#Criticalthinking workshop in a rock-n-roll lounge? Just another super fun day on our #cericmethod #booktour. Thanks #Oosterdam for the unforgettable atmosphere! @substellar.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Grazie Mille, Roma!🇮🇹 Veni vidi legi—I came, I saw, I read (not conquered). 😂 @substellar.bsky.social and I had an amazing session (despite the heat) taking the long view of #criticalreading and #criticalthinking . Almost no better place than the historic center of Rome.

An eclipse is one of the rare moments when millions of people want to understand what scientists actually know — and how they know it. That's exactly the gap our book was written for. Congratulations to my co-author Adam Burgasser on a terrific CNN appearance. @substellar.bsky.social

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Wonderful visibility during CNN’s coverage of the solar eclipse, Dr Adam Burgasser appeared as a guest commentator, with 'How to Critically Read the Scientific Research Literature' featured on screen. Lovely to see book highlighted during such a memorable moment. @genevivebjorn.bsky.social

OMG! Our #cericmethod book was just mentioned on CNN live. I’m kinda freaking out right now! @substellar.bsky.social #criticalthinking #solareclipse2026

🧪🌍Having a blast prepping for the #solareclipae2026 with astronomer @substellar.Sky.social aboard the #MSOosterdam, including sounds checks for our live cast with #CNN during their special coverage beginning at 1 pm Eastern. If you don’t have a clear view, join us! #astronomy #cericmethod

Sooo excited to start the European part of our #cericmethod book tour+ teaching tour. Eight countries, here we come! #criticalthinking @browndwarf.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

The students leaning most heavily on AI aren't the ones failing — in a 2026 analysis of undergrad chatbot logs, the heaviest offloading clustered among the top performers. We call it a discipline problem. It's a measurement problem: a grade no longer proves anything happened in a head. #deepreading

June 22, 2026, aerial view of the wild #ironfire burning about 31,000 acres west of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Orkey mountains. www.kuer.org/utah-wildfires #fires2026

I asked Google's AI, "Is college still worth it?" Before its first sentence ended, it had swapped "worth" for "return on investment"—then defended the cheaper question all the way down. 5 questions took the answer apart in 10 minutes. AI generates text; only a reader generates reasoned judgment.

AI killed the old college model. Good. For seventy years, a well-made college essay was proof of the thinking behind it—you couldn't produce the product without doing the work. GenAI severed the two. That's a loss worth having. open.substack.com/pub/gbjorn/p... #deepreading #whatiscollegefor

🧪 Here’s the story of the book I wish I had in grad school, and why I wrote it later: cambridgeblog.org/2026/06/the-... #cericmethod #criticalreading @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social

So excited to announce my forthcoming book on critical reading! It’s been a labor of love and couldn’t be better timed with the advance of generative AI. Available now for pre-order www.cambridge.org/9781009631273

How to Critically Read the Scientific Research Literature | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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🧪 I’m loving this #science news today by astronomer Adam Burgasser. @ucsandiego.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/s...

What a Signal in a Failed Star’s Clouds Means for the Search for Life

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Join me in wishing our beautiful girl, Princess Pickles, a very happy 13th birthday! We adopted her a few years ago from a shelter after her human went homeless in the pandemic and had to surrender her. PP is high needs, blind, and declawed, and she stole our hearts with her loving and gentle ways.

Meet the #Ginger twins: Two adorable orange tabby sisters with one unbreakable bond. #Cats

Critical reading is more than just skimming—it’s about asking questions. The best insights often start with, ‘Does the evidence support the claim?’ My latest research highlights how critical thinking turns passive reading into active discovery. 🧪 #CriticalThinking #Reading doi.org/10.3389/fedu...

Frontiers | The CERIC method plus social collaborative annotation improves critical reading of the primary literature in an interdisciplinary graduate course

BackgroundInnovative approaches to graduate education that foster interdisciplinary learning are necessary, given the expansion of interdisciplinary research...

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Recent work on the “illusion of information adequacy” shows how we assume we know enough—even when crucial info is missing. This bias, linked to naïve realism, highlights why critical thinking requires questioning what we don’t know. 🧪 #CriticalThinking #Bias journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The illusion of information adequacy

How individuals navigate perspectives and attitudes that diverge from their own affects an array of interpersonal outcomes from the health of marriages to the unfolding of international conflicts. The finesse with which people negotiate these differing perceptions depends critically upon their tacit assumptions—e.g., in the bias of naïve realism people assume that their subjective construal of a situation represents objective truth. The present study adds an important assumption to this list of biases: the illusion of information adequacy. Specifically, because individuals rarely pause to consider what information they may be missing, they assume that the cross-section of relevant information to which they are privy is sufficient to adequately understand the situation. Participants in our preregistered study (N = 1261) responded to a hypothetical scenario in which control participants received full information and treatment participants received approximately half of that same information. We found that treatment participants assumed that they possessed comparably adequate information and presumed that they were just as competent to make thoughtful decisions based on that information. Participants’ decisions were heavily influenced by which cross-section of information they received. Finally, participants believed that most other people would make a similar decision to the one they made. We discuss the implications in the context of naïve realism and other biases that implicate how people navigate differences of perspective.

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🌟 Hello, Blue Sky! 🌟 I'm Genevive, a researcher, author, and advocate for critical thinking. I'm excited to join this community! 🎉 I look forward to sharing ideas, learning from all of you, and creating something amazing together! 💙✨ #FirstPost #HelloWorld #BuildingCommunity