Alex Browman
@alexbrowman.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Psychology at College of the Holy Cross. I study how students, teachers, and the public think about education and the implications for improving education. Lab: alexbrowman.com
My department is hiring an Assistant Professor specializing in Adult Development and Aging. We welcome applications from scholars exploring a wide range of topics within the psychology of aging—see link for more details. Application deadline is Sept. 13. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/191075
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I don’t know what the right concept is to explain it, but this kind of private equity extraction stranglehold on something like youth sports is one reason people are unhappy and feel like life is unaffordable nymag.com/intelligence...
😂DARTH VADER IN SAN DIEGO: “The emperor is a fan of Flock. We must continue utilizing Flock technologies.”
Evidence keeps accumulating that LLMs are a powerfully useful technology for people who already know what they're talking about, and a dangerous outsourcing of cognitive function for people who don't. This can occur within a single individual, who knows a lot about some things and not about others.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3w agoStudents who get good grades on homework tend to get good grades on tests. But a recent study out of China shows a divergence. The old correlation holds for students who didn't use AI on homework, but it's the opposite for those who did. Using AI = best homework grades, worst test grades
In 2016, San Antonio cop Matthew Luckhurst was fired after giving a homeless man a sandwich filled with feces. Last month, he became police chief in Benavides, Texas.
Records: Ex-SAPD officer fired for giving feces sandwich to homeless man promoted to South Texas police chief
A former San Antonio police officer fired for giving a homeless man a feces sandwich was promoted to serve as the chief of a South Texas police department, according to records reviewed by KSAT Invest...
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Seriously. Some of the smartest people in the world are working to make online gambling as addictive as possible. You aren’t immune.
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2mo agoi worked in several casinos and later for an online sportsbook. the best advice i can give you is to stay the hell away from all of it.
"You’ve read a million pearl-clutching op-eds about woke professors and cancel culture, but for my money, the real crisis facing American higher education is that colleges & universities are increasingly run by people who are hostile to students & professors, &...the idea of the university itself."
Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 4mo agowww.theringer.com/2026/05/22/n... jesus THANK YOU
Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)
Seeking travel suggestions! I'll be in the Netherlands for 2 weeks in late May and I'm looking for day trip suggestions to keep myself busy while my wife is teaching. I'll be based in Well, NL and will have a car. Would also love to meet up with anyone I know in the area!
In light of the recent announcement to disband NSF's SBE program (which includes much of what would cover basic social psychology research), EMP Lab postdoc @amormino.bsky.social put together this advocacy resource guide. Please take a look, share, and let's advocate www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337
Paige Amormino - Saving SBE starts before the bill is written.
Right now, NSF SBE does not have its own separate line of funding in the FY2027 budget structure. This matters because if SBE is not specifically protected ...
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The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
Or like saying you don’t need to learn how to play the piano because there are player pianos. It misses the whole point.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt's like approaching a chef who really loves making new dishes, watching other people enjoy them, enjoying the taste himself and saying, look, this cooking thing takes a lot of time and energy, wouldn't you rather just get your nutritional needs from this brand new Gruel Bar we're selling?
It's like approaching a chef who really loves making new dishes, watching other people enjoy them, enjoying the taste himself and saying, look, this cooking thing takes a lot of time and energy, wouldn't you rather just get your nutritional needs from this brand new Gruel Bar we're selling?
THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.
We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...
Edward L. Deci, 83, Dies; Found Self-Determination as a Key to Happiness www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/s...
Edward L. Deci, 83, Dies; Found Self-Determination as a Key to Happiness
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Props to POD Network's AI in Education SIG for pointing this out... That Einstein app did a rebrand this week. First image is from the website today, second image from three days ago. Today he's a "personal tutor." Earlier this week he "watches lectures, writes essays... and submits your homework."
When I finished my PhD, my lab gifted me a bottle of Bruichladdich Octomore scotch, the nicest bottle I'd ever owned. I nursed it for 6 years and only finished it off on my wedding day. I now have a new one, because a recent development deserved a similar celebration: I've been awarded tenure!
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:
And the results are in! After carefully reviewing the results of a national poll the Board of Directors of the Society for Canadian English (SCE) has determined that this year’s Canadian Word of the Year (CWOTY), the first of its kind, will be “maplewashing.”
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Like, what are we doing?
Erik Angner@erikangner.com · 9mo ago"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
I’m looking for a good article about people’s personal experiences deeply embracing and then eventually retreating from conspiracy theories. Suggestions?
