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Chris Steadman
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PhD student in Educational Psychology at the U of MN
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chrissteadman.bsky.social
Happy Pride y'all 🌈

In honor of Pride month, Happiness in the Closet has recorded a bonus episode featuring a conversation with me and Drew Stever, a wonderful trans pastor.

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Creation as an act of caring: A conversation with Drew
Happiness in the Closet · Episode
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June 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
chrissteadman.bsky.social
Very excited to be selected as one of the competition semifinalists! Can't wait to see what we can learn about how internship experiences can promote students' academic buoyancy and problem-solving skills.
umn-lil.bsky.social Learning Informatics Lab @umn-lil.bsky.social · Jun 19
We're excited to announce the semifinalists for the 2025 ImBlaze x LIL Graduate Research Competition. Click the link below for the full announcement, and congrats to all our semifinalists!
innovation.umn.edu/informatics/...
2025 ImBlaze X LIL Graduate Research Competition logo
June 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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umn-lil.bsky.social
We're excited to announce the semifinalists for the 2025 ImBlaze x LIL Graduate Research Competition. Click the link below for the full announcement, and congrats to all our semifinalists!
innovation.umn.edu/informatics/...
2025 ImBlaze X LIL Graduate Research Competition logo
June 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
chrissteadman.bsky.social
Excited to share that my first, first author publication is out in Technology, Mind, and Behavior! If you've ever had thoughts pop into your head (and who hasn't?), check it out here: doi.org/10.1037/tmb0...
Involuntary Thoughts in Older Versus Younger Adults: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Investigating Déjà Vu, Involuntary Autobiographical Memories, and Unexpected Thoughts
Volume 6, Issue 2, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000150
tmb.apaopen.org
April 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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olivia.science
Out this week @cogscisociety.bsky.social! @samhforbes.bsky.social & I ”urge extreme caution in the use of LLMs in classrooms lest we further normalize: pupils losing their privacy, reducing contact between learner and educator, deskilling teachers & polluting the environment”
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models
Huettig and Christiansen in an earlier issue argue that large language models (LLMs) are beneficial to address declining cognitive skills, such as literacy, through combating imbalances in educationa...
doi.org
April 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
New 💫

Letter to the Editor in Cognitive Science, by @samhforbes.bsky.social & @olivia.science

lnkd.in/eea8Cwmd
Title page of paper: To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, not Large Language Models
April 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
reading Gay Berlin and tearing up at the story of Karl Ulrichs, the first person to express in public a modern understanding of homosexuality and also simultaneously the first gay man to come out openly under his own name. talk about standing on the edge of the world.
March 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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thetransmitter.bsky.social
Averaging over time hides what a neuron actually sees, what it actually gets to compute with, writes @markdhumphries.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/neural-codin...
Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience
But neurons don’t take averages. This ubiquitous practice hides from us how the brain really works.
www.thetransmitter.org
March 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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sbmost.bsky.social
Cognitive psych is often traced back to the 1950s.
Psychology is often traced to Wundt's lab in 1879.
Textbooks speak of "proto-psychologists" like Fechner & Helmholtz in the 1800s... Westerners all.

Have you heard about Ibn al-Haytham, whose work predated them by 100s of years?

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January 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
chrissteadman.bsky.social
Get ready #WinterText25, I may be presenting a poster but that doesn’t mean I can’t still experience technical difficulties!
phdcomics.com PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · Jan 30
Hey, my new book is out - read it as consolation for that terrible presentation: bit.ly/OOYM
January 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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THREAD

This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact

An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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Adam Curtis Title Card: We Too Are Trapped In A System. Text over a background of a large office building
December 19, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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jakefwatson.bsky.social
Is neuroscience research really working to understand the human brain? Or do we get lost in mouse cognition? I’ve asked myself this a lot since starting to work with human tissue. Our first Jonas Lab foray into untangling human hippocampal circuits is now online! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 1/a few
Human hippocampal CA3 uses specific functional connectivity rules for efficient associative memory
Human hippocampal CA3 networks use sparse and broad synaptic connectivity, and their recurrent synapses employ reliability, precision, and long integration times to enhance memory capacity. Thus, the human hippocampus is distinct from both rodent counterparts and human neocortical circuits.
www.cell.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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umn-lil.bsky.social
We're excited to announce our Fall Colloquium entitled "Leveraging Social Theories to Enhance Human-AI Interaction".
Join Dr. Harmanpreet Kaur this Friday (12/6) at 4 in Ed Sci 325 as she delves into her work on human-centered and explainable AI!

