User:Kubke

M Fabiana Kubke
Website:	University Staff Page
Blog:	Building Blogs of Science; Talking Teaching; Citizen Science New Zealand
Employer:	University of Auckland
Occupation:	Scientist, Tertiary teacher (Biology)
Nationality:	Argentina
Languages:	Spanish, English
Country:	New Zealand
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My profile

I am a research scientist and university biology teacher at the University of Auckland. I have a passion for science and education. Luckily I can do both.

Some activities I am involved in:

1. Research and Teaching at the University of Auckland
2. Academic Editor for PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) and PeerJ
3. Volunteer hacker for the Manaiakalani project
4. Tester with olpc New Zealand
5. Chair Advisory Panel for Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand
6. Science Blogger
7. New Zealand Open Source Awards Judge

Professional background

I graduated as a biologists at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, after which I did my Masters and PhD at the University of Connecticut. After 7 years working as a post-doc at the University of Maryland I relocated to Auckland New Zealand to join the University of Auckland where I have been ever since.

My research is on the evolution of the brain, but I teach in different areas of biology. I started teaching soon after finishing secondary school, first as a kindergarten teacher, then as a substitute teacher in primary school and as a tutor for secondary school pupils. While I was a post-graduate student at the University of Connecticut, I started teaching at the University level, first as a Teaching Assistant (a.k.a. demonstrator) and then as a lecturer. I continued lecturing at the University of Maryland and the University of Auckland.

Education

1994: PhD, Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT USA

1993: MSc, Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT USA

1988: Licenciada en Ciencias Biologicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires AR

My interests

Professional

I love science and I hope that I can transmit that to the students that come to my classrooms as well as those who choose to do research under my supervision. I try to encourage critical thinking, independence and self sufficiency in the attempt to help students navigate their transition into their professional lives. I am trying to increase collaboration between different sectors of the education communities. While Universities are traditionally seen as institutions in where degrees are granted, they are also an integral part of society and I try to foster the relationship between the institution and the local communities.

Personal

If I wasn't hired to do science and to teach, I would probably do it as a hobby. It is my passion, and I cannot imagine not doing it. When not doing my 'paid' work I try to find places where I can share that which I learn behind the University walls. I blog at Building Blogs of Science which also shows up in Sciblogs.co.nz and in Talking Teaching, I am one of the co-founders of the Citizen Science New Zealand project, and I am a volunteer in the olpc project. If I had a larger living space I would build two rooms: a wood workshop and an art studio.

You can find me in LinkedIn, @kubke on twitter, OpenWetWare and on FriendFeed.

Blogs

Building Blogs of Science latest posts

Digital skills and scholarship for researchers 5 – getting funded

Almost a year had past since that first conversation between Kaitlin Thaney, Nick Jones, Cameron McLean and myself where we asked: ‘what would Software Carpentry look like if it was delivered as...

— kubke 2016-09-19 23:15:39

Digital skills and scholarship for researchers 4: the 3×3 table explained

When Billy Meinke and I sat to work on planning our sprint session for MozFest, he suggested that the activities of science could be grouped into 3 objects (text, code, data) and 3 actions (create,...

— kubke 2016-09-17 02:19:57

Digital skills and scholarship for researchers 3: New Zealand workshops

Mozfest had given the project a good kick and start. Working with Billiy Meinke helped me reframe my way of thinking, and I was impatient to find out what the session would look like with a room fu...

— kubke 2016-09-12 01:32:26

Digital skills and scholarship for researchers 2: MozFest

MozFest 2014 was worth every minute of suffering from jet lag and trying to recover a lost suitcase containing the only change of clothes I had. I met Billy Meinke for a beer the night I arrived. W...

— kubke 2016-09-09 07:53:40

Digital skills and scholarship for researchers 1

Let’s start with some history. Hamilton. 2014. NZ eResearch Symposium. Kaitlin Thaney from the Mozilla Science Lab had accepted the invitation to fly to the other side of the world to spe...

— kubke 2016-09-07 03:56:39

Open Access publishing shouldn’t be this hard

We put a man on the moon about half a century ago yet we still haven’t solved the problem of access to the scientific literature. I was invited to speak at the New Zealand Association of Scientis...

— kubke 2014-04-05 10:32:20

Open Access Week 2014

What do brain machine interfaces and Open Science have in common? They are two examples of concepts that I never thought I would get to see materialised in my lifetime. I was wrong. I had heard of...

— kubke 2013-10-24 22:14:45

Science gone bad

or the day after the sting I got the embargoed copy of Science Magazine article on peer review in Open Access earlier this week, which gave me a chance to read it with tranquility. I have to say I...

— kubke 2013-10-04 23:38:42

Predatoromics of science communication

The week ends with a series of articles in Science that make you roll your eyes. These articles explore different aspects of the landscape of science communication exposing how broken the system ca...

— kubke 2013-10-03 22:04:07

ASAP Awards Finalists announced

(Cross-posted from Mind the Brain) Earlier this year, nominations opened for the Accelerating Science Awards Program (ASAP). Backed by major sponsors like Google, PLOS and the Wellcome Trust, and a...

