Call for proposals - 8th Life Discovery – Doing Science Biology Education Conference

[Erin Posthumus]

This conference might be of interest to some of you!

8th Life Discovery – Doing Science Biology Education Conference

March 23 - 25, 2023 in Tallahassee, FL

Now accepting proposals for short presentations and hands-on workshops that align with these thematic tracks:

• Adapting to and teaching disease ecology
• Fake news, Real Science, or somewhere in between
• Researching innovation and careers

Submit by September 9th

This Year’s theme: Variants in Biology Education: What we can learn from Pandemics?

Over the last two years, teaching and learning has grappled with the demands of change in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic within a highly politicized landscape for which science is on the defense and misinformation is rampant. Never have so many questions arisen about the implications for mainstream organismal biology education, and never before has the speed and scale of innovation been put into practice. The “pandemic” symbolizes change, resistance, immunity, adaptation, and opportunity at so many different levels – literally, in our personal lives, in education, and in mass culture. It compels us to consider the workforce needs of the future where pandemics are now ubiquitous among all living organisms: people, plants, and animals (domestic and wild).