Here at Michigan, we have three courses as part of our introductory biology (non-)sequence: a lecture course focused on EEB, a lecture course focused on molecular, cell, and developmental biology, and a lab course that covers both EEB and MCDB. The reason I call it a (non-)sequence is because the lecture courses can be taken…

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14.12.2024

For the first time, we have non-human, non-intelligent Friday linkfests, that can generatively enact ritual at high speed and industrial scale | Dynamic Ecology

This week: the world's best blogger retires, the LLM spreadsheet revolution, Comedy Wildlife Photography awards, and more. Very good Henry Farrell post on how LLMs are indeed going to revolutionize human life--by revolutionizing the management of large organizations. They'll be revolutionary in the same boring-but-yet-vitally-important ways that filing cabinets, spreadsheets, and 1960s mainframe computers were…

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21.12.2024

This Friday linkfest is structured to improve rather than degrade learning | Dynamic Ecology

This week: AI teaching assistant, the limits of data, The Sound of Music nominalism, and more. C. Thi Nguyen on the limits of data. There are many pieces on this topic, but this is a particularly good example of the type. Would probably be good reading material for undergrads in quantitative courses. Having said that,…

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22.12.2024

The Dead of Winter | Dynamic Ecology

I link to this every year. Click the link below to read a lovely piece by Kieran Healy, from which the quoted passage is drawn. It's about Newgrange, an Irish megalithic tomb, but also about so much more. A society—a civilization, if you like—is a hard thing to hold together. If you live in an…

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How does your college/university teach Intro Bio? | Dynamic Ecology

For the first time, we have non-human, non-intelligent Friday linkfests, that can generatively enact ritual at high speed and industrial scale | Dynamic Ecology

This Friday linkfest is structured to improve rather than degrade learning | Dynamic Ecology

The Dead of Winter | Dynamic Ecology

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