My department is hiring! Asst/Assoc TT in Cognitive Science of Teaching & Learning/Learning Sciences. Most interested in someone doing work in language processing/literacy dev/cognitive aging or a related area. Please share! @edILLINOIS @EPSYatUIUC illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

Calling all graduate students: Check out this great mentoring opportunity at AERA with SIGs LS and ATL! Applications due 1/31!

Check out SIG ATL's in-person and virtual program at #AERA2023! 🥳 Please note: Due to timing restrictions we will be holding a Business Meeting AND a Reception on Saturday both with SIG LS! Hope to see you there!

Presenting SIG LS's in-person and virtual program at #AERA2023! Please note: due to timing restrictions, we are holding an 11:40 AM SIG LS/ATL Business Meeting AND a 7:30 PM Reception on Saturday! Hope to see you there!

Any ISLS 2023 meta-reviewers have the template handy? The template link 404'd for me yesterday. I sent an email to the organizers but haven't heard back yet.

The “dark academia” aesthetic is hilarious. You want real dark academia inspiration? Come into my office. The aesthetic includes: unwashed mugs, a supply of instant mac and cheese, loose plastic knives, small bags of pretzels from a blood bank, dead ladybugs.

Our spring break plans went out the window last week with the arrival of Hand Foot and Mouth Disease. We're making the best of extra time together, but I just poured cereal into my salad, so, uh, that's how it's going 🫠

Proud of McKenna Lane's ERP presentation today! She identified how an interdisciplinary museum design team decided on multiple design priorities while adopting student perspectives. Looking forward to getting her work out so that other design teams can benefit. @edILLINOIS

I'm very proud to announce the creation of the BLACK GAMES ARCHIVE! It's live now, folks! Use it as a tool and please, submit more games to be included. applauding co-founder Petty Black B*tch, PhD and our amazing advisory board... blackgamesarchive.org

DELTA students “hanging out”. Thank you DELTA at Illinois faculty/affiliates for putting this end of the year social together. Special thanks to Dr. Cat Dornfeld Tissenbaum and Mike Tissenbaum for sharing your bouldering wisdom with us!

Early bird abstracts are due in ONE WEEK! There will be a drawing of 2, $300 travel awards for those who submit by this date. Note: The official due date for submissions is June 7. Call for Proposals: drive.google.com/file/d/1UUUIE3… Website: lsgsc.org

Affirmative action gutted. Black, Ethnic, LGBTQ+ & Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies attacked. The fall of Roe. Banning books. Banning ideologies coined by Black Feminists. And y’all want Black academics to go on as business as usual? Nah.

It’s a privilege to not have a Supreme Court ruling impact you.

So, a MAGA just told me that America was “discovered.” I say it was invaded. Asking my absolutely awesome non-Native alliance — was America discovered or invaded?

We have to control them, or they can’t learn. I’m sometimes told that the punitive behaviour strategies which are used in schools are necessary, because otherwise children won’t learn. Here's why I disagree. 1/

Anyone with kids aged 8-12 in the Oak Park/Forest Park, IL area interested in reading with Misty our Reading Companion Robot, can visit us on Tuesdays at the Forest Park Public Library. Sign up, share widely and I'll see you there! fppl.evanced.info/signup/Calendar

1. Write daily 2. Make small goals & meet them 3. When you're stuck, keep writing 4. Avoid virtuous procrastination. 5. Make fear an ally 6. Start poor, finish rich 7. Treat revision (and even research) as writing 8. Take this advice! Eric Hayot, The Elements of Academic Style

520ish weeks later...

Congratulations to Dr. McKenna Lane on her successful defense yesterday! She described how constructivist principles were embedded in a middle-school science curriculum designed by an interdisciplinary team at a natural history museum. Education at Illinois