Dr. DestinyShonte
@destinywd.bsky.social
Educational Psychologist, PhD
Alchemist. Mama. Hearty laugher. #Firstgen. Lifelong learner. Reality Tv connoisseur. #microlocs journey.
Alchemist. Mama. Hearty laugher. #Firstgen. Lifelong learner. Reality Tv connoisseur. #microlocs journey.
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Dr. DestinyShonte
@destinywd.bsky.social
· Aug 22
✨ New Publication Alert ✨
I’m very open about being a first-generation college graduate and I get asked a lot of my path to and through my Ph.D. This Autoethnography highlights pivotal experiences that led me from chemistry undergraduate to educational psychologist.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
I’m very open about being a first-generation college graduate and I get asked a lot of my path to and through my Ph.D. This Autoethnography highlights pivotal experiences that led me from chemistry undergraduate to educational psychologist.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
Reposted by Dr. DestinyShonte
Excited to share the latest (and my first, as Editor!) issue of APA Division 15’s Newsletter for Educational Psychologists! @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social @aera-motsig.bsky.social #apadiv15
apadiv15.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Excited to share the latest (and my first, as Editor!) issue of APA Division 15’s Newsletter for Educational Psychologists! @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social @aera-motsig.bsky.social #apadiv15
An R&R, new legal pads, and a bowl of grits (team salt &butter). I’m sealing my joy wherever I can find it.
October 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
An R&R, new legal pads, and a bowl of grits (team salt &butter). I’m sealing my joy wherever I can find it.
Reposted by Dr. DestinyShonte
If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
The danger is that degrees are regarded as worthless as nobody believes students have acquired any skills any more, at least not ones they couldn't have hot from just going into an office job from school.
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
Reposted by Dr. DestinyShonte
We are excited to receive manuscripts for the Science Education Journal’s special theme on Critical Feminist Science Education starting November 1!!
Have questions? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Have questions? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A Manifesto for Critical‐Feminist Science Education
Feminist science education is not a new endeavor but part of a long-standing intergenerational struggle against exclusion, marginalization, and epistemic violence within science and science education...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
We are excited to receive manuscripts for the Science Education Journal’s special theme on Critical Feminist Science Education starting November 1!!
Have questions? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Have questions? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Just wolfed down a burger and Dr Pepper because I too, haven’t eaten all day. My hyper focus is a blessing & curse. 🥲
Women really be forgetting they haven’t eaten all day until they get a massive headache.
October 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Just wolfed down a burger and Dr Pepper because I too, haven’t eaten all day. My hyper focus is a blessing & curse. 🥲
✨ New Publication Alert ✨
I’m very open about being a first-generation college graduate and I get asked a lot of my path to and through my Ph.D. This Autoethnography highlights pivotal experiences that led me from chemistry undergraduate to educational psychologist.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
I’m very open about being a first-generation college graduate and I get asked a lot of my path to and through my Ph.D. This Autoethnography highlights pivotal experiences that led me from chemistry undergraduate to educational psychologist.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
August 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
✨ New Publication Alert ✨
I’m very open about being a first-generation college graduate and I get asked a lot of my path to and through my Ph.D. This Autoethnography highlights pivotal experiences that led me from chemistry undergraduate to educational psychologist.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
I’m very open about being a first-generation college graduate and I get asked a lot of my path to and through my Ph.D. This Autoethnography highlights pivotal experiences that led me from chemistry undergraduate to educational psychologist.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
LinkedIn feels too curated and influencer-ish. I post every and now then and immediately leave. Something about LinkedIn feels too forced.
Does anyone have tips on how to use LinkedIn as an academic not looking for a job? I'm sensing you 'connect' with people you know and 'follow' people you don't? Should I accept 'requests to connect' from people I don't know? Do we just post the same research stuff as here but with more cheerfulness?
July 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
LinkedIn feels too curated and influencer-ish. I post every and now then and immediately leave. Something about LinkedIn feels too forced.
