A word of tremendous appreciation for the universities and graduate programs that make submitting letters of recommendation a 2 min process (rather than a 30+ min ordeal of cutting and pasting from a letter with all the same deets). The letter writing should be the work, not submitting it. No?

Career highlights getting to speak with 250 first-year elementary (primary) education students at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland…followed by giving a keynote at the Leadership for Inclusion in the Early Years inaugural conference ☘️

We are hiring! The Lynch School of Education and Human Development is seeking applications for a tenure track assistant professor position in counseling psychology. Come be my colleague! apply.interfolio.com/171121

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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

Random Intercepts and Slopes in Longitudinal Models: When Are They "Good" and "Bad" Controls? or Illusory Traits 2: Revenge of the Slopes Led by Siling Guo, with Nicolas Hübner, Steffen Zitzmann, Martin Hecht, and Kou Murayama. Comments welcome! osf.io/preprints/ps...

✨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

Have we given too much "credit" to the pandemic for learning losses? Almost 50% of the post-pandemic decline in achievement on 8th grade NAEP was to be expected (without the pandemic!), simply using the same rate of declining achievement that began unfolding starting in 2013!

Thomas S. Dee@tomdee.bsky.social · last yr.

This provocative, data-infused essay by James Wyckoff — edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1197 — serves as a reminder that fully understanding the declines in student achievement requires us to look well before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Looking for a power calculation tool for indirect effects? I love this one!

Sample size and power calculations for causal mediation analysis: A Tutorial and Shiny App - Behavior Research Methods

When designing a study for causal mediation analysis, it is crucial to conduct a power analysis to determine the sample size required to detect the causal mediation effects with sufficient power. Howe...

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✨New publication✨ #MathActivities on #SocialMedia: Examining content, design, and alignment with mathematical cognition research doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... with Juyun Lee and Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social

Lynch School Professor Elida Laski discusses the effect of income-based differences in how children approach math as early as in kindergarten in the @hechingerreport.org. bit.ly/Laski_Heching...

The building blocks of math students need to excel

A flexible understanding of how numbers work is as important to math as phonics is to reading

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Were Moon landings real? Does Earth orbit Sun? Do rabies vax cause dog autism? I asked 14 science/conspiracy questions on a recent research survey (IRB approved). Many respondents said they enjoyed answering, so here’s an open version for anyone. #sociology 🧪 unh.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Such an encouraging experience at #SMU Simmons College of Education “fireside” chatting with Drs. Bianca Baldridge & Toni Harrison-Kelly about educational equity…yep, equity. Shout out to Simmons students, faculty, and administration for putting on this event in these times.

Postdoc opening! Great chance to join a fantastic interdisciplinary team on the Segregation of Opportunity project at the U of Oslo. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Postdoctoral Fellow - SEGOP (277092) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow - SEGOP (277092), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

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🙋‍♂️Teaching a class session on #stereotype threat and achievement disparities assoc with race. Dang, getting a handle on what has/hasn’t replicated, the meta-analyses (and re-meta-analyses), & intervention meta-analyses is no gimme. Any rec’s for good summary pieces I could assign to undergrads?

another student was disappeared at the University of Minnesota

An absolutely incredible night. Overwhelmed. What a joyful collection of humans.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.

EXCLUSIVE: Tonight at the Kennedy Center, Guster brought on cast members from Finn, an LGBTQ+ kids musical that was recently canceled when Trump took over the center. They performed the band’s song “Hard Times” to a standing ovation. Full story, exclusive quotes and video on The Handbasket:

Please take a moment to visit the Tufts Eliot-Pearson department home page. One of their…one of OUR young child development scholars was kidnapped. Disappeared. Feeling great yet? as.tufts.edu/epcshd/

I am calling on all #devpsyc colleagues to condemn & speak out about the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk by the US govt on March 25, 2025. She is a developmental psychology graduate. #childpsyc #developmentalpsyc #lifespanpsyc #acadmicsky #childrenandyouth @srcdorg.bsky.social @issbd.bsky.social

The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers https://go.nature.com/41OhAgK

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

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Closing rural post offices will do the same thing that closing rural schools has done: Empty out rural towns. Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity. It’s been the plan for decades.

I’m not surprised, but it doesn’t ease my anger, frustration, & disappointment as an alum & faculty member. Please miss me with any more talk of being the “leaders & best” moving forward. I’ve always been critical of this concept, but it rings especially hollow now. #AcademicSky

Detroit Free Press@freep.com · last yr.

BREAKING: The University of Michigan is closing its Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, a major retreat for a school that has long championed its progressive values.

My university is accepting applications for the Visiting Researcher - Scholars at Risk Program, established to support scholars who are facing threats to their life, liberty or academic career, &/or have been forced to leave their academic position because of such threats. www.wlu.ca/academics/re...

In all seriousness, what is the plan for getting these apparently innocent young asylum seekers—dads, workers, dutifully checking in with US immigration—out of a foreign prison where they are facing torture and dehumanization while officials do Barbie poses in front of them?

Pablo Manríquez@pabloreports.bsky.social · last yr.

ICE is transferring innocent people to torture prison in El Salvador. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Decided to speak out on the state of our union. Just published in the Philadelphia Inquirer eedition.inquirer.com/infinity/art...

Coming home to a foreign land

Coming home to a foreign land

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To every one of my neighbors back in Boston, know this: You belong here. This is your home. Boston es tu hogar. Boston se lakay ou. 這是你的家. This is our city. We are the safest major city in the nation because we are safe for everyone. #Boston #Congress #CongressionalHearing #Immigration

Mayor Michelle Wu's Opening Statement to the United States House Committee on Oversight

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The Walton Family Foundation has awarded Boston College a grant to advance its mission of formative education by transforming K-12 education nationwide. The initiative will develop innovative approaches to student engagement and teacher well-being. on.bc.edu/WaltonFoun...

Grant supports BC formative education mission

$2.25M Walton Family Foundation funding will support initiative focused on K-12 student engagement, teacher well-being

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After spending Friday finishing up reviews: why aren’t more journals assigning AI as 1 of the 3 reviewers? With it able to use curated knowledge (& detect stats errors etc.), is there a downside, if 1-2 humans are in the mix? You had me at “33% less time reviewing.” #giverobotsthenotsofunjobs

On Wednesday, memoirist and poet Javier Zamora visits the Heights for the Lowell Humanities lecture series. Learn More & Register to attend: on.bc.edu/LHS25_JZamora

Let the brain drain begin www.khrono.no/forventer-fo...

Truly one of the greats. He gave us the words and the permission to study inequality in a way that has shifted so many careers and in turn impacted so many lives. Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88

His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments helped transform debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.

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