Once a nerd, always a nerd 🤓 #HappyPiDay ♾️

With AERA 2026 coming up, we wanted to offer a space for first (or second) time attendees to meet other MotSIG members & learn about available resources regarding “how to AERA”! This virtual event will take place Friday, March 27th, 2026, 3PM-4PM EST. Register: tinyurl.com/MotSIGMeet

I want to be Alysa Liu when I grow up.

American New Year: Lock in - Gym, clean house, productivity! 🎉💪🏽 Chinese New Year: DON’T WASH OR DO ANYTHING OR ALL YOUR LUCK/WEALTH IS GONE 😤🤬

新年快乐! Happy lunar new year to all who celebrate! 🧧🎉 Two lovely CNY events this season - in Harlan, KY (with my family) and at @rrachelwonggg.bsky.social’s. What a lovely way to kick off the #YearOfTheHorse 🐎

So excited to announce our webinar series, "Doing the Work When It Matters Most" 😤 on behalf APA Div 15's Committee on Social Justice and Equity in Education! Join us on Friday, Feb 20 to learn about using student voice to inform educational policy and practice! 🤩 #EdPsych #Policy #StudentVoice

‼️ Graduate student travel funding for #AERA2026 ‼️

Our first lab graduate…Congratulations, Michelle! Michelle graduated with her master’s degree in Educational Psychology with a specialization in Adult Learning. Way to pave the way for those that will come after you. We are SO proud!! 🎓🎉

APA Division 15's (Educational Psychology) Call for Proposals is out now (due January 14): apadiv15.org/2025/11/04/c... Please also don't forget to sign up to review proposals :) It takes a team to put together a great convention! Sign up to review: forms.gle/9inMBVEDZxyz... See you all in D.C.!

🚨 New Open Access Publication Alert! 🚨 I’m so excited to share a paper based on my dissertation research 😎 So thankful for @emilyqr.bsky.social’s support on this one! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So excited and proud of this paper! What an exciting opportunity it was to work with STELLAR scholars from across the U.S. to investigate infrastructures to support equity in STEM! 🤩

My lab’s BlueSky debut…🥹 Check out our amazing grad student presenters at #SCIPIE2025!

Not that it matters, but I beat @benheddy.bsky.social to a ed psych jobs posting 😎🤣 Guess y’all should go follow @aeratepsig.bsky.social job postings too!!

First Motivation Monday of the year! We’re kicking things off with a panel on how to run a research lab featuring Drs. @andreicimpian.bsky.social , @nikkilobczowski.bsky.social, Dionne Cross-Francis, and Daeyon Jong. Don’t miss it! Register here: tinyurl.com/MotMondays25...

👀 We are seeking nominations for… ✨ Chair-Elect/Program Chair ✨ ✨ Graduate Student Coordinator ✨ Please e-mail any nominations to [email protected] by Oct 15. Include the following: *Full Name *Institution *Email address *200-word bio statement We are excited to expand our team! 🤩

So grateful to share my work in beautiful Graz 🇦🇹 at #EARLI2025 🌍✨ I’m feeling so inspired by global perspectives and thankful for new colleagues & friends I met during my stay!

My (WFH) partner and I have a daily “floor time” ritual, where we lie on the home office floor for 10 minutes with our pugs and let the existential dread wash over us. 😃 We get up feeling…weirdly better? Honestly a surprisingly good coping strategy for…ya know, ✨everything✨ 10/10 recommend.

My first, first author publication is out! It was a joy to be with and write about Black girls in math! ✨

Life of the eldest daughter of immigrants ✨ Back home today to help out with our family restaurant! This place put me through college and grad school. I’ll forever be thankful 💕

Did you miss it? Don't worry, we recorded the session here: youtu.be/GjZsiyFVeCw!

🚨 TODAY!! 🚨 Join us to learn about using Sharing Circles at 2pm ET. Hope to see you there!

‼️New Publication Alert! 🎉 1/Ever wonder who inspires high school students to pursue STEM careers and how they do it? In our new study, @emilyqr.bsky.social and I asked high schoolers about who their real-life STEM career models are and what makes them motivating. Read ➡️ doi.org/10.1007/s112...

