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Eric Dearing

@ericdearing.bsky.social
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Professor and Executive Director, Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children, Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College; Visiting Professor, CREATE, University of Oslo

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Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A word of tremendous appreciation for the universities and graduate programs that make submitting letters of recommendation a 2 min process (rather than a 30+ min ordeal of cutting and pasting from a letter with all the same deets). The letter writing should be the work, not submitting it. No?
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Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Career highlights getting to speak with 250 first-year elementary (primary) education students at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland…followed by giving a keynote at the Leadership for Inclusion in the Early Years inaugural conference ☘️
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Kristen Bottema-Beutel @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
We are hiring! The Lynch School of Education and Human Development is seeking applications for a tenure track assistant professor position in counseling psychology. Come be my colleague! apply.interfolio.com/171121
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Nicole McNeil @nicolemmcneil.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Check out four posters at #CogSci2025 featuring CLAD Lab and Tutor-ND research trainees. Find them in Poster Sessions 1 and 3 and support these enthusiastic early career researchers! Quick overview thread below!🧵 @cogscisociety.bsky.social
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Drew Bailey @drewhalbailey.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Random Intercepts and Slopes in Longitudinal Models: When Are They "Good" and "Bad" Controls? or Illusory Traits 2: Revenge of the Slopes Led by Siling Guo, with Nicolas Hübner, Steffen Zitzmann, Martin Hecht, and Kou Murayama. Comments welcome! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Mary DePascale @marydepascale.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
✨New publication✨ The Role of Math Games for Children’s Early Math Learning: A Systematic Review doi.org/10.5964/jnc.... with @gbramani.bsky.social
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The Role of Math Games for Children’s Early Math Learning: A Systematic Review| Journal of Numerical Cognition
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Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Have we given too much "credit" to the pandemic for learning losses? Almost 50% of the post-pandemic decline in achievement on 8th grade NAEP was to be expected (without the pandemic!), simply using the same rate of declining achievement that began unfolding starting in 2013!
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Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Looking for a power calculation tool for indirect effects? I love this one!
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Sample size and power calculations for causal mediation analysis: A Tutorial and Shiny App - Behavior Research Methods
When designing a study for causal mediation analysis, it is crucial to conduct a power analysis to determine the sample size required to detect the causal mediation effects with sufficient power. Howe...
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Mary DePascale @marydepascale.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
✨New publication✨ #MathActivities on #SocialMedia: Examining content, design, and alignment with mathematical cognition research doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... with Juyun Lee and Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social
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Redirecting
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Boston College @bostoncollege.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Lynch School Professor Elida Laski discusses the effect of income-based differences in how children approach math as early as in kindergarten in the @hechingerreport.org. bit.ly/Laski_Heching...
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The building blocks of math students need to excel
A flexible understanding of how numbers work is as important to math as phonics is to reading
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Larry Hamilton @ichiloe.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Were Moon landings real? Does Earth orbit Sun? Do rabies vax cause dog autism? I asked 14 science/conspiracy questions on a recent research survey (IRB approved). Many respondents said they enjoyed answering, so here’s an open version for anyone. #sociology 🧪 unh.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Such an encouraging experience at #SMU Simmons College of Education “fireside” chatting with Drs. Bianca Baldridge & Toni Harrison-Kelly about educational equity…yep, equity. Shout out to Simmons students, faculty, and administration for putting on this event in these times.
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Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Postdoc opening! Great chance to join a fantastic interdisciplinary team on the Segregation of Opportunity project at the U of Oslo. www.google.com/url?q=https:...
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Postdoctoral Fellow - SEGOP (277092) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow - SEGOP (277092), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, April 15, 2025
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Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
🙋‍♂️Teaching a class session on #stereotype threat and achievement disparities assoc with race. Dang, getting a handle on what has/hasn’t replicated, the meta-analyses (and re-meta-analyses), & intervention meta-analyses is no gimme. Any rec’s for good summary pieces I could assign to undergrads?
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
another student was disappeared at the University of Minnesota
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Guster @guster.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
An absolutely incredible night. Overwhelmed. What a joyful collection of humans.
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Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Please take a moment to visit the Tufts Eliot-Pearson department home page. One of their…one of OUR young child development scholars was kidnapped. Disappeared. Feeling great yet? as.tufts.edu/epcshd/
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Homepage | Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
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Kathleen Hughes, PhD @kathmhughes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I am calling on all #devpsyc colleagues to condemn & speak out about the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk by the US govt on March 25, 2025. She is a developmental psychology graduate. #childpsyc #developmentalpsyc #lifespanpsyc #acadmicsky #childrenandyouth @srcdorg.bsky.social @issbd.bsky.social
Dear Developmental Colleagues,
I’m a developmental psychologist, Associate Professor (Teaching), and Undergraduate Program Director for the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary. I specialize in social emotional learning, peer relationships, and children’s media.  
