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Celeste got her groove back

@drceleste.bsky.social
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Friendly neighborhood biology teacher working on better assessment and grading practices (UBC). Permanently under construction. Say hey to your dog for me! 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @ubc

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hi friends! It’s been a minute! Happy to share some ammunition to make brave choices in your learning spaces ❤️ #ungrading #stem #highered journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Ungrading in a third-year biology laboratory indicates positive student results without loss of outcomes | Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
Despite its ubiquity in formal education, traditional grading has long been criticized for its limitations in accurately reflecting student learning (1–4). Compounding the problem of inaccurate measur...
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Everyone peep the rad 70s lamps I just thrifted 🤩
2 70s Chrome and cork table lamps on a tile table
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Coolest headboard ever
An Australian Shepherd snuggled in some pillows on a bed. The headboard is painted with light bulbs
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
A very happy hello from Smokey the foster bun who finally got his egg open 😮‍💨 🥚
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
About to be the before pic for State Farm
A girl sitting in the grass trying to feed Canada geese ritz crackers. A city skyline is in the back
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Yeah that’s cool
(See the quoted post for more; it’s a septagonal patch with the astronaut names around the edges and pictures of mythic animals and a stylized bird image at center)
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Imagine sitting strapped in and hearing “oh hang on - there’s a dead battery” JFC, they need an admin assistant
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Friends! My students are finishing a term project that will go live to the public. It's a Secret Tour of Sex and Gender that will be available at the Biodiversity Museum. If you're versed in inclusive language, we would really appreciate your input in final edits!
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/04/2026
"We expected protective paternalism to play a central role in explaining why some men perceive the tradwife movement positively... We were taken aback to discover that it was instead men’s overt sexism that played the most important role in their attitudes about the tradwife movement.”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/03/2026
The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...
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Transgender women banned from Olympics by new IOC policy
The new policy limits eligibility in women’s events to biological females based on genetic screening beginning at the 2028 Games.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/03/2026
The Education Department said it would move out of its headquarters in downtown D.C., the latest and most visible step in the Trump administration’s campaign to eliminate the agency altogether.
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Education Dept. to hand headquarters building to Department of Energy
Abandoning the D.C. headquarters is the Trump administration’s latest and most visible move toward eliminating the Education Department altogether.
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
My past students are #ungrading too ❤️✌🏼🙌
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
#Vancouver friends! Would anyone like to take our prototype tour of sex and gender at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum? 🦅 🐟 This is a final project for my human ecology course. @ubcbotany.bsky.social
A description of a secret tour of sex and gender
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Do you steer the luge? Or is it just hold on and hope for the best
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I just had a piece accepted in a museum exhibition (It’s the museum of personal failure, thanks for asking)
An artist statement about a quilt that was hand stitched while a relative was pregnant. It was almost finished but *life* and that baby is now 25The museum display of the quilt folded over a chair. There’s an embroidery hoop highlighting the few unfinished inchesThe quilt layer out. It is a vintage nautical theme
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Big news: My autoimmune thing is almost completely controlled with the enzyme that digests histamine (DAO) But it’s hard to find in 🇨🇦 , so I’m back across the border every few weeks to pick it up 🙄
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I made my neighbor a sweater and left it on her porch this morning. Look at her - she’s so proud 🥹❤️
A brown doodle dog wearing a crocheted sweater looking very pleased with herself
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Receipt that we did in fact grow up drinking from the hose
A toddler in a red shirt squatting down drinking from a garden hose. She is on a grass lawn
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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
When they ask me what radicalized me
The family of mice singing “No cheeses for us meeces” in the opening song (“Scrooge”) of THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992), a movie that I saw in the theater at age 10 and which immediately became a formative movie and deeply held family favorite, its annual viewing soon becoming a family tradition, and which has always been incredibly dear to me, even though I consider myself only an average enthusiast when it comes to the Muppets (I grew up with them and still love them with that warm childhood purity but I am not at Disney-Adult-levels of obsession or passionate opinion—but I will say that THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL is one of the best adaptations of Dickens’s story in the entire history of cinema, and no one since ’92 has come remotely close), and which I have always found incredibly moving and beautiful and tragic and redemptive, and which always makes me cry quietly during several key scenes; it is one of my strongest links to childhood memory.
