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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Educators and OTs, how do you currently bridge sensory needs and learning goals in your practice? #sensory #neurodiversity #embodied #learning #matheducation

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

• Stims as embodied learning resources: Children’s sensory regulatory movements (“stims”) such as bodily rocking became resources for conceptual thinking and communication.

A sketch of a child rocking on a balance board exclaims, "like this" as he demonstrates the notion of high amplitude with his rocking.

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Here is what I found: • Sensory adaptivity: Children adapted their movements to fit their sensory profiles. For example, children who generally crave intense sensory stimulation rocked more frequently and intensely when generating math graphs.

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In a new paper, I investigate this by designing and testing a learning tool that explicitly integrates regulatory sensory stimulation (here: bodily rocking as stimulation to the sense of balance) into embodied learning opportunities (here: to explore qualities of sinusoidal graphs through movement).

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How might we meet a learner's sensory needs AND foster movement-based learning at the same time? Are sensory regulation and embodied cognition parallel processes, or do they interact?

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

2) Embodied learning: moving the body and objects in concept-relevant ways can help ground and communicate about the meaning of math ideas. However, the intersection of these two perspectives posed a problem:

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

To understand this, I found two distinct perspectives in existing research: 1) Sensory regulation: movement activates sensory systems like the vestibular/balance and proprioceptive/body-awareness systems that shape emotion and attentional resources

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How does what we do with our bodies matter for learning?🧵 When I worked in learning centers with neurodiverse children, I saw how different forms of physical movement, from rocking on a balance board to jumping on a number line, shaped both learners’ engagement and their thinking in surprising ways.

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

the study recruitment emails that come through at UW-Madison are so delightfully Wisconsin

email subject line from UW-Madison Research reading: Participants Needed for Cheese Tasting Research"

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Undergraduate researchers Katie McCaskey, Sara Bannantine, and Amanda Alegria from my team will be presenting an interactive demo and poster on new activities that seek to ground the meaning of math symbols in experiences of bodily movement and balance (9:30-10:45am in Union South)

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Hey #Madison community! Come check out the cool work of @uwmadison.bsky.social undergraduates this Friday at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, all day (9:30-5:30pm) at Union South & the Discovery Building. [symposium website]: ugradsymposium.wisc.edu #research #undergraduate

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

And finally.. we are hiring for a postdoc! So if this resonates with you (cross-sensory interaction, inclusive co-design, shape-changing interfaces, materials, playful tech) see: shorturl.at/laPBp and come chat at CHI!

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

With guest appearance from a friendly haptic module!

A haptic module for feeling vectors with a roughly cylindrical 3d-printed base and a joystick-shaped actuated piece sticking out of the top. The actuated joystick can trace vectors on the palm.

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Hey #AERA2026! Wanna come feel a vector? I'll be presenting on #haptic ways of exploring spatial concepts in STEM, including key ideas from a co-design session with blind and low vision youth, Sunday 7:45-9:15am at L.A LIVE (ground floor Gold4, "VR and Haptic Learning Experiences" paper session).

A screenshot of a title slide with the title "Perceiving space through movement: blind and visually impaired learners' spatial explorations and imaginations with haptic technologies in STEM education co-design" with the names of authors: Sofia Tancredi at UW Madison, Colton Doherty, Jenn Tennison, and Jenna Gorlewicz from Saint Louis University, Brett Fiedler from CU-Boulder, and Dor Abrahamson from UC Berkeley. A small picture show two hands sliding 3d-printed haptics modules through a maze.

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

How might #ParticipatoryResearch create and enact more humanizing ways to be together? Our new article in @journalprm.bsky.social explores the poetry of connection and care as affective, social, political, and epistemological processes: tinyurl.com/PoetryofCare... #Education #TheMatteringCollective

A pencil drawing of a small room into which a photocopier, a large screen, several shelves, and a small table have been crammed. Bags of food cover the table, waiting for people to eat them. On the whiteboard in the background, the words “Do you feel like you matter?” are faintly visible.

A recipe for enchiladas verdes con pollo, handwritten on a lined piece of paper.

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Looking for graduate students for next year! We have fully-funded positions open to study signed languages, cognitive/educational neuroscience, development, and educational technology! Email me for more info or see here: tinyurl.com/EdNeuro2026 Please share!!

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Educational Neuroscience PhD: Application Information

Fully-Funded Ph.D. Positions in Educational Neuroscience At Gallaudet University in Washington, DC The Ph.D. in Educational Neuroscience (PEN) Program at Gallaudet University invites prospective st...

