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Motivated Cognition Meetings @motcogmeet.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Why do some things stick in memory while others fade? Next Tue, Dec 9, Alan Castel (UCLA) will be presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social online talk series on “Memory Selectivity in Younger and Older Adults: A Value-Directed Remembering Approach.” 1/ Join us! (link below)

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Michael J. Kane @michaeljkane.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!

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Matt Bernacki @mattbernacki.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The Handbook of Personalized Learning is finally in print! Arrived yesterday(!) & pre-order pricing thru 🦃. www.routledge.com/Handbook-of-... We provided teachers & designers with a guide to theoretically supported PL design logic & demos across subject areas, ages, & contexts. +DIY figure! ⬇️

Handbook of Personalized Learning, in print and held to show cover.

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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

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Matt Mattoni @mattmattoni.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🚨🚨New precision imaging study and open dataset 🚨🚨 Featuring almost 200 functional runs acquired in 3-4d intervals and behavioral manipulations focused on intraindividual study of the reward response - The Night Owls Scan Club (NOSC) With @dvsmith.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social!

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Michael J. Kane @michaeljkane.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Attending Psychonomics in Denver? Consider arriving early enough to join the 2nd mtg of the Symposium for Individual Differences (SIDIC) on Thurs. Registration is open thru 10/31 & we've got a great program planned, with a keynote by @amiyake.bsky.social caliberlab.wixsite.com/sidic2025/pr...

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

@rolfzwaan.bsky.social is organizing a multilab replication of Loftus & Palmer's (1974) classic study: People's memory of two cars' speed was influenced by the verb used in Q ("How fast were the cars moving when they ____"). This is exciting, & if you want to take part in it, check out Rolf's post.

A graph summarizing the results of the Loftus & Palmer (1974) study, indicating that the estimated speed of the cars varies as a function of the verbs used in the questioning (e.g., contacted, hit, bumped, collided, smashed).

The graph is from this site: https://www.earlyyears.tv/loftus-and-palmer-1974-car-crash-experiment/

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Matthew Robison @matthewrobison.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Another tenure/TT open-rank position is open in Developmental Neuroscience! apply.interfolio.com/171158 Deadline is also Sept. 15

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Matthew Robison @matthewrobison.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Notre Dame is hiring in Psychology! We have an open-rank, tenure/TT position in Cognitive Neuroscience: apply.interfolio.com/170229 Application deadline is soon (Sept. 15)

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Here's a replication of an informal Big 5 result I posted yesterday (the original post is pinned on my profile page). Glad to see that @aurelienallard.bsky.social found the same result. I'd love to see more attempts like this on Big 5 or other constructs. Thanks, Aurélien, for doing this analysis!

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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 08/09/2025

Cool thread. Excellent reminder that bodies and personalities (and faces fwiw) are multidimensional, and that averages are poor lenses with which to examine them. Further, relationships within/between dimensions may be complex - jagged, yes, but also networked & dynamic #neuroskyence #psychscisky

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

recruit.ucdavis.edu

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall! The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so. I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...

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How to make a choice when the options suck | Amitai Shenhav | TEDxNewEngland

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!) This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313). What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think. (🧵 1/5)

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

September 6 is, er, was Fight Procrastination Day. I meant to post this yesterday, but I forgot, I had other things to do... Better late than never, right? In any case, I hope you didn't put off any important task yesterday!

A thumbnail illustration for Fight Procrastination Day (September 2025), taken from Holiday Today (https://holidaytoday.org/fight-procrastination-day).

This picture features a man lying on a couch in the center, and you see a fist on the right bottom corner representing a need to fight against inaction.

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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 28/08/2025

A focus app created by @hankgreen.bsky.social, was briefly the #1 free app on the Play Store! But will it actually help users with their attention? I try the app myself, and look to a recent study that examined whether blockers improve sustained attention and mental health. My takes here:

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Do blocker apps help people reclaim their attention?

A cognitive scientist's take on Hank Green's viral blocker app, Focus Friend

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Super happy with Cogsci program assistant Chris Kent's work for our college Instagram feed. Glad I could get our Loki featured to advertise my class.

Loki the cat has his paw on a laptop; text "Remember to add Cog Sci 110 to you shopping cart now in Caesar so that you're ready to enroll come September 12th!"

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Imagine you have Big 5 personality scores from over 300,000 people. You designate the scores in the "mean +/- 0.25 SDs" range for each trait (~20%) as the average range. QUESTION: How many people in this >300K sample do you think fall in the average range for ALL 5 TRAITS? What's your answer?

A figure from Simply Psychology illustrating Big Five personality traits: agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience.

This figure comes from:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/big-five-personality.html

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Happy #Caturday! Walking on this narrow wooden fence is something Tiger always does when I occasionally let her (and my other cat, Hunter) spend a bit of time at the backyard (they're under my close supervision, though). Look at her tail! She's having a good time. #cats #catsofbluesky

A cute tabby cat (= my girl, Tiger) is walking on a narrow wooden fence separating two backyards (mine and my neighbors). The cat is looking at the camera, with her tail up, indicating that she's enjoying an evening late summer cool weather.

