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High-precision tracking of human foragers reveals adaptive social information use in the wild Foraging complexity and competitive social challenges are considered key drivers of human cognition. Yet, the decision-making mechanisms that underlie social foraging in the real world remain…

Math modeling of human & nonhuman foraging behavior has been going on for a while (see Ch. 7 of buff.ly/VFYzOfZ ). Now such modeling has been done w. competitive ice fishers in #Finland, helping to explain when they do & don't change where they fish on the ice. buff.ly/E16lQLf #psychology

Report: Remedial Enrollments Surged at UCSD Amid Shifting Placement Testing Conditions | Just Equations The release of a faculty report from the University of California, San Diego in November 2025 set off a firestorm of news coverage and op-eds about college-level math preparation. Much of the…

Huge congrats to @pamela.burdman.bsky.social for figuring out the increase in remedial #math placement at @ucsandiego.bsky.social, which had been attributed to #covid & more low-income students, coincided w. a new ban on calculator use in the placement test: buff.ly/K2clduc #AcademicSky #highered

The Urban/Rural Divide: Exploring Variations in Dual Enrollment Participation and Impacts by Locale This paper uses a propensity score weighting approach to explore how the impact of dual enrollment varies by locale (rural and urban/suburban settings); we then apply an established methodological ...

Students in rural settings seem to benefit more from dual enrollment (college courses taught to high school students) than do students in urban settings, possibly because the latter have more access to alternative types of advanced courses: buff.ly/wBS8eA3 #AcademicSky #highered

Expanding Access to Credit for Prior Learning for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Learners - Ithaka S+R Despite the growing adoption of Credit for Prior Learning in higher education, incarcerated and formerly incarcerated learners remain disconnected from the advantages CPL can offer. While recent…

CAEL (Council for Adult & Experiential Learning) has long sought to increase college students getting CPL(credit for prior learning)acquired in nontraditional settings. Now Ithaka S+R is investigating how to increase current & past incarcerated people's CPL: buff.ly/WWphSOt #AcademicSky #highered

The Fight Over Community College Bachelor’s Degrees Earning a four-year degree at a two-year institution is now possible in nearly half of all states—and others are exploring the option. But many universities are not happy about it.

An increasing number of states are permitting community colleges to offer bachelor's degrees, but many IHEs (public & private) in those states aren't happy about it. This piece details the struggles in some of those states. buff.ly/tVjrDi6 #AcademicSky #highered @sara.weissman.insidehighered.com

Time Is Not Really on My Side: How Two‐Year Transfer Student Graduation Timelines Affect Engagement in High‐Impact Practices Four-year university policies and practices typically promote a two-year normative graduation timeline for transfer students, but there is limited information about the ramifications of these…

Concerns about finishing their bachelor's within 2 yrs may inhibit vertical transfer students from participating in time-consuming high-impact practices like internships: buff.ly/bEWfstC But taking >2yrs to finish increases risk of nonacademic events interfering w. finishing. #AcademicSky #highered

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Some researchers believe that some people have very little, or no, experience of inner speech. This is called anendophasia, & its existence is controversial. But I know some people who I think would be good candidates for this diagnosis. buff.ly/mWpZ6F7 #psychology #AcademicSky #highered

Why does orange juice taste bad after you brush your teeth? There’s a scientific reason your OJ tastes funny after you brush your teeth

Have you noticed OJ tastes terrible if you drink it after brushing your teeth? Prof. Linda Bartoshuk: that's because "toothpaste contains a detergent that dissolves fat. & since your taste buds are partly made of fat, they are disrupted whenever you brush your teeth." buff.ly/cEMVbRB #psychology

California wants colleges to count work experience for credit. How’s it going? California community colleges can give credit for relevant work experience, but some students don’t know it’s an option.

In #California colleges are supposed to give credit for prior work experience, however communication and record-keeping problems are hindering the progress and monitoring of these efforts: buff.ly/c5G2otO #AcademicSky #highered

Many US community colleges want to offer bachelor's degrees. About half of the states currently allow this. An example of a community college that wants to offer these degrees: #Iowa Central Community College. Times-Republican 2/4/26. AcademicSky #highered

LEARN Commission CLR/LER, comprehensive learner record, learner education record, IMS Global, CLR Standard, digital credentials ecosystem

Let’s #TransformHigherEd with the recommendations from the #LEARNCommission, convened by AACRAO and Sova, with goal of ensuring that #highered students get ALL their learning evaluated fairly & counted towards their degrees at ALL IHEs. Download your copy of the report: buff.ly/gqeovXf #AcademicSky

Please register at buff.ly/dZICBqY for the 2/24/26, 2-3pm, free @insidehighered.com-sponsored webcast titled “Fixing the Credit Evaluation System: A Blueprint for the 21st Century Learner.” Panelists will be Carolyn Gentle-Genitty (Butler U), Melanie Gottlieb (AACRAO), Juana Sanchez (Sova), & me.

