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Guest post by Kirsty Dunnett: “Disembodied Science: On why the abstract is difficult to grasp, and some thoughts on the imperceptibility of impending(?) climate disaster”

June 5, 2025

My most faithful guest blogger Kirsty writes about why things that are far outside of our direct experience are so hard to imagine and thus so hard to understand (and…

Guest post by Kirsty Dunnett: “Where could Higher Education go? A hopeful perspective”

March 4, 2025

New super interesting guest post by Kirsty Dunnett, on playful higher education!

Kirsty Dunnett on Galløe (2023)’s “emotions differentiate opportunities”

February 1, 2025

My most loyal guest poster strikes again! Welcome Kirsty Dunnett, today writing about Galløe (2023)’s chapter on how emotions differentiate opportunities.

From colleagues working with supervised machine learning, I learned that one of the classic machine learning fails involves sheep: one thinks one's trained the computer to recognise sheep, but what it's actually learned to do is recognise fields (green backgrounds). Since I didn't take any photos while out in the snow yesterday, I've dug out a photo of a Herdwick ewe grazing on the east side of Wasdale (Cumbria, UK) on a fine August evening in 2011.

Guest post by Kirsty Dunnett: “Odd feedback at year’s end and some New Years’ learning: what will peer review in 2025 and beyond look like”

January 3, 2025

Welcome to a new guest post by my most loyal guest blogger, Kirsty Dunnett, on odd experiences with peer review and generative AI which, in combination, provoke a lot of…

Guest post by Mattias Lundmark on Self-Determination Theory (Vansteenkiste, Lens & Deci; 2006)!

September 11, 2024

“Motivation is left, right and centre in learning. Self Determination Theory’s (SDT) is one of the main theories of motivation, and its two founders, Ryan and Deci, are number 6…

Guest post by Kirsty Dunnett: “Thinking about my positionality as a teacher and researcher in physics education and academic development”

April 17, 2024

I thought a lot, and wrote (e.g. here), about my positionality in relation to my work recently, inspired by conversations with, and nudging by, Kirsty. Below, I am posting her response…

Guest post by Kirsty Dunnett: The strength of evidence in (geosciences) education research: might a hierarchy do more harm than good?

September 20, 2023

Below, Kirsty is discussing how it can potentially discourage efforts to improve teaching and teachers when we focus on the strength of evidence too much, and don’t value the developmental…

Doing things together instead of alone: structures for Collective SoTL — a guest post by Kirsty Dunnett

August 7, 2023

Kirsty sent me this super interesting text with a vision of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) being a collective enterprise, rather than a mostly individual one. I love the…

Derivatives and Concept Images — a guest post by Kirsty Dunnett

July 12, 2023

Another guest post by Kirsty Dunnett about the difficulty of applying skills from a maths course in the context of geoscience courses, and what can be done to make it…

Kirsty Dunnett’s addition to my post on “A conceptual framework for the teaching and learning of generic graduate attributes” (Barrie, 2007)

June 21, 2023

Haha, I ended my post this morning with “…but at that point I lost interest”, and apparently that’s a great call to action! Kirsty Dunnett, faithful guest blogger on my…

“Supporting students in higher education: proposal for a theoretical framework” Kirsty Dunnett summarizes De Ketele (2014)

April 18, 2023

Who are you travelling with? A guest post by Kirsty Dunnett. A summary and some thoughts on: Supporting students in higher education: proposal for a theoretical framework By J.-M. De Ketele…

Guest post by Chris Bore on #WaveWatching

March 17, 2022

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Chris Bore is one of the most loyal readers of my blog and has been for a long time, and now he wrote a beautiful post about #WaveWatching over on…

Guest post by K. Dunnett: “Inquiry for Geology”

March 2, 2022

Yay, another guest post by Kirsty! Here we go:

Guest post by Kjersti Daae: Using voting cards to increase student activity and promote discussions and critical thinking

November 16, 2021

I got permission to publish Kjersti Daae‘s iEarth conversation on teaching (with Torgny Roxå and myself in April 2021) on my blog! Thanks, Kjersti :-) Here we go: I teach…

“Evaluating shallow water waves by observing Mach cones on the beach” — guest post by Felipe Veloso on his recent #WaveWatching article!

August 18, 2021

Super excited to share a guest post today: Felipe is writing about his recent #WaveWatching article on “Evaluating shallow water waves by observing Mach cones on the beach”. I came across…

A tool to understand students’ previous experience and adapt your practical courses accordingly — by Kirsty Dunnett

June 11, 2021

Last week, I wrote about increasing inquiry in lab-based courses and mentioned that it was Kirsty who had inspired me to think about this in a new-to-me way. For several years,…

Guest post on “A little bit of lee wave math” by Jeannette Bedard

April 10, 2020

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Today’s guest blogger Jeannette and I “met” on Twitter when she reposted one of my 24 Days of #KitchenOceanography posts, saying “A friend just forwarded me a #kitchenoceanography experiment that pretty…

Guest post by Alice Langhans: Scientific reasons why the ocean boosts mental health

January 31, 2019

My friend Alice runs a really interesting Instagram account that I love following. She posts about being a PhD student in physics didactics, does #experimentalfriday (which you might remember from her…

Guest post: Alice shows magic tricks and explains refraction of light in water

January 12, 2019

My friend Alice Langhans runs a super cool science communication Instagram (@edu_al_ice), where she posts about her experiences as PhD student in physics education research. And there is a lot more…