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Regan A. R. Gurung @reganargurung.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Want a summary of the MOST important tips on how to study effectively? This short video compiles a wealth of scientific research into one tight conversation starter. Great for the start of the school year or anytime!! Please share widely!!! youtu.be/5GcIAzbmofc

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

A joy of morning walks (besides enjoying podcasts & audiobooks) is to discover something new. That something new the other day was a cute fox with a bushy tail. I've never seen a fox before in Boulder & didn't expect to see one just a few minutes from my house. Walking earlier than usual paid off.

A brown fox is heading into a bush from a concrete-paved path. It has a fluffy tail with a white-colored tip.

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Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Very happy to see this grant emerge from 6 months of NCE life support, which I really did not expect to happen. Excited to do the work, and wishing similar revivification for everyone else with grants in limbo!

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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Our new paper, led by Andrew Burton-Jones, argues English-only science is unfair, costly and may no longer be necessary. With AI translation tools advancing rapidly, we ask what truly multilingual science could look like and how we might get there. doi.org/10.3127/ajis... #languagebarriers 1/4

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This Article is Not Just in English | Australasian Journal of Information Systems

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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Scientists may take pride in publishing in prestigious English journals, but it is equally important to consider how these findings can be shared more broadly with their peers and the general population, especially those who do not speak or read English. #languagebarriers dx.doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Improving English proficiency for scientific communication by non-fluent speakers - Nature Reviews Cardiology

English has long been the dominant language in scientific communication. Although having a universal language for scientific communication is beneficial, this standard imposes a considerable barrier f...

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺? Implications for reinforcement learning. Very interesting paper. doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroskyence

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

After ~6 months of delay & uncertainty, the 2nd half of Year 1 funds for our IES grant has finally arrived! They tell us that the Year 2 funds will also be forthcoming. Not knowing what would happen for so long was excruciating, but I'm so grateful that we get to keep working on this project! (1/2)

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NSF ECR Hub @ecrhub.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Join #NSF program officers on Sept 4, 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET for a webinar and Q&A about: ➡ funding opportunities through the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (EDU/DRL) ➡ introduction to the NSF STEM K-12 Program Registration required: nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...

Webinar title: "Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DLR) FY 26 Funding Opportunities".

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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The early registration deadline is coming up fast! Renew your membership and register by August 31 to secure the largest discount. Don't wait— secure your spot and stay for #psynom25 today! bit.ly/4103RSU bit.ly/4lZJxJx

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NSF ECR Hub @ecrhub.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Last Friday, #NSF released the NSF STEM K-12 solicitation restructuring funding opportunities for research on STEM teaching and learning, including changes that directly affect future proposals to the ECR:Core program. (1/3)

Screenshot of the banner photo from the NSF STEM K-12 (STEM K-12) solicitation.

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SEERNet @seernet.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

📢 New blog: When Technology Isn’t the Problem by Danielle McNamara (@ASU) explores how institutional barriers—not tech—can hinder learning research at scale. A must-read for anyone navigating IRBs, FERPA, and ethical data use. 👉 bit.ly/4ozQfrM #EdResearch #LearningAtScale

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When Technology Isn’t the Problem: Navigating Institutional Barriers to Learning at Scale - SEERNet

By Danielle McNamara, Principal Investigator and Executive Director of the Learning Engineering Institute at Arizona State University I’ve spent the last few years helping lead a project called Learni...

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I'm teaching a grad seminar on idiographic cognitive science this fall in which we cover: 1️⃣ Perils of relying on averages 2️⃣ ESM/EMA studies of within-individual variations 3️⃣ Modeling individual data 4️⃣ Person-specific interventions If you know of any great EMPIRICAL studies, pls let me know. (1/2)

The course description for PSYC 7215: Exploring Idiographic Approaches to Cognition, which features a cover of the book by Todd Rose (2016), The End of Average.

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Regan A. R. Gurung @reganargurung.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A new academic year looms. In the spirit of fostering metacognition, consider having your students complete a self-assessment of their study styles, note-taking skills, or more. This takes the work out of it for you -- students automatically get information about responses. Try it. lnkd.in/gfawUWzC

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The lateral prefrontal cortex 🧠— which we think of as critical for goal driven behavior + is a target for psychiatric treatments— is fundamentally different in individuals relative to the group averages we’ve often studied. 👇see preprint and thread, led by Zach Ladwig #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Image of brain networks in a group average and individual LPFC. Individuals show:
1) smaller FP network
2) more interdigitation
3) conserved motifs
4) idiosyncratic features
This was validated with task and rest fMRI

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉 Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020 Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Please spread the word!

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Assistant Professor - Social Personality - Department of Psychology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A cautionary tale about fake citation counts that features Larry the cat, who amassed 132 citations on Google Scholar. Happy International Cat Day!

