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Sofia Tancredi
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Design-based education researcher. Embodied cognition in math learning, sensory neurodiversity, & multimodal education technologies. Postdoc at UW-Madison. She/her
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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · Jul 9
What if #stimming were part of cognition? What would this mean for inclusive instruction? A conceptual paper on stimming and thinking I wrote with Dor Abrahamson came out in Educational Psychology Review today! rdcu.be/dNanq
Stimming as Thinking: a Critical Reevaluation of Self-Stimulatory Behavior as an Epistemic Resource for Inclusive Education
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mileswgriffis.bsky.social
Rest in peace, Alice Wong 🕊️

thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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lornaquandt.bsky.social
Looking for graduate students for next year! We have fully-funded positions open to study signed languages, cognitive/educational neuroscience, development, and educational technology! Email me for more info or see here: tinyurl.com/EdNeuro2026

Please share!!
Educational Neuroscience PhD: Application Information
Fully-Funded Ph.D. Positions in Educational Neuroscience At Gallaudet University in Washington, DC The Ph.D. in Educational Neuroscience (PEN) Program at Gallaudet University invites prospective st...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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mathematize4all.bsky.social
I am recruiting for doctoral students at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Particularly those focused on the intersections between math ed and disability studies here, but also either field. Classes for the first three years are in person. My email: rlambert@ucsb.edu #ITeachMath #EduSky
October 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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autisticrealms.bsky.social
I know there are lots of neurodivergent creative people here... this may interest some of you if you're in UK...

ndconnection.co.uk/blog/call-fo...

@ndconnection.bsky.social :)
Call for participants: Join the Neurodivergent Creative Research Community — Neurodiverse Connection
In this blog, Kay Louise Aldred , is calling for Neurodivergent adults to take part in a unique, paid research opportunity that values your lived experience and creative passions. 
ndconnection.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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awasteofredmeat.bsky.social
We're trying something new at #ISLS2026- Erica and I are organizing an arts-based track for submissions!

We would love to see and showcase your work alongside more traditional conference submissions. And since I'm in charge, I'm going to try to get weird with it.

