We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member

WI Supreme Court: Taylor won "24 Trump-won counties, including rural counties in western and central WI, swing counties inthe Fox Valley, & sent the red WOW county wall crumbling by shrinking the Waukesha County margin to single digits & flipping Ozaukee County blue for the first time since 1964."

Our paper showed that seeing the address' face triggers gesture production. This provides a new explanation for why people produce more gestures in face-to-face situations than in situations where they cannot see each other. Eye-contact may be especially important <https://tinyurl.com/4cxdukxy>

And just finished my second stop. This time in Murcia. If you're interested in #perception, #gesture and #psycholinguistics. You shouldn't miss Irene Bolumar's thesis #daedalus_lab #umu ⬇️

My child invented a brilliant trail-mix-style snack: Trader Joe’s peanut butter filled pretzels + Cadbury dark chocolate mini eggs. Outstanding!

In this new review in Nature Reviews Psychology our researchers Judith Holler and Anna K. Kuhlen argue that conversation is not simply one person speaking while another listens. It is more like a partnership between minds. www.mpi.nl/news/why-con...

Is there an alumni group for IES-funded PhD’s? IES supposedly funded over 1000 PhDs, of which I am apparently one of the last. With the training grants dying, it’d be great to have a formal alumni network where we could share jobs, grant opportunities, etc.

🚨HUGE NEWS: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos just now in a speech at the beginning of the Assembly floor session: “I will not be running for re-election in November.”

“At 14 research agencies Science examined in detail, departures outnumbered new hires last year by a ratio of 11 to one, resulting in a net loss of 4224 STEM Ph.D.s. “ www.science.org/content/arti...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

We invite apps for our postbac fellowship in educational research and action. Postbacs engage in research on learning & learning environments, receive close mentorship from scholars across disciplines, and gain hands-on experience through community-based programs. See cladlab.nd.edu/era-fellowsh...

How I [almost, accidentally] submitted a paper with a fake, AI-generated citation. 🧵 (1/8)

"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."

This is a bit of a cautionary tale. It made me realize that I (and my research group) will need to change some of our collaboration processes and workflow in the age of AI. I will be reflecting about what changes are needed and how to communicate about them w/ students & collaborators. #AcademicSky

How I [almost, accidentally] submitted a paper with a fake, AI-generated citation. 🧵 (1/8)

Need a book rec for a gift for an older relative. She likes historical fiction, especially things related to Europe/ Eastern Europe/ WWII. She liked the Goddess of Warsaw, All the Light You Cannot See, etc. Any suggestions?

Want to have holiday lunches with our social faculty for years to come? That chair could be yours! Tatum Jolink will also be joining the department in the fall of '26. Check out our job posting: shorturl.at/4Vc1T @spspnews.bsky.social @affectscience.bsky.social

Very much reads like they are significantly reducing the influence of peer review on scientific funding, which under the current regime opens the way for more politicized funding instead.

I'm hiring another postdoc (as a Humboldt Fellow) in HCI/CS/Learning Sciences/Psychology! 🇩🇪 tomonag.org/wp-content/u... Also see my interview about how I select fellows: saarland-informatics-campus.de/en/piece-of-... @humboldtuni.bsky.social @saarland-informatics-campus.de

The daughter of UW-Madison president, John Bascom, who opened UW-Madison to women (and for whom Bascom Hall is named). 🦡

In lab meeting today, we are doing a "Writing Workshop" in which more senior lab members share tips & recommendations. I started my slides with the question: "When something you write seems unclear or hard to follow, how do you fix it?" I realize a lot of students might now just say, "I use AI."

“Today, we honor our ancestors and celebrate our enduring presence on this land. These dual-language signs are more than markers along the highway — they are a restoration of our Ho-Chunk identity, our language, and our responsibility to future generations,” said Ho-Chunk President Jon Greendeer.

New job opening in social psychology at UW-Madison! at the associate prof level. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/associa...

Literally destroying the future of US science, medicine, and education.

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.

This time of year, one of my favorite sights is a cardinal in the snow. 🪶

🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI. We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods. paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu #VisionScience #NeuroSkyence

Our new paper in Cognitive Science, led by Can! @canavci.bsky.social "Assessing Others’ Knowledge Through Their Speech Disfluencies and Gestures" Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @kudilvebilis.bsky.social

Team science (all shared authorship), pre-registered, diamond open access paper now accepted at Open Mind: "Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-speech Hand Movements". with Bosker, Marieke Hoetjes, Doenja Hustin, Lieke van Maastricht www.wimpouw.com/files/POSTPR...

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

Excited to share a new paper by my grad student and myself, highlighting how classroom experiences such as positive classroom climate relate to changes in STEM motivational beliefs across the semester 🤸‍♀️🎉https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1m8Px,8E16MF-A

#infantstudies undergraduate students, apply to the Founding Generation Summer Fellowship! Students get to work over an intensive 8-week period on an exciting research project. Financial support (up to US $4,000) is available. Apply by November 25: infantstudies.org/founding-gen...

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. 📣

Education colleagues: I am partnering with middle- and high-school math teachers in DE, PA, and MD to look at how belonging-supportive instruction shapes students' math experiences (see infographic). Teachers can participate in 2025 or early 2026. Please share w/ teachers who may be interested!

Hot take but I always see videos of the butterfly method go viral but I would *never* teach this method and here's why.

It's clear from today's AP photos that Trump has entirely demolished the East Colonnade—added to the White House by Thomas Jefferson in 1805—and restored by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902. The East Colonnade didn't occupy the footprint of the Trump "ballroom"—its demolition was completely unnecessary.

I am recruiting for doctoral students at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Particularly those focused on the intersections between math ed and disability studies here, but also either field. Classes for the first three years are in person. My email: [email protected] #ITeachMath #EduSky

Psychology friends, "the Professor" who Don is referring to here is cognitive psychology professor Art Markman.

Seriously.... Monday Night Football using a little clip from the Dazz Band (from my era)??! Let it Whip!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd3g...

This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis. Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

We've recently concluded a classroom study in Japan on our "Mindful Math" Tutor, an LLM-embedded ITS that uses mindful language and messages to guide students learn algebra while calming down their math anxiety. If interested in testing/using/collaborating let me know! tomonag.org/mindfulmath/

Excited to share my first PhD article, published in Scientific Data 👉 rdcu.be/eIRqD We present the Shared Book Reading Corpus: 44 caregiver-infant dyads, 3 camera views (headcams + overview), speech transcriptions & developmental measures. Access on Databrary for discovery & reuse! ✨ #OpenScience

🍎🦡 I'm recruiting a PhD student in Ed Policy (fall '26) at @uwmadison.bsky.social! Come work with me on college access, admissions, & fin aid in our top-ranked, fully-funded program. I’m especially excited for this student to immediately join our direct admissions RCT team.

As co-chair of AERA's @srma-sig.bsky.social, I am pleased to announce our Fall 2025 webinar series focused on meta-analysis and systematic reviews! On Friday (Oct 3), our first webinar will be given by James Pustejovsky @jepusto.bsky.social! 🎉 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New study on active learning! Elegant design with yoked control!

What?? It is open to all!

After DOGE came through and took a wrecking ball to the Institute of Education Sciences, there are a few green shoots returning. But the future of the agency is very much in limbo.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP www.science.org/content/arti...