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Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Former high school math and physics teacher. ianthacker.com
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Please share! We're seeking scholars to help us design AI-supported learning activities for teachers, enhancing their knowledge for teaching numbers, operations, & proportionality. Join us in advancing math education! #MathEd #AI #Postdoc #Education Apply here! usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

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Predicting there will be lots more "There is a shortage of top notch ____" tweets from this walking crypto-scam.

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Finally, some decent news. Check out this UTSA Today article and video showing Dr. Sara Shields-Menard in action helping undergraduates at UTSA tackle the growing antibiotic resistance crisis as part of our USDA NIFA grant work. www.utsa.edu/today/2025/0... #NIFAimpacts #STEMEducation #DataScience

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A nice platform for those looking to fight off despair with a quick hit of agency.

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Now that Bitcoin has broken 100k it's worth remembering that the monstrous global resource destroying system on which it's based is not an outlier of the digital economy but an expression of its core logic—one that thrives on maximizing inefficiency www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Looking for a leadership position in an energetic & productive School of Education where the faculty, staff, and students are working hard to make substantive, positive impacts in the community & the world? Then please consider applying for our Dean position! buff.ly/3P4D7dM

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Kendrick Lamar beat Drake in a rap battle so thoroughly that Drake called the police. I will never stop laughing about this!

submitted 94 days ago • 196 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 103 days ago • 18 comments

If you've found yourself making impassioned arguments like "There's no evidence for learning styles and there are better ways to differentiate" or "Learning is more than just a cognitive process" then you may be Learning Scholar! Want to be added to this starter pack? Contact me! go.bsky.app/CBPm1dV

submitted 104 days ago • 45 comments

This paper by @drmcquillan.bsky.social and @balebo.bsky.social and others, presented at #UCEA24, amplified both the mental health struggles of trans and questioning youth and also how networks of adults in schools are able to uplift and support them. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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🔬 Major new findings on STEM gender gaps: Looking across institutions over time, physics, engineering & computer science (PECS) show stark divides—gaps are closing at selective colleges but widening elsewhere. w/ @joalkhafajiking.bsky.social [<--🌟 on the job market 😉] www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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(1/x) If you are concerned about the democratic backsliding being seen around the world, then I urge you to read this new article in one of the top journals in my field: Review of Educational Research journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

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theconversation.com/us-math-teac...

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Excited to announce that my team has been awarded a USDA NIFA HSI grant: "PBS-DIRT Don't Hurt: Place-Based Soil Data Interpretation and Research in Texas..." for $396k! 🌱📊 #NIFAimpacts #STEMEducation #DataScience

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

Check out my research featured in @us.theconversation.com: "Climate change is easier to study when it’s presented as a game." theconversation.com/climate-chan...

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

Here to recycle a few old tweets. Starting with this: Check out my recent publication in CEP, "Supporting secondary students’ climate change learning and motivation using novel data and data visualizations" sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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