Eric Dearing

A word of tremendous appreciation for the universities and graduate programs that make submitting letters of recommendation a 2 min process (rather than a 30+ min ordeal of cutting and pasting from a letter with all the same deets). The letter writing should be the work, not submitting it. No?

Career highlights getting to speak with 250 first-year elementary (primary) education students at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland…followed by giving a keynote at the Leadership for Inclusion in the Early Years inaugural conference ☘️

We are hiring! The Lynch School of Education and Human Development is seeking applications for a tenure track assistant professor position in counseling psychology. Come be my colleague! apply.interfolio.com/171121

Check out four posters at #CogSci2025 featuring CLAD Lab and Tutor-ND research trainees. Find them in Poster Sessions 1 and 3 and support these enthusiastic early career researchers! Quick overview thread below!🧵 @cogscisociety.bsky.social

Random Intercepts and Slopes in Longitudinal Models: When Are They "Good" and "Bad" Controls? or Illusory Traits 2: Revenge of the Slopes Led by Siling Guo, with Nicolas Hübner, Steffen Zitzmann, Martin Hecht, and Kou Murayama. Comments welcome! osf.io/preprints/ps...

✨New publication✨ The Role of Math Games for Children’s Early Math Learning: A Systematic Review doi.org/10.5964/jnc.... with @gbramani.bsky.social

Have we given too much "credit" to the pandemic for learning losses? Almost 50% of the post-pandemic decline in achievement on 8th grade NAEP was to be expected (without the pandemic!), simply using the same rate of declining achievement that began unfolding starting in 2013!

Looking for a power calculation tool for indirect effects? I love this one!

✨New publication✨ #MathActivities on #SocialMedia: Examining content, design, and alignment with mathematical cognition research doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... with Juyun Lee and Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social

Lynch School Professor Elida Laski discusses the effect of income-based differences in how children approach math as early as in kindergarten in the @hechingerreport.org. bit.ly/Laski_Heching...

Such an encouraging experience at #SMU Simmons College of Education “fireside” chatting with Drs. Bianca Baldridge & Toni Harrison-Kelly about educational equity…yep, equity. Shout out to Simmons students, faculty, and administration for putting on this event in these times.

Postdoc opening! Great chance to join a fantastic interdisciplinary team on the Segregation of Opportunity project at the U of Oslo. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

🙋‍♂️Teaching a class session on #stereotype threat and achievement disparities assoc with race. Dang, getting a handle on what has/hasn’t replicated, the meta-analyses (and re-meta-analyses), & intervention meta-analyses is no gimme. Any rec’s for good summary pieces I could assign to undergrads?

another student was disappeared at the University of Minnesota

An absolutely incredible night. Overwhelmed. What a joyful collection of humans.

Please take a moment to visit the Tufts Eliot-Pearson department home page. One of their…one of OUR young child development scholars was kidnapped. Disappeared. Feeling great yet? as.tufts.edu/epcshd/

I am calling on all #devpsyc colleagues to condemn & speak out about the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk by the US govt on March 25, 2025. She is a developmental psychology graduate. #childpsyc #developmentalpsyc #lifespanpsyc #acadmicsky #childrenandyouth @srcdorg.bsky.social @issbd.bsky.social

The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers https://go.nature.com/41OhAgK

Closing rural post offices will do the same thing that closing rural schools has done: Empty out rural towns. Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity. It’s been the plan for decades.

I’m not surprised, but it doesn’t ease my anger, frustration, & disappointment as an alum & faculty member. Please miss me with any more talk of being the “leaders & best” moving forward. I’ve always been critical of this concept, but it rings especially hollow now. #AcademicSky

My university is accepting applications for the Visiting Researcher - Scholars at Risk Program, established to support scholars who are facing threats to their life, liberty or academic career, &/or have been forced to leave their academic position because of such threats. www.wlu.ca/academics/re...

In all seriousness, what is the plan for getting these apparently innocent young asylum seekers—dads, workers, dutifully checking in with US immigration—out of a foreign prison where they are facing torture and dehumanization while officials do Barbie poses in front of them?

