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Dr. Kristy A. Robinson
@krisarob.bsky.social
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Associate Prof & Director of MILES Lab at @mcgillu.ca

Interested in motivational support & motivational climate, riding my bike, and books

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On sabbatical 2025-26
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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!
A group of ULaval scholars and me at dinner
October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Bonjour Québec! Very excited to be visiting colleagues at Université Laval this week and finally getting to visit this gorgeous city!
A daytime view of the Chateau Frontenac and other historical buildings An evening view of the lit-up Chateau Frontenac and surroundings
October 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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#tbt to our @mcgilleducation.bsky.social Learning Sciences bonfire and potluck a couple Saturdays ago. Many thanks to Krista Muis for hosting and to everyone who attended for making it such a fun night! I was extremely touched by the way students organized to mark and celebrate my tenure. ❤️
a group photo of Learning Sciences graduate students and faculty
September 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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I was pretty bad at taking pictures but #APA25 sure was lovely! Missed seeing folks who couldn’t make it but it was a joy to see those who could! Many thanks to Div 15 for making a fantastic program!
Kristy next to one poster and holding another. Poster titles are “One Classroom, Many Views: Factors Behind Student Agreement and Disagreement on Goal Structures” led by Sanheeta Shankar and “Are Perceived Motivational Support or Climate Perceptions More Important for Motivational Beliefs?” Kristy, Revathy Kumar, and Avi Kaplan inside Meow Wolf exhibit Kristy with Adar Ben-Eliyahu and the caption “Academic siblings, shoutout to the Linnenbrink-Garcia Lab”
August 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Last week I got the news that I've been awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at @mcgill.ca.

Being a professor--research, teaching, service--is the best job to me. I'm incredibly grateful, especially for all the people who helped me get here & thrive here. ❤️
Screenshot of Dr. Kristy A. Robinson's Bluesky profile, with new title Associate Prof underlined
June 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Great news--you can still volunteer to review for #AERA2026! To do so, go to www.aera.net/Membership/M... and click on "2026 AERA Annual Meeting - Call for Reviewers is Now Open." @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aera-motsig-grad.bsky.social @aeraedresearch.bsky.social
Screenshot of where to click to volunteer to review, with an arrow pointing to the link
May 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Big congratulations to my wonderful friend @pnbeymer.bsky.social for winning the Division C Outstanding Early Career Scholar Award! This is so very well deserved and I can’t wait for your award talk next year! @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #bestbitches
Patrick Beymer shaking hands with Helenrose Fives on stage Patrick Beymer on stage accepting his award with the chair of the award committee and Div C VP Helenrose Fives
April 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Good morning, @aera-motsig.bsky.social friends! Check out the wonderful offerings we have on the program today.

Also, good news: there are FOUR tickets left for the social tonight--all SIG members, including students, can now purchase them. Act fast before they're gone!
April 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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It's a good day to learn about some fantastic motivation research! Check out our @aera-motsig.bsky.social offerings for today!
April 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Very excited for this workshop at #AERA2025! I'm honored to be a part of it--wish I could have attended a similar workshop years ago! Thanks to Jason and Krista for organizing!
April 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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And this group had the task of trying to *lower* their classmates' self-efficacy for the course project--they had a little TOO much fun doing this. ;) We spotted some messages about cost and belonging in there, too. Don't worry, we debriefed afterward! 4/
April 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Groups were assigned to try and boost or damage a specific motivational belief about the course project, and the rest of the students had to guess what their assignment was.

This group wrote an advice column to try and boost self-efficacy using what they know about sources of self-efficacy: 3/
Dr. Motivation answers your questions ASK ME ANYTHING I'm struggling with completing my course project. What is your advice? Dear Julie, What has helped me is to think about the times I have completed writing papers. Heck, you've also written a research proposal for your master's application. You've done this! It's normal to feel stressed--take a break and take a deep breath when you feel overwhelmed. Start again when you're feeling calmer. Your friends can be a great model for you. They've also struggled through similar things--talk to them and they can also offer you some words of encouragement.
April 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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We've thought of some questions ourselves (screenshot below for inspo), but we want to know: what do YOU want to know about theorizing?

