Saw my first instance of what I'm pretty sure was a GenAI-generated journal review (spotted w/my nosy peek at the other reviews after finishing mine). Giveaway was the repeated mention of constructs that were nowhere in the manuscript. Editors, I'm sorry you have to deal with this. What a headache.

A haiku for my morning frustrations: Sorry I could not Complete that journal review I could not log in

Finally got a decline on a grant I submitted in June of 2024 where one of the reviewers slammed me for not including research that came out three months after I submitted the grant. Um, ok...

Education colleagues: I am partnering with middle- and high-school math teachers in DE, PA, and MD to look at how belonging-supportive instruction shapes students' math experiences (see infographic). Teachers can participate in 2025 or early 2026. Please share w/ teachers who may be interested!

Co-authored with @drmuenks.bsky.social, our @insidehighered.com piece "Beyond Behaviorism: Why Motivation Matters" is out! We reject behaviorist principles and argue that understanding the science behind motivation is crucial for supporting student learning. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Folks going to #APA2025, they have already run out of lanyards at registration. If you haven't left home yet, you may want to bring your own. Not sure how this happens. Seems a pretty huge error.

My accomplishment in self-regulation today is reading someone post on a forum that they are an "auditory learner" and being able to hold off replying with a slew of anti-learning styles evidence. It wouldn't have been helpful or well received in that moment and I'm feeling good I could resist.

It's taken me a while to decompress from #AERA25 and one thing I took away from the conference is that the mood has certainly shifted. Many people were emboldened to proclaim their bigotry loudly and proudly. 😢

Grateful to share that my very first, first-authored manuscript has been published! Thanks to my advisors & community❤️It feels surreal to have added a very small piece to the field that I care about so much. Check out my highlights and read more about it here: journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/KVUY6...

As everyone gets ready for #AERA25, I make another anti-ableism plea: If you talk the talk w/anti-ableist practices, show you walk the walk. The very least you can do is wear a mask on the plane. Bonus if you wear one in the airport and at #AERA2025 too. But PLEASE at least wear one on the plane.😷=❤️

What is everyone doing with all their free time with zoom being down?

📚 Check out our new study with Sandy, @drteyar.bsky.social, @rebeccajcollie.bsky.social, and Cory: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...! 🧐 Still curious to learn more? Come to our 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ AERA talk: ⏰ April 26th at 11:40-1:10 PM 📍The Colorado Convention Center, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3C

Because #AERA25 posters are due this week, here is one last ask: Please make a non-interactive poster so people don't have to touch it, multiple people can see at once, and viewers don't have to get close. Easiest way is to upload a pdf. iPosters are ugly anyway 😉

Another plea to please just make a regular poster for #AERA25. Walk the walk with accessibility even if @aeraedresearch.bsky.social is not. Avoid the ableist iPoster format and upload a regular pdf so multiple people can see from a distance and no one has to touch your poster--no scrolling!

The iPoster format for #AERA25 is terrible and gross. It is very difficult to use in person for anyone with vision or mobility issues and it also encourages germy spread. PSA: Upload a pdf of a normal poster that doesn't require user interaction to allow access to your work by all attendees.

As a grad student, getting a spot to attend one of these lunches was a highlight of my conference. It's surreal to be on the other side! I hope that I can facilitate some fun lunch conversations with the up and coming Mot researchers who join. 💞

We have heaps of data on elementary students' career desires provided in open-ended surveys. There are always some who aren't keen to provide actual careers, and that's fine. A few favorites from the current batch: --shrek worshipper --dodo butt --a potato

Windows updated and now the text when I hover is twice as large. Is this an AI guessing how old I am?

New OA Publication! Our team worked with elem. teachers to use ChatGPT to enhance their mathematics lessons based on students’ interests. It was a team effort (researchers and teachers) and I’m proud of the result #MathEd #GenAI #EdTech #EdPsych doi.org/10.1016/j.ca... (1/4)

This year I created a little research "course" for my lab. Wk 2 was Why We Ask The Qs We Do. In this wk, we all completed a little epistemology quiz. Lower is more constructivist, higher more positivist (names redacted). Then, we asked "I wonder" Qs and discussed how our Qs related to our beliefs.

This looks great and is starting soon!

My College did a little spotlight on our work with Computer Science on motivation in their first-year classes. If you are interested, you can read their write-up here: www.cehd.udel.edu/research-spo... #CSEd #STEMEd

Every week I track my hours across categories of my work (color coded into broad service, research, teaching buckets). This is the graph for fall 2024 and my distribution of hours across the week (I prefer to work fewer hours 7 days vs more M-F). Tracking helps me stay focused & make choices.

New CDC data is out on youth mental health. Unsurprisingly, the biggest issues have nothing to do with social media. If only we could actually convince policymakers to invest in the actual problems that youth face. For a great topline look at the new data, see: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Grades are submitted and semester service is winding down. Had a fantastic fall with 18 students working with our lab. I enjoy finding little gifts for them to thank them for awesome work. This year found these positive tomatoes to remind them of all the "tomoji" surveys they administered!

