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Katie Kroeper @katiekroe.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

My former PhD advisor, Mary Murphy, published a Substack this week that’s well worth your time: The Report of Stereotype Threat’s Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated.

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Carlton J. Fong @carltonfong.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Excited to present at #SPSP2026 alongside such wonderful researchers and to share our latest work on belonging with collaborators @pedram-zarei.bsky.social, @chrisrozek.bsky.social, and our research teams! Thanks to Joel Le Forestier for organizing this session at @spspnews.bsky.social!

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Going to #spsp2026? Interested in belonging, diversity, or stigma? Come to our symposium, "The Journey to Belonging: Challenges, Costs, and Ways Forward" on Friday at 9:30AM CST. Featuring @katiekroe.bsky.social, @carltonfong.bsky.social, Kevin Binning, and myself.

A graphic showing four speakers and their talk titles: Katie Kroeper presenting "Who Gets to Belong? Belonging Opportunities in College Vary by Race and First-Gen Status," Carlton Fong presenting "Exploring College Students' Costs to Belong," Joel Le Forestier presenting "Belonging According to Whom? The Effects of Distancing from a Stigmatized Identity on Felt and Perceived Belonging," and Kevin Binning presenting "Transforming Social Contexts with Ecological Belonging Interventions."

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Katie Kroeper @katiekroe.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Check out Kathy Emerson’s fabulous Substack post summarizing our recent Advances chapter, which traces how mindset research has evolved from focusing on individuals, to recognizing how mindsets are situationally triggered, to understanding how mindsets are embedded in cultures.

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The evolution of mindset research: Forging connections across individuals, situations, and cultures | Request PDF

Request PDF | The evolution of mindset research: Forging connections across individuals, situations, and cultures | Mindset theory was originally developed to address a puzzling question of motivation...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/09/2025

"integrating genAI into education will result in commercialization of a collective responsibility: fostering & cultivating the coming generation" and this responsibility can't be left to an industry that has aligned with authoritarian regimes, prioritises profit at any cost, and is powering fascism

Presently, by integrating generative AI into the teaching and learning process, we are not only misleading ourselves into thinking we are tackling education’s challenges, but we are also outsourcing a social, civic and democratic process of cultivating the coming generation to commercial and capitalist enterprises whose priority is profit. The AI industry has consistently demonstrated that it is willing to undo decades of progress towards fundamental rights (Peters, 2025), peace (Singh, 2025) and democracy (Zeff, 2025) and can easily close down education efforts (Holtermann, 2025b) by operating in an environment with little to no oversight and riddled with conflicts of interest (Menn and Nix, 2023), in accordance with these companies’ business models: maximization of profit and concentration of power. An industry with such an extractive business model, developing and deploying generative AI tools with little oversight and testing, cannot be a good steward for the betterment of education. Instead, integrating generative AI into education will result in commercialization of a collective responsibility: fostering and cultivating the coming generations

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Refusing to "trust the experts" is meant to be a brave, responsible position. But (as Carl explains in the thread) there is too much knowledge in the world. You have to trust *somebody*, much of the time. If you have no trust in experts, you end up trusting the idiots.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

“the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker is a mensch.

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Access, Detracking, and Tracking Special Interest Group @accessdetracktrack.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

📚 “Who Gets to Belong in College?” by @katiekroe.bsky.social and colleagues examines how institutions can assess and expand belonging for historically marginalized student groups.A powerful contribution to research on equity and inclusion in higher ed. 🔁 buff.ly/P1n87ip 📄 buff.ly/iRqFvES

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Non-academics: if you see an interesting academic paper on here and you can’t access it due to a paywall just email the author and (depending on the state of their inbox 😜) they will generally be thrilled you are interested in their work and send you a copy.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

among the things we apparently need to do a better job of going forward - as a society, it seems - is communicating the basic conceit of what learning is and why we value it. a problem that we in higher ed share with our K-12 colleagues

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Indivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Rick Steves finishing his speech in Edmonds. This is about halfway back in the crowd and to the side. The patriotism of this crowd was something else. And Steves' point is right -- change is going to come from an engaged center that stands in *solidarity* with the most vulnerable.

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

What happened in Minnesota is a direct consequence of the violent way that Trump talks about his political opponents.

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Katie Kroeper @katiekroe.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Although this isn’t exactly new news, I wanted to share more about a paper that came out while I was on maternity leave: “Who Gets to Belong in College? An Empirical Review of How Institutions Can Assess and Expand Opportunities for Belonging on Campus,” published in Educational Psychology Review. 🧵

Article titled “Who Gets to Belong in College? An Empirical Review of How Institutions Can Assess and Expand Opportunities for Belonging on Campus,” published in Educational Psychology Review (2025).

