Nature research paper: The pivot penalty in research https://go.nature.com/4dDz2bL

How talented students fared during and after the pandemic: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/find...

I call this "bird in grass"

The further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be https://go.nature.com/44VjEW9

"I can't believe I'm doing this," said Harvard Dean of Admissions Phil Donahue. "I never thought we would fall so far. I've spent my entire life trying to never even speak to someone from Ohio, babylonbee.com/news/with-ba...

The next best way to teach and learn - a review of Anne Trumbore's "The teacher in the machine" - is my latest for Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A New Yorker cartoon by Tom Toro

“Swifts strategies and songwriting reflect her nuanced understanding of the job her fans, particularly girls and young women, hire her to do: help articulate their feelings and validate who they are" www.forbes.com/sites/jonath...

Bill Gates was a math talented gifted kid who could hyperfocus, picture code, had early business interests, and was willing to work crazy hours to achieve his goals. He was also lucky. www.forbes.com/sites/jonath...

Keeper of the plains, Wichita

Honored to be recognized along with my colleagues: news.uark.edu/articles/771...

Our editorial team - led by Jennifer Cross - has a new call for proposals for special issue of Gifted Child Quarterly seeking highly replicated findings from fields outside gifted, including sociology, economics, biology, political science, etc. nagc.org/resource/res...

"The moral qualities-prudence, foresight, intelligence, penetration, wisdom-of statesmen and nations have not kept pace [with the] rapidity of communication by telegraph and telephone...These latter leave no time for reflection or consultation." -Ernest Satow, 1917

DOGE comes for the data wonks www.economist.com/united-state...

"Working in a garment factory...was a suitable preparation for the rest of life. You're assigned to sit at a station, and you do the work that's handed to you, and everyone around you is doing the same thing. We make the best of the materials we're given." Leslie T Chang

David Lohman, who recently passed, was a giant in spatial reasoning, identification, and gifted education, and someone whose work I have tried to build on. His student @jlakin.bsky.social has kept an archive of his key works: www.jonilakin.net/lohman-archive

Chesterton's fence.

I wrote a piece called "The secret life of Reviewer 2"

Test your spatial superintelligence: www.economist.com/business/202...

The Harvard Effect: www.forbes.com/sites/jonath... @cfchabris.bsky.social

New paper just published examining the AP universal access policy in Arkansas! w/Andy Parra Martinez, Rian Djita, and Sarah McKenzie journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Congrats to lab members Andy, Miranda, and Al Mansor Helal on their research on talent and mental health

This is true for the writing of scientific papers and really all areas of expertise development: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

C.S Lewis on reading old books