Decided to speak out on the state of our union. Just published in the Philadelphia Inquirer eedition.inquirer.com/infinity/art...

To every one of my neighbors back in Boston, know this: You belong here. This is your home. Boston es tu hogar. Boston se lakay ou. 這是你的家. This is our city. We are the safest major city in the nation because we are safe for everyone. #Boston #Congress #CongressionalHearing #Immigration

The Walton Family Foundation has awarded Boston College a grant to advance its mission of formative education by transforming K-12 education nationwide. The initiative will develop innovative approaches to student engagement and teacher well-being. on.bc.edu/WaltonFoun...

After spending Friday finishing up reviews: why aren’t more journals assigning AI as 1 of the 3 reviewers? With it able to use curated knowledge (& detect stats errors etc.), is there a downside, if 1-2 humans are in the mix? You had me at “33% less time reviewing.” #giverobotsthenotsofunjobs

On Wednesday, memoirist and poet Javier Zamora visits the Heights for the Lowell Humanities lecture series. Learn More & Register to attend: on.bc.edu/LHS25_JZamora

Let the brain drain begin www.khrono.no/forventer-fo...

Truly one of the greats. He gave us the words and the permission to study inequality in a way that has shifted so many careers and in turn impacted so many lives. Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

For 2 years, I've worked with a bipartisan group of scholars on the "State of the Nation." We released our report today at Brookings. Big disconnect between the US economic performance and individual well-being. David Leonhardt's analysis in tomorrow's NYT. Check out the report at stateofnation.org

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

An employee working for an agency funded by federal grants working in HIV care just told me that their manager said the CDC website is expected to come down "in its entirey" and "to save what they might need." Targethiv.org, run by the Health Resources and Services Administration, is already down.

The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact support@osf.io if you need assistance

Just got a story approved to run on Monday on the crisis happening at the NSF. If you are an NSF-funded scientist and have been personally impacted by the funding pause this week, I'd love to hear from you. Reach me securely on Signal: 3162958947

Miles Corak talks with Steven Durlauf about inequality and mobility. Excellent exchange! @stone-lis.bsky.social @milescorak.com @durlauf.bsky.social 👇👇👇

Final reminder that I’m advertising for a postdoctoral research associate to help me with a project on eating disorders and control-seeking, using #ComputationalPsychiatry! Applications close on the 12th. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Does anyone know how to conduct a power analysis for a binary logistic regression with four factors? Neither G*Power or pwrss.shinyapps.io/index/ is able to do this. Please help!

I'm all for more work like this. My colleague, Jade Jenkins, has a similar, transparently reported analysis not finding much. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Also, for those interested, we reviewed the lit on these kinds of analyses a few years ago here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very cool two-stage RCT showing reduced fade-out of preK when larger number of peers in elementary school classrooms also got preK. (Mechanism analyses inconclusive) Curious what you think @drewhalbailey.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w33027

Please circulate: we have an open PhD-level (education, developmental psychology, sociology, economics, or other social science) research position in the Center for Thriving Children for someone cityconnects.applytojob.com/apply/eDFIzj...

Please repost! We are hiring an assistant professor (W1) of Educational Psychology. We are looking forward to working with you!! uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties...

Postdoc positions in math cognition & math education! The RISE Postdoctoral Training Program at UW-Madison seeks applicants interested in inclusive mathematics education and in ensuring greater participation in STEM by learners from diverse groups. More info in the flyer and via the QR code.

Study hard, Eagles 📚

Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation has sparked widespread discussion, but are the data as solid as they seem? Top expert Candice Odgers offers a critical analysis of Haidt’s claims. Dive into their debate here: www.techdirt.com/2024/10/11/j...

Does educating the whole child matter? Check out this new paper from our Center for Thriving Children that uses a lottery-based test of the impact of integrated school- and community-based supports on the achievement of children in high-poverty elementary schools journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....