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Dr Melissa Braaten

@mbraaten.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of STEM Education and Teacher Education at University of Colorado Boulder. I study how teachers learn and grow over their careers amid often impossible circumstances. Talk to me about cooking, camping, hiking, gardening, & Italian wine.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
“Without a doubt in my mind, her funding made the research toward the vaccine go 10 times faster than it would be without it.” You should take a minute to read the story of how Dolly ended up supporting the development of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine.
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Dolly Parton helped fund Moderna’s vaccine. It began with a car crash and an unlikely friendship.
“Without a doubt in my mind, her funding made the research toward the vaccine go 10 times faster than it would be without it,” physician Naji Abumrad said of his friend.
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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you Empire State Building. NYC ❤️ Dolly.
Empire State Building lit up in bright pink in honor of Dolly Parton. Beautiful.
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Loved learning about Dolly Parton via this podcast series from a few years ago: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
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Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts
The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Pan: The Reverist @ok2panic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🙏🏼
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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
May we all somehow manage to be even a bit more Dolly, hey.
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Dr Melissa Braaten @mbraaten.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A hometown hero to all of us from East Tennessee. A genius and a massive philanthropist for literacy, healthcare, and science. Keep on singing, Dolly.
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Dolly Parton Sings with Guitar at Sunset
ALT: Dolly Parton Sings with Guitar at Sunset
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The Merlin Bird ID app will soon allow users to contribute data to monitor bird populations and aid conservation efforts. The project at Cornell University that produced the Merlin Bird ID app was funded by NSF’s Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), which was gutted by the Trump regime. 🪶
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Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project
Cornell Lab for Ornithology plans data linkup between app and population monitoring on eBird platform
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/04/2026
Well, this is an amazing image
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Dr Melissa Braaten @mbraaten.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Her series of books about women scientists in America are among the most compelling and important that I’ve read as an academic. And she had to grind throughout her whole life to write them. May she now rest.
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 14/03/2025
Hi, we are an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible 👋🏻 With us, you select the independent bookshop you want to support (we have 3,000+ partners across the globe), and we share profits from your purchase with them. We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation.
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Andrew Ihla @andrewihla.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
One of the really special things about Sesame Street was always these little art films that were less about teaching a specific thing than they were about instilling a sort of meditative sense of wonder at how the world works.
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Dr Melissa Braaten @mbraaten.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
First class I took as a doctoral student was with Dr Sandra Harding. She set me on a path and shaped who I am as a scholar and human. Her stories of her own doctoral studies brought important perspective that I think of often.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 27/02/2025
Please. And stop using AI to generate images. Just dump a water bottle out and run your hair dryer for 15 minutes. 🫠
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Dr Melissa Braaten @mbraaten.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Whew, I needed this. Thank you to @hschweingruber.bsky.social for sharing it and for all that you are doing right now.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
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Dr Melissa Braaten @mbraaten.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Great resources coming from TJ McKenna and Eve Manz!
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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
During a recent interview with HEP, @mbraaten.bsky.social delved into why she, Mark Windschitl, and Jessica Thompson wrote their bestselling book, AMBITIOUS SCIENCE TEACHING. Watch a clip from this discussion here: bit.ly/3P80KSN
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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
HEP author Jessica Thompson spoke to us about how educators and leaders are applying AMBITIOUS SCIENCE TEACHING to their work. Learn more about this book, which she co-wrote with Mark Windschitl and @mbraaten.bsky.social, in this video clip: bit.ly/4gf1HVf
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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
During a recent conversation with us, HEP author Mark Windschitl spoke about takeaways from his bestselling book, AMBITIOUS SCIENCE TEACHING, which he co-wrote with Jessica Thompson and @mbraaten.bsky.social. Watch a clip from this interview here: bit.ly/4gJfsLw
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Dr Melissa Braaten @mbraaten.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Can confirm! Happy Birthday Bob!
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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Dr Melissa Braaten @mbraaten.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Local climate activist retired teachers join our undergrad elementary teacher ed classes again this week. We’ve been studying what they do with local K-5 classrooms to support kids’ climate action and civic engagement. Now it’s time for our student teachers to commit to goals for next semester.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 22/11/2024
Happy Friday all my teacher friends!! You made it!!
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Dr Melissa Braaten @mbraaten.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Welcome new friends! I post about my research with teachers and community members who are finding ways to act for climate justice through education and civic engagement. I live and work in Colorado where such work is possible and valued.
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Dr Melissa Braaten @mbraaten.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Since there are few opportunities to teach science in K-5 schools in the U.S., my undergrads are practicing facilitating each other’s science experiences. We’re figuring out how beavers change waterways and ecosystems. Messy stream table work great outdoors so this is my classroom today!
Looking West from the CU  Boulder campus toward the Flatirons. We are standing in a green grassy area lined with conifers and enjoying the early autumn sunshine.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 21/09/2024
You know what day it is
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
OpenAI hosting university presidents to pitch enterprise contracts. Google spending $25M to, in part, train K-12 teachers to use AI. Resharing my paper arguing educators and students should learn against and about GAI while developing a Luddite praxis: repository.isls.org/bitstream/1/...
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Dr Melissa Braaten @mbraaten.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Coffee shop observations: Whew, first dates that are blind dates give me extreme second-hand anxiety as someone who is terrible at small talk. Good luck to the guy with the long hair and the girl with the cute sneakers. More power to you both.
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Dr Melissa Braaten @mbraaten.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
In our work with undergrads becoming elementary teachers, all of the courses that students take this semester will include a focus on climate civic action as part of teaching in K-5. I’m already learning so much from the undergrads about their own questions and environmental interests. (1/2)
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Sarah B (she/her) @lovesthesox.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Love that Can’t Let It Go from the NPR Politics Podcast this week leads off with the Michigan “I Voted” sticker winners 🤣 {they are amazing, ftr} www.michigan.gov/sos/election...
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Dr Melissa Braaten @mbraaten.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
I’m doing some (hopefully) interesting research about how teachers learn to connect environmental science topics with civic engagement with the students in their K-12 classrooms. I’m also studying how educators learn to follow the leadership of youth climate activists. Hope you’ll follow along.
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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
currently so delighted with rachael cayley's THRIVING AS A GRADUATE WRITER. i teach our college's doctoral writing course, and this is the text i wished i had had for the past decade! such a great synthesis of strategies and what we know about academic writing. #academicsky #phdsky
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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
labor stoppages raised wages without harming student learning #edusky
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Dr Melissa Braaten @mbraaten.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Hi everyone! Glad to be here and to migrate away from the other place.
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