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Katie Kroeper

@katiekroe.bsky.social

Social Psychologist (Asst. Prof @ Sacred Heart University) w/ a focus on educational settings; studying lots of things, including identity threat, belonging, and thriving; I’m a mom, board game nerd, and (out of practice) ballroom dancer

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Katie Kroeper@katiekroe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My former PhD advisor, Mary Murphy, published a Substack this week that’s well worth your time: The Report of Stereotype Threat’s Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated.

Mary C. Murphy@marycmurphy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Today Dominic Packer & @jayvanbavel.bsky.social republished @minzlicht.bsky.social's post about "The Downfall of Stereotype Threat" in their widely-read The Power Of Us newsletter. I felt a certain way about that & the evidence presented there & thought I'd respond:

Carlton J. Fong@carltonfong.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to present at #SPSP2026 alongside such wonderful researchers and to share our latest work on belonging with collaborators @pedram-zarei.bsky.social, @chrisrozek.bsky.social, and our research teams! Thanks to Joel Le Forestier for organizing this session at @spspnews.bsky.social!

Joel Le Forestier@joelleforestier.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Going to #spsp2026? Interested in belonging, diversity, or stigma? Come to our symposium, "The Journey to Belonging: Challenges, Costs, and Ways Forward" on Friday at 9:30AM CST. Featuring @katiekroe.bsky.social, @carltonfong.bsky.social, Kevin Binning, and myself.

A graphic showing four speakers and their talk titles: Katie Kroeper presenting "Who Gets to Belong? Belonging Opportunities in College Vary by Race and First-Gen Status," Carlton Fong presenting "Exploring College Students' Costs to Belong," Joel Le Forestier presenting "Belonging According to Whom? The Effects of Distancing from a Stigmatized Identity on Felt and Perceived Belonging," and Kevin Binning presenting "Transforming Social Contexts with Ecological Belonging Interventions."
Katie Kroeper@katiekroe.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Check out Kathy Emerson’s fabulous Substack post summarizing our recent Advances chapter, which traces how mindset research has evolved from focusing on individuals, to recognizing how mindsets are situationally triggered, to understanding how mindsets are embedded in cultures.

The evolution of mindset research: Forging connections across individuals, situations, and cultures | Request PDF

Request PDF | The evolution of mindset research: Forging connections across individuals, situations, and cultures | Mindset theory was originally developed to address a puzzling question of motivation...

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Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 11mo ago

"integrating genAI into education will result in commercialization of a collective responsibility: fostering & cultivating the coming generation" and this responsibility can't be left to an industry that has aligned with authoritarian regimes, prioritises profit at any cost, and is powering fascism

Presently, by integrating generative AI into the teaching and learning process, we are not only misleading ourselves into thinking we are tackling education’s challenges, but we are also outsourcing a social, civic and democratic process of cultivating the coming generation to commercial and capitalist enterprises whose priority is profit. The AI industry has consistently demonstrated that it is willing to undo decades of progress towards fundamental rights (Peters, 2025), peace (Singh, 2025) and democracy (Zeff, 2025) and can easily close down education efforts (Holtermann, 2025b) by operating in an environment with little to no oversight and riddled with conflicts of interest (Menn and Nix, 2023), in accordance with these companies’ business models: maximization of profit and concentration of power. An industry with such an extractive business model, developing and deploying generative AI tools with little oversight and testing, cannot be a good steward for the betterment of education. Instead, integrating generative AI into education will result in commercialization of a collective responsibility: fostering and cultivating the coming generations
Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Refusing to "trust the experts" is meant to be a brave, responsible position. But (as Carl explains in the thread) there is too much knowledge in the world. You have to trust *somebody*, much of the time. If you have no trust in experts, you end up trusting the idiots.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 12mo ago

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Access, Detracking, and Tracking Special Interest Group@accessdetracktrack.bsky.social · last yr.

📚 “Who Gets to Belong in College?” by @katiekroe.bsky.social and colleagues examines how institutions can assess and expand belonging for historically marginalized student groups.A powerful contribution to research on equity and inclusion in higher ed. 🔁 buff.ly/P1n87ip 📄 buff.ly/iRqFvES

Katie Kroeper (@katiekroe.bsky.social)

Although this isn’t exactly new news, I wanted to share more about a paper that came out while I was on maternity leave: “Who Gets to Belong in College? An Empirical Review of How Institutions Can…

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Big Data Kane@cmwitko.bsky.social · last yr.

Non-academics: if you see an interesting academic paper on here and you can’t access it due to a paywall just email the author and (depending on the state of their inbox 😜) they will generally be thrilled you are interested in their work and send you a copy.

Mike Caulfield@mikecaulfield.bsky.social · last yr.

Rick Steves finishing his speech in Edmonds. This is about halfway back in the crowd and to the side. The patriotism of this crowd was something else. And Steves' point is right -- change is going to come from an engaged center that stands in *solidarity* with the most vulnerable.

Shannon Watts@shannonrwatts.bsky.social · last yr.

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

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Katie Kroeper@katiekroe.bsky.social · last yr.

