In 2006, when I took over as director of York University's Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS), I was very concerned with how to improve my skill set for effective leadership and management. In many ways, my experience as a sustainability researcher from 2006-14 was as much about observing and learning from other […]
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I'm aiming to break my class out of the cycle of "memorizing & forgetting"
I haven't taught BIOL 4090.40, Plant Ecology for nearly 10 years. It's been shifted from Fall to Winter term, meaning the entire lab. component needed changing because of the different season, and now we're on Moodle, and we have #SoMe (social media), so it was time for a mega-overhaul. AND, it's week 2 of the winter term, […]
Figuring out the link between Social Media and What I do as a Biology Prof
Anybody who has given any kind of cursory glance over this website in the last 2 months, will know that webpage construction has rather ground to a halt. The reason for this, is that I have spent a lot of time since mid-September, exploring and experimenting with social media, specifically Twitter. The impetus for […]
Academic honesty is NOT just for students
In the last couple of weeks, there has been a big flap going on amongst profs. about an article, "Who's Afraid of Peer Review", in the journal, Science, one of the top places to publish. Basically, the author, science journalist, John Bohannon (with a PhD in Molecular Biology) wrote a manuscript about a totally faked and fraudulent study, […]
Toronto Life's Fortress York piece doesn't let the data get in the way of their "good story"
There are a lot of things that could and should be fixed at York University, but a constant in my 23 years here, has been that the administration of the university has ALWAYS taken the safety and security of women on this campus VERY seriously. Since I was an undergraduate, I have been accustomed to […]