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Look at the festive vintage cookie jar I just thrifted 🍪❤️ 🌲
A holiday red ceramic cookie jar with greenery and pine cone accents
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
They’re both big mad, but that’s paybacks for putting up w/ their shenanigans all yr 😡 😂
An furry Australian shepherd laying on a bed in holly pattern Christmas pajamas. He’s looking disgruntled. There’s a brown bunny in front of him with a big red bow on his back. He’s laying flat like he’s mortified
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Morning drama in a single photo
A rabbit on a bed. There’s a slider door in the back, opening to a yard. There’s a cat in a coyote vest peering in at the rabbit
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
My day 5 #AdventCalendar is an emergency trip to the vet with this dufus 🙄😭
An Australian Shepherd laying down with a cone around his neck. He is looking weary
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I did not grow up in a paper towel family. I do not buy them, but my spouse does. He asked me to pick up some paper towels and WHY ARE THEY SO EXPENSIVE??
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
@drcatmac.bsky.social #3. (Last one to noodle on for now) Student w/ severe sleep disorder. Cannot be accountable for anything time related. We designed a specific project in my lab that was robust to disruption BUT big picture- how does this work in a team OR w/ regular labs w/o the flexibility
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
@drcatmac.bsky.social #2: Part of science in most labs is presenting work to others. We have students who cannot do this under any version including prerecording. How do we equitably accommodate while still training in scientific communication?
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
@drcatmac.bsky.social Here is my 1st hurdle: We see increasing need for students to NOT work in groups. I’ve figured this out for my lab, but for general science guidelines (think chem), limitations on space/reagents/etc necessitate group work.
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Huge News from the Western Amazon: it's the year 2025 and we are still describing entirely new, strikingly-distinctive large-bodied bird species! Behold Tinamus resonans sp. nov. the Slaty-masked Tinamou mapress.com/zt/article/v... #Ornithology @tetzoo.bsky.social 🪶
Photo montage of Tinamus resonans sp. nov., a new species of tinamou from the montane forests of the Serra do Divisor, western Amazonia, Brazil. The species is distinguished by a unique combination of plumage pattern, vocal repertoire, and ecological characteristics, including a conspicuous dark slate facial mask, vivid rufous-cinnamon underparts, and a uniform brownish-gray back. Its vocalizations are remarkable, consisting of long and powerful songs that echo strikingly across the steep montane slopes, producing a characteristic resonant effect. The species was documented exclusively at higher elevations within a transitional zone between submontane and stunted forests, where the understory is densely structured by root mats. A preliminary population estimate, based on field detections and spatial extrapolation, suggests approximately 2,106 individuals restricted to the Serra do Divisor massif. Although no immediate anthropogenic pressures were observed within its range, the species may be highly vulnerable to climate change and to proposed infrastructure projects that threaten the integrity of this federally protected region. The discovery of T. resonans highlights the biological uniqueness of the Serra do Divisor, reinforces its status as a center of montane endemism, and underscores the critical importance of maintaining its long-term conservation.
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Scored a vintage GAP tracksuit at the thrift (Y’all can see where I’m going with this.) Also scored more vintage Christmas stuff!
Celeste in a red tracksuit and glasses smilingA scene from Elf where Buddy is approaching a man in a red track suit that he assumes is Santa
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Fashion advice needed: Is this vintage dress too white for a guest at a summer beach wedding? (It’s cream, not white)
A floor length off white dress with colorful pink and orange flowers
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Today I faced another mental block and tried pole - (also my regular aerial yoga). Yay me!
Black and white photo of an off centered body spinning on a pole. There are empty poles in the roomA smiling person hanging upside down from aerial hammock.
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is correct.
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Welp. My job here is done ✅
A postcard that says “dear Celeste thank you for your jaw dropping lesson on sea cucumbers and pearl fish! I really cannot get this parasitic interaction out of my head and I have already told my mom all about living in sea cucumber anuses!”