On March 25th, a developmental psychology graduate student at Tufts University in Massachusetts was abducted by the United States government. Rumeysa Ozturk is a PhD student in Child Study & Human Development with a focus on prosocial development and children’s media. She is from Turkey and was studying in the USA on a student visa. Her visa was revoked when she participated in political letter writing asking Tufts University to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide. This political activity made her a target. 
No peaceful political activity should ever lead to unlawful detainment. The Palestinian-Israel conflict is heartbreaking. My spouse and child are Jewish, we lost an Israeli family member on October 7th, 2022. I’ve seen increases in anti-semitism on university campuses in the past two years, but I know and I acknowledge that the majority of protestors are not hateful, and they want peace and human rights. 
Rumeysa Ozturk is one of us. Therefore, I am calling on leaders in Developmental Psychology to stand up for Ozturk, to pressure academic societies such as SRCD, SRA, & ISSBD to release a statement regarding her unjust abduction. We need to shine a spotlight and put international pressure on this abduction to help ensure her safety and release. Please also consider writing your political representatives. Ozturk has been relocated from Massachusetts to Louisiana. Her lawyer has lost contact with her in the past day. Our efforts can make a difference during these critical days. 
Sincerely,
Kathleen Hughes, PhD
Associate Professor (Teaching)
Undergraduate Program Director
University of Calgary
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Nature @nature.com · 27/03/2025
The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers go.nature.com/41OhAgK
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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Closing rural post offices will do the same thing that closing rural schools has done: Empty out rural towns. Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity. It’s been the plan for decades.
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Dr. Rosie Perez (she/her) @rosiejp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I’m not surprised, but it doesn’t ease my anger, frustration, & disappointment as an alum & faculty member. Please miss me with any more talk of being the “leaders & best” moving forward. I’ve always been critical of this concept, but it rings especially hollow now. #AcademicSky
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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
My university is accepting applications for the Visiting Researcher - Scholars at Risk Program, established to support scholars who are facing threats to their life, liberty or academic career, &/or have been forced to leave their academic position because of such threats. www.wlu.ca/academics/re...
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Visiting Researcher-Scholars at Risk | Wilfrid Laurier University
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
In all seriousness, what is the plan for getting these apparently innocent young asylum seekers—dads, workers, dutifully checking in with US immigration—out of a foreign prison where they are facing torture and dehumanization while officials do Barbie poses in front of them?
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Kathy Hirsh-Pasek @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Decided to speak out on the state of our union. Just published in the Philadelphia Inquirer eedition.inquirer.com/infinity/art...
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Coming home to a foreign land
Coming home to a foreign land
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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 05/03/2025
To every one of my neighbors back in Boston, know this: You belong here. This is your home. Boston es tu hogar. Boston se lakay ou. 這是你的家. This is our city. We are the safest major city in the nation because we are safe for everyone. #Boston #Congress #CongressionalHearing #Immigration
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Mayor Michelle Wu's Opening Statement to the United States House Committee on Oversight
YouTube video by City of Boston
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Boston College @bostoncollege.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The Walton Family Foundation has awarded Boston College a grant to advance its mission of formative education by transforming K-12 education nationwide. The initiative will develop innovative approaches to student engagement and teacher well-being. on.bc.edu/WaltonFoun...
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Grant supports BC formative education mission
$2.25M Walton Family Foundation funding will support initiative focused on K-12 student engagement, teacher well-being
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Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
After spending Friday finishing up reviews: why aren’t more journals assigning AI as 1 of the 3 reviewers? With it able to use curated knowledge (& detect stats errors etc.), is there a downside, if 1-2 humans are in the mix? You had me at “33% less time reviewing.” #giverobotsthenotsofunjobs
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Boston College @bostoncollege.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
On Wednesday, memoirist and poet Javier Zamora visits the Heights for the Lowell Humanities lecture series. Learn More & Register to attend: on.bc.edu/LHS25_JZamora
black and white headshot of Javier Zamora with text about event
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Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Let the brain drain begin www.khrono.no/forventer-fo...
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Elizabeth Linos @elizabethlinos.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Truly one of the greats. He gave us the words and the permission to study inequality in a way that has shifted so many careers and in turn impacted so many lives. Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...