Abstract: Over a dozen rigorous randomized-controlled trials show that recognizing worries about belonging in a new school as normal and as improving with time can help students stay engaged, build relationships, and succeed. Such “social-belonging” interventions can help students take advantage of opportunities available to them to develop their belonging in college—yet what is the institutional role? Drawing on past literature, and reporting novel data from the College Transition Collaborative’s massive trial of the social-belonging intervention (N = 15,143 control-condition students in 374 “local-identity” groups across 22 representative colleges and universities; Walton et al., 2023), we explore who gets to belong in college and what institutional leaders can do to expand these opportunities. First, we find that opportunities for belonging (i.e., “belonging affordances”) vary widely, both across institutions and systematically across groups. Notably, Black, Asian, and first-generation college student groups are each less likely than other groups to have minimally adequate opportunities for belonging. Second, all institutions are serving some student groups well, but all can improve: none provides adequate belonging affordances for all groups. Third, four classes of institutional factors predict belonging affordances at the identity-group level: (1) greater in-group representation, (2) more inclusive cultures, (3) greater opportunities for strong relationships, and (4) greater opportunities for productive learning. We conclude by discussing how institutions can learn for whom they are creating opportunities for belonging and for whom they are not, and how institutions can expand opportunities for belonging for groups that are not yet well served.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/05/2025

4. I've worried for years that by promoting a science-in-crisis narrative, the metascience / science reform movement runs the risk of playing useful idiot to those who would like to reduce the influence of science in policy and regulation. Just look at the funding pouring in from Koch, Arnold, etc.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/05/2025

If you use your position as the head of HHS to ratfuck a country's vaccination programs and future vaccine development efforts, your opinions on vaccines are very definitely NOT irrelevant.

Kennedy if he would vaccinate his own child for measles.

“For measles? Probably for measles I —” Mr. Kennedy began to answer before stopping himself. “You know, what I would say is, my opinions about vaccines are irrelevant.

“I don’t want to seem like I’m being evasive, but I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me,” he said.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/05/2025

It would be wildly foolish it is to rely on any sort of AI to make decisions in tense international situations. But using an LLM to do so is terrifyingly stupid. It's a category error to think that a machine designed to generate plausible text would be good at reasoning about existential risk.

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Is AI the future of America's foreign policy? Some experts think so

Large language models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek are increasingly being looked at for their potential to help make decisions in high-stakes situations.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Happy Mother’s Day to the feisty science moms out there. You’re brilliant! You balance and manage SO MUCH. You bring excellence, creativity, innovation, and humanity to the world. If I hadn’t seen others having families AND doing science, I wouldn’t have realized I could do it, too. Thank you ❤️

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Katie Kroeper @katiekroe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Our department is hiring! We’re looking for a full-time, 12-month, non-tenure-track Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor with a focus in Industrial/Organizational Psychology to direct the I/O graduate program and teach both graduate and undergraduate courses.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Sam Altman describes ChatGPT as merely “a calculator for words” the man responsible for destroying education doesn't understand writing, thinking, or math, although, to be fair, he certainly does understand capital

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has tended to brush off concerns about AI use in academia as shortsighted, describing ChatGPT as merely “a calculator for words” and saying the definition of cheating needs to evolve. “Writing a paper the old-fashioned way is not going to be the thing,” Altman, a Stanford dropout, said last year. But speaking before the Senate’s oversight committee on technology in 2023, he confessed his own reservations: “I worry that as the models get better and better, the users can have sort of less and less of their own discriminating process.” OpenAI hasn’t been shy about marketing to college students. It recently made ChatGPT Plus, normally a $20-per-month subscription, free to them during finals. (OpenAI contends that students and teachers need to be taught how to use it responsibly, pointing to the ChatGPT Edu product it sells to academic institutions.)

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 06/05/2025

The culture of success in the US is built on the false promise of "good choices." As I show in Holding It Together, we tell people they can be successful if they work hard/smart enough. Which means: expect no support and blame only yourself if you fail. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

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Holding It Together by Jessica Calarco: 9780593538128 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Trump is threatening to revoke Harvard’s tax exempt status because the university refused to cave to his demands. Why is he so hell-bent on attacking universities? Because an educated and informed citizenry has always been the biggest threat to a dictator's power.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Stepping in here to defend Ann’s statement, which I’ve now seen framed this way by several technologists. Ann is an author. Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct. Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.

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Tessa Benson-Greenwald @tbgphd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

😂Every once in a while, I get a student who says Beefaroni instead of Bonferroni on an assignment and it never fails to make my entire week so much better #teachstats #PsychSciSky

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a man is laying on a bed using a laptop and says i 'm

Alt: a man (David Rose from Schitt's Creek) is laying on a bed using a laptop and says i 'm obssessed with this

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Katie Kroeper @katiekroe.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Excited to be featured by the Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring chatting about a recent paper with Katherine Emerson, Maithreyi Gopalan, and Greg Walton. We looked at actionable ways institutions can create belonging opportunities for students.

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Profiles in Mentoring: Katie Kroeper on Fostering Belonging through Institutional Change – The Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring

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Katie Kroeper @katiekroe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I’m always proud of the research assistants in my lab, but today is an especially proud day. At SHU’s Academic Festival, my students presented their work beautifully—and members of our lab earned three honorable mentions…

Three students standing in front of their poster at Academic Festival.