Awesome interference pattern in a Norwegian fjord

August 20, 2017

“Hei Mirjam. Bergen had it’s two days of allocated summer during the weekend of 22 – 23 July 2017 and Elsa and I decided to – in true Norwegian style…

Tagebuch – Tag 7

August 28, 2014

Von Carolin und Marie Am heutigen Tage wurden auch das Salz, die Dichte und die Wellen endgültig überführt. Das, was jetzt noch alles abschließt, ist die morgige Gerichtsverhandlung. Darauf haben…

Tagebuch – Tag 6

August 27, 2014

Von Carolin und Marie Heute haben sich die Lehrlinge gegenseitig ihre beantworteten Fragen vorgestellt. Vollständig überführt wurden zurzeit das Klima und die Strömungen, die Gezeiten und das Eis. Beim Salz…

Tagebuch – Tag 5

August 26, 2014

Von Carolin (12) und Marie (13) Am heutigen Tage wurden die gesammelten Hinweise genauestens dokumentiert. Dann begannen die Lehrlinge ihren Tätern weiter auf die Schliche zu kommen. Es wurde getestet,…

Tagebuch – Tag 4

August 25, 2014

Von Carolin (12) und Marie (13) Heute war der Tag der Tage: Die Detektive sind mit dem Forschungsschiff Uthörn zum Tatort gereist. Zuerst mussten die Lehrlinge sehr früh aufstehen und…

Tagebuch – Tag 3

August 24, 2014

Von Carolin (12) und Marie (13) Am heutigen Tage waren die Lehrlinge wieder besonders fleißig, denn sie mussten sich auf die spektakuläre Reise zum Tatort vorbereiten. Doch bevor dieses geschah,…

Tagebuch – Tag 2

August 23, 2014

Von Carolin (12) und Marie (13) Heute sind die Detektivlehrlinge schon mitten in der Planung der Experimente, aber Meisterdetektivin Glessmer erklärt vorher noch, wie sie ein Experiment vorbereiten und durchführen sollen. Die…

Tagebuch – Tag 1

August 22, 2014

Mission Ozeanographie Von Carolin (12) und Marie (13) Tag 1 Die Meisterdetektive Käse, Vogt und Glessmer wollen 17 neue Lehrlinge in 8 Tagen das Detektivleben im Hauptfall Ozean näherbringen. Kaum sind sie…

Guest post: Arctic sea ice thinning.

July 2, 2014

Exciting guest post on a newly published paper by Angelika H. H. Renner. I’ve met Angelika on a cruise in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current a long time ago where we worked…

Guest post: The 5-minute warning of a summer’s day sudden end.

June 18, 2014

More bad weather in Hamburg. Today I have the pleasure to announce a guest post by Torge Martin. Torge, together with J&J, came to visit Hamburg recently, and we got…

Guest post: The mystery of the cold room

April 30, 2014

Guest post by Kristin Richter! Today I’m excited to bring to you a guest post from Innsbruck, Austria, written by my friend Kristin Richter. Kristin ran the oceanography lab in Bergen…

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Guest post by Kirsty Dunnett: “Disembodied Science: On why the abstract is difficult to grasp, and some thoughts on the imperceptibility of impending(?) climate disaster”

Guest post by Kirsty Dunnett: “Where could Higher Education go? A hopeful perspective”

Kirsty Dunnett on Galløe (2023)’s “emotions differentiate opportunities”

Guest post by Kirsty Dunnett: “Odd feedback at year’s end and some New Years’ learning: what will peer review in 2025 and beyond look like”

Guest post by Mattias Lundmark on Self-Determination Theory (Vansteenkiste, Lens & Deci; 2006)!

Guest post by Kirsty Dunnett: “Thinking about my positionality as a teacher and researcher in physics education and academic development”

Guest post by Kirsty Dunnett: The strength of evidence in (geosciences) education research: might a hierarchy do more harm than good?

Doing things together instead of alone: structures for Collective SoTL — a guest post by Kirsty Dunnett

Derivatives and Concept Images — a guest post by Kirsty Dunnett

Kirsty Dunnett’s addition to my post on “A conceptual framework for the teaching and learning of generic graduate attributes” (Barrie, 2007)

“Supporting students in higher education: proposal for a theoretical framework” Kirsty Dunnett summarizes De Ketele (2014)

Guest post by Chris Bore on #WaveWatching

Guest post by K. Dunnett: “Inquiry for Geology”

Guest post by Kjersti Daae: Using voting cards to increase student activity and promote discussions and critical thinking

“Evaluating shallow water waves by observing Mach cones on the beach” — guest post by Felipe Veloso on his recent #WaveWatching article!

A tool to understand students’ previous experience and adapt your practical courses accordingly — by Kirsty Dunnett

Guest post on “A little bit of lee wave math” by Jeannette Bedard

Guest post by Alice Langhans: Scientific reasons why the ocean boosts mental health

Guest post: Alice shows magic tricks and explains refraction of light in water

Awesome interference pattern in a Norwegian fjord

Tagebuch – Tag 7

Tagebuch – Tag 6

Tagebuch – Tag 5

Tagebuch – Tag 4

Tagebuch – Tag 3

Tagebuch – Tag 2

Tagebuch – Tag 1

Guest post: Arctic sea ice thinning.

Guest post: The 5-minute warning of a summer’s day sudden end.

Guest post: The mystery of the cold room

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