Dr. Kristy A. Robinson
@krisarob.bsky.social
Associate Prof & Director of MILES Lab at @mcgillu.ca
Interested in motivational support & motivational climate, riding my bike, and books
kristyarobinson.com
On sabbatical 2025-26
Interested in motivational support & motivational climate, riding my bike, and books
kristyarobinson.com
On sabbatical 2025-26
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Hey out there to all my mid-to-late career colleagues, do you want to come work at Carleton? Our government is pushing hard to recruit international talent right now.
Posting below, and a few details about how I love where I work
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Posting below, and a few details about how I love where I work
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Associate/Full Professor and Canada Impact+ Research Chair, Open Field of Specialization - Office of the Deputy Provost (Academic Operations and Planning)
About the Position Carleton University invites applications from outstanding researchers for between five and ten tenured appointments as Canada Impact+ Research Chairs at the rank of Associate or Ful...
carleton.ca
December 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hey out there to all my mid-to-late career colleagues, do you want to come work at Carleton? Our government is pushing hard to recruit international talent right now.
Posting below, and a few details about how I love where I work
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Posting below, and a few details about how I love where I work
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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New paper in PSPB on the benefits of giving positive feedback to students, especially from underrepresented groups. Although not the norm in STEM, giving positive feedback boosts self-efficacy and belonging, which increases STEM performance, attitudes, interest
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
New paper in PSPB on the benefits of giving positive feedback to students, especially from underrepresented groups. Although not the norm in STEM, giving positive feedback boosts self-efficacy and belonging, which increases STEM performance, attitudes, interest
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reading this now and it is VERY cool! Kudos, @allisonmaster.bsky.social and team!
🚨New OPEN-ACCESS publication alert! 🚨 "The Role of Stereotypes in Gender Development and Disparities" in Annual Review of Developmental Psychology with @poojaroy0514.bsky.social @lucaspbutler.bsky.social @patelkhushboo.bsky.social and Sydney Baker.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... (1/5)
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... (1/5)
The Role of Stereotypes in Gender Development and Disparities
Learning about the social world, including gender, is a key developmental task of childhood. Children learn about gender stereotypes from their second year of life, and those stereotypes can shape the...
www.annualreviews.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Reading this now and it is VERY cool! Kudos, @allisonmaster.bsky.social and team!
Last call: today's the day!
Heeeey @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aera-motsig-grad.bsky.social apply BY DEC 15 for Pintrich & Grad Travel Award if you are 1) a current grad student, 2) a member of the MotSIG, & 3) 1st author on an accepted submission in the '26 AERA MotSIG program using the following form: forms.gle/QmnfsG3LMj8T...
December 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Last call: today's the day!
@aera-motsig.bsky.social friends, I've heard from several of you about emails you got from @aeraedresearch.bsky.social mistakenly listing you as discussants. It seems to be a widespread issue, but rest assured we'll get it fixed.
December 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@aera-motsig.bsky.social friends, I've heard from several of you about emails you got from @aeraedresearch.bsky.social mistakenly listing you as discussants. It seems to be a widespread issue, but rest assured we'll get it fixed.
Heeeey @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aera-motsig-grad.bsky.social apply BY DEC 15 for Pintrich & Grad Travel Award if you are 1) a current grad student, 2) a member of the MotSIG, & 3) 1st author on an accepted submission in the '26 AERA MotSIG program using the following form: forms.gle/QmnfsG3LMj8T...
December 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Heeeey @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aera-motsig-grad.bsky.social apply BY DEC 15 for Pintrich & Grad Travel Award if you are 1) a current grad student, 2) a member of the MotSIG, & 3) 1st author on an accepted submission in the '26 AERA MotSIG program using the following form: forms.gle/QmnfsG3LMj8T...
