginia tech is about 2 hours away. Apparently after the shooting there, they changed every office, lab, and classroom door here to have button locks inside.

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

@juancog was that you on NPR? Great to hear about your work! https://t.co/ubLiDiFQD2

[Amy Orsborn, PhD 👩‍🔬🐵 @neuroamyo]

Academia: where sorting out a $3 purchase costs $3,000 of personnel effort.

[BiologyCarly Backup @CarlyAnneYork]

Hey #ScienceTwitter! I've been locked out of @BiologyCarly for a month, and I don't know if I'm going to get it back so I have a new account. But I miss my Twitter community! Can you please retweet this so I can find my people again?❤️

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

@riskindan @amtcastle @BomphreyRichard @JohnRHutchinson @EAmichai There’s a paper one of my students cited once on dragonfly speeds in the field: Michael May, 1990 or 1991. I remember distributions of speeds, not just maxima.

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

New paper (a response) alert. FYI: if you are going to critique a hypothesis supported by many papers and techniques, do more than extract data from a single figure and extrapolate wildly to contradict the hypothesis and basic theory. https://t.co/FgX93kOI8m

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

I was actually hoping he would become magnetic. It would be much more convenient to just stick him to the fridge while I prepare dinner.

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

My 7 month old got the COVID vaccine last night. Side effect symptoms today: excess drooling, aphasia, fecal and urinary incontinence,poor motor coordination. Scary stuff. #VaccineSideEffects 1/2

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

Oh wait. He’s 7 months old. All is normal. #VaccinateOurKids 2/2

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

@JohnRHutchinson I have found that inbox zero is best seen as a temporal aspiration - reached for mere seconds once per week, month, or year - rather than a state of being in itself. Scientific journals ensure its brevity.

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

@BrettKvo I’ve at least partially flipped all of my classes, and I think the 1st years get most excited by it.

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

A 🧵 after my first class with complete #Ungrading.
Important background: Jr/Sr bio majors A&P; 8 highly motivated students; 7 week "semester": we started mid semester. 1/16

[Brandon E. Jackson, Ph.D. @backyardbiomech]

@lab_harley I think I may have gotten the idea from you!