Teachers and Instructors, what innovative pedagogical techniques have you seen and/or used? #AcademicSky #EduSky

Teachers and Instructors, what are your must-have tools for enhancing student learning? #AcademicSky #EduSky

Tell me about a course you took and loved that was NOT part of your academic major. For me, I loved my history course on Europe Between the World Wars. It was a side of history I had never learned before. I also took a ceramics class that was fun even though I wasn't good at it. #AcademicSky #EduSky

I was very lucky to receive a high-quality liberal arts education. It not only gave me a broad multi-disciplinary base of knowledge but it also inspired me to want to learn more about biology, psychology, history, political science, art, philosophy, and many other disciplines. #EduSky #AcademicSky

When I say #EducationForAll I mean it. I'm so happy this year to be leading a faculty learning community exploring ways to support neurodivergent students in the classroom. Remove those barriers! #EduSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #CogSci

The thing I love about being a faculty member is that I can continue to learn, even 17 years after my last degree. Having just tackled R, I'm next setting my sights on Unity game design #EduSky #AcademicSky

Now that it is October, my posts will focus on #EducationForAll . I believe that every person has a right to get the best quality education and I will fight to remove barriers that prevent that #EduSky #AcademicSky

Are there any tech gadgets you can't live without? How have they made your life better? #EduSky #AcademicSky

What are your technology solutions for online data collection? I'm always looking for new ways to collect data from hard-to-reach samples but have no research funding. I've used PsychoPy with Pavlovia.org and jsPsych with Cognition.run but I'm looking for other options #AcademicSky #CogSci

Something I've recently learned: sometimes, it's better to just re-write the code from scratch than fight to fix code that's not working. I find that I come up with more elegant solutions that way and the code is much improved #AcademicSky #CogSci

What are your big professional goals for this semester? I hope to get acquainted with my new Tobii eye-tracker (although honestly, some days it's hard to just keep my head above water) #AcademicSky #EduSky #CogSci #PsychSciSky

Did you accomplish any professional goals over the summer? I spent most of the summer learning R and practicing with data I've been collecting from several projects over the past couple of years #AcademicSky #EduSky #CogSci #PsychSciSky

The clock in my classroom does not work. I never realized before now how often I use the clock to pace myself while teaching! Is that true for you as well? #EduSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Anybody else have a summer that was not restful at all? #EduSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

I took a much longer hiatus from this platform than I planned. One of these years, I'll learn to take a proper summer break from work. Now that we're in September, let's talk about tech troubles. #EduSky #AcademicSky 1/4

Now that it is May, we're going to focus on #MayResearchPractice, where I will share my experience on how research is actually done in practice. For this first post, I want to walk you through a day in the life of an undergraduate professor. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky 1/6

To close #AprSciLiteracy, let's examine internal and external validity. You've heard of "correlation does not indicate causation", right? Sadly, social media and the news often imply causation when the method doesn't permit it. 1/5 #PsychSciSky

If we can't rely on p values, what can we rely on? Effect sizes! Every statistical test has measures of effect sizes to consider, and many journals now require authors to include effect sizes for their statistical tests. 1/2 #AprSciLiteracy #PsychSciSky

Continuing our discussion of p values in #AprSciLiteracy we need to talk about the unethical practices of p-hacking and HARKing. These practices exploit the scientific process to increase publications, funding, or even fame. 1/5 #PsychSciSky

The National Science Foundation has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency set up shop at the agency this week. scim.ag/4iowX4t

For my scientist friends who have been struggling with anxiety, depression, grief and more, two licensed therapists are hosting a 90min pro bono session. It's today (Apr 17), starting in half an hour (9:30am PT) but there will be more sessions in future. www.eventbrite.com/e/coping-wit...

