Therapist: So, what are you doing with your one wild and precious life? Me: Apparently, email. Also meetings Therapist: That's not really... Me: Tidying as well Therapist: Therapist: um Me: Doomscrolling? What answer are you looking for

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!) To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website: www.sinclairlab-rice.com Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...

"[Many psychologists] only care about what’s published in psychology journals. This might not be a bad career move... but... it's intellectually... disappointing."

ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!) This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313). What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think. (🧵 1/5)

There's a teacher shortage in US classrooms. Andrew Kwok will be at Notre Dame to share how to strengthen the educator pipeline. He'll discuss how early teaching exposure can attract diverse, high-achieving prospective educators. Join us, September 12, 1pm, Remick Commons. Open to the public.

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Learn more about how keywords are not helpful for solving math word problems! ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Kids These Days...behavior problems aren't changing. In over 418,000 children from nationally-representative samples, child behavior problems are pretty similar as in the 1980s, with most changes being improvements, not declines. Our work led by Zsofia Takacs #psych #phdsky osf.io/63egm_v1/dow...

“Public support for science, and for public television, makes it possible… This isn’t a partisan issue. Because science doesn’t just live in D.C. or Silicon Valley. It lives here too, in small-town Southwestern Pennsylvania, in our families and our futures.”

Science is absolutely for everyone! And it's important to expose all kids to science at a young age. Thanks so much to the authors for this article. @scienceiselemental.bsky.social

A clear message about the value of science for Pennsylvania 🧪🏠

Science belongs to all of us! Check out this piece Clarissa Thompson and I wrote for a small town paper in southwestern PA as part of the brilliant Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social series by @cantlonlab.bsky.social and @spiantado.bsky.social. www.dailycourier.com/opinion/why-...

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Learn about the Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame ‪@notredame.bsky.social‬ & other sociology depts in the 2025 ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. Now completely online and free for ASA members. Also available for a fee to nonmembers. https://bit.ly/ASAGradGuide‬‬‬‬

music lessons don't make kids smarter, but many people have assumed that music lessons would have near-transfer effects, e.g. improving aspects of auditory perception big new study led by Andrew Oxenham says "nope". music lessons make kids better at music & that's good enough reason to do 'em !

Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term. Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here. Sigh.

honestly this should be reason enough to not submit papers to Cognition or Cog Psych - is there any tangible increase in reach or readership for those journals relative to Cognitive Science, Open Mind, or other ones that either directly fund the field, or are non-profit (PS i enjoyed your talk!)

A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families Gibbs, Chloe R., Jocelyn Wikle, and Riley Wilson Uses CPS to understand how public pre-k allows moms to work static1.squarespace.com/static/563b9...

Cogsci and AI: two different approaches as articulated by Josh Tenenbaum #cogsci2025

Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025

Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏅#CogSci2025

📚 (Early) good news for education researchers! Today, Senate appropriators said NO cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) budget for FY26. Holds flat at $793 million. In contrast, the President's budget request wanted to slash IES's budget by -67%. 🧵 1/3

Check out the Number Sense Assessment, a free, research-based math assessment now available to educators and researchers nationwide. Patrick Kirkland leads this important work in the IEI at Notre Dame in collaboration w/ Alison Cheng and the Lucy Institute. news.nd.edu/news/the-ins...

As an inveterate em-dash user, I loved this. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Excited to be sharing my latest work with @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social at #CogSci2025! Learning usually occurs when we encounter new data. But we also have the capacity to reflect on our past experiences. What can we learn from simulating past experience? 📃 cicl.stanford.edu/papers/yang2... 1/

Check out four posters at #CogSci2025 featuring CLAD Lab and Tutor-ND research trainees. Find them in Poster Sessions 1 and 3 and support these enthusiastic early career researchers! Quick overview thread below!🧵 @cogscisociety.bsky.social

Because nothing says “ready to present” like literally wearing your findings at #CogSci2025 Ham Huang leveled up from poster session to superhero mode! 🦸

Come see us at #cogsci2025! Here’s a (revised) list of posters and talks from my lab!

CoCoDev @ CogSci! Come check out cool work by Igor & @junyi.bsky.social

Packed room at the @archive.org for today’s amazing speaker lineup at the Rumelhart 25th Anniversary Event. #CogSci2025

@cogscisociety.bsky.social conference: Friday August 1st at 4:00pm, Salon 2 - join @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social and two other speakers at the symposium, 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓

The SoCal Lab is headed to #cogsci2025 this week! Here's where you can find us:

The Learning Lab is heading to CogSci 2025 (@cogscisociety.bsky.social) to share our latest research! Come say hello!

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Notre Dame keeps hiring! Director of Research Programs for the Center for Educational Research and Action Due date to apply: August 1 jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UniversityOf...

Are you passionate about use-inspired basic research and RPPs w/ schools + community orgs? Do you want to mentor research trainees at Notre Dame? Apply to be Director of Research Programs for IEI’s Ctr for Educational Research and Action (ERA)! Share widely! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UniversityOf...

🚨 New episode! We are excited to be releasing another "A conversation with a luminary" episode.  In it, we chat with Professor Nora Newcombe (@noranewcombe.bsky.social) about her science journey, the geometric module, empiricism & nativism, among other things. Enjoy! itsinnate.fireside.fm/27

Come see my lab at the Cognitive Science Society Conference #cogsci2025

Are you passionate about use-inspired basic research and RPPs w/ schools + community orgs? Do you want to mentor research trainees at Notre Dame? Apply to be Director of Research Programs for IEI’s Ctr for Educational Research and Action (ERA)! Share widely! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UniversityOf...

Obituary for John Flavell, who passed away this spring. He was a wonderful guy. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

The NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub is now available! •Researchers can explore ABCD & HBCD Study data in one place – with robust query & data analysis tools, documentation, & workflows •Learn more & apply for data access: www.nbdc-datahub.org @theabcdstudy.bsky.social

Join us in congratulating professors @marthaalibali.bsky.social and Kate Walsh, recipients of fellowships from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Alibali received a @warfnews.bsky.social Named Professorship & Walsh received an H.I. Romnes Fellowship. Read more at go.wisc.edu/vlg0tn 🙌

Missed the first two roundtables in our Cognitive Science: Perspectives for Higher Education series? The recordings for both Roundtable 1 and Roundtable 2 are now available to watch online! cognitivesciencesociety.org/higher-educa...

📣📣 A recent paper by Nicholas A. Vest and colleagues: Does Focusing on the Unit of Change Help Children Learn Growing Pattern Skills? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @nicholasvest.bsky.social @marthaalibali.bsky.social

1️⃣ more day to #MCLS2025! Come to BACI in Central at 5pm tonight to hang out 🤗 The weather ranges from very hot to cloudy with a few showers (27-33°C)!☀️🌦️🌧️Don't forget your☂️🧢 And remember to use this hashtag #MCLS2025! See you all very soon! 🇭🇰#ECE #EdUHK @mcls @jnc_mcls @MCLStrainee

Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)

If you work in psychology in a research area without Registered Reports, you will see that the main hypotheses in papers are almost always supported. If your peers publish Registered Reports, you will also have access to null results, which should be very common. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

In a few months, this World Bank study of "AI tutoring" will have dozens of citations and still be circulating as authoritative "policy relevant" evidence that AI improves learning. Here's a very useful assessment of why it should not be interpreted, cited, or used like that.

News at The Bell Ringer today: Students read few—or no—books in top ELA programs, survey finds. “If we look at the Wonders curriculum...grades three through five, it has no whole books...zero actual books,” says @karenvaites.bsky.social. hollykorbey.substack.com/p/students-r...