Questions can be posted as replies here or emailed to me (kristy dot robinson at mcgill dot ca). @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social @aera-motsig.bsky.social 2/2
1. How can theory-enriching social connections or collaborations be facilitated for early career scholars, especially those who are not already plugged into influential networks in our field and/or for whom funding and support are limited? 2. Aside from each theory’s virtues and contributions, what other factors explain the influence and uptake of each theory (e.g., “branding” or signal-boosting beyond typical scholarly dissemination, timing of publishing, publishing and/or speaking at high volume about the theory, etc.)? 3. What are the structures, policies, or disciplinary practices that need to change to create opportunities for more and better theory development? What do you recommend to people in positions of leadership or power?
April 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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@jeffgreene.bsky.social & I are excited for our #AERA25 symposium "Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum: The Past, Present, and Future of Theory Development in Educational Psychology"

We hope to see you there! In the meantime, we're crowd-sourcing questions for our star-studded panel of theorists. 1/2
Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum: The Past, Present, and Future of Theory Development in Educational Psychology Fri, April 25, 3:20 to 4:50pm MDT (5:20 to 6:50pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2B Session Type: Invited Speaker Session Abstract Theories are important tools for understanding, questioning, and shaping the world. Yet, educational psychology has experienced a theory development “malaise” (Gigerenzer, 2010). To re-invigorate the field, in a recent topical collection published in Educational Psychology Review, authors described and reflected on the theory development processes that informed several major theories in educational psychology, to serve as guides and inspiration for aspiring theorists. As a complement to these articles, the aim of this session is to continue the conversation about theory development needs in the field and how to address them. Via an interactive panel discussion featuring authors of prominent educational psychology theories, we will uncover “hidden curriculum” of theory development and equip attendees with insights for improving their theorizing efforts. Participants: Panayiota Kendeou; Jessica DeCuir-Gunby & Paul Schutz; Karen Harris; Richard Mayer; Doug Lombardi, Gale Sinatra, Janelle Bailey, & Lucas Butler; Patricia Alexander & Karen Murphy; Reinhard Pekrun; Sarit Barzilai & Clark Chinn Discussant: Francesca López
April 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Very honored that our recent CritQuant JEP paper was highlighted as an Editor's Choice selection! The best part is that the paper is now freely available (I think?) for 30 days--hooray! @sanheeta.bsky.social #edpsych psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
April 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Last week, as part of our @mcgill.ca LS brown bag series, we did a "speed-mentoring" activity that ended up being SO awesome, much more successful than I had predicted. TL;DR: GREAT activity for community-building! For more details, read on... #AcademicTwitter 1/3 @edtechprof.bsky.social
McGill University Ed Psych Learning Sciences graduate students and faculty members paired up across tables at a "speed-mentoring" event McGill University Ed Psych Learning Sciences graduate students and faculty members paired up across tables at a "speed-mentoring" event McGill University Ed Psych Learning Sciences graduate students and faculty members paired up across tables at a "speed-mentoring" event
February 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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@mcgill.ca campus is giving winter wonderland ❄️ be careful out there, folks! Time to break out those crampons for getting to class!
January 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Just published, hooray! psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

We learned so much from the process of writing this, and from the AERA session in which we first shared results last year. @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social #AcademicSky #CritQuant #edusky
Screenshot of the article including the title, "Motivational Trajectories and Experiences of Minoritized Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: A Critical Quantitative Examination of Existing Data," authors, and part of the abstract
January 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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And finally a rather niche, ANOVA-related one that made me chuckle:
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Car (labeled "posthoc with unequal variances") veering from the freeway to an exit (meme), with signs saying: 1. "Tukey's, HSD, Bonferroni, LSD, etc." and 2. "Tamhane's T2, Dunnett's T3, Games-Howell, etc."
December 11, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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This was definitely a theme of a few memes--we've all been there! 3/4
Gru meme with the captions in four panels: 1. "I form my RQ and hypothesis" 2. "I open SPSS and run my test" 3. "Results not statistically significant" 4. "Results not statistically significant" (Gru looks sad)
December 11, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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Something we worked on a lot: reporting results AND interpreting them in plain language. It's hard! Students got lots of feedback about this and it seems they absorbed it, lol. 2/4
Meme with "Me simply reporting the results" then looking worriedly at "Interpretations of results?"
December 11, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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My #stats students really brought it this semester, especially on the last assignment. They had the option to create original memes conveying something they learned about statistics. Some of my faves:

Yes I'm a stickler about syntax! #AcademicSky 1/4
Image of Taylor Swift making a skeptical face with the caption "The face you make when your students run their stats before pasting their syntax"
December 11, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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Interrupting my work-related posting to say: wow wow wow this book. Overstory moved me, and I was impressed all over again after reading this piece on Powers www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I finished Playground a couple of weeks ago and still can't stop thinking/talking about it! #BookSky
Image of the cover of Playground, a novel by Richard Powers
December 11, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Our dept was so lucky to hear from Dr. Jason Harley as part of our distinguished speaker series! Their work is so inspiring—thank you Jason! @aera-motsig.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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If you see this, please repost with a favorite photo of the sky that you’ve taken recently
November 16, 2024 at 1:27 PM