Kevin Weitemier

@Dave_The_Human Just here to give some love to Tʜᴇ Sʜᴀᴅᴏᴡ!

Hi! I was wondering (if anyone remembers😅) which TTRPG character I've played feels the most iconic or stands out to you as the one that could represent me? From whom have I exuded the purest Daveness?🤔

What is the genetic diversity of a fish? And, can you know that from a scoop of water? We present a genomics-based method to measure and track genetic diversity of Pacific salmon and trout from eDNA samples @BrookePenaluna @Weitemier @rcronn1 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Big thanks to the @OHAOregon Newborn Screening program at the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory, which screens nearly every Oregon newborn for over 40 serious but treatable medical conditions! oregon.gov/oha/ph/laborat…

@echinoblog Lol. This is me after being in an herbarium for, like, 2 years.

Sometimes when you have been around long enuf in museum collections, you have the pleasure of finding an ID tag from your dumbass 1994 young-ass self and telling him "NOPE"🤣

@chhendon @taaltree Sure. With the abundance of syllabi out there it probably wouldn't be too difficult to survey grading policies. (I wouldn't suspect curving is very common but that's just a hunch.)

@Weitemier @taaltree All of the things you mention could be true, but they don't change a 75%. Since GPA depends on the letter grade assigned to the score, we at least need a unified percentile (i.e. no curve). If at least this was agreed upon, then we could talk about teaching/student quality, etc.

This is occurring across many institutions. I'm curious to hear thoughts on why.

@chhendon @taaltree Lowering standards (giving a high grade to a 75%, writing "easier" tests) is only one explanation. Others are improved teaching, improved students, or a change in philosophy on what grading is about.

@Weitemier @taaltree What letter grade do you think a 75% overall should correspond to? And do you think that if the content doesn’t change much year to year (I.e. the course didn’t get more difficult) should letter grades be adjusted on “a curve”?

@chhendon @taaltree Is there any indication that these grades are improper?

@taaltree Not saying I do this, but there is not really an incentive structure to award negative grades. Because if every other school gives inflated grades then a school that actually grades properly has a negative impact. Grades should be earned.

“The fact that Treasurer @Tobias_Read is releasing this decarbonization plan in the first place is a direct result of the power @DivestOregon has built over the past year, and direct pressure from Oregonians demanding public money no longer finance climate destruction" RT Please!

"Voters should mark their ballots for Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner, whose dominant command of the issues affecting the varied district will best serve its voters." -- @Oregonian #orpol #JamieForOregon #CD5 #OR05

@Cricket_Cruise @axios Other presidents followed transparency norms & released them voluntarily. taxnotes.com/presidential-t…

BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts has temporarily blocked a House committee from obtaining Trump's tax returns. trib.al/FwaL2Zs

.@ChristineDrazan sponsored a bill that could jail doctors who provide abortions. This is not the “New Direction” we need. We can’t let an anti-abortion Republican take us backward.

@NAChristakis @danascoot Many graduate employees are supporting a family of four.

@danascoot So being a graduate student involves getting compensated above the median income for a family of four in the United States?

So does this mean that the teaching labor we (Yale PhD students) supply is not "real labor"? Are my students crash test dummies? Is Yale a simulation?

Congrats to Dr. Paul Snyder, aka @WarDrumRhythm, aka Dr. EXPERT on this paper! I learned a ton helping out, including that results don't often fit cleanly into "established" theory. Learn more about disease dilution/amplification in 🐸🐸 here! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

@Andy_Murdock Cheers memes, even older!

Today is the deadline to register to vote for the Nov 8 midterm election. Your vote is your voice. Register: sos.oregon.gov/voting/pages/r…

@AlohaDawg @deannaschwartzz It's not.

was gonna apply to be a barista at my local cafe until I saw THIS

@TrevorABranch @katenorton A lesson on good directory structure for projects is probably needed even if students already have the folder/file mental model.

Do I need a primer on how to create file directories and store files in a logical manner, to teach R? theverge.com/22684730/stude… h/t @katenorton

Senseless #missile attack on the National #Herbarium of #Ukraine (KW). Fortunately, nobody injured and no irreversible loss of specimens. But so many other senseless attacks caused loss of lives and homes. Still, feels different to know I have been at this window just a year ago.

@SamiOregon Is there anything in Oregon to protect students from this kind of surveillance?

Any of my friends with bioinformatics expertise interested in picking up some low-lift side projects? My colleague is looking for a new collaborator! Topics include things like mtDNA haplotypes, gene expression, basic stats.