Thanks for the heads up on this--I'm definitely going to try it!

Just wrote a new blogpost trying to summarize my thoughts on the question of how and whether to use AI for research in psychology and cognitive science: babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/usin...

If it is about numerical magnitude-then I think the issues would be the same.

Thank you @opiniontoday.bsky.social for sharing this post on polarized (mis)trust in science -- Jamie Druckman's insights helped me understand the forces underlying these trends.

A Meta‐Analysis of Measures of Self‐Esteem for Young Children: A Framework for Future Measures The objective of this study was to synthesize information from literature on measures of the self in young children to create an empirical framework for developing future methods for measuring this c...

My dissertation (done at Vandy) found that rating scales are difficult for kids to understand and not very reliable onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

10 years ago, Elisabeth Bik published a preprint heard around the world Elisabeth Bik If you are at all familiar with scientific sleuthing, you’re familiar with Elisabeth Bik. She is quoted so often in the mainstream media it is probably difficult to imagine a time bef…

Conversation with Elisabeth Bik and how someone plagarizing her own paper started her down the road to image detection retractionwatch.com/2026/04/19/e...

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I bet that was refreshing.

And some of the most rigorous ed work is not from ed schools, but those with affiliations in economics and public policy

Announcement for the PSID User Workshop during the PAA 2026 Annual Meeting in St. Louis, scheduled for May 6.

Ready to learn all about the publicly available #PSIDdata and design of the PSID? Join us at the #PSID User Workshop on Wednesday, May 6 from 9 am-2 pm at #PAA2026 in St. Louis!

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It is nuts! Hang in there!

States of Distrust: Science and Politics in America James Druckman presented the Center for Political Studies 2026 Miller-Converse Lecture At the University of Michigan’s most distinguished lecture series on American electoral politics, political scien...

Americans are more polarized in their trust in scientists than in virtually any other societal institution. Jamie Druckman shared insights on the state of America's distrust in science at the @umisrcps.bsky.social Miller-Converse Lecture: cps.isr.umich.edu/news-events/...

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

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Safeguarding Scholarship in Emerging Autocracies: Preview of an APS Convention Workshop This article provides a preview of a workshop that will take place during APS’s Annual Convention in Barcelona. The workshop is scheduled for Thursday, 28 May 2026, 14:00–18:00.

Interesting workshop being presented at #APS2026Barcelona

Safeguarding Scholarship in Emerging Autocracies: Preview of an APS Convention Workshop www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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“UK universities are facing unprecedented turbulence. ... Was this crisis inevitable, or could leaders have anticipated the storm and acted sooner?”

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I’m hiring a PhD student!

The candidate will work alongside @zefreeman.bsky.social, who is joining our research group as postdoc.

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Education research is profoundly and proudly pluralistic in its theoretical and methodological traditions. That’s a good thing! We study schools, school systems, and learning. We need every tool we can find to study those well.

…And we tolerate too much shoddy work in all of those traditions.

Publishers will always find ways to profit off of the work of the academy. Your college or university paid for you to do the work, perhaps sponsored by federal grants, reviewing and many editing positions are done for free-and publishers reap the benefit of publish or perish. Science is the loser.

Good points!

Always look to the incentives structure. In education it is publishing curriculum that is then purchased by school districts. Like textbooks, it is a huge moneymaker and there are no guardrails to prove it actually works. Finding rigorous research in Ed schools is a challenge.

US lawmakers intensify scrutiny of scientific-publishing practices A congressional hearing covered the rise of paper mills and the costs of open-access publishing — but there was little agreement on what reform would entail.

In a rare show of unity, both R and D US lawmakers agree: the scientific publishing industry needs reform.

Lawmakers are worried about the literature being flooded with 'AI slop' and the high open-access fees that some publishers charge.

Read more @nature.com on this week's House Science hearing

1. Kids motivated to get around the age verification requirement can *easily* do so
2. Age verification means *every* social media user must give ID to tech companies
3. Kids in need of social/identity support unavailable IRL would suffer
4. The real solution is to regulate tech companies not kids

It was nuts last night!

Toward Relationality in Infectious Disease Research Relationality is an ontological and epistemological stance common in Indigenous communities globally. In this perspective piece, relational methodologies e

@kduchowny.bsky.social, Grace Noppert, et al. illustrate a generalized concept of relationality, which prioritizes interdisciplinary thinking and reciprocity between learners, subjects of interest, and community, that is applicable to infectious disease research
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"There are quite a few risks to human health—physical and mental health—from flooding. These include drowning, electrocution and infections from contact with the flood waters." Carina Gronlund, Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Springtime brings April showers -- and the very real possibility of flooding. SRC & @umisr.bsky.social Carina Gronlund is one of a group of @umich.edu experts who can speak to how climate change is driving severe flooding, the associated public health risks & how cities can adapt. myumi.ch/8qprq

It was disappointing to see how many proposals for technological “fixes” for achievement gaps were coming through IES. I don’t know why there is a belief that we can just fix these gaps with whatever new tech is on the scene

The story of ed tech is a repeated loop of massive hype and massive disappointment

See MOOCs, and now AI

Evidence can interrupt this unproductive cycle

The Stanford SCALE Initiative, led by rock star Prof Susanna Loeb, brings evidence to the conversation scale.stanford.edu/sites/defaul...

Yes, it’s very much the same problem. Studies in my lab are actively working on this question (do those demand effects cause different appraisals; do beliefs that social media causes harm matter), including this pilot project via COS: