Alex Browman
Assistant Professor of Psychology at College of the Holy Cross. I study how students, teachers, and the public think about education and the implications for improving education. Lab: alexbrowman.com
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanLast term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanAnd the results are in! After carefully reviewing the results of a national poll the Board of Directors of the Society for Canadian English (SCE) has determined that this year’s Canadian Word of the Year (CWOTY), the first of its kind, will be “maplewashing.”
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanTIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
- Like, what are we doing?
- "Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
- Reposted by Alex Browman🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
- I’m looking for a good article about people’s personal experiences deeply embracing and then eventually retreating from conspiracy theories. Suggestions?
- Reposted by Alex Browmani’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years
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- Reposted by Alex BrowmanWhenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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- Reposted by Alex Browman“When Dr. Andrew Boozary and his team at Toronto's University Health Network looked deeper into the issue, they discovered that about 100 patients accounted for more than 4,500 emergency department visits in one year.” /End www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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- Reposted by Alex BrowmanJane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist best known for her work studying the behavior of chimpanzees, died Wednesday, Oct. 1. She was 91.
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- One week left (Sept. 15) to apply for our positions in Cognitive Psychology and Developmental Psychology. Please share widely, and happy to answer questions!
- The College of the Holy Cross is hiring for 2 tenure-track psychology positions: 1 in Cognitive Psychology (specifically, higher-order cognition) and 1 in Developmental Psychology. Please share widely! Developmental job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171704 Cognitive job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171698
- Reposted by Alex Browmanthis iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanTurn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works. tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
- The College of the Holy Cross is hiring for 2 tenure-track psychology positions: 1 in Cognitive Psychology (specifically, higher-order cognition) and 1 in Developmental Psychology. Please share widely! Developmental job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171704 Cognitive job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171698
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanIf you are making a syllabus at the start of this semester, you might find the generic syllabus make a helpful tool (I did not make this, I just use it every semester) wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanThrilled to share our new @NatureComms paper: "Exploration is associated with socioeconomic disparities in learning and academic achievement in adolescence." www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/7
- Reposted by Alex Browmanthese are forks
- Thanks to @equityaccelerator.bsky.social for covering my new paper on belonging in school! The paper (open-access!): link.springer.com/article/10.1... And a summary: bsky.app/profile/alex...)
- New research identifies four core elements of student belonging at college open.substack.com/pub/theequit...
- New (and first solo) publication on belonging in school, which I'm presenting at AERA today (April 24 @ 5:25 in Bluebird Ballroom Room 3C). Here's the open-access link, and a very quick summary: What do researchers vs. students really mean when we say “belonging”? link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- I argue that historically, educational and social psychology have largely equated belonging with social connectedness. Social connectedness is, of course, essential for belonging.
- But, I show that when we examine how students themselves describe their experiences of belonging in school, they describe a lot more than just their sense of social connection to others (their sense of social fit in school).
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View full threadThis and many other exciting perspectives on belonging in school at our AERA session, so please come and see us!
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanSocial psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks. now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanAERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanAERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanIf you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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- I told myself I couldn’t open this new bottle I’ve been wanting to try until a pressing R&R was finished and back with the journal. Well, it’s done! (And the bottle’s pretty good!)
- This is wonderful
- Thrilled to see our Handbook of Educational Psychology chapter on Motivation in print!
- My dog went to the vet for a normal check up. He's really anxious, so he needs calming meds before we can take him. They work, but they also... impair his judgment and coordination a bit...
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanAnyone out there experimenting with Draftback to monitor student writing processes? It's a Google Chrome extension that provides a more detailed view into revision history than Google Docs built-in revision history. youtube.com/watch?v=rRFmGI3bYWs
- Claimed off of waivers because of a YouTube video, and went on to become a Habs favorite. What a story. Happy retirement to Paul Byron. www.nhl.com/canadiens/ne...
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanI did not read Hanania’s book but I’m not surprised it’s a bunch of neo Nazi bullshit. Some very rich and powerful people endorsed this www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... e
- Thanks, you've been really helpful...
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- Reposted by Alex BrowmanPlease read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.
- Post a picture of the very first video game you remember playing
- Reposted by Alex Browman"Research show[s] that U.S. police spend much of their time conducting racially biased stops & searches of minority drivers, often w/o reasonable suspicion, rather than “fighting crime.”..The NYT reviewed national dispatch data & found that just 4% of officers’ time is devoted to violent crime."
- 🚨 NEW PREPRINT! I was asked to write (for non-psych audience) how psych can explain what prevents productive conversations btwn ppl with differing beliefs + how to promote such convos (where realistic). This is the result; would love feedback! #psychscisky #socialpsyc #academicsky psyarxiv.com/y48ea
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanAbsolutely terrible news. Last year there was a total breeding failure at 4 of 5 studied emperor penguin colonies due to the breakup of sea-ice. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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- Reposted by Alex BrowmanThis was the front page of The Daily Tar Heel following the active shooter lockdown at UNC. Powerful. We don’t have to live like this.
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanWhile "parental rights" is an appealing and seemingly democratic framework, it misrepresents how small but highly motivated citizens can hijack administrative processes in ways that disempowers the majority as well as educational professionals.
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- Reposted by Alex BrowmanBREAKING: Iowa educators are turning to ChatGPT to help decide which titles should be removed from their school library shelves. 🧪 popsci.com/technology/iowa-cha…
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- Reposted by Alex BrowmanHUGE: "DeSantis has rendered 3.3 million Floridians without their elected choice of prosecutor. That means that more than 15% of the people of the state of Florida have had one of their elections nullified unilaterally by the governor." New, at Law Dork:
- Reposted by Alex BrowmanRichard Hanania’s view of America versus America. But I am assured by Serious Thinkers that he’s a moderate, thoughtful, important voice, and it’s so crucial to take him seriously. So very Serious, such Thinkers, every one.
- Real-world example of why learning research methods is important: apparently Clarence Thomas doesn't understand what a meta-analysis is (from his anti race-conscious admissions concurrence)