2026.isls.org/arts-gallery...
Arts Gallery & Performance : Call for Submissions | ISLS 2026
New to ISLS in 2026, the arts gallery and performance track provides a space for scholars and practitioners to explore and communicate ideas through new, creative mediums beyond the familiar conferenc...
2026.isls.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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islsnews.bsky.social
The submission deadline for the 2026 ISLS Annual Meeting, covering all ICLS and CSCL formats, has been extended. We recognize the significant academic and personal challenges that many are currently facing. We therefore extend the deadline for submissions to October 13, 2025 11:59PM AOE
October 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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marthaalibali.bsky.social
When people give directions, they sometimes reposition themselves -- for example, they may turn to face the direction they would be facing if actually following that path.... Anyone know of any research on this phenomenon? @noranewcombe.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
Thanks #PlayMakeLearn!
Pamphlet that says “Data Gems” and a bracelet and keychain with moveable charms used to physically track personally meaningful data. Cardboard structures: an icosohedron (20 triangular faces) and structure where each face of the icosohedron holds a triangle-base pyramid Sock puppet with pink yarn hair, googley eyes, and red heart-shaped glasses made of pipe cleaner Balance Board Marh demo: two people rock seated on wooden balance boards. In front of them on a projected display, graphs appear.
August 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
Hey #PlayMakeLearn! come play with functions tomorrow (Thursday) during playful demos, 4:45–5:45pm
Two women rock dynamically on wooden balance boards, generating realtime graphs on a projected display in front of them
August 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
It was special to catch Do Ho Suh’s “Walk the House” Exhibition on my way back from Europe, home for me as an adolescent, to my home in the US- a gorgeous reflection on the beauty and longing of carrying different homes with us and the nature of memory.
Artist Do Ho Suh's piece "Perfect Home". Exact replicas of plugs, doorknobs and latches rendered with translucent fabric affixed to the wall of a translucent fabric room. Each item is a different color: an ornate yellow doorknob, a chunky navy door latch and thermostat, red, blue, and green plugs overlaying a green round doorknob. The items are from different homes artist Do Ho Suh has lived in at their measured exact heights. Do Ho Suh's "Staircase": a framed curved and crumpled red form on a white background showing a 3d staircase made of thread and gelatine paper collapsed into two dimensions.
June 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
See you today at 3pm in Helsinki or virtually #ISLS2025
sofiasensory.bsky.social Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · May 21
The #ISLS2025 program is out! Hope to see you in-person and virtually at our hybrid symposium on #neurodiversity & #STEM education on Thursday June 12th from 3-4:30pm
Simple yellow flyer with abstract light blue scribble designs surrounding the title, timing, presenter headshots, and presentation titles for a conference symposium. At the top, in a dark blue box, it specifies 'hybrid symposium',below which the title states 'Charting the Learning Sciences Neuroverse: Theorizing and Building Neurodiversity-Affirming STEM Education.' Under that, the presentation titles are: 1. Reframing Neurodiversity through Community Cultural Wealth: Enactments and Expansions, Dr.Crystal Menzies, UC–Berkeley. 2. Neurodiversity as a Challenge to Neurotypical Mathematical Assumptions Dr.s Rachel Lambert, Edmund Harriss, UC–Santa Barbara. 3. Creative Potential of Neurodiverse Engineering Students: Insights from the Engineering Creativity Assessment Tool (ECAT), Dr.s Zeynep G Akdemir-Beveridge, Arash Esmaili Zaghi, & Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut, 4. Ecosystems of Belonging: Teaching Assistants’ Influence on Neurodivergent Computer Science Students’ Sense of Belonging, Dr.Rachel Bonnette, University at Buffalo, and 5. Neurodivergent Embodied STEM Learning: Stimming as an Epistemic and Interactional Resource, Dr. Sofia Tancredi, UW–Madison. In the bottom left corner, there is a photo of discussant Katherine Lewis from the University of Washington. In the bottom right corner, it lists the date and time of the event as June 12, 3-4:30pm in Helsinki, Finland at the International Society for the Learning Sciences conference. The event will also be accessible via zoom.
June 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
The #ISLS2025 program is out! Hope to see you in-person and virtually at our hybrid symposium on #neurodiversity & #STEM education on Thursday June 12th from 3-4:30pm
Simple yellow flyer with abstract light blue scribble designs surrounding the title, timing, presenter headshots, and presentation titles for a conference symposium. At the top, in a dark blue box, it specifies 'hybrid symposium',below which the title states 'Charting the Learning Sciences Neuroverse: Theorizing and Building Neurodiversity-Affirming STEM Education.' Under that, the presentation titles are: 1. Reframing Neurodiversity through Community Cultural Wealth: Enactments and Expansions, Dr.Crystal Menzies, UC–Berkeley. 2. Neurodiversity as a Challenge to Neurotypical Mathematical Assumptions Dr.s Rachel Lambert, Edmund Harriss, UC–Santa Barbara. 3. Creative Potential of Neurodiverse Engineering Students: Insights from the Engineering Creativity Assessment Tool (ECAT), Dr.s Zeynep G Akdemir-Beveridge, Arash Esmaili Zaghi, & Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut, 4. Ecosystems of Belonging: Teaching Assistants’ Influence on Neurodivergent Computer Science Students’ Sense of Belonging, Dr.Rachel Bonnette, University at Buffalo, and 5. Neurodivergent Embodied STEM Learning: Stimming as an Epistemic and Interactional Resource, Dr. Sofia Tancredi, UW–Madison. In the bottom left corner, there is a photo of discussant Katherine Lewis from the University of Washington. In the bottom right corner, it lists the date and time of the event as June 12, 3-4:30pm in Helsinki, Finland at the International Society for the Learning Sciences conference. The event will also be accessible via zoom.
May 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
Why aren’t you in class? You look like someone who needs some absurdist sock puppet skits today: tinyurl.com/wayic
Screenshot of a sock puppet with googley eyes, blue and black striped sweater, and lanyard speaking into a microphone. The same image is shown upside down in miniature in the top right hand corner.
April 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
See you there, Sunday stragglers!
sofiasensory.bsky.social Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · Apr 13
Anyone at #AERA2025 through the end of Sunday? I'll be giving a talk on some findings about gesture and dynamic graphing in a #SIG-RME session on algebraic reasoning across grades (1:30-3:00pm MDT). Hope to see you there! :) #math #embodiment #gesture
Title slide of a talk titled "Becoming the graph: changes in children's gestures following dynamic, whole-body graphing activities." Two blue-background images of graphs line the right side of the white slide: the top one shows a dashed yellow wavy graph line and a solid blue wavy line overlapping. The bottom one shows a wavy dashed line with large green stars at each peak and trough. Authors names are shown in white inside a navy box at the bottom: Sofia Tancredi at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Johnny Serrano at University of California-Berkeley.
April 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
Anyone at #AERA2025 through the end of Sunday? I'll be giving a talk on some findings about gesture and dynamic graphing in a #SIG-RME session on algebraic reasoning across grades (1:30-3:00pm MDT). Hope to see you there! :) #math #embodiment #gesture
Title slide of a talk titled "Becoming the graph: changes in children's gestures following dynamic, whole-body graphing activities." Two blue-background images of graphs line the right side of the white slide: the top one shows a dashed yellow wavy graph line and a solid blue wavy line overlapping. The bottom one shows a wavy dashed line with large green stars at each peak and trough. Authors names are shown in white inside a navy box at the bottom: Sofia Tancredi at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Johnny Serrano at University of California-Berkeley.
April 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
Just got back from a workshop at Georgia Tech organized by Abigale Stangl convening experts in engineering, design, accessibility tech, HCI, CS, tactile graphics, tactile art, and STEM ed to talk Tactile & Embodied Learning. Excited for where such interdisciplinary dialogue can take the field!
Photograph of a tactile version of a museum artwork poster of a humanoid bird creature standing in tall grass. The bird woman has long human legs, wings, and a beak, and she is shown in profile. The different layers of the image are shown with layered paper, and the details are embroidered onto the paper with different types of stitchwork: courser feather-like stitches on her body, and long lines in the grass. The tactile version of this artwork is by Stefanie Koseff. Photograph of a set of three 3d printed manipulatives showing different stages in embryo development. Photograph of a circuit making kit showing foam blocks with conductive tape that connect magnetically. The blocks have things like a soft cat or clock adhered to the sides and can activate vibration motors, fans, and other features.
February 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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soulsoothing.bsky.social
#edpsychs An excellent compilation of resources here.