#AI #Explainability #LearningInformatics
A description of our fall colloquium talk by Dr. Harmanpreet Kaur. The main body of the text reads as follows: "Human-AI partnerships are increasingly commonplace. Yet, systems that rely on these partnerships are unable to effectively capture the dynamic needs of people, or explain complex AI reasoning and outputs. This results in a propagation of biases and missed edge cases in all kinds of applications. My work follows the belief that for human-AI interaction to be effective and safe, technical development in AI must come in concert with an understanding of human-centric cognitive, social, and organizational phenomena. Using human-AI interaction in the context of ML-based decision-support systems as a case study, in this talk, I will discuss my research that explains why explainable AI does not work in practice. I will also share design ideas—both completed and current work—to help people with varying expertise understand AI outputs."
December 2, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions
Pie chart: 74% hydrogen 25% helium 1% other (in tiny font)
November 28, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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ferrisjabr.bsky.social
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
chrissteadman.bsky.social
Had a blast at #psynom24 and had the privilege of talking about some recent work looking at the effect of cascading task-unrelated thought at #scip24. Thanks to everyone who came to listen!
A picture of me presenting work on task-unrelated thought at the 2024 SCiP conference.
November 24, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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hirstrj.bsky.social
Hey psych methods people!

Here is a thread of psych research methods stuff shared at today's #psynom24 society for computation in psychology. #scip🧵👇

My first time attending this affiliate meeting - it was really neat!
November 22, 2024 at 5:08 AM
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ariellekeller.bsky.social
☀️ New preprint! ☀️ Cognitive tests from 23,000+ participants in 4 datasets show cyclical fluctuations across the calendar year, including a small but replicable “summer slide” where youth show worst performance after school vacation. t.ly/OMzgl

#PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci
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a graph showing a drop in cognitive performance during the summer months in the ABCD Study dataset
November 21, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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avsp.bsky.social
Synesthesia is linked to ... academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... Pre-registered study found that a hidden subgroup within the general population - people with synesthesia - show a distinctive behavioural phenotype & wide-ranging differences in brain structure & function ... 🎨 🎶 👁️‍🗨️
Synesthesia is linked to large and extensive differences in brain structure and function as determined by whole-brain biomarkers derived from the HCP (Human Connectome Project) cortical parcellation a...
Abstract. There is considerable interest in understanding the developmental origins and health implications of individual differences in brain structure an
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November 21, 2024 at 2:06 AM
chrissteadman.bsky.social
Excited to share the latest episode of Happiness in the Closet, a podcast on queer (trans & non-binary) joy! This week, I had the privilege of chatting with Rhea Ewing, award-winning comic artist & author of Fine. Check it out here: open.spotify.com/episode/4ZYc...
A conversation with Rhea Ewing: Episode 9
Happiness in the Closet · Episode
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November 12, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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natrevpsychol.nature.com
The roles of attention, executive function and knowledge in cognitive ageing of working memory

Review by Moshe Naveh-Benjamin & Nelson Cowan 

Web: go.nature.com/3PEKkC5
PDF: go.nature.com/3PEKkC5

#psychology #psychscisky #cogpsych
March 26, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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natrevpsychol.nature.com
Using large language models in psychology

Review by Demszky, Yang, Yeager, Bryan, Clapper, Chandhok, Eichstaedt, Hecht, Jamieson, Johnson, Jones, Krettek-Cobb, Lai, JonesMitchell, Ong, Dweck, Gross & Pennebaker 

Web: go.nature.com/3IVgi9h
PDF: rdcu.be/dCFKY

#psychology #psychscisky
March 27, 2024 at 5:43 PM
chrissteadman.bsky.social
Life in Minnesota
March 22, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
Our paper explains how social identity shapes information processing and contributes to the belief and spread of #misinformation

We argue that understanding the interplay between social identity and accuracy is crucial in addressing misinformation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 30, 2024 at 7:14 PM