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Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88
His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments helped transform debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.
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Trajan Hammonds @starlord37.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n
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Ariel Kalil @arielkalil.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
For 2 years, I've worked with a bipartisan group of scholars on the "State of the Nation." We released our report today at Brookings. Big disconnect between the US economic performance and individual well-being. David Leonhardt's analysis in tomorrow's NYT. Check out the report at stateofnation.org
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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
An employee working for an agency funded by federal grants working in HIV care just told me that their manager said the CDC website is expected to come down "in its entirey" and "to save what they might need." Targethiv.org, run by the Health Resources and Services Administration, is already down.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact support@osf.io if you need assistance
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 31/01/2025
Just got a story approved to run on Monday on the crisis happening at the NSF. If you are an NSF-funded scientist and have been personally impacted by the funding pause this week, I'd love to hear from you. Reach me securely on Signal: 3162958947
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Some of my brilliant colleagues developed a new tool for contextualizing effect sizes for social & behavioral outcomes! ebcontextualizer.shinyapps.io/EmpBench/ described in this article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Effect size contextualizer
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Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Miles Corak talks with Steven Durlauf about inequality and mobility. Excellent exchange! @stone-lis.bsky.social @milescorak.com @durlauf.bsky.social 👇👇👇
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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Final reminder that I’m advertising for a postdoctoral research associate to help me with a project on eating disorders and control-seeking, using #ComputationalPsychiatry! Applications close on the 12th. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Harriet Tenenbaum @harriet-tenenbaum.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Does anyone know how to conduct a power analysis for a binary logistic regression with four factors? Neither G*Power or pwrss.shinyapps.io/index/ is able to do this. Please help!
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Milagros Nores @mnores.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Starting 2025 sharing our new introduction to our edited ECRQ Special Issue on equitable access to ECCE in the U.S.! With Pamela Joshi, Tamara Halle, Julia Henly, Yoonsook Ha & Neda Senehi Ph.D. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Advancing research on equitable access to early care and education in the United States
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Drew Bailey @drewhalbailey.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I'm all for more work like this. My colleague, Jade Jenkins, has a similar, transparently reported analysis not finding much. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Also, for those interested, we reviewed the lit on these kinds of analyses a few years ago here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Do High-Quality Kindergarten and First-Grade Classrooms Mitigate Preschool Fadeout?
Prior research shows that short-term effects from preschool may disappear, but little research has considered which environmental conditions might sustain academic advantages from preschool into el...
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Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Very cool two-stage RCT showing reduced fade-out of preK when larger number of peers in elementary school classrooms also got preK. (Mechanism analyses inconclusive) Curious what you think @drewhalbailey.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w33027
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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Toward an Understanding of Fade-out in Early Childhood Education Programs
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Please circulate: we have an open PhD-level (education, developmental psychology, sociology, economics, or other social science) research position in the Center for Thriving Children for someone cityconnects.applytojob.com/apply/eDFIzj...
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Researcher - City Connects, Center for Thriving Children - Career Page
Apply to Researcher at City Connects, Center for Thriving Children in Boston, MA.
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Kou Murayama @koumurayama.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Please repost! We are hiring an assistant professor (W1) of Educational Psychology. We are looking forward to working with you!! uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties...
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Assistant professorship (W1) of Education Sciences and Psychology
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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Postdoc positions in math cognition & math education! The RISE Postdoctoral Training Program at UW-Madison seeks applicants interested in inclusive mathematics education and in ensuring greater participation in STEM by learners from diverse groups. More info in the flyer and via the QR code.
Info about the training program, which is also at risepostdoc.wcer.wisc.edu
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Boston College @bostoncollege.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Study hard, Eagles 📚
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Kathy Hirsh-Pasek @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation has sparked widespread discussion, but are the data as solid as they seem? Top expert Candice Odgers offers a critical analysis of Haidt’s claims. Dive into their debate here: www.techdirt.com/2024/10/11/j...
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Jonathan Haidt’s Claims On Kids & Tech Crumble Under Scrutiny From Top Expert, Candice Odgers
Jonathan Haidt’s incredibly well-timed decision to surf on the wave of a moral panic about kids and social media has made him a false hero for many parents and educators. In my review, I noted that…
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Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Does educating the whole child matter? Check out this new paper from our Center for Thriving Children that uses a lottery-based test of the impact of integrated school- and community-based supports on the achievement of children in high-poverty elementary schools journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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