Four students standing in front of their poster at Academic Festival.

Two students standing in front of their poster at Academic Festival.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Pope Francis died as he lived: immersed in the Paschal Mystery and calling political leaders (e.g. J.D. Vance) to account. The latter element came up around the time of his hospitalization in my @commonweal.bsky.social take: www.commonwealmagazine.org/francis-papa...

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The ‘Transitus’ of Francis

What comes after the Francis papacy?

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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

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Carlton J. Fong @carltonfong.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Another article in our special issue is out! In a GIANT study of over 15,000 students, 22 colleges, & ~400 local student identity groups, @katiekroe.bsky.social et al. “explore who gets to belong in college and what institutional leaders can do to expand these opportunities” doi.org/10.1007/s106...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2025

Then what's our job? I've thought long and hard about that question. This would be clever if it weren't accidental. That's literally your job. To think long and hard about things that matter, as a human being.

Last year, I sat in a faculty meeting while a guest lecturer gleefully explained how they had used AI to design their class, craft PowerPoint presentations, and develop exams. At the end of the presentation, a colleague leaned over and asked, “Then what’s our job?” I have thought long and hard about that question. If faculty hope to survive, much less prosper, in the age of AI, they need to come up with a compelling answer to that question: “What’s our job?”

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/04/2025

"those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past mistake correlation for causation. They think their grandparents had the 'good life' because of jobs in manufacturing. In reality, it was unions, pensions, high marginal tax rates, and strong social policies—with racism and sexism thrown in"

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Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trump’s tariffs

Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/04/2025

…papers in the past 4 months alone demonstrating that over-reliance on "AI" tools diminishes critical thinking capacity & prevents students from building the kinds of foundational skills which allow them to learn more complex concepts, adapt to novel situations, & grow into experts. This is so bad.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/04/2025

So OpenAI is actively marketing ChatGPT to students during college finals season in the U.S. We've talked many (many) times before about the kinds of harm that can come from giving over too much epistemic and heuristic authority over to these systems, but additionally, there's been at least three…

Screenshot of ChatpGPT page:

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Promo: 2 months free for students
ChatGPT Plus is now free for college students through May

Offer valid for students in the US and Canada

[Buttons reading "Claim offer" and "learn more"
An image of a pencil scrawling a scribbly and looping line]

ChatGPT Plus is here to help you through finals

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Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I’m trying to come up with a short list of tips for calling a rep/senator. So far I’ve got: - call your rep, not one from another district - tell them you are a voter - stick to one topic per call - if you’re nervous, call after hours and leave a message

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/04/2025

I also want a fighter: a fighter for democracy and equality and diversity, who isn’t just gonna be like “oh well, guess I’m voting for the next nominee.”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/04/2025

Like, yes, Cory Booker is grandstanding, and I’m glad someone is finally doing that! PLEASE get the fuck up there and grandstand somewhere other than your fundraising asks! More grandstanding, please!

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Unsurprisingly, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is spot-on in this analysis: “A.I.’s most revolutionary potential is helping experts apply their expertise better and faster. But for that to work, there has to be experts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

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Opinion | Actually, A.I. Is Pretty Mid (Gift Article)

A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

My latest blog post for Psychology Today. People have false beliefs on social consensus. The illusory social consensus effect is important for work on disinfo. I started from a recent paper by @maddyjalbert.bsky.social and @rmpillai.bsky.social A 🧵 1/ www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...

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Illusory Social Consensus

We often overestimate how much others agree with us. Since silence is often taken as agreement, we can disrupt illusory beliefs in consensus by expressing our doubts.

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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Look, I might be crazy but I happen to want NIH to tell us when crackpot claims about health are unsupported. Dangerous even. THAT IS NOT CENSORSHIP THAT IS PROTECTING PUBLIC HEALTH. YES NIH - PLEASE CENSOR INFORMATION THAT MIGHT KILL PEOPKLE.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/03/2025

For example, explaining that smoking causes lung cancer "directs people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes." Helping people understand that vaccines prevent diseases and do not cause autism "directs people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes."

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/03/2025

Here NIH officials target contracts that "may be related to any form of censorship at all or *directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes*." Directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes IS public health. It's also education.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/03/2025

A core element of public health involves working with the public to help them understand how they can protect themselves and their neighbors from disease. This memo (see the next post) equates this vital aspect of public communication with censorship.

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Katy Milkman @katymilkman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🚨New Paper Alert🚨 In a megastudy w/ 140k U.S. teachers on Zearn we tested 15 email campaigns nudging teachers to help their elementary school students progress in math. Our emails boosted math progress slightly (by 1.9%). Personalization added value. Led by A Duckworth. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Katie Kroeper @katiekroe.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Are you a teacher looking to motivate your students? Students tend to be more motivated when they believe their teacher sees their potential—in other words, when they believe their teacher has a growth mindset about student ability.

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