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Firas Moosvi, PhD

@firas.moosvi.com
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Lecturer at UBC. Physics PhD, interested in Alternative Grading, STEM EDI initiatives, SoTL, learning analytics, science communication and data science! Website: Firas.Moosvi.com

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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 30/08/2026
Just going to leave this here… www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
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MIT AI Report Calls for Alternative Grading, Social Learning
Artificial intelligence is upending the MIT education, a committee has found. Students, instructors and administrators will need to revisit nearly every part of that experience to respond to it.
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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 10/09/2025
Are you ready to align your grading practices with your values? Join us December 17–18 for the Alternative Grading Institute (online), which will bring together faculty from across higher education for a two-day, hands-on experience in standards-based, specifications, and collaborative grading.
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Alternative Grading Institute
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Mark Mac Lean @marktmaclean.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
For your amusement.
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 04/09/2025
I know the person who … 🤯 CCOL !!!
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UBC News @news.ubc.ca · 25/08/2025
Dean by day, cruciverbalist by night. Dr. Mark MacLachlan discusses the science behind the art of his hobby as a crossword creator for @nytimes.com and more.
news.ubc.ca
This scientist’s side hustle is creating crosswords for The New York Times - UBC News
Dean by day, cruciverbalist by night, Dr. Mark MacLachlan discusses the science behind the art of his hobby as a crossword creator for The New York Times and more.
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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Shaking my fist at @dccmath.bsky.social because his syllabus structure is so good that it is making me want to completely redesign my other syllabus.
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 19/08/2025
That gif is so perfect 🤣
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 08/08/2025
Everyone loves a good #ChartCrime, especially if it’s by OpenAI! Enjoy ! www.theverge.com/news/756444/... Also - “vibe graphing” 😂😂😂
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OpenAI gets caught vibe graphing
An OpenAI staffer apologized for the “unintentional chart crime.”
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 22/07/2025
AFAIK, the only major missing feature for instructors using JupyterBook (and the @jupyter.org) is a robust way to present notebooks slides. Here, @quarto.org really has clean and tight workflow! 🎉 So I’ll be working on building a Jupyterbook with Quarto Live slides… r-wasm.github.io/quarto-live/
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Introduction – Quarto Live Documentation
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Robert Talbert @roberttalbert.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I am in dire need of case studies from higher ed instructors using flipped learning in the humanities, fine arts, social sciences, or business for the 2nd edition of my book. If this is you, or you know someone or can reach someone like this, @ me and I'll send details. 🙏
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 14/06/2025
Congratulations to Serene (my first grad student) for defending her masters thesis today 🥳🤩 ! Thesis: Instructor Perspectives on Alternative Grading at UBC ☂️!
Four adults posing for a picture after a Master defence presentation. From left to right: Dr. Silvia Bartolic (second reader), Serene Rodrigues (MA student!), Dr. Firas Moosvi (Co-Supervisor), and Dr. Marina Milner-Bolotin (Co-Supervisor).
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/05/2025
hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...
a chart showing power consumption of big tech companies
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David Clark @dccmath.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Alternative graders! I'm working on a blog post about "rookie mistakes" -- the things that new alt. graders most commonly do that cause them trouble. My list so far: - Unlimited reassessments - Too many standards - Super-duper complex system What would you add?
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
2025. #DEI. "findings could help promote equity in STEM by ensuring greater focus on the fields in which women and girls are most underrepresented and negatively stereotyped." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Divergence in children’s gender stereotypes and motivation across STEM fields | PNAS
STEM disciplines are traditionally stereotyped as being for men and boys. However, in two preregistered studies of Grades 1 to 12 students in the U...
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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I am happy to announce the publication of the first part of a 2-part @jcmsjournal.bsky.social Teaching Media dossier on #ungrading that @lisawj.bsky.social and I co-edited. Please check out "Part I: Critical Reflections on Ungrading" here: quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/teach... Part two coming soon!
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 20/03/2025
Charts are back…✨
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Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
As the (brand new!) head of the department that is doing the hiring, I can confirm that this position is available... please share and apply! Tagging #AcademicSky 🧪 for reach!
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 14/02/2025
Next time! We’ll have you over at UBC 😊 have fun!
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Jesse Stommel (Jessifer) @jessifer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Looking forward to being back in Vancouver for Digital Pedagogy Lab next week. I’m co-teaching about alternative assessment with the inimitable Martha Burtis. bccampus.ca/event/digita...
bccampus.ca
Digital Pedagogy Lab 2025 (2025-02-18)
Are you ready to push the boundaries of teaching with technology?   The Digital Pedagogy Lab is more than just another educational conference. It’s a dynamic, cohort-based community of practi...
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 13/02/2025
Oh you’re coming to Vancouver! That’s so great! I’m over at UBC and somehow hadn’t heard of this! Is your schedule pretty packed ? Let’s chat, if you’re up for it, maybe we could get a group from UBC together to talk!
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Viji @vijisathy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
In other news, if you’re looking for a speaker on engaging all students, teaching STEM, teaching large classes, or need someone to offer mentor training or coaching, HMU!