Our puppy is only allowed on the furniture if she is on top of a blanket and it amuses us to only put black and white blankets on the sofas so that she will be camouflaged.

Winter sunset @drteyar.bsky.social’s house!

Final day Games for Learning class yesterday and we had a starter deck Magic:The Gathering tournament We discussed how game mechanics from M:TG are seen in many card and board games since & some learning goals for M:TG itself Love teaching this class & playing & talking games w/such smart students!

Three words that can make my heart pound

How does everyone feel about giving feedback on student work that was created mostly or in part by GenAI (e.g., they asked it to "write a research plan for this RQ" & then asked you to review that)? Do you care? Is there a threshold at which you do? Esp interested in ideas of #EdPsych faculty

Not sure if I did this right or not, but here are scholars who study motivation in educational settings, mostly affiliated with @aera-motsig.bsky.social and @aeraedresearch.bsky.social go.bsky.app/3PuVgdT

Proud to have this paper finally out! Thanks to my collaborators, including @hyerinlee.bsky.social Within, we use SEVT and belonging to study first-yr CS students’ motivation across a semester in an intro course (Python programming) tinyurl.com/RuthCSEd (1/4)

Finishing up my 2nd time teaching my new class, Games for Learning. Had our final content lesson this week: CT, music, and art games. Pictured are Code Master and Lord of the Chords. Love teaching this class and thinking about development, implementation, & evaluation of games for learning.

Hosted the second of two panels of Ed PhDs with non-academic jobs yesterday. Such great insights and it was exciting to learn about all the different pathways in our field. Ed research is awesome! So much gratitude to our presenters!

Got an invite for a party at my university where the dress code is "causal." Thinking maybe I paper myself in pages from Shadish, Cook, and Campbell? Any other good causal outfits you can suggest? *and yes, we all make typos, but this one amused me

Good morning! I put together an Ed Psych starter pack for educational psychologists and those who do educational psychology research. Let me know if you’d like to be included! go.bsky.app/2rLLNzP

We are almost at capacity in this starter pack! Everyone now left to be added will be added to Education Scholars Part II! If I didn’t add you to first one & you want to be added reply to to post! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/H3QkVDR

Is this place exclusively for work talk or are we also sharing other things? If the latter, here's the sad final harvest from my tomato and pepper plants before the first freeze this past week.

Thought I would share informational posts from the other place before I leave there completely. Back in 2019 I posted a reflection on applying for (and receiving) an #NSFCAREER award. Caveat: just my experience, but could be helpful rutherfordlab.wordpress.com/nsf-career-a... #GrantWriting #STEMEd

We are hiring a project coordinator/lab manager to work with us on studies focused on learning and motivation in STEM and technology contexts. Our projects span ages across K-12 and higher ed. Great for those considering EdPsych or LearningSciences PhDs. careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Two weeks left to apply for the MIST Summer 2024 Fellowship. PhD students: get paid to write an article through a highly-scaffolded process. forms.gle/kaGeNw65m6JW...

Recruiting for the MIST Summer 2024 Fellowship. 5K summer stipend to write a manuscript using large-scale data collected as part of my NSF projects. Good for Ed Psych, Learning Sciences, and Motivation doctoral students. Info and application: tinyurl.com/MISTSummer2024 App due March 15

A little late to the word cloud game, but here is my word cloud from scholargoggler.com Guess I do study math a lot... Happy that "motivation" is at least somewhat large in there--I can set it as a goal to get it larger in the future.

Grad Students: A few days left to apply for this funded opportunity to participate in a workshop in Philly the day before AERA24 to share and discuss your needs and vision for your mathematics education research using technology docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Spent way too much time yesterday choosing colors for lab t-shirts with our logo. Lab member voted and it looks like it will be light blue. In-school study starts in February!

Was doing some fun data analysis and I had forgotten how to get stored ICCs from xtmixed in Stata to populate a table. Tried to get Chat GPT to help me, and after 10 tries w/its code and back and forths it said: Run the models, Open up Excel, Copy and paste from Stata. 😂 I guess I exhausted it

I've been sharing these a few yrs on the other place. Trying to transition over here. This is my hours tracking for fall 2023. Averages tot, ave hrs per day, and a gif across weeks. Tracking helps me determine whether to take on new things, helps me understand my stress, and is just kind of fun.

Trying to wean myself off the other place. Nothing academic to post at the moment, so I'll share a fall scene from our family's day-trip outing to Philly yesterday.

Had a day of in-person meetings and lunch w/colleagues (outside) Drove home in the sunshine fully invogorated I miss connecting with people in person so much--winter will be hard once it is too cold to meet/eat outside Other extroverted COVID-cautious academics feeling the same?