I used to be a psychologist and a teacher, but now I'm working as a model. 😀 Look at me on the cover of the Moodle website. Photo taken during an educational technology hackathon in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2022.

Very sad day. Hank Pennypacker dies. Hank, a giant in behavior analysis, co-authored the essential “Strategies & Tactics of Behavioral Research” and developed (starting in 1974!) the lifesaving ABA application, MammaCare, using errorless learning to teach breast lump detection.

Teacher's hapiness is seeing a former student making the world a better place.

Fantastic!

Do you have a paid Zoom plan and a good camera, but the video quality is still disappointing? 😞 Don't worry! Just contact Zoom support and request an upgrade to HD quality. It's easy and free! 📹💻

Read this. There is a lot of fear of too much criticism in psychology, talk of protecting ECRs from this threat, etc. What about protecting ECRs from the damage of being silenced or worse when they raise legitimate criticism of famous people’s work? Excellent piece by Zoé Ziani, Ph.D.

If you missed the #ASCILITE #LearningAnalytics SIG webinar by Paula de Barba on "What motivates students to learn?" you can now watch it on YouTube at: youtu.be/fL4PcVK6ltg

Before PowerPoint, DuPont had a Chart Room. Made in 1919, it was considered so vital that its existence was secret for 40 years Charts would zoom towards the board on monorails. The original version was a set of fixed slides that executives in wheelie chairs would be pushed past

Want to measure behaviors? Then measure behaviors! The funeral march of questionnaires, in leadership, management, psychology, wherever! In a solemn pace of a funeral procession, questionnaires are now in a coffin and being walked to the cemetery. doi.org/10.1016/j.leaq…

APS is recruiting editorial fellows for three journals: Psych Science, AMPPS, and Clinical Psych Science. If you're interested in getting some editing experience, consider applying! Deadline is 31 Jan. psychologicalscience.org/publications/e…

Delighted to share the preprint of our **Best Short Paper nomination** at #LAK24, which uses AI & NLP to identify and quantify disagreements in peer feedback. Preprint available at: researchgate.net/publication/37…

If you’re a social scientist in Sydney or Melbourne and want to get involved in replication and reproducibility efforts, this is a great, fun, interactive project with a super well-organized group! They’re branching out from econ & poli sci to psychology. Please share!

Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, or someone else? Who's your go-to musician for reviewing theses and articles? For some unknown reason, Mozart is my preferred companion. What about you? 🎵 #ClassicalMusic #Productivity

The best "Dance your PhD" ever: youtu.be/RoSYO3fApEc?si…

Learning that delights, sticks right.

We'll likely have a 2-year postdoc position in our lab (MetaMelb) in psych at Melbourne Uni, starting later this year. If you have a PhD, do relevant stuff, & want to spend 2 years in Melbourne studying psychology research methods & practices, please get in touch! Please share!

May 2024: The argument for selling online courses has shifted from "courses developed with AI" to "courses developed by real people.

Contextualising Human Behaviour with Professor Bernard Guerin: youtube.com/watch?v=PO-_EJ…

#PhD candidates get paid LESS than minimum wage in Aus (and face major cost of living pressures) PhD's contribute enormously to society and the economy. We should recognise and support this #AcademicTwitter #auspol Sign this to raise the stipend aph.gov.au/e-petitions/pe…

Elon Musk is using Twitter to undermine Brazilian democracy. Leaving this platform for good is the least I can do. Goodbye, Twitter.