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...

Very disappointed on behalf of all the second-year graduate students (including one from my group) who could have applied last year, but who waited until this fall, based on the rule that you can only apply once!

Today I started my grad cognition class for our masters program (we’re on a quarter system). After introductions, I start with a brief historical consideration of cognitive psychology. I note that the Gestalt school was a cognitive approach based in Germany. We then talked about what happened. 1/

When people give directions, they sometimes reposition themselves -- for example, they may turn to face the direction they would be facing if actually following that path.... Anyone know of any research on this phenomenon? @noranewcombe.bsky.social

@uwpsych.bsky.social is proud to be ranked #19 overall and #8 among public universities in the 2025-2026 U.S. News and World Report’s Best Psychology Undergraduate Programs. This Top 20 ranking underscores our reputation as a leader in teaching and research. #OnWisconsin go.wisc.edu/z344q1

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)

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 😊🍽️