Next up in #AprSciLiteracy, let's talk about p values. You may have seen the meme of James Van Der Beek crying with p>.05, or the meme with PSY with p<.05. What is so magical about .05? Convention mostly. 1/5 #PsychSciSky

Next up in #AprSciLiteracy, let's talk about research funding and conflicts of interest. Articles today usually have a statement regarding funding sources and/or conflicts of interest. Why are these necessary? 1/4 #PsychSciSky

An important component of #AprSciLiteracy is distinguishing between media portrayals of scientists and how modern scientists actually spend their time. Scientists don't sit in a chair for hours just thinking anymore. 1/5 #PsychSciSky

An important component of research ethics is the role of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) in reviewing scientific research before it is conducted and being able to step in if abuses occur. 1/3 #AprSciLiteracy #PsychSciSky

Continuing my spotlight on #AprSciLiteracy ... why are ethics so important in science? Psychology and other branches of science have a long history of abuses of marginalized people. 1/4 #PsychSciSky

I was once asked, "Is it weird that my intro psych professor assigned the final paper as a reflection on a debate whether or not a certain argument is pseudoscience? It strikes me as out of place." My response was: It's not out of place of all. 1/6 #AprSciLiteracy #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

For the final installment of March "cold cases" - research that never got published - we'll examine the work I did exploring the impact of mental health on surveillance performance. 1/4 #MarchCold #PsychSciSky #CogSci

our R package github.com/njudd/ggrain just hit 30K downloads, very happy to see the uptake and its utility in the scientific community over the past two years @njudd.com @rogierk.bsky.social @micahgallen.com

For the next installment of March "cold cases" - research that never got published - we'll examine the work that a former student did investigating non-clinical dissociation (NCD) and its impact on visual search. 1/4 #MarchCold #CogSci

For the next installment of March "cold cases" - research that never got published - we'll examine the work I did with some colleagues to identify ways to help students who were struggling with our major. 1/6 #MarchCold #PsychSciSky #EduSky

Preprint: External Harassment of Faculty at a Regional Public University A report of a survey conducted by our faculty senate. Just a check of whether faculty at our regional, primarily undergrad, public university have experienced harassment. TLDR: Yes. Too much. 🧵1/ osf.io/preprints/os...

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to steal from us so regularly, so openly, so unapologetically that Americans just accept it as normal. We can’t let them. I’m headed to the Senate floor right now to lay out the story of 6 weeks of stunning, brazen White House corruption.

For the next installment of March "cold cases" - research that never got published - we'll examine my work on emails. Do you find reply-all emails annoying? I do. A decade ago, the listserves at my college were used almost daily for debates and discussions. 1/7 #MarchCold #CogSci

This is true for science too! Jay Bhattacharya is telling us exactly what he’s going to do to dismantle American science and academia. It is VITALLY IMPORTANT that scientists 🧪 learn to recognize that language. @mmasnick.bsky.social is right.

He’s going to spend 5x as much time talking about transgender kids as the price of groceries and gas. Guess why? Because prices are going way up and he’s not doing shit.

Pictured here dollars of fraud

Really feels like I'm watching SNL right now

Next up: March is for "cold cases" - stories about research studies I did but never got published. This happens a lot for me because I am always collecting data, but I never have the time to write and deal with the publication process. 1/6 #MarchCold #PsychSciSky #CogSci

We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

WHOA -- this is soooo cool and very needed!!! I hope this takes off. Contribute local stories about federal cuts for a Tracking Map to go live next week. Contribute here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More context here: www.linkedin.com/posts/abigai...

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Next Tuesday, we won’t waste a second in responding to Trump’s steam of lies at the State of the Union. I’m not attending in person. Instead I’m partnering w @moveon.org to provide live real time response. Join us to learn the truth about the billionaire seizure of our government.

We are barreling toward a full blown constitutional crisis. Trump's announcement that he's ending thousands of aid contracts FUNDED BY CONGRESS is unconstitutional and illegal - and horrible for our security. 1/ A quick🧵on what's going on. apnews.com/article/trum...

Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities. That means: 🚫 No gas from corporate giants 🚫 No fast food chains 🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)

In my final post about #FebLoveLearning, I want to talk about the importance of professional development in the academy. Many of us faculty graduated from graduate school with a firm education on how to do our scholarly research. 1/3 #AcademicSky #EduSky

One of the many ways that research helps to foster lifelong learning is that it requires problem solving skills. My studies require computer programming, and those programs never work right away. It takes many hours to troubleshoot and get the program to work. 1/2 #FebLoveLearning #CogSci

Last year, we published a paper showing that AI models can "debunk" conspiracy theories via personalized conversations. That paper raised a major question: WHY are the human<>AI convos so effective? In a new working paper, we have some answers. TLDR: facts osf.io/preprints/ps...