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New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
December 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Excited to share a new paper by my grad student and myself, highlighting how classroom experiences such as positive classroom climate relate to changes in STEM motivational beliefs across the semester 🤸♀️🎉https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1m8Px,8E16MF-A
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Excited to share a new paper by my grad student and myself, highlighting how classroom experiences such as positive classroom climate relate to changes in STEM motivational beliefs across the semester 🤸♀️🎉https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1m8Px,8E16MF-A
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Are you trying to personalize your teaching, technology, etc. to students' interests, prior knowledge, etc.? Then you need to get this new Handbook edited by @mattbernacki.bsky.social and other fine folks! #AcademicSky #EduSky
Handbook of Personalized Learning
The Handbook of Personalized Learning offers a theoretically grounded conceptualization for the development and implementation of personalizing learning. This comprehensive volume addresses personaliz...
www.routledge.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Are you trying to personalize your teaching, technology, etc. to students' interests, prior knowledge, etc.? Then you need to get this new Handbook edited by @mattbernacki.bsky.social and other fine folks! #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Need Bloosky wisdom: I receive about 8 cold external emails a day from students, colleagues, parents, teachers, and strangers asking for advice, collaboration, supervision, or endorsements. Double past year’s volume. I screen, but can only answer about 2 a day. How do folks manage? Ideas?
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Need Bloosky wisdom: I receive about 8 cold external emails a day from students, colleagues, parents, teachers, and strangers asking for advice, collaboration, supervision, or endorsements. Double past year’s volume. I screen, but can only answer about 2 a day. How do folks manage? Ideas?
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Academia in one meme
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Academia in one meme
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1. Last office hours a few people had questions about personal statements for grad school apps. I suggested a template that has worked well in my experience & have also laid it out in the thread below in case it's useful for you all.
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
#DevPsyc #CogPsyc
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
#DevPsyc #CogPsyc
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
1. Last office hours a few people had questions about personal statements for grad school apps. I suggested a template that has worked well in my experience & have also laid it out in the thread below in case it's useful for you all.
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
#DevPsyc #CogPsyc
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
#DevPsyc #CogPsyc
Relevant to this: some thought-provoking reading on cultural and structural changes needed for bold, robust theorizing to happen doi.org/10.1037/mot0...
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Relevant to this: some thought-provoking reading on cultural and structural changes needed for bold, robust theorizing to happen doi.org/10.1037/mot0...
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Some friendly advice to folks new to the conference submission game: everybody gets some submissions rejected. I did today. It’s normal and expected. Keep doing the best work you can, don’t get too high or too low, learn from every decision, and push on. #AERA2026
dory and clown fish from the movie finding nemo
ALT: dory and clown fish from the movie finding nemo
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November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Some friendly advice to folks new to the conference submission game: everybody gets some submissions rejected. I did today. It’s normal and expected. Keep doing the best work you can, don’t get too high or too low, learn from every decision, and push on. #AERA2026
Happy #AERA2026 decision day to all who celebrate! May your day be a happy one, either because of or despite your results!
On a separate note, thanks again to all who submitted such excellent work and who worked hard to review for @aera-motsig.bsky.social —I see you and I GREATLY appreciate you! ❤️
On a separate note, thanks again to all who submitted such excellent work and who worked hard to review for @aera-motsig.bsky.social —I see you and I GREATLY appreciate you! ❤️
a man standing on a bridge with the words brace yourself written below him
Alt: a man standing on a bridge with the words brace yourself written below him
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November 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Happy #AERA2026 decision day to all who celebrate! May your day be a happy one, either because of or despite your results!
On a separate note, thanks again to all who submitted such excellent work and who worked hard to review for @aera-motsig.bsky.social —I see you and I GREATLY appreciate you! ❤️
On a separate note, thanks again to all who submitted such excellent work and who worked hard to review for @aera-motsig.bsky.social —I see you and I GREATLY appreciate you! ❤️
J'ai passé un moment formidable à l'Université Laval! Un grand merci à tous ceux qui ont assisté à la conférence et qui m'ont si bien accueilli!
I had a wonderful time at @ulaval.ca ! Many thanks to those who attended the talks and who made me feel so welcome!
I had a wonderful time at @ulaval.ca ! Many thanks to those who attended the talks and who made me feel so welcome!
October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
J'ai passé un moment formidable à l'Université Laval! Un grand merci à tous ceux qui ont assisté à la conférence et qui m'ont si bien accueilli!
I had a wonderful time at @ulaval.ca ! Many thanks to those who attended the talks and who made me feel so welcome!
I had a wonderful time at @ulaval.ca ! Many thanks to those who attended the talks and who made me feel so welcome!
Bonjour Québec! Very excited to be visiting colleagues at Université Laval this week and finally getting to visit this gorgeous city!
October 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Bonjour Québec! Very excited to be visiting colleagues at Université Laval this week and finally getting to visit this gorgeous city!
