Wow www.bbc.com/news/article...

One week left (Sept. 15) to apply for our positions in Cognitive Psychology and Developmental Psychology. Please share widely, and happy to answer questions!

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works. tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows

The College of the Holy Cross is hiring for 2 tenure-track psychology positions: 1 in Cognitive Psychology (specifically, higher-order cognition) and 1 in Developmental Psychology. Please share widely! Developmental job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171704 Cognitive job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171698

If you are making a syllabus at the start of this semester, you might find the generic syllabus make a helpful tool (I did not make this, I just use it every semester) wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

Thrilled to share our new @NatureComms paper: "Exploration is associated with socioeconomic disparities in learning and academic achievement in adolescence." www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/7

these are forks

Thanks to @equityaccelerator.bsky.social for covering my new paper on belonging in school! The paper (open-access!): link.springer.com/article/10.1... And a summary: bsky.app/profile/alex...)

New (and first solo) publication on belonging in school, which I'm presenting at AERA today (April 24 @ 5:25 in Bluebird Ballroom Room 3C). Here's the open-access link, and a very quick summary: What do researchers vs. students really mean when we say “belonging”? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Social psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks. now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I told myself I couldn’t open this new bottle I’ve been wanting to try until a pressing R&R was finished and back with the journal. Well, it’s done! (And the bottle’s pretty good!)

This is wonderful

Thrilled to see our Handbook of Educational Psychology chapter on Motivation in print!

My dog went to the vet for a normal check up. He's really anxious, so he needs calming meds before we can take him. They work, but they also... impair his judgment and coordination a bit...

Anyone out there experimenting with Draftback to monitor student writing processes? It's a Google Chrome extension that provides a more detailed view into revision history than Google Docs built-in revision history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRFmGI3bYWs

Claimed off of waivers because of a YouTube video, and went on to become a Habs favorite. What a story. Happy retirement to Paul Byron. www.nhl.com/canadiens/ne...

I did not read Hanania’s book but I’m not surprised it’s a bunch of neo Nazi bullshit. Some very rich and powerful people endorsed this www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... e

Thanks, you've been really helpful...

Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.

Post a picture of the very first video game you remember playing

"Research show[s] that U.S. police spend much of their time conducting racially biased stops & searches of minority drivers, often w/o reasonable suspicion, rather than “fighting crime.”..The NYT reviewed national dispatch data & found that just 4% of officers’ time is devoted to violent crime."

🚨 NEW PREPRINT! I was asked to write (for non-psych audience) how psych can explain what prevents productive conversations btwn ppl with differing beliefs + how to promote such convos (where realistic). This is the result; would love feedback! #psychscisky #socialpsyc #academicsky psyarxiv.com/y48ea

Absolutely terrible news. Last year there was a total breeding failure at 4 of 5 studied emperor penguin colonies due to the breakup of sea-ice. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This was the front page of The Daily Tar Heel following the active shooter lockdown at UNC. Powerful. We don’t have to live like this.

While "parental rights" is an appealing and seemingly democratic framework, it misrepresents how small but highly motivated citizens can hijack administrative processes in ways that disempowers the majority as well as educational professionals.

BREAKING: Iowa educators are turning to ChatGPT to help decide which titles should be removed from their school library shelves. 🧪 https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

HUGE: "DeSantis has rendered 3.3 million Floridians without their elected choice of prosecutor. That means that more than 15% of the people of the state of Florida have had one of their elections nullified unilaterally by the governor." New, at Law Dork:

Richard Hanania’s view of America versus America. But I am assured by Serious Thinkers that he’s a moderate, thoughtful, important voice, and it’s so crucial to take him seriously. So very Serious, such Thinkers, every one.

Real-world example of why learning research methods is important: apparently Clarence Thomas doesn't understand what a meta-analysis is (from his anti race-conscious admissions concurrence)

A tolerance asymmetry: it is easier to persuade the tolerant to become less tolerant than to convince the intolerant to become more tolerant #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc polisky https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/11269

Someone told me that this app may seem very empty because of this default setting that requires replies to have 2 likes or more before they show up. Indeed! I changed it so that all replies show up, and suddenly the place seems much more lively. I highly recommend changing it in your settings.

"The common mantra of experimental physics: 'Yesterday’s sensation is today’s calibration and tomorrow’s background.'” http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/22359/

JFC.

One element of open science that I wish we discussed more is correcting published papers. Corrections should be a normal part of publishing, not something to be ashamed of. I often wonder how many papers exist with errors that authors are too embarrassed to correct.