🤓Do students take context into account when planning how to study? We examine how students plan their use of cognitive vs. motivational learning strategies, and whether they take learning context into account. They do, but mainly for cognitive strategies.

Ideas for improving California’s school funding formula come with billion-dollar costs; here’s why edsource.org/2025/califor...

Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇

1 DOWN! 1 TO GO! Great warmup exercise! We still got our eyes on the big prize! But that’s later though! For now… CUE THE MUSIC!!!

Honored to be included in this list! Our study (with @damcotto.bsky.social) examined how students ("capable problem solvers") may benefit from using scratch paper because they are able to offload information from their working memory and reintegrate it later.

Public-focusing science is a critical part of what we do as researchers. Whether that's science writing, engaging with policymakers & practitioners, these feed back into our work. My grandfather used to say to not forget to talk to people outside of academia. And I think that's stuck with me.

Closed out another great year with the lab 🥳 Lab lunch 🍜 Grateful that I get to work with many brilliant minds everyday @berkeleyeducation.bsky.social

One Haitian woman “showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled,” her attorney said.

I'm co-organizing a toy drive. If you can donate, thank you. If you can share with others, thank you. Toy Drive list: bit.ly/48pJUrK Teen Gift list: amzn.to/4rDn7BG

Original post deleted (it's better that way) but this is a really useful thread on the history of eugenics so I wanted to share

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

“Opponents have also long argued that they are designed around Danish cultural norms and point out they are administered in Danish, rather than Kalaallisut, the mother tongue of most Greenlanders. This can lead to misunderstandings, they say”

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

Jamaica Kincaid has a beautiful spotlight, written by fellow Caribbean writer Edwidge Danticat, in the New Yorker Classics today 😊 link.newyorker.com/view/5c92b48...

I wrote a piece for The Conversation on the importance of SNAP for reducing food insecurity and improving child health. I’d love it if you would read and share!

WE WON!!! The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system. Read the order here:

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!

On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

The Associated Press has called the results on Proposition 50, saying California's redistricting plan will pass.

Zohran Mamdani will be New York’s youngest mayor in over a century and the city’s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor. He has twice defeated Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as governor in the face of sexual harassment allegations. https://bit.ly/47pa8LH

This is where I am too. Get involved at your hyper local level. It matters and makes a difference.

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This was such a fun experience with @rodriguesjm.bsky.social Thanks for highlighting our work @jeffgreene.bsky.social !

The official site to donate to Jamaica's hurricane relief efforts. I plan to donate to my diaspora brethen soon. #blacksky #donate

As @drshepherd2013.bsky.social writes, what’s horrifying about those numbers is that “the hurricane intensity scale increases logarithmically. That means a doubling of wind is not a doubling of damage. It actually results in a 256-fold increase in possible damage.” My heart is with Jamaica today

Before today, the strongest storm to make landfall in Jamaica was category 4 Hurricane Gilbert in 1988 with sustained winds of ~130mph. Category 5 #HurricaneMelissa is sustaining winds at 175mph. The wind is far from the only danger, but that difference is staggering. (1/2)

Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica are bracing for Hurricane Melissa. The storm is expected to quickly grow into a powerful category 3 or stronger hurricane. n.pr/4orMwfH

Our department is hiring two positions (2026 and 2027 start dates) - come be my colleague! apply.interfolio.com/175428

Please read this essay aloud. “[Teaching] is about being present. About staying long enough to know what to ask. About saying: ‘I think I know what you mean,’ even if we’re wrong. Especially if we’re wrong.” Thanks @heymrsbond.com for sharing this. It impacted me. therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Hello #MCLS2026 !☘️ We are delighted to announce the dates for our upcoming conference in Padua, Italy! 🇮🇹 Thanks to the local organisers at Università di Padova S. Caviola, R. Rugani, M. Ranzini, and others @mcls-official.bsky.social @mclstrainee.bsky.social #neuroskyence #cogsci #edusky #devpsy

Dear Grim Reaper, I have some notes

💔 Check on your millennial friends. We are not OK today 😔😭

🟢 OSF is back online with a refreshed design. We’ve rolled out the updated OSF design, making it faster, easier to navigate, and ready for future improvements. Log in, explore the new experience, and see what’s changed: osf.io.

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Oct = SREE PMENA & NCTM! @elenamsilla.bsky.social presents lab work @ PMENA in collab w/@damcotto.bsky.social. @meg-botello.bsky.social presents work w/@drteyar.bsky.social, @mandymathed.bsky.social & Dr. Jordan at NCTM. Lab Alum Dr. @kamalc31.bsky.social presents his UMaine work @ SREE tomorrow!

This is important.

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen. He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

Love seeing our students pay it forward and their commitment to building the pipeline of educators.

🚨 JOB ALERT: Psychology Dept is hiring an Asst. Prof with a focus on prevention science & early-mid childhood. Come join our rapidly expanding department! Added bonus = 300+ days of sunshine per year. ☀️ Please share widely! 🙏🏽 APPLY HERE: uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/193...

Just a reminder that Florida is hiring this year - we'd love to see your application! Deadline is 10/10

🚨 New publication! Our registered report in Journal of Educational Psychology examines whether common executive function (EF) tasks demonstrated measurement invariance across racial/ethnic groups. Spoiler: they don’t. ⚠️ doi.org/10.1037/edu0...

Today’s lab meeting was led by @berkeleyeducation.bsky.social grad students Jetta McPhee and Elise Levin-Guracar who offered to host a session for our undergraduates applying to grad programs this year (and beyond!).

Read this and do not pretend not to have known what was happening. My fellow scientist, even if you can still get your next grant, everything will not be fine.

We're hiring! Assistant Professor — Disparities and Education Policy. This faculty position is for someone whose scholarship addresses the goals of the Education Policy Cluster of the @obi-belonging.bsky.social. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04211

If you are interested in doing a postdoc in psychology at UC Davis with me (or any other UC professor), feel free to consider applying to the UC Presidential Postdoc position! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/how-to-...

My department is hiring an assistant professor of educational psychology who researches and teaches motivation in schools! My contact info is in the job posting, please reach out if you have any questions. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/440...

Were also hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor of disparities and educational policy. Due October 30th. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04211

We’re hiring! The Berkeley School of Education is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor of AI and STEM education. Due 10/23. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05125

I am deeply grateful for the work of NSF staff this year to keep research & grants moving in a difficult environment. I view this petition as a means to demonstrate impact & interest in ensuring access to a vital grad research program. 450+ signees and counting: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/