Ian Thacker
@ianthacker.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology. Former high school math and physics teacher. Music books movies. ianthacker.com
Honored to receive the UTSA Research Achievement Award. It’s wild to be listed among faculty who are discovering new planets and developing new ways to treat brain diseases. 💙🧡
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@utsaroadrunners.bsky.social
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Five UTSA faculty members honored for research achievements
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May 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Honored to receive the UTSA Research Achievement Award. It’s wild to be listed among faculty who are discovering new planets and developing new ways to treat brain diseases. 💙🧡
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@utsaroadrunners.bsky.social
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@utsaroadrunners.bsky.social
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We just released a new video on how teacher stereotypes and expectations can impact a student’s math placement and feedback–and what teachers can do about it! Check it out below and let us know what you can do about bias in your classroom.
Watch now: youtu.be/g_sYNXvN2gQ
Watch now: youtu.be/g_sYNXvN2gQ
What Great Teachers Can Do About Bias
YouTube video by Science of Teaching Math
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May 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
We just released a new video on how teacher stereotypes and expectations can impact a student’s math placement and feedback–and what teachers can do about it! Check it out below and let us know what you can do about bias in your classroom.
Watch now: youtu.be/g_sYNXvN2gQ
Watch now: youtu.be/g_sYNXvN2gQ
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Science gave you the internet, cures for diseases, ozempic, and your IPHONE. Maybe instead of cutting funding, just thank a scientist! @StandUpForScience
#StandUpForScience demonstrators in New York's Washington Square Park called on the administration of US President Donald Trump to restore cuts for scientific and medical research.
March 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Science gave you the internet, cures for diseases, ozempic, and your IPHONE. Maybe instead of cutting funding, just thank a scientist! @StandUpForScience
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Please share! We're seeking scholars to help us design AI-supported learning activities for teachers, enhancing their knowledge for teaching numbers, operations, & proportionality. Join us in advancing math education!
#MathEd #AI #Postdoc #Education
Apply here! usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
#MathEd #AI #Postdoc #Education
Apply here! usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Postdoctoral Scholar-Research Associate at USC
Learn more about applying for Postdoctoral Scholar-Research Associate at USC
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February 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Please share! We're seeking scholars to help us design AI-supported learning activities for teachers, enhancing their knowledge for teaching numbers, operations, & proportionality. Join us in advancing math education!
#MathEd #AI #Postdoc #Education
Apply here! usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
#MathEd #AI #Postdoc #Education
Apply here! usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Predicting there will be lots more "There is a shortage of top notch ____" tweets from this walking crypto-scam.
February 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Predicting there will be lots more "There is a shortage of top notch ____" tweets from this walking crypto-scam.
Finally, some decent news. Check out this UTSA Today article and video showing Dr. Sara Shields-Menard in action helping undergraduates at UTSA tackle the growing antibiotic resistance crisis as part of our USDA NIFA grant work. www.utsa.edu/today/2025/0... #NIFAimpacts #STEMEducation #DataScience
UTSA students search soil for new antibiotics in innovative STEM project
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February 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Finally, some decent news. Check out this UTSA Today article and video showing Dr. Sara Shields-Menard in action helping undergraduates at UTSA tackle the growing antibiotic resistance crisis as part of our USDA NIFA grant work. www.utsa.edu/today/2025/0... #NIFAimpacts #STEMEducation #DataScience
A nice platform for those looking to fight off despair with a quick hit of agency.
February 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A nice platform for those looking to fight off despair with a quick hit of agency.
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Now that Bitcoin has broken 100k it's worth remembering that the monstrous global resource destroying system on which it's based is not an outlier of the digital economy but an expression of its core logic—one that thrives on maximizing inefficiency www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
From Work to Proof of Work: Meaning and Value after Blockchain | Critical Inquiry: Vol 48, No 2
Abstract The price of Bitcoin is once more soaring. From early October 2020 to early January 2021, the price of a single Bitcoin token went from roughly $10,000 to nearly $65,000, reinspiring the hope...
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December 5, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Now that Bitcoin has broken 100k it's worth remembering that the monstrous global resource destroying system on which it's based is not an outlier of the digital economy but an expression of its core logic—one that thrives on maximizing inefficiency www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Looking for a leadership position in an energetic & productive School of Education where the faculty, staff, and students are working hard to make substantive, positive impacts in the community & the world? Then please consider applying for our Dean position!
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Dean
Reporting to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, the Dean is the School's Chief Academic Officer and will provide academic, intellectual, and administrative leadership for the School. The Dean ...
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December 18, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Looking for a leadership position in an energetic & productive School of Education where the faculty, staff, and students are working hard to make substantive, positive impacts in the community & the world? Then please consider applying for our Dean position!
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Kendrick Lamar beat Drake in a rap battle so thoroughly that Drake called the police.
