receptor
vimentin
double
slug
staining two hearts


In memorium Richard Parker 1950ish -1986 | Adam Rubenstein 1970-2019 + breathe


 

Keynote talk at the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC)
Conference - May 2025

Evolving Education in an AI world

includes pdf of slides
+
notebook LM generated
podcast summary

 

  socratic excitement
 

biofundamentals

dot

clue


–––> biofundamentals- & CLUE-based Notebook LM generated podcasts


The Trivialization of Science Eduction | AlbertsThe value of OER materials

Klymkowsky & Cooper. 2024. The end of mulitple choice tests. arXiv (through genAI analysis)

Ray & Klymkowsky, 2024. Ethical issues in the developmental biology classroom Dev. Biol.
+ AI generated podcast

Cooper & Klymkowsky 2024. Let’s not squander the affordances of LLMs for the sake of expedience. J. Chem Ed.

Hendrickson, Blitz, Hussein, Paraiso, Cho, Klymkowsky, Kofron & Cho. 2025. Foxi2 & Sox3 are master regulators controlling ectoderm germ layer specification, bioRxiv

 

Hazlett, Xu, Knight, Klymkowsky & Stowell, 2024. The SkillsCenter: creating scalable research opportunities for STEM student. Cell.

educate


 
bioliteracy blog   archived: madscientist questions + answers 

mice in maze

 

devo


rita socratic tutorRita, a socratic tutor

"First do no harm": the pernicious effects of medical school course requirements on the design of biology curricula
+
An introduction to Rita (a socratic tutor) & Dewey (a learning analyst & consultant)
– CU Showcase Oct. 2024
- talk with Rita at the GPT store!
+
Partnering with Bots for better learning
- Colorado Arts & Sciences magazine - 25 November 2024

Lev, an AI analyst

A letter to editor about genAI in education (in the style of Kurt Vonnegut)
+
About our work and of (possible) historical interest (2003): Spare me the lecture - by Kendall Powell in Nature
The Future is Hybrid: College begin to imagine learning in an AI world
in The Chronicle of Higher Education
+
Blockbuster: Students learn to make science accessible through video production
in ASBMB Today
+
genAI-generated podcasts: Mice in a labyrinth & human learning (love this one!)
+
The illusion of genetic destiny – credit Tawnyn Means
based on a BioBaba post - How determinism creeps into biology
+
Mendel, Weldon & how genetics is taught + on-line molecular biology
+
examples of MCDB SkillsCenter podcasts
introduction to PCR (from Wikipedia) + introduction to Patents (multiple sources)
+ introduction to the Allen Brain Atlas


projects in progress
  vimentin KO

educational materials

core biology: biofundamentals (pdf)described
the original web-based version of biofundamentals (broken flash) + virtuallaboratories with broken flash

Chemistry, Life, the Universe & Everytying described
+
organic chemistry
:
OCLUE (OER) → described
+
videos from T&LB@CU & ETH
GMO debate: Why beer goes bad
––– conception & contraception podcast

learning evolution

courses: Fall '24 Teaching & Learning Biology + SkillsCenter + Deve Bio -23 - blog posts


other recent publications & such


some (relatively recent) talks & such

the inferno
the meek
oh well pharaoh
don't be mean
updated: 28 June 2025

Breaking the silence of an ancient pond a frog jumped into water, a deep resonance - Bashõ

molecular buff
education buff