Matt Johnson, PhD
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Matt Johnson, PhD
@mossmatters.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Texas Tech University
Director, E.L. Reed Herbarium
bryophyte evolution, plant phylogenomics
mossmatters.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-1958-6334
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Since I had baked a loaf of bread in anticipation of leftovers, I mourned the loss of turkey that evening
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We do use student eval scores (among many other things) in T&P decisions. I was thinking the opposite, by releasing this guidance now any faculty who DOESN'T change their final (to value 🎓over 🏈) will now be blasted in their student evals. And faculty have to decide before evals close...
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Look, I get being a fan. This is me at the 2010 National Championship game. Despite winning on a weeknight, Duke did not cancel classes. I know because I had get someone to fill in as a TA because I was in Indianapolis. Nobody asked the faculty to pretty please let academics take a back seat.
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Wahlund Effect Wednesdays?
November 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Use an LLM to write a proposal about using AI in the classroom, get the money, use it to take students to do field work instead?
November 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Maybe i’d be ok with higher APC if I knew where the money went. The current system relies on thousands of hours of unpaid labor in service of multibillion dollar corporations which is not better.
September 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
brb writing a dichotmous key for types of power plants
September 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So it's a lecture about peas, then?
September 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM