Today, TUGSA members finished voting on the Tentative Agreement reached with Temple University on Friday. Membership voted over 92% to REJECT the agreement with over 83% of the membership voting. As a result, the strike will continue. We are ready to bargain tomorrow. A 🧵 (1/8)

New paper from our lab! Spatial skills in 4th grade longitudinally predict students' STEM major choice and help explain gender differences. Math self-concept is a major mediator. Jing Tian led the study and explains it better than I could below. doi.org/10.1111/desc.1…

I’m overjoyed to share that I will be joining the Psych. Dept. at Fordham as an Assistant Professor this coming fall AND that I was awarded an NSF ECR grant to study how practice problem distributions can impact children’s decimal learning!

Special thanks to my mentor and role model Elizabeth Gunderson! I’m truly grateful to the many other mentors and colleagues who have supported and inspired me over the years!

Finally, I’ll be hiring a full-time lab manager on the grant staring in the fall. If you know anyone who might be interested, please put them in touch with me. Stayed tuned for the official job ad!

New paper alert! We found brief exposure to different decimal labels led children to process decimal magnitudes differently. See how Liz nicely laid out the highlights here

Dissertation Research Opportunity: Center for Family Math NAFSCE is offering a $10k, 18-mo dissertation fellowship for doc candidates conducting family math research aligned to its priorities. Applications due May 29th. Learn more: nafsce.org/page/FMFellows…

Postdoc opportunity at UW-Madison! We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow for an NSF-funded project on fractions understanding and algebra knowledge! Our team is led by @AnaStephens123, & also includes Alexandria Viegut, PhD and Percival Matthews. More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1jftaR8…

✨ECRs in STEM Learning, Dev., & Ed ✨ Center for Early Learning will host a 2-day professional development workshop for early career researchers (advanced doc. students and postdocs) this fall feat. David Purpura Dr. Sara A. Hart Jessica Logan Learn more and apply here: tiny.cc/CELworkshop

Neural network models require interleaved input for building representations that learn & generalize efficiently. Do humans? Our paper out now in JEP:G says yes! We present evidence from a series of associative inference experiments + simulations of comp models of the hippocampus

We are hiring!!! Our dept at Univ. of Maryland is looking to hire 2 assistant professors. One position that is open topic in human development and one focused on early childhood education. Apply by 9/15/23 for best consideration. Come join us! ejobs.umd.edu/postings/10974…

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Psychology is hiring in perception and in cognitive or perceptual development!  Info at the link below. These searches are tenure track and open rank.  Please share widely! psych.wisc.edu/psychology-dep…

Highlights from Jing Tian and Cathy Ren's study of verbalizing decimals: bold.expert/whats-the-best…