With deeply mixed feelings, I am leaving Texas Tech University. I have loved my position, colleagues, and students at TTU for five years. I am heartbroken that Chancellor Creighton and the Board of Regents has implemented illegal, politically motivated censorship of teaching and research.

Texas Tech is expanding its prohibition on "gender and sexual orientation" topics to include faculty research and student theses and dissertations. Our chancellor wants to censor the truth because he knows it topples the hateful ideology of MAGA. Knowledge is power, so they plan to destroy it.

Guess who’s got two thumbs, a sword, and tenure? 🎉🍾 grateful to the wonderful friends and colleagues and collaborators who have enabled me getting here 💕 @mossmatters.bsky.social

The application form for the LONESTAR [Un]Conference on Strategic Learning is now open! Deadline is Feb 1st. Apply at: sites.google.com/view/lonesta...

SAVE THE DATE! I am excited to announce the 4th annual LONESTAR (un)Conference on Strategic Learning, to be hosted at Texas state University in San Marcos on May 19-20, 2026. Applications to attend will open on Jan 15, 2026 and close on Feb 1st, 2026 For more: sites.google.com/view/lonesta...

🚨🚨🚨 www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

As PI of a grant on this list, I'm proud of the work we're doing to help ALL students reach their academic goals with evidence-based strategies in the classroom. This work is important not only for students and instructors, but for society at large. We will not stop. bsky.app/profile/sylv...

BREAKING NEWS: The development follows a federal judge's order Tuesday that temporarily blocked the effort to pause federal payments for grants and other programs.

Oh my goodness, I am excited by this one! Study strategies are so important for student success, so we wondered, what influences how students study? Is it related to how they view their beliefs and making errors while studying? We found yes! doi.org/10.1186/s405...

My letter to the Duke student newspaper on the closing of the Duke Herbarium www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024...

I can confirm the appalling news that Duke intends to close its 800K specimen herbarium as part of an embarrassing plan to delete its position as a leader in biodiversity research. This is despite successful fundraising efforts with a donor secured to save the herbarium.

Hi folks, I want to respond to the new Nature Reviews Psychology Comment arguing that “Beliefs about success are prone to cognitive fallacies.” rdcu.be/dqMVI (1/N)

Our project to study climate impacts on plant ecophysiology and conservation in the Guadalupe Mountains was featured in a photoessay by TTU photog Justin Rex! texastechuniversity.exposure.co/peak-botanyn...

This week I had the incredible honor of being invited to visit Carol Dweck's lab and talk with her about my research! It was so inspiring to meet her and discuss mindset research!

If you’ve seen me at a conference in the past 3 years you’ve seen me talk about this one project ad nauseum. Finally, after years of talking your ears off about it, being a work in progress, and a pre-print, it’s finally a grown-up (open access) publication! 🤩 www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...