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I love this experience-sampling study on the absolute pitch of earworms! It's a really nicely done study conducted in everyday settings. The link to this paper (open access) is provided below. It is also featured in a podcast (tinyurl.com/4ydrw5zp) by the Psychonomic Society. Congrats!

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Absolute pitch in involuntary musical imagery - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Memory for isolated absolute pitches is extremely rare in Western, English-speaking populations. However, past research has found that people can voluntarily reproduce well-known songs in the original...

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

August 8 is International Cat Day, "a day to raise awareness for cats and learn about ways to help and protect them" (Wikipedia). Adopting Tiger & Hunter in 2021 was one of the best decisions I've ever made. If you have cats, do something extra special today for them. #cats #CatsofBluesky #Caturday

Two gray tabby cats lying right next to each other in the shade on the balcony and enjoying the fresh air. One of the cats' paw is on the other cat's paw, making it seem like they are holding hands.

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I'm thinking about using Mentimeter for my undergrad teaching this fall (if students use smartphones in class, why not take advantage of them?). Has anybody used it in teaching? If so, what's your experience? How about other alternatives (e.g., Kahoot!, Slido). I'd love to get some input on this.

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Interactive presentation software

Interact with your audience using real-time voting. No installations or downloads required - and it's free!

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

When I teach my undergrad intro cognitive class (~200 students), I usually require students to take weekly quizzes online to promote retrieval practice & spaced learning. But, now that it's so easy to cheat, I wonder whether there're any other ways to administer review quizzes. Any ideas?

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Blake Harvard @blakeharvard.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Attention Contagion in the Lecture Hall Are inattentive behaviors contagious in the classroom? If so, how do they impact students? theeffortfuleducator.com/2024/12/18/a...

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Attention Contagion in the Lecture Hall - The Effortful Educator

Are inattentive behaviors contagious in the classroom?If so, how do they negatively impact students?

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🔍 Check it out! Smart course design + explainable AI predicted which STEM students might struggle—sometimes in just 1 week—using only learning data, not demographics. The goal: early, ethical, targeted support to keep students on track. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Screenshot of title page of article published in British Journal of Educational Technology titled: "Co- designing enduring learning analytics prediction and support tools in undergraduate biology courses"

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

This new WaPo piece by @richardsima.bsky.social addresses a rarely studied topic in procrastination research: if/why people put off ENJOYABLE activities. It features a PNAS Nexus article by Hagen & O'Brien. I was honored to be asked to comment on their interesting findings. Check it out!

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Why we procrastinate on joy — and how to stop

We may fall into a “trap” of wanting something to feel special, which causes us to delay enjoying it now, research suggests.

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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🆕 RESEARCH: Not all kids respond to early adversity the same way. We examined data from ~7,400 children for 4 years and found something notable about positive emotions & mental health outcomes... doi.org/10.1101/2025... A thread 🧵 #MentalHealth #ChildDevelopment #Resilience /1

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Positive Affect as a Developmental Mediator of Early Adversity and Internalizing Psychopathology

Early life adversities (ELAs) including experiences such as abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction are strongly linked to psychopathology; yet, the developmental pathways connecting ELA to external...

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Lea Bartsch @leabartsch.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓

Applications are invited for a
Postdoctoral Position (80%)
at the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich. The ideal
start date would be January 1st, 2026 but could be somewhat earlier or later. The position is for
initially 3 years, with possible renewal for another 1.5 years.
The successful applicant will work with the head of the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Prof. Dr. Klaus
Oberauer, and the Cognitive Psychology team. The post involves research and teaching (one course
per semester).
Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular
working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental,
individual-differences and aging studies and computational modeling. For further information see:
https://www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec/allgpsy.html
We offer:
- An attractive research environment with close collaboration within the team
- Excellent lab infrastructure
- Salary according to Cantonal regulations
We expect:
- a PhD in psychology or a related discipline
- experience with experimental research
- excellent method knowledge and skills
- very good command of English
- interest in pursuing an academic career in cognitive psychology
In addition, it would be desirable if you had:
- experience with publishing in international journals
- programming skills
- experience with mathematical / computational modeling
Please send applications including your CV and motivation letter
no later than September 10, 2025
electronically as a single PDF to: Michaela Oestmann, michaela.oestmann@psychologie.uzh.ch
For questions about the position please contact Klaus Oberauer, k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch

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Michael J. Kane @michaeljkane.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

FFS. Today I learned from a colleague that there's a Google Chrome extension (answersAI) that will automatically answer quiz/exam questions in Canvas via ChatGPT (or other LLM). I'm not sure whether lockdown browser would prevent this but it might be worth a try. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmlT...

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How to Install and use AnswersAi

YouTube video by Answers Ai

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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

August's Editor's Choice: Maternal education and prenatal smoking associations with adolescent executive function are substantially confounded by genetics. Lucas Perry, Nicolas Chevalier, Michelle Luciano @drmluciano.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... @apajournals.bsky.social 2/2

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