BioMan🔬

Secondary Science teacher
Head of House (Pastoral/Behavioral post)
Fifth year qualified

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🇫🇷 Kylian Mbappé: “Disrespecting the shirt in the first half? I would say we were simply being human… and unfortunately, we cannot afford to be human”.

“I think we were completely switched off, and they certainly gave us a wake-up call”.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Emotions are fundamental to human life, but when dysregulated, they can contribute to anxiety and trauma-related mood disorders.

In a new #SciencePerspective, researchers dive into new approaches to understand emotions across species and how these insights could be used to advance treatments for psychiatric disorders.

Learn more: https://t.co/3RRhdCBNOq

[Miss Bird @MissBird90]

Histology revision this morning

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The children who grew up watching this must be the rulers of the world today.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

For decades, biology textbooks have enshrined a simple rule: DNA is made by copying a template. After one enzyme unzips a DNA double helix into separate strands, another called a polymerase builds a complementary sequence, base by base, for each strand. Presto: two copies of the original DNA.

But recent research into how bacteria defend themselves from viruses now shows this synthesis rule isn’t absolute. The team describes a bacterial enzyme that synthesizes DNA without a nucleic acid template, using its own structure as a guide.

Learn more: https://t.co/TeUWvyO0OD @NewsfromScience

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

The results of a 2024 study are among a growing number suggesting the heartbeat quietly shapes how the brain processes information.

These findings also raise the uncomfortable possibility that internal rhythms frequently treated as background noise may be subtly skewing results in neuroscience experiments.

Some researchers are now warning about the issue, and a paper published in April lays out guidelines for standardizing how studies should document and account for these internal rhythms.

Learn more: https://t.co/hBQhFEb3KL @NewsfromScience

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Ancient pathogen DNA from animals elucidates the origin and evolution of infectious diseases.

Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://t.co/Ua240x1b2r

[Dr Dan Jones @Hookean1]

This new app explains how transformers work, step by step, for both GCSE and A-Level. I hope you find it useful
https://t.co/mVohl7HBgC

[Science News @SciencNews]

Nature-based interventions for stress, anxiety and depression. @NatureHumBehav

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Key human defenses against pathogens were forged billions of years ago in microbial battles with viruses.

Learn more: https://t.co/NqwQk38nzX @NewsfromScience

[Dr Dan Jones @Hookean1]

Here is a new Physics teaching app, comparing a variable resistor to a potentiometer. I hope you find it useful 🙂
https://t.co/ipJ3liZs37

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

This depiction of viral threats confronting both bacteria and people, and the protein and cellular defenses arrayed against them, illustrates how human immunity traces part of its antiviral arsenal to ancient microbial predecessors. This shared defensive heritage is already suggesting novel tools for molecular biology and new approaches to medicine.

Learn more this week in Science: https://t.co/FS3lrvwR4D

[Dr Dan Jones @Hookean1]

🚨New app 🚨 This app shows what resources are currently being used to generate electricity in the UK
https://t.co/blz9yMOe75

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

📉📈 NON-EXAMPLES! The latest edition of ⚗️DistillED includes this free one-page guide.

A non-example isn’t just a random wrong answer — it’s a carefully chosen example that is missing the critical feature that defines the concept.

[Jon Harper @Jonharper70bd]

I had never taught using white boards until this year and now it is pretty much all I use. What I appreciated about this conversation that while we discussed the benefits of teaching using white boards we also discussed when not to use them and the danger of overusing them (I am guilty here).
@AmberBHaven @AndrewWatsonTTB @SoLInTheWild @bamradionetwork https://t.co/tWU40sQQ8g

[🇬🇧 TeacherToolkit.co.uk @TeacherToolkit]

NEW RESOURCE 💥

⏰ Guide to the Science of Learning = One-Page Summary

🟢 DOWNLOAD https://t.co/ktUq2jS8kY

To help teachers understand more about the decisions they make, and how it impacts on pupils' attention span.

#GuideToLearning

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

“I will miss the creativity of teaching.”

During #TeacherAppreciationWeek, check out this #ScienceWorkingLife essay from a retired professor emeritus on how she challenged students to think beyond facts—and how she learned to teach like a scientist. https://t.co/1RvNo1g5pc

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

“I will miss the creativity of teaching.”

During #TeacherAppreciationWeek, check out this #ScienceWorkingLife essay from a retired professor emeritus on how she challenged students to think beyond facts—and how she learned to teach like a scientist. https://t.co/1RvNo1g5pc

[Dr Dan Jones @Hookean1]

Explore changes of state, by either heating or cooling a range of substances in this new app 🙂
https://t.co/skoGA57rOU

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not.

Tough one.

Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.