Fantastic days in the #NUMB3S workshop. Held in #CabodePalos, we learned about motion, metaphor, number and quantity surrounded by great company and... food. Take a look... @marthaalibali.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social #RafaelNuñez #JavierValenzuela @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social

I went to go look, and this time last year, NSF SBE had funded 216 awards. This year, they have funded 2.

Rethinking Retrieval Practice: Remembering Is Not Knowing carlhendrick.substack.com/p/rethinking...

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open

Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.

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We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member

Jennifer N. Victor@jenvictor.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet. What are we doing here?

WI Supreme Court: Taylor won "24 Trump-won counties, including rural counties in western and central WI, swing counties inthe Fox Valley, & sent the red WOW county wall crumbling by shrinking the Waukesha County margin to single digits & flipping Ozaukee County blue for the first time since 1964."

Dan Shafer@danshafer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It's realignment, certainly. It's turnout, no doubt. It's fundraising, unquestionably. But perhaps it's also that the check Wisconsin voters want on Trump, who won twice here, is one coming from the courts: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/in-chris-t...

Our paper showed that seeing the address' face triggers gesture production. This provides a new explanation for why people produce more gestures in face-to-face situations than in situations where they cannot see each other. Eye-contact may be especially important <https://tinyurl.com/4cxdukxy>

And just finished my second stop. This time in Murcia. If you're interested in #perception, #gesture and #psycholinguistics. You shouldn't miss Irene Bolumar's thesis #daedalus_lab #umu ⬇️

My child invented a brilliant trail-mix-style snack: Trader Joe’s peanut butter filled pretzels + Cadbury dark chocolate mini eggs. Outstanding!

In this new review in Nature Reviews Psychology our researchers Judith Holler and Anna K. Kuhlen argue that conversation is not simply one person speaking while another listens. It is more like a partnership between minds. www.mpi.nl/news/why-con...

Is there an alumni group for IES-funded PhD’s? IES supposedly funded over 1000 PhDs, of which I am apparently one of the last. With the training grants dying, it’d be great to have a formal alumni network where we could share jobs, grant opportunities, etc.

🚨HUGE NEWS: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos just now in a speech at the beginning of the Assembly floor session: “I will not be running for re-election in November.”

“At 14 research agencies Science examined in detail, departures outnumbered new hires last year by a ratio of 11 to one, resulting in a net loss of 4224 STEM Ph.D.s. “ www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

We invite apps for our postbac fellowship in educational research and action. Postbacs engage in research on learning & learning environments, receive close mentorship from scholars across disciplines, and gain hands-on experience through community-based programs. See cladlab.nd.edu/era-fellowsh...

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How I [almost, accidentally] submitted a paper with a fake, AI-generated citation. 🧵 (1/8)

www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left

“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

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"A particular strategy may emerge because of the specific numbers involved, or a subtle feature of the wording, or the structure of the task itself — and that variability is important. We want students to be flexible in their approach. It is evidence of sense-making."

Jenna Laib@jennalaib.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New Blog Post: Measuring Growth in Mathematical Reasoning: What Mia’s Thinking Reveals In October, Mia correctly answered 10 out of 12 questions. In December, Mia correctly answered 10 out of 12 questions. Again. And yet, the December interview demonstrated significant growth. How?

This is a bit of a cautionary tale. It made me realize that I (and my research group) will need to change some of our collaboration processes and workflow in the age of AI. I will be reflecting about what changes are needed and how to communicate about them w/ students & collaborators. #AcademicSky

Martha W. Alibali@marthaalibali.bsky.social · 9mo ago

How I [almost, accidentally] submitted a paper with a fake, AI-generated citation. 🧵 (1/8)

How I [almost, accidentally] submitted a paper with a fake, AI-generated citation. 🧵 (1/8)

Need a book rec for a gift for an older relative. She likes historical fiction, especially things related to Europe/ Eastern Europe/ WWII. She liked the Goddess of Warsaw, All the Light You Cannot See, etc. Any suggestions?

Want to have holiday lunches with our social faculty for years to come? That chair could be yours! Tatum Jolink will also be joining the department in the fall of '26. Check out our job posting: shorturl.at/4Vc1T @spspnews.bsky.social @affectscience.bsky.social

Very much reads like they are significantly reducing the influence of peer review on scientific funding, which under the current regime opens the way for more politicized funding instead.

HL Eisthen, defective human product@hleisthen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NSF now planning to let POs largely decide what gets funded, and to send PIs reviews that are only 3-5 sentences long. They don't have to use outside reviewers (except maybe 1) and don't have to convene panels. (1/5)

I'm hiring another postdoc (as a Humboldt Fellow) in HCI/CS/Learning Sciences/Psychology! 🇩🇪 tomonag.org/wp-content/u... Also see my interview about how I select fellows: saarland-informatics-campus.de/en/piece-of-... @humboldtuni.bsky.social @saarland-informatics-campus.de

Tomohiro Nagashima on the Henriette Herz Fellowship, LaLa Lab, and AI in Education - Saarland Informatics Campus

How do we create AI systems that facilitate learning rather than dictating it? Meet Saarland University’s LaLa Lab. Directed by Professor Tomohiro Nagashima, LaLa Lab explores how we learn, how AI can...

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The daughter of UW-Madison president, John Bascom, who opened UW-Madison to women (and for whom Bascom Hall is named). 🦡

Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Day 12 #artAdventCalendar is my #linocut of brilliant trailblazing US #geologist & prof Florence Bascom (1862-1945) 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci who championed women’s education, & used polarizing microscopes for detailed petrographic analysis to show that rocks previously identified as sedimentary were in fact 🧵

In lab meeting today, we are doing a "Writing Workshop" in which more senior lab members share tips & recommendations. I started my slides with the question: "When something you write seems unclear or hard to follow, how do you fix it?" I realize a lot of students might now just say, "I use AI."

“Today, we honor our ancestors and celebrate our enduring presence on this land. These dual-language signs are more than markers along the highway — they are a restoration of our Ho-Chunk identity, our language, and our responsibility to future generations,” said Ho-Chunk President Jon Greendeer.

New Ho-Chunk Nation dual-language highway signs unveiled

Gov. Tony Evers, together with Ho-Chunk Nation President Jon Greendeer and Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) Secretary Kristina Boardman, celebrated the newest set of dual-language…

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New job opening in social psychology at UW-Madison! at the associate prof level. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/associa...

Associate Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Literally destroying the future of US science, medicine, and education.

Martha W. Alibali@marthaalibali.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Super frustrating. Seems like all the mentorship programs (REUs, pre & postdoc training programs) are in limbo or being cut--both NSF-funded & university-supported ones. There are also programs through IES (Dept of Ed)--predoc & undergrad-focused training grants--that have been unreviewed since Feb.

Notre Dame has three *open-rank* faculty positions in the Institute for Educational Initiatives. These positions are part of a strategic initiative to build on our excellence in educational research and action--both within education and across associated disciplines. Details in thread.