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I am recruiting for doctoral students at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Particularly those focused on the intersections between math ed and disability studies here, but also either field. Classes for the first three years are in person. My email: rlambert@ucsb.edu #ITeachMath #EduSky

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Peter J Woods @awasteofredmeat.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We're trying something new at #ISLS2026- Erica and I are organizing an arts-based track for submissions! We would love to see and showcase your work alongside more traditional conference submissions. And since I'm in charge, I'm going to try to get weird with it. 2026.isls.org/arts-gallery...

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Arts Gallery & Performance : Call for Submissions | ISLS 2026

New to ISLS in 2026, the arts gallery and performance track provides a space for scholars and practitioners to explore and communicate ideas through new, creative mediums beyond the familiar conferenc...

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islsnews.bsky.social @islsnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The submission deadline for the 2026 ISLS Annual Meeting, covering all ICLS and CSCL formats, has been extended. We recognize the significant academic and personal challenges that many are currently facing. We therefore extend the deadline for submissions to October 13, 2025 11:59PM AOE

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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

When people give directions, they sometimes reposition themselves -- for example, they may turn to face the direction they would be facing if actually following that path.... Anyone know of any research on this phenomenon? @noranewcombe.bsky.social

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Hey #PlayMakeLearn! come play with functions tomorrow (Thursday) during playful demos, 4:45–5:45pm

Two women rock dynamically on wooden balance boards, generating realtime graphs on a projected display in front of them

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Hahaha welcome to the resistance

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

fyi the bit.ly link didn't work for me. excited to read this!

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It was special to catch Do Ho Suh’s “Walk the House” Exhibition on my way back from Europe, home for me as an adolescent, to my home in the US- a gorgeous reflection on the beauty and longing of carrying different homes with us and the nature of memory.

Artist Do Ho Suh's piece "Perfect Home". Exact replicas of plugs, doorknobs and latches rendered with translucent fabric affixed to the wall of a translucent fabric room. Each item is a different color: an ornate yellow doorknob, a chunky navy door latch and thermostat, red, blue, and green plugs overlaying a green round doorknob. The items are from different homes artist Do Ho Suh has lived in at their measured exact heights.

Do Ho Suh's "Staircase": a framed curved and crumpled red form on a white background showing a 3d staircase made of thread and gelatine paper collapsed into two dimensions.

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

See you today at 3pm in Helsinki or virtually #ISLS2025

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The #ISLS2025 program is out! Hope to see you in-person and virtually at our hybrid symposium on #neurodiversity & #STEM education on Thursday June 12th from 3-4:30pm

Simple yellow flyer with abstract light blue scribble designs surrounding the title, timing, presenter headshots, and presentation titles for a conference symposium. At the top, in a dark blue box, it specifies 'hybrid symposium',below which the title states 'Charting the Learning Sciences Neuroverse: Theorizing and Building Neurodiversity-Affirming STEM Education.' Under that, the presentation titles are:
1. Reframing Neurodiversity through Community Cultural Wealth: Enactments and Expansions, Dr.Crystal Menzies, UC–Berkeley.
2. Neurodiversity as a Challenge to Neurotypical Mathematical Assumptions
Dr.s Rachel Lambert, Edmund Harriss, UC–Santa Barbara.
3. Creative Potential of Neurodiverse Engineering Students: Insights from the Engineering Creativity Assessment Tool (ECAT), Dr.s Zeynep G Akdemir-Beveridge, Arash Esmaili Zaghi, & Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut,
4. Ecosystems of Belonging: Teaching Assistants’ Influence on Neurodivergent Computer Science Students’ Sense of Belonging, Dr.Rachel Bonnette, University at Buffalo, and
5. Neurodivergent Embodied STEM Learning: Stimming as an Epistemic and Interactional Resource, Dr. Sofia Tancredi, UW–Madison.
In the bottom left corner, there is a photo of discussant Katherine Lewis from the University of Washington. In the bottom right corner, it lists the date and time of the event as June 12, 3-4:30pm in Helsinki, Finland at the International Society for the Learning Sciences conference. The event will also be accessible via zoom.

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Why aren’t you in class? You look like someone who needs some absurdist sock puppet skits today: tinyurl.com/wayic

Screenshot of a sock puppet with googley eyes, blue and black striped sweater, and lanyard speaking into a microphone. The same image is shown upside down in miniature in the top right hand corner.

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Definitely! Here’s a link to the conference paper. Super interesting about your students’ area gestures. If you're interested in research on gesture in math ed more broadly, I would be happy to send you some of the cool work in this area! tinyurl.com/TancrediSerr...

