Excited to share our new systematic review on the connection between creativity and giftedness in the Journal of Advanced Academics! @jebpuryear.bsky.social @drkristenlamb.bsky.social & Melanie Meyer ❤️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am not accepting any more review requests. I need to finish my own research! About to put myself as unavailable for the summer.

New content in the journal, come check it out! Frede L., Bardach L., Strittmatter Y., Richter E., Mueckstein M., & Spitzer M. W. H. (2026). Knowledge Gap Illustrations Spark Curiosity. Journal of Cognition, 9(1):28, pp. 1–22. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....

We're hiring! FT research assistant @ UT Dallas Join our team to work on a longitudinal neuroimaging study of midlife brain aging. Strong opportunity for those interested in brain networks, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease risk. App. deadline now May 15. Details: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31680

Giving Up Too Much Work

I’m so tired of the news. 😭

You can do it. Your watch is almost over. 🥹❤️

Say what you want… but “sit still to learn” isn’t backed the way people think it is. Movement doesn’t mean distraction. For students, it could help them produce more creative ideas.

I swear if I see "actionable insights", "outcomes", "landscapes", "enhanced", "support mechanisms", or "contexts" one more time in academic papers submitted to journals OR student writing... I think I'll internally combust. It's obvious that you've used AI.

Identification matters, especially when funding depends on it. But it only works if it leads to meaningful support. Otherwise, we’re focusing more on who qualifies than what students actually need.

What’s the difference between school psychology and educational psychology in the United States?

I wrote today about a big study on replication--and why it's so hard to know if a study will hold up or not. Gift link: nyti.ms/4sNu3MF

Starting to vlog about ed psych life and what I like to study, because why not? You can follow me on Instagram or TikTok @lindsayellislee ❤️

Are your students citing ChatGPT? Make it simple with APA Style’s four reference elements: author, date, title, and source. apastyle.apa.org/blog/cite-ge...

We are constantly bombarded with the doom and gloom in the news (I get it, it's freaking awful). However, I'm trying to focus on what I can control (like cleaning my office) and find little sparks of joy to escape into. Anyone else?

It is really freeing to consider alternate paths from academia. It's not that I wouldn't still love to be a professor in the future, but I also love the idea of creating a research pathway for myself outside of academia that could grow and help more people.

Setting my default answer to no when asked to review anything for a while. I need to finish my own papers!

The 2 things I commonly find are: 1 - Conflation of correlation and causation 2 - Making assumptions that are neither evident in the data nor within their control (e.g., "He gets no support at home.")

Data literacy is a major issue. I've seen a lot of very well-meaning teachers and admins use very slick data systems to make terrible decisions.

Schools have more data than ever. The real challenge isn’t collecting data. It’s turning it into decisions that actually improve learning.

In education research, the hardest problems are rarely statistical. They're usually measurement problems. Garbage in, Garbage out...

It's always interesting when students treat APA 7th guidelines less like directions and more like creative suggestions.

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Me here in TX waiting on the primary results...

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Found this when cleaning out my office. This little award hits different now that I study creative thinking in schools. ❤️

Good morning from Karl ❤️

I guess I am stuck here.

I will no longer shrink myself to fit in positions where I’m not supposed to be.

A small part of me dies inside when I spend time providing detailed feedback on drafts/papers, only for students to totally ignore it for their final paper.

Reviewing proposals for a conference, and I can clearly tell if AI was used to create it.... just FYI!

I finished writing an email to a grad student and thought... I used way too many exclamation points. I really wasn't that excited.

Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

Check it out! "The Effects of Repeated Reading Interventions on the Oral Reading Fluency of Middle School Students With Reading Difficulties and Disabilities" Thanks to @christyaustin.bsky.social and @lindsayellislee.bsky.social for collaborating on the project! journals.sagepub.com/eprint/YVDMH...

Excited that this piece I wrote with Drs Melanie Meyer, Kristen Lamb, and @lindsayellislee.bsky.social is out in GCQ. We found distinctive patterns in topics of interest in gifted ed which largely parallel paradigms of the field which have been theorized. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Going to NAGC25? The Research & Evaluation Network is excited about our R&E extended session on whether we should continue using the word "gifted". Join experts as they debate both sides of using the term and explore potential paths forward for our field on Friday, November 14th, at 9:15 a.m. ET.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Yay! My website for Advanced Learning Research & Consulting, LLC is finally finished. www.advancedlearningrc.com

Latent Profiles of Personality and Imagination: Examining Sex Differences Across College Disciplines: https://osf.io/9zh8s

I’m over here stress baking.

NEW: These are all the Education Dept. offices that staffers and managers say have been impacted by layoffs since Friday, according to the union for the agency’s employees. They include workers that supported HBCUs, tribal colleges, charter schools, civil rights reviews, special ed & more.

So, I found a great tool, Quill, which is user-friendly for both homeschool and public school teachers. #EduSky They provide a diagnostic tool that you can use to assess the level of your students, and access to all of their online lessons and activities for ELA! www.quill.org

What is everyone doing to cope with the chaos happening? I’ve been struggling, but I’m over here cooking and baking bread.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Hi #EduSky community! I am an educational psychologist who studies gifted education and creativity! I am also currently hybrid homeschooling my son in humanities (former high school social studies teacher). I hope some of my research and tools I develop/share can be applicable.

48% of US teens say social media sites have a mostly negative effect on people their age, up from 32% in 2022. But fewer teens (14%) think social media sites negatively affect them personally. www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I'm hiring a postdoc to assist with creating a longitudinal dataset of state charter school funding laws. More info in the position description. Please share!