Reposted by Dr. DestinyShonte
🚨New publication in Holistic Education Review
“We Must Build Spaces That Love Us: Fostering Healing Through a Critical Quantitative Collective”
her.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/he...
#highereducation #publication #methodology #healing #critquant #quantcrit
“We Must Build Spaces That Love Us: Fostering Healing Through a Critical Quantitative Collective”
her.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/he...
#highereducation #publication #methodology #healing #critquant #quantcrit
July 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
🚨New publication in Holistic Education Review
“We Must Build Spaces That Love Us: Fostering Healing Through a Critical Quantitative Collective”
her.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/he...
#highereducation #publication #methodology #healing #critquant #quantcrit
“We Must Build Spaces That Love Us: Fostering Healing Through a Critical Quantitative Collective”
her.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/he...
#highereducation #publication #methodology #healing #critquant #quantcrit
✨ Black Women in Educational Psychology Panel at #APA2025 ✨
A Space of Belonging: Connecting Black Women Scholars in Educational Psychology featuring @drbrookeedu.bsky.social @christymbyrd.bsky.social @martiniquesealy.bsky.social @drd-g.bsky.social @heytpayne.bsky.social and Dionne Cross Francis 💫
A Space of Belonging: Connecting Black Women Scholars in Educational Psychology featuring @drbrookeedu.bsky.social @christymbyrd.bsky.social @martiniquesealy.bsky.social @drd-g.bsky.social @heytpayne.bsky.social and Dionne Cross Francis 💫
July 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
✨ Black Women in Educational Psychology Panel at #APA2025 ✨
A Space of Belonging: Connecting Black Women Scholars in Educational Psychology featuring @drbrookeedu.bsky.social @christymbyrd.bsky.social @martiniquesealy.bsky.social @drd-g.bsky.social @heytpayne.bsky.social and Dionne Cross Francis 💫
A Space of Belonging: Connecting Black Women Scholars in Educational Psychology featuring @drbrookeedu.bsky.social @christymbyrd.bsky.social @martiniquesealy.bsky.social @drd-g.bsky.social @heytpayne.bsky.social and Dionne Cross Francis 💫
I gotta find a new hair stylist and I hate that for me. You know how hard it is to find a loctician who can do microlocs and won’t send a “hey boo” text or have an aggressive,brightly colored website with unnecessary rules? I might have to become a DIY girlie 😭
July 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I gotta find a new hair stylist and I hate that for me. You know how hard it is to find a loctician who can do microlocs and won’t send a “hey boo” text or have an aggressive,brightly colored website with unnecessary rules? I might have to become a DIY girlie 😭
Black woman in Trader Joe’s: I love your locs queen.
Me: I literally smiled the rest of the day
Me: I literally smiled the rest of the day
Compliments from other black women >>>>>>>>>>> 😫❤️
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July 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Black woman in Trader Joe’s: I love your locs queen.
Me: I literally smiled the rest of the day
Me: I literally smiled the rest of the day
It’s been real. Time for my chamomile tea and magnesium lotion #BETAwards
June 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
It’s been real. Time for my chamomile tea and magnesium lotion #BETAwards
Reposted by Dr. DestinyShonte
June 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
We not done yet lol
This show feels like when you got a few rows of braids left but you gotta see it through #BETAwards
June 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
We not done yet lol
Is that T from The Parkers ?! #BETAwards
June 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Is that T from The Parkers ?! #BETAwards
Reposted by Dr. DestinyShonte
You wrote a song and BABYFACE sings it? You goated five-ever
June 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
You wrote a song and BABYFACE sings it? You goated five-ever
Kevin body rolling and Kerry speaking, the commentary from Tichina and Tisha, and the zoom in on Bobby Jones gospel is so Black 🤣 I’m actually enjoying Kevin #BETAwards
June 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Kevin body rolling and Kerry speaking, the commentary from Tichina and Tisha, and the zoom in on Bobby Jones gospel is so Black 🤣 I’m actually enjoying Kevin #BETAwards
Reposted by Dr. DestinyShonte
grant me the job security of mc lyte's vocals
June 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
grant me the job security of mc lyte's vocals
The Kirk joke was hilarious
Enjoying these performances so far. Tyler dancing is me at home
They really moving this program along #BETAwards
Enjoying these performances so far. Tyler dancing is me at home
They really moving this program along #BETAwards
June 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The Kirk joke was hilarious
Enjoying these performances so far. Tyler dancing is me at home
They really moving this program along #BETAwards
Enjoying these performances so far. Tyler dancing is me at home
They really moving this program along #BETAwards
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If you want to get started on Beyond The Gates and it's too overwhelming.
