"A particular strategy may emerge because of the specific numbers involved, or a subtle feature of the wording, or the structure of the task itself — and that variability is important. We want students to be flexible in their approach. It is evidence of sense-making."

"the best practices of the future might involve publishing experimental or quasi-experimental results in tandem with qualitative or survey-based studies on the same intervention." It'd be helpful to have more thorough documentation of resources required, too. www.brookings.edu/articles/a-m...

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

"About 40% of voxels with significant BOLD signal changes during various tasks showed reversed oxygen metabolism, particularly in the default mode network... Our findings challenge the canonical interpretation of the BOLD signal" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41402521/ A BOLD challenge #fmri

🧵 Postdoc opportunity at McGill I am recruiting a top postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at McGill through the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards Initiative. This is a rare, well-funded opportunity to build an ambitious, multimodal EdTech research program in Canada.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Thrilled to see the brilliant Ernest Morrell receive @ncte.org’s 2025 James R. Squire Award. @notredame.bsky.social and its Institute for Educational Initiatives are so fortunate to benefit from his example as a scholar and person.

Joyfully celebrating amazing colleagues! Congratulations Ernest!

Couldn't believe my eyes-- a new opportunity at NSF, in these times?! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NCTE's @anterobot.bsky.social and Emily Kirkpatrick presented Ernest Morrell, legendary scholar and director of the @notredame.bsky.social Center for Literacy Education, with the 2025 James R. Squire Award. Morrell's book Critical English Education: Enduring Voices, New Perspectives is out Jan. 27.

Excellent, thoughtful piece on what exactly standardized testing trends tell us (or don't tell us). As Mike Jones at IU has cogently argued, big data can offer patterns, but we can't conclude much based on it alone-- we need more focus on studying mechanism. pershmail.substack.com/p/i-dont-kno...

📢 ✨ FFCWS Postdoc opportunity I'm leading at Notre Dame -- circulate and apply! ffcws.princeton.edu/jobs

Calling all Future of Families @ffcws.bsky.social data users, we're partnering with RSF @russellsagefdn.bsky.social to host a special issue in celebration of 25 years. Consider submitting! www.russellsage.org/publications...

Some exciting developments with @ffcws.bsky.social at Notre Dame! Stay tuned for postdoc announcements and conference convenings!

Well this is exciting! The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank! Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146

Notre Dame has three *open-rank* faculty positions in the Institute for Educational Initiatives. These positions are part of a strategic initiative to build on our excellence in educational research and action--both within education and across associated disciplines. Details in thread.

"The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by three factors: (1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment...The three factors...are uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes..."

Happy to share this new entry on numerical cognition for the OECS. Thanks to @hbaum.bsky.social and @mcxfrank.bsky.social for making this happen! Apologies if your work isn’t cited! Had to limit cites!!! oecs.mit.edu/pub/rek9756r...

Arising out of discussions in @csi-research.bsky.social we conducted a Registered Report replicating Triplett’s (1898) experiment with over 400 children, showing children completed the task faster when paired with a coactor, compared to competing the task alone rdcu.be/eQwAE 1/3

10th-Grade Prodigy Studying Mathematics At 10th-Grade Level https://theonion.com/10th-grade-prodigy-studying-mathematics-at-10th-grade-l-1819577209/

Fantastic opportunity to work w/ some of THE BEST sociologists of education in the world. We have vibrant interdisciplinary educational research community at Notre Dame. Spread the word. 📣

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families" by Chloe R. Gibbs, Jocelyn Wikle, and Riley Wilson. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Ever wonder how habituation works? Here's our attempt to understand: A stimulus-computable rational model of visual habituation in infants and adults doi.org/10.7554/eLif... This is the thesis of two wonderful students: @anjiecao.bsky.social @galraz.bsky.social, w/ @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social

Me: How much rice to fill 16 peppers for dolma? Google AI: 12 peppers usually take 1 cup of rice. So for 16 peppers, you would need about 3-3.5 cups. AI bros: AI will wipe out jobs! Go eat at AI-run restaurants, you MFers!

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/