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 06/02/2025
This must be devastating. I know I’m devastated for you - I’m very sorry 😞
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2i2c @2i2c.org · 05/02/2025
2i2c has officially become part of the mybinder.org federation, introducing a new, cost-effective, and faster approach. We hope to make it easier for more people to join the federation by contributing a single-node BinderHub at 2i2c.mybinder.org. More in our blog: 2i2c.org/blog/2025/binde…
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 02/02/2025
🤯
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 03/01/2025
Just saw 4 more articles that used final & final exam grades as statistical measures of improvement. Please - for the love of all research everywhere - STOP using grades as a measure of anything. Grades can’t be combined statistically b/c they have too many embedded factors - some defined some not
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 01/01/2025
💯 this… I’m right at the threshold, teetering on the brink, one way and then another.
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 28/12/2024
An insane story of an intern working at ByteDance (TikTok), deliberately sabotaging models to redirect compute resources. And then winning Best Paper at the prestigious NeurIPS ML conference. To be fair, the work was evaluated “blindly” but it wasn’t revoked after 🤔 www.wired.com/story/byteda...
wired.com
Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI Award
Keyu Tian and his coauthors won the Best Paper Award at the annual NeurIPS machine-learning conference for their work on a new technique for generating images. Some have objected to the decision.
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 22/12/2024
Love it! This is going into my Viz class next term as a case study!
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 22/12/2024
What a great hook - time to watch this!
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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Who is for abolishing grad app letters of rec at the point of application? Would it be so bad if letters were requested AFTER candidates were shortlisted? If we do this at UCSD who will join us?
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 12/12/2024
This is so jarring to watch !! 🙈
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 08/12/2024
Nice! Thanks to some great instructions, changed my handle from @firasm.bsky.social to @firas.moosvi.com 🎉. Also I survived the term - congrats to everyone who also did! Onwards... bsky.social/about/blog/4...
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How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky
Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.
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Grow Beyond Grades @growbeyondgrades.org · 28/11/2024
Fully realizing that all of these folks are up to way more than puzzling about more humane, just, and effective assessment, here is our attempt at a @growbeyondgrades.org starter pack! Who’s missing? go.bsky.app/8EEJ1Tw
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 24/11/2024
😂🤣 #ungrading
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 22/11/2024
Well said - 100% agree with this post! Great principles and I plan to follow them. Let’s not get burned again…but if we do, we’ll be more prepared.
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 21/11/2024
My feed is looking and sounding close to what I had on the dead bird site - missed you all so much! Welcome back everyone 💖❤️! *sigh of contentment*
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"We love interdisciplinary work! But..."
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Brad Wuetherick @bwuetherick.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Wanted to create a starter pack for Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed. It took me 5 hours on this app to be connected to this motley crew! go.bsky.app/J71phoP
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 18/11/2024
Me too 🙋🏾‍♂️!
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 18/11/2024
Credit to @afreeparticle.com who showed me how to do this in the early days, and @skyfeed.app (maintained by @redsolver.dev 🙏). Here’s how to make your own: bsky.app/profile/afre...
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 17/11/2024
Yea but the plan announcing this seems to have been posted all the way back in May! executablebooks.org/en/latest/bl...
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Towards Jupyter Book 2 with MyST-MD
Jupyter Book and MyST - A Success Story: Over the past four years, the Executable Book(s)(EB) project has been working to improve workflows for writing and publishing with Jupyter Notebooks, along ...
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 16/11/2024
Somehow I missed this news (I blame Elon 😡) but this is very, very exciting! 🥳🤩 The killer (new) feature for me is embedding content from other websites. Huge fan of Jupyter Books! Go team!
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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
After #POD24, I'm really curious about this: to those who are active users of AI and, particularly, those who are promoting AI in the classroom, how are you accounting for the environmental impact of AI? Shouldn't we address the harms before we widely embrace this in education?
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David Buck @dbuckedu.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Based on a wonderful suggestion from @jaustinedu.bsky.social, I've created a rough Starter Pack for those involved with #ungrading & alternative #assessment. If I forgot someone (I'm sure I have!), please forgive me & let me know if you want to be added to the list. Thanks! go.bsky.app/G6hA6Ru
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 15/11/2024
Houston, I think we have critical mass. #BlueSky 🦋
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Emma Mitchell @emmaphys.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I’ve had my head in the sand for a while and now I’m back. Are we having an #iTeachPhysics renaissance? I’m so here for it!
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Prof Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · 12/11/2024
Here's a list of #UBC faculty, staff, units and research groups - happy to add/remove folks - just drop me a message (either reply below or you can DM too). bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Peter Keep @mathprofpeter.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Next up in "news that is just a new version of the same systemic issues that have been around for ages":
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 19/09/2024
Certified BlueSky Elder 😂 —— Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #324,285!
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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 21/06/2024
It’s not really that complex 🤷🏽‍♂️ - secretive yes, nefarious yes, but everyone admits it’s expensive. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret
First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go. First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but ...
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