Start with episodes 1, 2...then 5...and you can skip all the way to 44.
that'll tell you all you need to know.
Start with episodes 1, 2...then 5...and you can skip all the way to 44.
that'll tell you all you need to know.
June 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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This is the energy we all need to have, I echo @drtrmorton.bsky.social that we need boots on the ground!
I’ll spare my musings but I believe boots on the ground has multiple meanings.
I’ll spare my musings but I believe boots on the ground has multiple meanings.
Thank you @advancejournal.bsky.social for featuring my thoughts on the current moment.
I invite you all to check out “This Joy that I Have…” and then dialogue with me about individual and collection action.
Link: www.advancejournal.org/post/3240-th...
#RacialJustice #STEMEducation #CRT #NSF
I invite you all to check out “This Joy that I Have…” and then dialogue with me about individual and collection action.
Link: www.advancejournal.org/post/3240-th...
#RacialJustice #STEMEducation #CRT #NSF
“This Joy That I Have…” | Published by ADVANCE Journal
This blog post is part of ADVANCE Journal's blog series on the impacts of NSF Grants and their terminations.
www.advancejournal.org
June 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This is the energy we all need to have, I echo @drtrmorton.bsky.social that we need boots on the ground!
I’ll spare my musings but I believe boots on the ground has multiple meanings.
I’ll spare my musings but I believe boots on the ground has multiple meanings.
Reposted by Dr. DestinyShonte
Excited to share the next session in the APA Division 15 Public Scholarship Series with you. I will be moderating this timely conversation hosted by the Div 15 Early Career Educational Psychologists (ECEP) Committee.
May 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Excited to share the next session in the APA Division 15 Public Scholarship Series with you. I will be moderating this timely conversation hosted by the Div 15 Early Career Educational Psychologists (ECEP) Committee.
Reposted by Dr. DestinyShonte
Outstanding Student Medallion, doctoral
Destiny Williams-Dobosz
@epsyatillinois.bsky.social
More: bit.ly/44BDIN7
Destiny Williams-Dobosz
@epsyatillinois.bsky.social
More: bit.ly/44BDIN7
May 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Outstanding Student Medallion, doctoral
Destiny Williams-Dobosz
@epsyatillinois.bsky.social
More: bit.ly/44BDIN7
Destiny Williams-Dobosz
@epsyatillinois.bsky.social
More: bit.ly/44BDIN7
Incredibly honored to be this year's Doctoral degree Outstanding Student Medal recipient 💙🧡✨
“It is essential for me to embody the understanding that people of all backgrounds and identities are capable and belong in higher education.”
Read more at the link
education.illinois.edu/about/news-e...
“It is essential for me to embody the understanding that people of all backgrounds and identities are capable and belong in higher education.”
Read more at the link
education.illinois.edu/about/news-e...
May 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Incredibly honored to be this year's Doctoral degree Outstanding Student Medal recipient 💙🧡✨
“It is essential for me to embody the understanding that people of all backgrounds and identities are capable and belong in higher education.”
Read more at the link
education.illinois.edu/about/news-e...
“It is essential for me to embody the understanding that people of all backgrounds and identities are capable and belong in higher education.”
Read more at the link
education.illinois.edu/about/news-e...