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We are excited to share that we will be hosting an information session for Division C's 2026 Shark Tank Competition on Wednesday, November 5, 2025!
Register for the information session here: bit.ly/sharktankinfo
Register for the information session here: bit.ly/sharktankinfo
October 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We are excited to share that we will be hosting an information session for Division C's 2026 Shark Tank Competition on Wednesday, November 5, 2025!
Register for the information session here: bit.ly/sharktankinfo
Register for the information session here: bit.ly/sharktankinfo
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Excited to share our new paper!
We call for the field to adopt a more inclusive understanding of rigor. One that values diverse epistemological lenses and research designs
@allisonzengilowski.bsky.social (and the rest of the team is not on blue sky)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We call for the field to adopt a more inclusive understanding of rigor. One that values diverse epistemological lenses and research designs
@allisonzengilowski.bsky.social (and the rest of the team is not on blue sky)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Excited to share our new paper!
We call for the field to adopt a more inclusive understanding of rigor. One that values diverse epistemological lenses and research designs
@allisonzengilowski.bsky.social (and the rest of the team is not on blue sky)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We call for the field to adopt a more inclusive understanding of rigor. One that values diverse epistemological lenses and research designs
@allisonzengilowski.bsky.social (and the rest of the team is not on blue sky)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A colleague sent me this article, which is six years old, but still very relevant. It encourages people to think about how their perspectives can influence their science. Norms & practices can discipline our inherent subjectivity, but we must also do work ourselves. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Social Identity Map: A Reflexivity Tool for Practicing Explicit Positionality in Critical Qualitative Research - Danielle Jacobson, Nida Mustafa, 2019
The way that we as researchers view and interpret our social worlds is impacted by where, when, and how we are socially located and in what society. The positio...
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A colleague sent me this article, which is six years old, but still very relevant. It encourages people to think about how their perspectives can influence their science. Norms & practices can discipline our inherent subjectivity, but we must also do work ourselves. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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So excited and proud of this paper! What an exciting opportunity it was to work with STELLAR scholars from across the U.S. to investigate infrastructures to support equity in STEM! 🤩
Open-access publication alert!! This is a special one; it represents two years of work with an amazing team of researchers, teachers, educational stakeholders, and technology experts to identify infrastructure that would advance equity in STEM education: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A field-initiated vision of research infrastructure for STEM education - International Journal of STEM Education
STEM education research has historically been under-equipped, relying on standardized tests and questionnaires while other fields deploy space telescopes and particle accelerators. What would happen i...
link.springer.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
So excited and proud of this paper! What an exciting opportunity it was to work with STELLAR scholars from across the U.S. to investigate infrastructures to support equity in STEM! 🤩
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This month’s Motivation Monday is a special collaboration with the @aeratepsig.bsky.social on teaching educational psychology. Join us in conversation with @allisonmaster.bsky.social, Allison Zengilowski, @yekim.bsky.social, and @shipko.bsky.social.
Register here: tinyurl.com/MotMondays25...
Register here: tinyurl.com/MotMondays25...
October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This month’s Motivation Monday is a special collaboration with the @aeratepsig.bsky.social on teaching educational psychology. Join us in conversation with @allisonmaster.bsky.social, Allison Zengilowski, @yekim.bsky.social, and @shipko.bsky.social.
Register here: tinyurl.com/MotMondays25...
Register here: tinyurl.com/MotMondays25...
So proud of and happy for my colleagues! Evidence over hype!
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
So proud of and happy for my colleagues! Evidence over hype!
Manuscript submitted! Always a good feeling. It's just the best working with great co-authors Jessica Hunter, @colejohnson.bsky.social, and @sanheeta.bsky.social! Fingers crossed it doesn't get sent back for re-formatting, my absolute pet peeve lol. #amwriting #friyay
a baby yoda from the mandalorian is holding a bag of chips and a bottle of soda .
ALT: a baby yoda from the mandalorian is holding a bag of chips and a bottle of soda .
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October 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Manuscript submitted! Always a good feeling. It's just the best working with great co-authors Jessica Hunter, @colejohnson.bsky.social, and @sanheeta.bsky.social! Fingers crossed it doesn't get sent back for re-formatting, my absolute pet peeve lol. #amwriting #friyay