I would also add Aucademy is a very useful website. By autistic researchers researching autism. Lots of references.

Useful for schools also, and if you are an Assistant EP these are worth exploring for your interviews or personal statements.
February 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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juliachatain.bsky.social
Building a starter pack for #Embodiment research: #EmbodiedCognition #EmbodiedLearning #Gestures #Movement #BodilyActions #EmbodiedInteraction #Avatar #XR #VR #Robotics #EmbodiedAI etc
Is this you? Message me and I will add you 📬
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November 20, 2024 at 4:17 AM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
!! maintenant on peut neuroqueeriser :)
dr-nicky.bsky.social Nick Walker @dr-nicky.bsky.social · Oct 9
My brief-but-influential 2015 piece, "Neuroqueer: An Introduction," is now translated into French! (This link goes to the original English version; if you click through and scroll down, you'll find a link to the new French version.)
neuroqueer.com/neuroqueer-a...

#neuroqueer #queer #neurodiversity
NEUROQUEER: AN INTRODUCTION • NEUROQUEER
Nick Walker, PhD I originally wrote and published this piece in the Spring of 2015. This is an updated version, slightly revised and expanded in the Summer of 2021. The definitive, citable version of ...
neuroqueer.com
October 9, 2024 at 10:26 PM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
Next Tuesday 9/10, 4-6pm. Please email or DM me if you or a high schooler you know would like to join us!
#neurodiversity #codesign #inclusion
Event flyer. Title: Co-Design Day for Neurodiversity-Inclusive Learning. Description: An opportunity for neurodiverse high school students to collaborate with researchers at UC Berkeley to create new learning tools and technologies that make high school learning more inclusive for neurodiverse students. Event details: September 10, 2024, 4-6pm. Embodied Design Research Lab, UC Berkeley, To RSVP please email sofiatancredi@berkeley.edu. The flyer features a rainbow infinity symbol as well as a pink frame with images of a brain, cogs inside a head form, a light bulb, a book, charts, a scribble, and a puzzle.
September 6, 2024 at 12:37 AM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
"My hands are always telling me what I am feeling. Without my hand flaps, I would not be anywhere near as connected to my inner life"
thinkingautism.com Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · Aug 22
"Without my hand flaps, I would not be anywhere near as connected to my inner life. Without my hand flaps, I would struggle so much more every day, just trying to understand what my body and spirit were experiencing." From @unstrange.bsky.social, at TPGA:

thinkingautismguide.com/2018/06/why-...
Why Do So Many Autistic People Flap Our Hands?
The problem is not autistic hand flapping, but the decision that hand flapping is annoying or weird, not natural (and adorable).
thinkingautismguide.com
August 22, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social
I haven't seen this explained, so:

(1) On left-hand vertical menu, click "Settings".
(2) Click Accessibility
(3) Scroll down until you see "require alt text before posting" & click

Reminders from then on :)
August 19, 2024 at 3:18 PM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
Some useful general practices in here for making courses more accessible
theadhdacademic.bsky.social the ADHD academic @theadhdacademic.bsky.social · Aug 12
Multi-part questions, inconsistent deadlines, and other seemingly harmless choices can make a BIG difference for ADHD students, even in higher education. Check for ADHD-unfriendly practices in your course.

#AcademicSky

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Ways you unintentionally create hell for your ADHD learners
Little things that can make a huge difference
theadhdacademic.weebly.com
August 12, 2024 at 4:27 PM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
What do you get when you cross embodied design, haptics, and PhET's education simulations? Introducing #Quad: the first #TeleTangible. #Inclusion #MathEducation [Video] youtu.be/Oi1tp8anxf0?...
July 27, 2024 at 10:15 PM
sofiasensory.bsky.social
What if #stimming were part of cognition? What would this mean for inclusive instruction? A conceptual paper on stimming and thinking I wrote with Dor Abrahamson came out in Educational Psychology Review today! rdcu.be/dNanq
Stimming as Thinking: a Critical Reevaluation of Self-Stimulatory Behavior as an Epistemic Resource for Inclusive Education
rdcu.be
July 9, 2024 at 3:51 AM