— kubke 2013-10-01 20:45:17

Talking Teaching latest posts

Science lessons from 8 year old children

Ed Yong in Not Exactly Rocket science alerted me to an article published in Biological Letters Biology Letters from the Royal Society. I will not discuss the content of the article, Ed Yong has (as...

— kubke 2010-12-22 10:58:57

Reflection on my first year as a student

Well, not really my first year. I started school at the age of 2 and got my PhD at the age of 32, but I hadn’t been a student since (except for a course I took as a post-doc). But this ye...

— kubke 2010-12-19 00:15:24

Can negative stereotypes in learning be overcome?

This is a short one. I just came across this post by Ed Yong in his blog ‘Not Exactly Rocket Science’ over at the Discover site. Ed is a great writer (one of my favourite scienc...

— kubke 2010-11-26 11:13:58

Redesigning my course

As a final assignment for my paper in the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, we were asked to write a 3,000 word essay on a course or teaching module redesign. I knew this assignment wo...

— kubke 2010-11-18 10:34:05

Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge – An Introduction

This is a guest post by our colleague Michael Edmonds, originally posted in Molecular Matters on Sciblogs.co.nz. We asked if he’d let us cross-post it here as it contains some really inte...

— kubke 2010-11-12 21:13:36

Congratulations Alison!

Ako Aotearoa last week announced the winners of the Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards. Among the recipients is our co-blogger Alison Campbell. The readers of this space will not be surprised: her...

— kubke 2010-08-15 01:45:15

Who should be involved in course and curriculum design?

At the 2009 TEDxAKL event, Brenda Frisk framed her talk by first stating that “everybody has been educated, so everybody thinks they know and they understand education.” Teachers will almost in...

— kubke 2010-08-12 01:37:38

About Paulo Freire

As part of the Postgraduate Certificate where I am a student, I was to give a 10 minute lecture on one theory of teaching. A list of ‘candidate’ theories were provided, and to m...

— kubke 2010-06-08 04:51:08

On the perils of becoming a dinosaur

As a student I always complained about the ‘dinosaur teachers’: those that had lost touch with the students and with the teaching material. Those whose attitude seemed to scream: ‘I cannot be...

— kubke 2010-04-05 07:39:54

Back to school, and into Talking Teaching

Back to school indeed, this time as a student. How long has it been? The last time that I sat in class as a student, there was no internet, no guitar hero, and no DVDs. (Having said that, it was re...

— kubke 2010-04-04 02:07:29

My wiki projects

• I registered for eL4C41, a Learning4Content workshop to learn wiki skills.

My Sandbox

My sandbox

Feedback and notes from my WikiNeighbours

• Welcome to WikiEducator, Fabiana. You have definitely made the right choice to take advantage of this wonderful learning opportunity. Feel free to ask any questions, which you can post on the main workshop page under Wiki discussions or email email me. Warm wishes--Patricia Schlicht 16:07, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

• Hi Fabiana, nice to see you chiming in. I think you've already seen the most interesting part so far, but I am thinking about turning this one (or one of the upcoming assignments) into a demo of collaborative editing (e.g. at Quality control in open versus closed approaches to authoring educational resources). What do you think? --Daniel Mietchen 22:47, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

• Hi Patricia, Thank you for the welcome!! -MFK
• Hi Daniel, it is nice to be <finally> chiming. I love your idea of the collaborative editing. Perhaps You, Claudia and I could start something together? -MFK

Sounds good. Thanks for getting us started. I will ping her. --Daniel Mietchen 11:20, 26 July 2010 (UTC) -- got it, thanks, Daniel, will sure join in :-) C.Koltzenburg

(: Hello Fabiana... This is Cynthia from India. Great to be connected through Wikieducator.Looking forward to your contribution. A good way is to look at the edit sections of other user pages and then copy their codes.Anyway everyone on Wikieducator is always ready to help ... so all the best.--Agnes 10:12, 24 July 2010 (UTC))

• Hello Cynthia, thanks for the welcome and for the tips! -MFK

• Hi Fabiana, You are really coming along with learning to work in a wiki. And not just basic editing; I see you are planning a collaborative project. Kudos to you. I look forward to seeing your thoughts/ideas on quality control in an open authoring system. I've certified you as Wiki Apprentice Level 1, by adding a certification box to your infobox in the top right. Congrats. Your WikiNeighbor, --Alison Snieckus 14:43, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
  • w00t! I have a badge! :) Thanks Alison.

• hi Kubke, happy to see you joined in :-) Kudos for your nice user page, :-) C.Koltzenburg
  • Thanks to you really, Claudia, I had totally missed the date!
    • my pleasure :-) C.Koltzenburg

• Wow Fabiana, You have made great progress. Keep adding content and you are on your way to becoming a skilled WikiMaster. Warm wishes--Patricia Schlicht 16:59, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

• Thank you, thank you! Aleta Tallong 00:34, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

• Hi, Fabiana, Congratulations on receiving the May 2014 UPE Award. Your page is very inspiring. All the best. --Alison Snieckus 23:19, 6 May 2014 (UTC)