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Alex Browman
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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
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science
On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...
www.science.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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lanrickbennett.bsky.social
“When Dr. Andrew Boozary and his team at Toronto's University Health Network looked deeper into the issue, they discovered that about 100 patients accounted for more than 4,500 emergency department visits in one year.”

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Toronto ER costs, visits by frequent patients reduced with new housing model | CBC News
The Dunn House, a long-term housing project with easy access to healthcare, is helping 48 of Toronto's most-frequent visitors to the ER. The program has greatly reduced the number of hospital visits a...
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October 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist best known for her work studying the behavior of chimpanzees, died Wednesday, Oct. 1. She was 91.
Jane Goodall, Trailblazing Primatologist and Environmental Activist, Dead at 91
Jane Goodall, the trailblazing primatologist best known for her work studying the behavior of chimpanzees, has died at the age of 91.
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October 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Wow www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
alexbrowman.bsky.social
One week left (Sept. 15) to apply for our positions in Cognitive Psychology and Developmental Psychology. Please share widely, and happy to answer questions!
alexbrowman.bsky.social Alex Browman @alexbrowman.bsky.social · Aug 20
The College of the Holy Cross is hiring for 2 tenure-track psychology positions: 1 in Cognitive Psychology (specifically, higher-order cognition) and 1 in Developmental Psychology. Please share widely!

Developmental job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171704

Cognitive job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171698
September 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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alanbaxter.bsky.social
Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works.
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
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August 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
alexbrowman.bsky.social
The College of the Holy Cross is hiring for 2 tenure-track psychology positions: 1 in Cognitive Psychology (specifically, higher-order cognition) and 1 in Developmental Psychology. Please share widely!

Developmental job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171704

Cognitive job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171698
August 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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mjbsp.bsky.social
If you are making a syllabus at the start of this semester, you might find the generic syllabus make a helpful tool (I did not make this, I just use it every semester)

wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
Generic Syllabus Maker
wcaleb.rice.edu
August 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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lexidecker.bsky.social
Thrilled to share our new @NatureComms
paper: "Exploration is associated with socioeconomic disparities in learning and academic achievement in adolescence." www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/7
Exploration is associated with socioeconomic disparities in learning and academic achievement in adolescence - Nature Communications
Children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds often show lower academic achievement, commonly linked to limited resources. Here, the authors show that reduced exploration–a behavior tuned for learning...
www.nature.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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chazfirestone.bsky.social
these are forks
a visual illusion: what appears to be some strangely shaped pink pieces of cloth are actually the background on which several forks are laying
July 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Thanks to @equityaccelerator.bsky.social for covering my new paper on belonging in school!

The paper (open-access!): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

And a summary: bsky.app/profile/alex...)
June 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
alexbrowman.bsky.social
New (and first solo) publication on belonging in school, which I'm presenting at AERA today (April 24 @ 5:25 in Bluebird Ballroom Room 3C). Here's the open-access link, and a very quick summary:

What do researchers vs. students really mean when we say “belonging”?

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Centering Social Fit, Self-Concept Fit, Goal Fit, and Resource Fit as Core Elements of Students’ Experiences of Belonging at School - Educational Psychology Review
A common theme across psychological research on belonging in school has been a focus on the social—on the quality of students’ connections to others in the school environment. In this review, I argue ...
link.springer.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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neillewisjr.bsky.social
Social psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks.

now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers
Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism
now.tufts.edu
March 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
March 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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aeraedresearch.bsky.social
AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...
AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts
AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts
www.aera.net
February 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
alexbrowman.bsky.social
I told myself I couldn’t open this new bottle I’ve been wanting to try until a pressing R&R was finished and back with the journal. Well, it’s done! (And the bottle’s pretty good!)
October 1, 2024 at 4:28 AM
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This is wonderful
jessehawken.bsky.social Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · Mar 5
Chuck Jones' rules for writing a Road Runner cartoon - this is the original Dogme manifesto
March 5, 2024 at 2:35 AM
alexbrowman.bsky.social
Thrilled to see our Handbook of Educational Psychology chapter on Motivation in print!
Cover of the Handbook of Educational Psychology, Fourth Edition "Motivation" chapter of the Handbook of Educational Psychology, Fourth Edition
November 27, 2023 at 5:43 PM
alexbrowman.bsky.social
My dog went to the vet for a normal check up. He's really anxious, so he needs calming meds before we can take him. They work, but they also... impair his judgment and coordination a bit...
October 5, 2023 at 8:34 PM
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derekbruff.bsky.social
Anyone out there experimenting with Draftback to monitor student writing processes? It's a Google Chrome extension that provides a more detailed view into revision history than Google Docs built-in revision history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRFmGI3bYWs
Using Draftback to Detect Copy Paste from AI
www.youtube.com
August 16, 2023 at 4:11 PM