Kirsten Porter-Stransky, PhD
@NeuroVixen
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Associate Professor, Medical Science Educator, Behavioral Neuroscientist, 🧠🐴 😺🍻 mix of professional & personal, tweets my own, ❤️RT≠endorse
Joined March 2015
We learn more from reading on paper than on screens. 54 studies, 171k people: we process print more deeply than digital content—as long as it's informational rather than purely narrative. The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Long live physical books.
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Excited to share our paper on implementing a multi-year, medical school-wide psychological safety initiative. Hoping together we can improve #PsychologicalSafety in #AcademicMedicine
#MedEd
link.springer.com
Background Psychological safety is a team-based phenomenon whereby group members are empowered to ask questions, take appropriate risks, admit mistakes, propose novel ideas, and candidly voice...
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Excited to share that @NeuroVixen, a few @WMUMedicine students and I have another paper out! This one describes different ways to evaluate content knowledge gains when doing outreach work!
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Despite general agreement that science outreach is important, the effectiveness of science outreach programs on participants' learning often is not assessed....
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Excited to share a new article that @neurovixen and I recently had accepted that looks at attitudes toward science in middle school students from a rural Midwestern town! https://t.co/2G5EcSrgGm
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Congratulations!! Can't wait to see the exciting directions of this project 🤩 It was an honor to work with y'all.
NoA day! New R01 from @NIAAAnews to support "Ethanol modulation of a NE-astrocyte-DA arousal pathway." Great to continue this collaboration with @darlene_mitrano and @LCneuroscience. Postdoc position available for this great project started by @NeuroVixen, @Nicktweetersen et al!
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Attending #IAMSE24? Come to my talk at 3:45 PM today to learn about promoting #PsychologicalSafety in academic medicine. #MedEd
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If you're attending #WCBR2024 & teach or are interested in teaching, come to our panel Tuesday at 7PM to discuss ways to promote student engagement in neuroscience education! 1st floor, Peak 15-16. Hope to see you there 🧠⛷️👩🏼🏫
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Mindful media consumption, something I need to work on for sure. Stop the doom scrolling! 😊🧘🏼♀️Enjoy this free meditation. #Mindfulness
https://t.co/UgDlEEPoXU
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New manuscript submitted! Please send good vibes and good reviewers... 🤞🏼🎄😊 #MedEd
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At least we're learning what *isn't* in the optimal diet. There's so much that we can do now to upgrade our nutrition, as reviewed in the new Ground Truths (see link in profile)
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“We tend to assume that because there are more women completing doctoral degrees and at the assistant professor rank, gender equity is inevitable at some point in the future. These results show...this assumption is flawed.” #womeninSTEM #AcademicChatter
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The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study
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Reading the hot-off-the-press October issue of @AcadPsychiatry & it's heart breaking how timely and necessary this special topic is on preventing mass shootings & violence #PsychiatryEducation #Violence
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Uniquely positioned with its focus on education at the intersection of biomedicine and the social sciences Emphasizes original, scholarly work for training ...
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"Student evaluations of #teaching (SETs) do not measure teaching effectiveness. Furthermore, they are influenced by several factors unrelated to teaching quality such as minority status, foreign accent and gender of instructors, and the discipline they are teaching. This makes
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“Avoiding light at night and seeking light during the day may be a simple and effective, non-pharmacological means of broadly improving mental health.” @NatMentHealth
https://t.co/gzuIl8VbFf
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Nature Mental Health - Burns et al. explored the association between day and night-time light exposure and the risk for psychiatric disorders using a large sample of adults from the UK Biobank...
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Excited to have both a talk and a panel discussion at #ASPBP23 this afternoon! Hope to see many of you "at" the conference in Gathertown!
#ASPBP23 Presentation Abstracts Now Online All presentation abstracts for the 2023 Association of STEMM Pathway and Bridge Program (ASPBP) 2023 virtual conference are now listed online. To register and view the program schedule -
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We don't talk enough about the emotions around academic transitions. You can be 💯 thrilled about your new gig & LOVING it while simultaneously sad leaving old colleagues. Nurturing new & old relationships takes work. Good piece by @HigherEdJobs
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Comfort and success in your current position may make it difficult to take the next natural step in your career. How do you know wh
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Do you want to incorporate active learning in your classroom? Do you want students to work together to solve problems rather than passively listen to lectures? Come to our workshop at #AAPinVAN to learn about team-based learning (TBL) Wednesday at 4:30! #MedEd #Psychiatry #TBL
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