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drmuenks.bsky.social
Associate Professor at UT-Austin. I study motivation and how teachers and parents can create motivationally supportive environments.
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Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals. So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

My editorial on the indirect cuts. This is an opportunity for campuses to come together to make the case for higher education. Leaders need to step up and ask for support and lead. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

Scientific advancement is hugely threatened by new NIH policies announced this weekend. I spent the weekend making this to explain how detrimental this will be, not just to researchers like myself, but to anyone who benefits from NIH-funded research. Spoiler alert: that's all of us. That's YOU. 1/5

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

New paper out w/ @emilyqr.bsky.social where we tested a weekly utility-value intervention in physics and chemistry classrooms. We talk through the nuances and boundaries of using a more ecologically momentary intervention in educational contexts. www.researchgate.net/publication/... #edsky

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

To those of us who study these topics: Please remember. Our work is important. Your work is important. This work is needed. Please keep doing this important work.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Now is a time we need to support each other in academia across disciplines, across universities: Those in fields not under attack, need to help those who are under attack Senior faculty need to support junior faculty Privileged faculty need to support marginalized faculty #academicsky

submitted 29 days ago • 16 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 31 days ago • 1663 comments

Before you teach today, send a letter to (1) your college/university president, (2) provost, (3) both of your Senators, and (4) your House member

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Posting for my PhD student, Luke Rutten, who does not have BlueSky 👉 Luke's first-authored paper on Growth Rate Orientation (GRO) Beliefs was recently published in the mindset special issue of Social Psychology of Education! rdcu.be/d7wLf

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

New paper! What happens when instructors communicate mixed messages about students' potential for improvement? Compared to pure growth messages and sometimes even to no mindset messages, motivational and psychological outcomes are worse and deteriorate as the fixed components in a message increase.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Very excited to share our new paper on mixed mindset messages recently published in Motivation Science! psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... (with the fabulous @julieasievers.bsky.social @katiekroe.bsky.social and @canning.bsky.social) /1

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Happy #CSEdWeek! Are you a middle school CS teacher who would like to get more girls interested in taking your class? We are recruiting RIGHT NOW for an NSF-funded intervention. Brand-new data from >200 kids shows that our project increased girls' interest in their school's coding class by 40%!

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

New TT faculty who study learning, motivation, etc: please apply! I attended this program several years ago & now I am so excited to help run & organize it with @stephenaguilar.bsky.social! 🙌🏼 ☺️ ✨

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Truly a dream collaboration & so proud of this work! ✨ Check out Allison’s thread below to learn about our latest project on faculty mindsets👇🏼 Paper is open access! 🙏🏼

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Educational psychologist: what really matters is whether the student believes the cup is half full or half empty #EduSky

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Inviting submissions for our Special Issue on SRL in the digital age. Please do share and repost this with friends and colleagues! We welcome submissions from all educational levels. Abstracts are due by Dec 31! Feel free to email me the abstracts, too! think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

As us newbies figure out how to navigate this app. Something I’ve found helpful is the starterpack directory. Makes it easy to search for starterpacks you might be interested in, or find the one you lost as your feed refreshed 😅 blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

submitted 104 days ago • 2 comments

Not sure if I did this right or not, but here are scholars who study motivation in educational settings, mostly affiliated with @aera-motsig.bsky.social and @aeraedresearch.bsky.social go.bsky.app/3PuVgdT

submitted 104 days ago • 18 comments

Hello, new followers! I don’t post a ton on here but I love to share/discuss mine & others’ work in the Ed psych/motivation/social psych areas. 🙌🏼 I also started my biggest project yet this semester: being mom to my 3-month-old daughter, Vivian. 🥰

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

I'm thrilled to share this new article with @krisarob.bsky.social that provides commentary and reflections on the topical collection we guest edited for Educational Psychology Review on The Past, Present, and Future of Theory Development in Educational Psychology! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

Yup. Writing is thinking. So if you write a shitty first draft, you did some thinking and are on your way! If you got “AI” to write the draft, you haven’t thought AND now you’re trying to fix up what some non-thinking robot “thought.” You just put yourself 30 yards behind the starting line.

submitted 138 days ago • 46 comments

**New OPEN-ACCESS paper alert!!** “Causes and consequences of stereotypes: Interest stereotypes reduce adolescent girls’ motivation to enroll in computer science classes” is in JRTE: t.co/2FxhfDsUIa

submitted 147 days ago • 1 comment