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| Format: | Preprint |
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2026
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13344 |
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- Theory and empirical science should be in constant dialogue, but often find it hard to understand one another. Here we describe a graduate-level university course we developed to improve matters. The course was designed to help empirically-focused biology graduate students read and understand theory papers, despite little prior mathematical training. It uses several evidence-based principles of modern teaching: backwards design, active learning, and just-in-time teaching. We believe that this or similar curricular content, emphasizing the nature of evidence and the role of theory in science, will improve critical thinking and scientific progress.