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(PDF) Becoming the Graph: Changes in Children's Gestures Following Dynamic, Whole-Body Graphing Activities

PDF | Gestures when expressing mathematical graphs have been characterized with two broad patterns: "seeing-the-graph" (associated with novices) or... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Anyone at #AERA2025 through the end of Sunday? I'll be giving a talk on some findings about gesture and dynamic graphing in a #SIG-RME session on algebraic reasoning across grades (1:30-3:00pm MDT). Hope to see you there! :) #math #embodiment #gesture

Title slide of a talk titled "Becoming the graph: changes in children's gestures following dynamic, whole-body graphing activities." Two blue-background images of graphs line the right side of the white slide: the top one shows a dashed yellow wavy graph line and a solid blue wavy line overlapping. The bottom one shows a wavy dashed line with large green stars at each peak and trough. Authors names are shown in white inside a navy box at the bottom: Sofia Tancredi at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Johnny Serrano at University of California-Berkeley.

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Just got back from a workshop at Georgia Tech organized by Abigale Stangl convening experts in engineering, design, accessibility tech, HCI, CS, tactile graphics, tactile art, and STEM ed to talk Tactile & Embodied Learning. Excited for where such interdisciplinary dialogue can take the field!

Photograph of a set of three 3d printed manipulatives showing different stages in embryo development.

Photograph of a circuit making kit showing foam blocks with conductive tape that connect magnetically. The blocks have things like a soft cat or clock adhered to the sides and can activate vibration motors, fans, and other features.

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Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

#edpsychs An excellent compilation of resources here. I would also add Aucademy is a very useful website. By autistic researchers researching autism. Lots of references. Useful for schools also, and if you are an Assistant EP these are worth exploring for your interviews or personal statements.

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Woah! Do you know anything about who made this or how it was trained?

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Julia Chatain @juliachatain.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Building a starter pack for #Embodiment research: #EmbodiedCognition #EmbodiedLearning #Gestures #Movement #BodilyActions #EmbodiedInteraction #Avatar #XR #VR #Robotics #EmbodiedAI etc Is this you? Message me and I will add you 📬 go.bsky.app/U1worrv

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

!! maintenant on peut neuroqueeriser :)

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Next Tuesday 9/10, 4-6pm. Please email or DM me if you or a high schooler you know would like to join us! #neurodiversity #codesign #inclusion

Event flyer. Title: Co-Design Day for Neurodiversity-Inclusive Learning. Description: An opportunity for neurodiverse high school students to collaborate with researchers at UC Berkeley to create new learning tools and technologies that make high school learning more inclusive for neurodiverse students. Event details: September 10, 2024, 4-6pm. Embodied Design Research Lab, UC Berkeley, To RSVP please email sofiatancredi@berkeley.edu. The flyer features a rainbow infinity symbol as well as a pink frame with images of a brain, cogs inside a head form, a light bulb, a book, charts, a scribble, and a puzzle.

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

"My hands are always telling me what I am feeling. Without my hand flaps, I would not be anywhere near as connected to my inner life"

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

I haven't seen this explained, so: (1) On left-hand vertical menu, click "Settings". (2) Click Accessibility (3) Scroll down until you see "require alt text before posting" & click Reminders from then on :)

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

Some useful general practices in here for making courses more accessible

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

What do you get when you cross embodied design, haptics, and PhET's education simulations? Introducing #Quad: the first #TeleTangible. #Inclusion #MathEducation [Video] youtu.be/Oi1tp8anxf0?...

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

What if #stimming were part of cognition? What would this mean for inclusive instruction? A conceptual paper on stimming and thinking I wrote with Dor Abrahamson came out in Educational Psychology Review today! rdcu.be/dNanq

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Stimming as Thinking: a Critical Reevaluation of Self-Stimulatory Behavior as an Epistemic Resource for Inclusive Education

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

next Tuesday, at 10:45am ET! zoom or in-person #ISLS2024

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

So long lovely #Toronto! Thanks for hosting this year's Jean Piaget Society meeting. #JPS2024

Photograph of the sun setting behind Toronto's CN tower framed between two tall buildings, with a bustling crowd in the foreground.

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

If you want to try out and build on these designs, a tutorial and code repository can be found here open-access courtesy of Julia Wang: tinyurl.com/BBM-Balance-Graphing

Screenshot of a landing page for Balance Board Math activities. There are 6 colorful images of graphs and shapes (for example, a series of green stars on a dotted line, and a black and white grid). A toggle at the top selects one-player or two-player. Buttons at the bottom say "home". "connect P1", connect P2", and "settings."

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Sofia Tancredi @sofiasensory.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

My design snapshot on how technology can enable new ways of thinking and learning using the sense of balance is out in Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education. Concepts explored include the number line, trig functions, function addition, the unit circle, & calculus doi.org/10.1007/s407...

Diagram of a a technology set-up with a projected digital display connected to a computer, which is connected to two rocking balance boards (shown in blue and orange). The display shows a cartesian grid with three graphed lines: an orange, a blue, and a black line.

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