Although this isn’t exactly new news, I wanted to share more about a paper that came out while I was on maternity leave: “Who Gets to Belong in College? An Empirical Review of How Institutions Can Assess and Expand Opportunities for Belonging on Campus,” published in Educational Psychology Review. 🧵

Article titled “Who Gets to Belong in College? An Empirical Review of How Institutions Can Assess and Expand Opportunities for Belonging on Campus,” published in Educational Psychology Review (2025). Abstract: Over a dozen rigorous randomized-controlled trials show that recognizing worries about belonging in a new school as normal and as improving with time can help students stay engaged, build relationships, and succeed. Such “social-belonging” interventions can help students take advantage of opportunities available to them to develop their belonging in college—yet what is the institutional role? Drawing on past literature, and reporting novel data from the College Transition Collaborative’s massive trial of the social-belonging intervention (N = 15,143 control-condition students in 374 “local-identity” groups across 22 representative colleges and universities; Walton et al., 2023), we explore who gets to belong in college and what institutional leaders can do to expand these opportunities. First, we find that opportunities for belonging (i.e., “belonging affordances”) vary widely, both across institutions and systematically across groups. Notably, Black, Asian, and first-generation college student groups are each less likely than other groups to have minimally adequate opportunities for belonging. Second, all institutions are serving some student groups well, but all can improve: none provides adequate belonging affordances for all groups. Third, four classes of institutional factors predict belonging affordances at the identity-group level: (1) greater in-group representation, (2) more inclusive cultures, (3) greater opportunities for strong relationships, and (4) greater opportunities for productive learning. We conclude by discussing how institutions can learn for whom they are creating opportunities for belonging and for whom they are not, and how institutions can expand opportunities for belonging for groups that are not yet well served.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.

4. I've worried for years that by promoting a science-in-crisis narrative, the metascience / science reform movement runs the risk of playing useful idiot to those who would like to reduce the influence of science in policy and regulation. Just look at the funding pouring in from Koch, Arnold, etc.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.

If you use your position as the head of HHS to ratfuck a country's vaccination programs and future vaccine development efforts, your opinions on vaccines are very definitely NOT irrelevant.

Kennedy if he would vaccinate his own child for measles. “For measles? Probably for measles I —” Mr. Kennedy began to answer before stopping himself. “You know, what I would say is, my opinions about vaccines are irrelevant. “I don’t want to seem like I’m being evasive, but I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me,” he said.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.

It would be wildly foolish it is to rely on any sort of AI to make decisions in tense international situations. But using an LLM to do so is terrifyingly stupid. It's a category error to think that a machine designed to generate plausible text would be good at reasoning about existential risk.

Is AI the future of America's foreign policy? Some experts think so

Large language models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek are increasingly being looked at for their potential to help make decisions in high-stakes situations.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy Mother’s Day to the feisty science moms out there. You’re brilliant! You balance and manage SO MUCH. You bring excellence, creativity, innovation, and humanity to the world. If I hadn’t seen others having families AND doing science, I wouldn’t have realized I could do it, too. Thank you ❤️

Katie Kroeper@katiekroe.bsky.social · last yr.

Our department is hiring! We’re looking for a full-time, 12-month, non-tenure-track Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor with a focus in Industrial/Organizational Psychology to direct the I/O graduate program and teach both graduate and undergraduate courses.

Sacred Heart University Psychology - Program Director/Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor in Fairfield, CT | 1104094058 | Snagajob

Apply for a Sacred Heart University Psychology - Program Director/Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor job in Fairfield, CT. Apply online instantly. View this and more full-time & part-time j...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

Sam Altman describes ChatGPT as merely “a calculator for words” the man responsible for destroying education doesn't understand writing, thinking, or math, although, to be fair, he certainly does understand capital

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has tended to brush off concerns about AI use in academia as shortsighted, describing ChatGPT as merely “a calculator for words” and saying the definition of cheating needs to evolve. “Writing a paper the old-fashioned way is not going to be the thing,” Altman, a Stanford dropout, said last year. But speaking before the Senate’s oversight committee on technology in 2023, he confessed his own reservations: “I worry that as the models get better and better, the users can have sort of less and less of their own discriminating process.” OpenAI hasn’t been shy about marketing to college students. It recently made ChatGPT Plus, normally a $20-per-month subscription, free to them during finals. (OpenAI contends that students and teachers need to be taught how to use it responsibly, pointing to the ChatGPT Edu product it sells to academic institutions.)
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last yr.

The culture of success in the US is built on the false promise of "good choices." As I show in Holding It Together, we tell people they can be successful if they work hard/smart enough. Which means: expect no support and blame only yourself if you fail. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

Holding It Together by Jessica Calarco: 9780593538128 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society...

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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.

Phil Williams@philinvestigates.com · last yr.

An international trucking logistics firm is buying as much as *** $20 MILLION *** worth of President Donald Trump’s crypto coins to influence the administration’s trade policy. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump is threatening to revoke Harvard’s tax exempt status because the university refused to cave to his demands. Why is he so hell-bent on attacking universities? Because an educated and informed citizenry has always been the biggest threat to a dictator's power.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last yr.

Stepping in here to defend Ann’s statement, which I’ve now seen framed this way by several technologists. Ann is an author. Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct. Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · last yr.

This is one of the most-shared posts on Bluesky in the past day and it's just completely false. You might think ChatGPT is a *bad* search engine, or prefer another search engine. But it has had integrated web search since last year.

Skeet from Ann Leckie reading: "Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again."