I have been ✨influenced✨

Join us on Friday, 6/20 at 2pm EST for the APA Div 15's Anti-Racist & Anti-Colonial Research Methods series! Our final event will focus on using Sharing Circles (a method rooted in traditional practices of many Indigenous communities) w/ Macy Bowman 🤩 Register ➡️: tiny.utk.edu/APADiv15SharingCircles

Ended the spring semester with a picnic and rock painting in the park with my grad TAs ☀️ Cheers to a successful year 1 here at UTK! 🥂🎉

If you missed APA Div 15's Race & Diversity webinar last Friday, don't worry - we recorded it! "A CritQuant Measurement Perspective: MIMIC Models to Identify & Remediate Racial (and Other) Forms of Bias" by Drs. Matthew Diemer, Aixa Marchand, & Michael Frisby. ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHZb...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Our first AERA with all the PhDs in line!! 🎓🎓🎓 🥹 It’s more fun when your colleagues are friends! 🥰 @drbrookeedu.bsky.social & bluesky-less Dr. Kori Nicolai

I’m going to give my FIRST talk ever at AERA tomorrow morning during a Div C symposium on parents’ academic socialization. Thinking about presenting the study closet to my heart to the audience to which I call academic family hypes me up! Come and find out what I’ve been working on!

Annual business meeting of the powerlifting SIG at Club Forum’s “Meat Locker” this morning 😤💪🏼 We are growing in membership! 🤗 @pnbeymer.bsky.social #AERA2025

TODAY!! Come get a little messy with us 🤩

So excited for members of the Motivation and Academic Choices Lab to present their work at #AERA2025 this year! Please come check out what we have been working on.

Attending #AERA2025? 👀 Might I recommend adding this exciting Division C invited session focused on navigating ✨messy✨ educational research? Friday, April 25th 11:40am - 1:10pm MDT Colorado Convention Center Meeting Room Level, Room 102 tinyurl.com/26yk9g7h

On days when I’m less confident, I always refer to my “Evidence of Awesomeness” doc. Any affirming notes, comments, emails from mentors, students, etc. are dropped in here to remind me of my “awesomeness” 🤩 You’re probably awesome too; Highly recommend documenting and reflecting on the evidence!

Soooo proud of this paper, particularly because Licia is a ROCKSTAR who led this project as an undergraduate student! 🤩

The best part of teaching development theories is all the fun videos and examples I get to talk about with my students. Today, we’re learning about Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory and identity crises during adolescence. I’ll be showing a *very scholarly* video, from High School Musical 😊

Looking to make your AERA 2025 even more productive? The MotSIG GSC is offering two amazing opportunities! First, our Mentor-Mentee Program for first-time AERA attendees, where we pair you with an AERA veteran to help you navigate the conference. Sign up by April 4: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Next, we’ve got the Karabenick Conversations, a chance to grab coffee with some prolific motivation scholars. Have your questions answered, chat about your research, or just vibe with others who share your passion.

Congratulations, Dr. Song!!!! So happy that I got to see you shine today! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Join us THIS Friday (3/14) at 11am PT/2pm ET to learn about using testimonio methods to enact anti-racist and anti-colonial research in educational psychology with Dr. Julieth Diaz Benitez! 🤩 ➡️ Register here: tinyurl.com/TestimonioMe...

i actually sat down and wrote for 2 hours today. someone give me my gold star please ⭐️😀

Perhaps I won’t always be excited about grading, but I do really enjoy reading students’ reflections in my classes. It brings me so much joy to see them take course content, make meaning out of it, and apply it to their lives. 🥹 It’s these kinds of things that make this job really great!!

I’m just a baby 🥹👉🏼👈🏼

A lot of unknown happening in the U.S. these days, making it feel weird to continue business as usual. But, alas, we persist! Just finished a 1st round of interviews with HS students. How privileged and lucky I am to be in a position to find ways to support equitable learning! Keep it up, fam. ✊🏼

So excited to see this come out!

Xinyu Liu is a masters program graduate now getting his PhD to study motivation at Florida State University

Dr. Xiao-Yin Chen @yinchen.bsky.social is already a new prof at UT Knoxville and studying how social models shape motivation for historically marginalized students.

happy birthday, taylor swift. 💖

Every year, my siblings and I try to complete a lego set without instructions. Here is my mom’s TikTok recap of this major event (and yes, my mom is on TikTok). 🫰🏼

Not sure if I did this right or not, but here are scholars who study motivation in educational settings, mostly affiliated with @aera-motsig.bsky.social and @aeraedresearch.bsky.social go.bsky.app/3PuVgdT