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Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Nothing quite like going to email an expert to request an interview on a big, complex topic, thinking their name is familiar, and realizing you’ve written them before…with a ridiculous question for the footnote of the Chronicle’s daily briefing 🙈

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Beth McMurtrie @bethmcmurtrie.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Sign up for our new podcast! It's a fresh take on the topics you read about in the Chronicle. I had the opportunity to talk to Jack Stripling, our host, about my story, Is This the End of Reading? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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College Matters from The Chronicle

Listen to The Chronicle of Higher Education's College Matters from The Chronicle podcast on Apple Podcasts.

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Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Well, thanks @sarosecav.bsky.social for the new followers! I lurk way more than I post, but will say a quick hello. I cover teaching for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here’s my latest: www.chronicle.com/article/decl...

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Why Students Can’t Work on Their Own

Many struggle to complete coursework independently. How can professors adjust?

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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

@chronicle.com's fellowship application is live! Student journalists, come spend a year with us. 📆 Runs July 2024-July 2025 📍 Based in D.C., but remote opportunities available (WA, TX, FL, NC, NY, MI, NJ) 📝 Submit a cover letter, résumé, 5 clips, and 3 pitches ⏲️ Application review starts January 15

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Job opportunity at The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2024 Reporting Fellowship

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David Jesse @reporterdavidj.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

BREAKING: Kevin Guskiewicz, the current chancellor at UNC- Chapel Hill, will be announced as Michigan State University's president at 8 a.m. Friday meeting, sources tell me. Meeting notice to be issued tomorrow morning.

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Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Look who’s here! The other half of the Chronicle’s Teaching team, bethmcmurtrie.bsky.social! Just in time for POD, which she’s attending.

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Bluesky Social

See what's next.

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Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Just when you think you’re used to the snakes, gators, coyotes, bobcats, Bufo toads and all of the many bugs:

A dark grey/brown life form sits in the middle of an ordinary sidewalk. A fish. With whiskers. It is a walking catfish.

A wider shot confirms this walking catfish sits in the context of an ordinary neighborhood sidewalk, nestled between a can for dog poop and a no parking sign.
The day is wet, but the fish is definitely on land.

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Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Why aren’t more sports teams named for mythological creatures? So many good ones no one’s even using

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Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

I’m sure this time of year— when you can see Christmas lights, inflatable turkeys, and skeletons peeking out of coffins all within a block—is magical everywhere But I think it’s extra special when you live in a place that’s still too hot for any of it

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Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Just wrote “November” rather than “Friday” at the top of tomorrow’s to-do list before copying over all the things I didn’t get done today Nice try, brain!

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Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

What’s going on with students’ use of ChatGPT and the like this semester? Beth McMurtrie (not on here yet) and I are doing a bit of crowd sourcing for a story we’re working on. If you’re teaching college students and have thoughts on this, tell us here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Teaching Alongside ChatGPT

The fall of 2023 is the first full semester in which faculty members have had a chance to rethink their teaching in a world where generative AI tools such as ChatGPT are ubiquitous. We want to hear ab...

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Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

At this point in my life, I think a good superpower would be the ability to make my coffee stay the correct temperature until I finish drinking it.

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Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

You can read this week’s Teaching newsletter (with insights from @jessicazeller.bsky.social) here: www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t... While you’re at it, you can sign up to get each week’s Teaching newsletter in your inbox. For free!

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Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Man, I don’t care how good generative AI gets: I don’t think I’ll ever get a story done without at least one conversation with a human colleague who gently suggests I might get myself unstuck if I try doing some more reporting and/ or writing

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Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I should have said this the first time: Megan recently shifted beats and is covering faculty issues. So if you have some thoughts on that, get in touch!

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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Since it's what got me onto Bluesky, I may as well make this story my first post. I spoke to @aheadofthenerve.bsky.social, @holdenthorp.bsky.social and @tnfalpha.bsky.social about Katalin Karikó's Nobel Prize. Is it karmic payback, evidence that academic science is broken, or somewhere in between?

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Penn Demoted Her. Then She Won the Nobel Prize.

On Katalin Karikó's triumphant vindication.

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Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Recent articles on barriers to better teaching have me wondering how pervasive straight lecturing is in higher ed. I know this study www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles... re: STEM & this finding that profs underestimate how much they lecture digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcont... is there more?

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Anatomy of STEM Teaching in American Universities: A Snapshot from a Large-Scale Observation Study

National and local initiatives focused on the transformation of STEM teaching in higher education have multiplied over the last decade. These initiatives often focus on measuring change in instruction...

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Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Briefly considered using the old Twitter egg for my photo. Too soon?

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