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Note: not my area of expertise- but I’m learning blogs.ubc.ca/celesteleand...
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Thoughts on Accessibility: Group Work in Lab Courses | Celeste Leander
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Rebecca wins an amazing attitude award for showing up to start her project solo when her partner called in sick ☹️ Way to go Rebecca!! 🤩 #science @ubcbotany.bsky.social
A colorful amazing attitude award with a sun
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Back from the field starting a diatom diversity study! @ubcbotany.bsky.social
Several gloved hands pipetting pond water out of falcon tubes
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Afternoon groups are here! This project is looking at most effective concentration of EtOH to prevent E. coli growth AND how long 70% is effective post treatment 🧫
A pile of agar plates on a lab bench with miscellaneous equipment
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Rolling right along with this group looking at mislabeling of meat in raw dog foods.
A blue test tube rack with 6 micro centrifuge tubes with brown stuff in them
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This group is setting up an experiment looking at how different light affects Chlamy growth @ubcbotany.bsky.social
A bright lamp above some glass dishes covered in blue acetate
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This group is looking at what’s growing on high traffic door handles 😬 (Stuff I don’t want to know) @ubcbotany.bsky.social
Gloved hands streaking an agar plate with a cotton swab
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We’re out of the gate with student projects! This group is looking at salinity tolerance of Penicillium roqueforti 🧪 @ubcbotany.bsky.social
A hunk of blue cheese on moist paper towels. There’s a person’s gloved hands with forceps holding a glass tube
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
1) Vaccinating yourself is about protecting vulnerable people in your community. It’s not always about you personally 2)Measles has no other host outside of humans. This disease should’ve been eradicated decades ago 3) We are a moronic species 🙄 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canada lost its measles elimination status, but N.L. still eight years without new case | CBC News
Canada lost its measles elimination status earlier this week, but Newfoundland and Labrador chief medical officer Dr. Janice Fitzgerald says the province remains heavily protected from an outbreak of ...
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
“Gussie McPhail, supervisor 3rd floor” 🧑‍⚕️ (According to Google, Royal Columbian School of Nursing provided a scholarship in Gussie’s memory. Way to go, Gussie!) 🥇 Her photo accompanies me in my kitchen during the holidays. 🎂 I hope someday my photo keeps company to a stranger somewhere. ❤️
A black and white 1950s looking photo of a person in a mid century nursing uniform. She’s sitting with arms crossed, smiling, beside a decorated Christmas tree.
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Look how handsome Rip is 😍
A most regal Australian Shepherd. He has one blue eye and one brown eye and looks very calm and poised, even though he’s really a dufus
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Megan @craftyintentions.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🦕 Blink blink Ponysaur Crochet Pattern! 🌐 Website: shop.craftyintentions.com/b/5hr1B 🧶 Ravelry: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... 🛍️ Etsy: www.etsy.com/listing/1454... #craftyintentions #crochetpattern #amigurumi #ponysaur #crochetcreature #crochetcommunity
A crocheted Ponysaur stands on a rock outdoors. The creature has a long neck topped with a single large, glossy purple eye complete with long eyelashes.
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Flashback to mealworm cookie day circa 2019 #teaching #science
A classroom table with a small container of mealworms, a larger container of chocolate chip mealworm cookies, and a  cellphone/microscope contraption with a magnified view of a mealworm. There are hands of students looking at the stations
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Today I got to be the proud presenter of UBC’s very first Canvas sticker! @ubcbotany.bsky.social
A screenshot of a Canvas submission page with an arrow pointing to the new sticker, which is a gold star on a blue background
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This tree needs to shut the eff up. It’s too early for this shit.
An obnoxiously red tree from the view out an open front door.
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Important update 🚨 Puppy has arrived
Same screen as before but now there is a real dog and handler in front
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Note to self: DO NOT PET PUPPY 😩
A projection screen from the ceiling at the end of a lab bench. The slide projected has a cute golden lab puppy with a service vest. The caption says “Campus Canines. University of British Columbia. Intro to PADS and assistance dogs.
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