I will never stop laughing about this!
I will never stop laughing about this!
November 25, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Kendrick Lamar beat Drake in a rap battle so thoroughly that Drake called the police.
I will never stop laughing about this!
I will never stop laughing about this!
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Not sure if I did this right or not, but here are scholars who study motivation in educational settings, mostly affiliated with @aera-motsig.bsky.social and @aeraedresearch.bsky.social
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November 16, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Not sure if I did this right or not, but here are scholars who study motivation in educational settings, mostly affiliated with @aera-motsig.bsky.social and @aeraedresearch.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/3PuVgdT
go.bsky.app/3PuVgdT
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If you've found yourself making impassioned arguments like "There's no evidence for learning styles and there are better ways to differentiate" or "Learning is more than just a cognitive process" then you may be Learning Scholar! Want to be added to this starter pack? Contact me! go.bsky.app/CBPm1dV
November 15, 2024 at 10:39 AM
If you've found yourself making impassioned arguments like "There's no evidence for learning styles and there are better ways to differentiate" or "Learning is more than just a cognitive process" then you may be Learning Scholar! Want to be added to this starter pack? Contact me! go.bsky.app/CBPm1dV
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This paper by @drmcquillan.bsky.social and @balebo.bsky.social and others, presented at #UCEA24, amplified both the mental health struggles of trans and questioning youth and also how networks of adults in schools are able to uplift and support them. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Transgender Adolescent School Climate, Mental Health, and Adult Social Support
This cross-sectional study describes gender differences in adolescent school climate, health, and social supports, including who depressed or anxious youth seek help from.
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November 23, 2024 at 11:07 PM
This paper by @drmcquillan.bsky.social and @balebo.bsky.social and others, presented at #UCEA24, amplified both the mental health struggles of trans and questioning youth and also how networks of adults in schools are able to uplift and support them. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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🔬 Major new findings on STEM gender gaps: Looking across institutions over time, physics, engineering & computer science (PECS) show stark divides—gaps are closing at selective colleges but widening elsewhere. w/ @joalkhafajiking.bsky.social [<--🌟 on the job market 😉] www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An institution-level analysis of gender gaps in STEM over time
Gender gaps in engineering and computer science narrow at math-selective schools and widen in others
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November 21, 2024 at 7:40 PM
🔬 Major new findings on STEM gender gaps: Looking across institutions over time, physics, engineering & computer science (PECS) show stark divides—gaps are closing at selective colleges but widening elsewhere. w/ @joalkhafajiking.bsky.social [<--🌟 on the job market 😉] www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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(1/x) If you are concerned about the democratic backsliding being seen around the world, then I urge you to read this new article in one of the top journals in my field: Review of Educational Research journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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November 16, 2024 at 3:37 PM
(1/x) If you are concerned about the democratic backsliding being seen around the world, then I urge you to read this new article in one of the top journals in my field: Review of Educational Research journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Excited to announce that my team has been awarded a USDA NIFA HSI grant: "PBS-DIRT Don't Hurt: Place-Based Soil Data Interpretation and Research in Texas..." for $396k! 🌱📊 #NIFAimpacts #STEMEducation #DataScience
October 21, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Excited to announce that my team has been awarded a USDA NIFA HSI grant: "PBS-DIRT Don't Hurt: Place-Based Soil Data Interpretation and Research in Texas..." for $396k! 🌱📊 #NIFAimpacts #STEMEducation #DataScience
Check out my research featured in @us.theconversation.com:
"Climate change is easier to study when it’s presented as a game." theconversation.com/climate-chan...
"Climate change is easier to study when it’s presented as a game." theconversation.com/climate-chan...
Climate change is easier to study when it’s presented as a game
Students found the topic of climate change less boring when they studied it using a numbers estimation game.
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October 21, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Check out my research featured in @us.theconversation.com:
"Climate change is easier to study when it’s presented as a game." theconversation.com/climate-chan...
"Climate change is easier to study when it’s presented as a game." theconversation.com/climate-chan...
Here to recycle a few old tweets. Starting with this:
Check out my recent publication in CEP, "Supporting secondary students’ climate change learning and motivation using novel data and data visualizations" sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Check out my recent publication in CEP, "Supporting secondary students’ climate change learning and motivation using novel data and data visualizations" sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Supporting secondary students’ climate change learning and motivation using novel data and data visualizations
National science standards at the secondary level currently recommend that students make sense of data constituting evidence of human-induced climate …
sciencedirect.com
October 20, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Here to recycle a few old tweets. Starting with this:
Check out my recent publication in CEP, "Supporting secondary students’ climate change learning and motivation using novel data and data visualizations" sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Check out my recent publication in CEP, "Supporting secondary students’ climate change learning and motivation using novel data and data visualizations" sciencedirect.com/science/arti...