The Educational Policy Studies Department at UW-Madison is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor with a focus on climate, sustainability, and education. Please share with folks you think would be interested! #climatepolicy #edpolicy #EduSky jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

Ruby-throated hummingbird, Madison, Wisconsin, September 20 🪶

I was mesmerized by the idea that something static can convey not only motion but also temporality, and I decided to test it empirically. It wasn’t an easy task, as the way our data was organized didn’t make it straightforward. But now, here is our paper! ♥️ www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

It’s becoming like we live in China, but just without the science funding

More cancellations... this time grants for foreign language and area studies. A terrible, shortsighted decision.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor João Guassi Moreira who was awarded a 2025 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant! Stay current with his work at cdnlab.psych.wisc.edu/CDNlab/

My department is hiring in Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence! Details at this link: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

"It’s only as good as its sources, and if its sources are themselves inaccurate AI summaries of inaccurate social media clickbait, it’s not good for very much at all." darbysaxbe.substack.com/p/cogsplaine...

Spatial and social cognition jointly determine multimodal demonstrative reference: Experimental evidence from Turkish and Spanish. New paper by Paula Rubio-Fernandez, @madeleinelong.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

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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-...

Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏅#CogSci2025

If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.

Check out four posters at #CogSci2025 featuring CLAD Lab and Tutor-ND research trainees. Find them in Poster Sessions 1 and 3 and support these enthusiastic early career researchers! Quick overview thread below!🧵 @cogscisociety.bsky.social

Our beloved governor.

Potential Democratic candidates for governor in Wisconsin: - Attorney General Josh Kaul - State Sen. Kelda Roys - Former WisDems Chair Ben Wikler - Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski - Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley - Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez

As an inveterate em-dash user, I loved this. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

An excellent description of what it is like to work as a professor in the US right now.. musgrave.substack.com/p/at-the-coa...

✨New publication✨ The Role of Math Games for Children’s Early Math Learning: A Systematic Review doi.org/10.5964/jnc.... with @gbramani.bsky.social

How the DOGE destruction of the National Center for Education Statistics -- and the firing of its director, Peggy Carr -- went down. Horrifying and horribly short-sighted.

So true. Even in blue states, flagship state universities only receive ~10% of their budget from the state. At U of Illinois, 50% comes from tuition, and 40% from grant overhead. If the felon & his band of criminals lowers those grant F&S rates to 15%, tuition is going to skyrocket even higher.

"The scope of cuts being proposed are extreme outliers that would drive the US backwards.... The cuts would undermine the basic capacity of universities, research institutions, hospitals, and mission-driven agencies to drive our innovation economy."

New, from me: They are trying to shove through the massive reconciliation bill as quickly as possible. Stepping back, the bill is: *an assault on the poor to benefit the richest *an assault on freedom *an assault on the future donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-re...

Join us in congratulating professors @marthaalibali.bsky.social and Kate Walsh, recipients of fellowships from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Alibali received a @warfnews.bsky.social Named Professorship & Walsh received an H.I. Romnes Fellowship. Read more at go.wisc.edu/vlg0tn 🙌

Across party lines, voters overwhelmingly support a strong federal role in education generally and in research and development (R&D) specifically. Additional findings from the poll can be found here: media.the-learning-agency.com/wp-content/u...

me: "I want my research to be featured in the NYT" Genie: (grinning)

Does anyone know what happened in the AAU vs NSF indirect costs hearing? Implementation of the 15% cap was only delayed through today, the date of summary judgement hearing

Laypeople often learn about science from expert explanations & those explanations often contain JARGON. Does jargon make explanations better or worse? In a paper out today in Nature Human Behaviour, @cruzf.bsky.social and I find that jargon can support illusions of understanding...

Rhubarb cinnamon coffee cake, ready for the last-day-of-school breakfast tomorrow morning 😊🍽️

So excited to be at #MCLS2025 🌟🔢🐒

This graphic is terrible - trillions vs. billions doesn't register. A better version from o3:

Thrilled to announce that my book MORE THAN WORDS (Avery/Penguin Random House) is out! It explains why language production has huge positive effects on talkers: attention, emotion regulation, exec function & more. Accessible science for general audiences! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724046...

My husband made this with kasha instead of farro, and it was outstanding! 🍽️ cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021...

More: SB 37 in Texas. In Indiana, governor now has the power to hire and fire the Indiana University Board of Trustees (and just fired trustees today).

🧵STEM ED Research: I'm coming back from a week of interviews with math teachers that my team & I have been working with through a partnership funded by the NSF. The interviews are something qualitative researchers do as they are working on their analyses of what happened in the intervention. 1/

Here’s a baby downy woodpecker peeking out of his hole. #birds 🪶

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

Mallards 🪶 #birds

The thing that really matters here is slipping in a Michigan of the East reference. In all seriousness, my spouse is also an immigrant, and I’m thinking about how we would have felt (and choices we would have made differently) as young grad students if he were subject to this.

For those who would like to understand more about the federal grant funding process... theconversation.com/lifecycle-of...

The consequences of this -- for the economy, the job market, and for health, education, and innovation -- are enormous and terrible. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How These Windows Are Saving Birds’ Lives www.nytimes.com/video/climat...

In April, Sophie and Sofia presented their project about equal sign understanding at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Their study considered the impact of 7th through 9th -grade students' dual interpretation of the equal sign on students' algebra performance.

Canada geese this evening. #birds #addBirder

"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."

Had a nice Mother’s Day walk and saw this yellow-bellied sapsucker, along with lots of yellow warblers, a redstart, a Baltimore oriole, a red-bellied woodpecker, a gray catbird, a pair of sandhill cranes, and the usual other crew. 🪶

New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...