An Interim President for Every Institution (column) What if colleges and universities hired short-term leaders for a year or three to get the really hard stuff done?

See Doug Lederman's great piece on why many IHEs could use interim presidents: buff.ly/SFR3kUf Having supervised the evals of 20 CUNY colleges' presidents for 8 yrs, I completely agree that, for many reasons, many avoided necessary, but controversial, acts. #AcademicSky #highered buff.ly/QZo5PsV

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In this study of street-identified Black Americans, cannabis use decreased the increase in blood pressure due to severe exposure to violence, but it also decreased "emotional functioning (e.g., symptoms of anxiety and depression)." buff.ly/0lR2CPO #pot #marijuana #psychology #depression #anxiety

Gender Bias in Creativity: A Process Model for Understanding the Gender Gap in Creative Achievement - Christa L. Taylor, 2026 The gender gap in creative achievement, wherein women are underrepresented as high-achieving creators across domains, has far-reaching consequences for individu...

"Despite minimal differences between men and women in creative potential and ability", "women are underrepresented as high-achieving creators across domains." This article describes some of the reasons for these findings, developing a model to help explain them: buff.ly/g08PsPh #psychology

College admissions offices take on a new role: Coaxing accepted students to show up As enrollment falls and Americans increasingly question the returns on a college education, once intimidating admissions offices are getting involved in making sure accepted students have what they…

It isn't just newly admitted freshmen that IHEs have to worry about not actually enrolling (summer melt; buff.ly/hJuKiuJ), this also happens with new transfer students--students who are admitted to transfer but enroll nowhere (what we call transfer melt, buff.ly/PpWj7gR ). #AcademicSky #highered

Barbershop Builds Community for Black Male Students LaGuardia Community College’s biweekly barbershop sessions offer connection, mentorship and candid conversations about life as a young Black man.

Yesterday I posted about LaGuardia Community College (@laguardiacc.bsky.social), CUNY's (@cuny.edu) new grant related to workforce Pell grants. This IHE is also running a free barbershop for Black male students that fosters conversation and community: buff.ly/HmPxh1H #AcademicSky #highered

4-Year Institutions Eye Programs Eligible for Workforce Pell Four-year colleges and universities won nearly half of the FIPSE grants awarded for short-term programs eligible for Workforce Pell, surprising some community college leaders who have spent decades…

LaGuardia Community College (@laguardiacc.bsky.social), CUNY (@cuny.edu), has been awarded a $2M FIPSE grant for short-term programs eligible for Workforce Pell in partnership w., eg, nonprofit Per Scholas (buff.ly/ssrrDYM ): buff.ly/WPThbW2 @saraweissman.insidehighered.com #AcademicSky #highered

Dual Enrollment Is a School Choice Option People Don’t Talk About — but Should Manno: Nearly 20% of community college students are high schoolers. This is not a boutique program. It's a system that can quickly expand opportunity

"National School Choice Week typically highlights the options available to families when selecting a school....But there’s another form of choice that rarely gets the spotlight. It’s a choice about....dual enrollment" (HS students taking college courses) buff.ly/sGeZ449 #AcademicSky #highered

Boston College has an embedded, residential assoc-degree program for students w. financial need. Qualified graduates transfer seamlessly to its bach's degrees. buff.ly/7oxRe2y @bostoncollege.bsky.social Butler University has a similar program. @butleru.bsky.social #AcademicSky #highered

Dogs with a large vocabulary of object labels learn new labels by overhearing like 1.5-year-old infants Children as young as 18 months can acquire novel words by overhearing third-party interactions. Demonstrating similar learning processes in nonhuman species would indicate that the social-cognitive…

Some #dogs are able to learn the meaning of a great many words ("Gifted Word Learner" dogs). It turns out that these dogs can learn words just by hearing people use them, without those words being directed at the dogs, & do so at least as well as 18-month-old children: buff.ly/k4LHqnh #psychology

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How is it that challenging events in your environment can cause your physiology to demonstrate signs of stress? Well, this chain of action may involve the mitochondria in your cells: shttps://buff.ly/y1MsGqR #psychology #AcademicSky #highered

Common App research: Financially independent transfer students constitute a growing % of the total transfer pop. & they're more likely to be trying to transfer many credits, financially challenged, & 1st generation college than are other transfer students. buff.ly/PMmugIk #AcademicSky #highered

Getting an associate degree before transfer isn’t always helpful Vertical transfer students remain unguided in how best to achieve the degree outcomes they seek. There are better approaches, including a Transfer Scorecard.

Our new #BeyondTransfer @insidehighered.com column introduces the TRANSFER SCORECARD, which uses stats to find out which of 100s of variables are truly associated w. vertical transfer success. E.g. getting an AAS degree 1st hurts success. #AcademicSky #highered buff.ly/E2mgRL0 @ithakasr.bsky.social

It's unfortunate that a #Maryland study could only look at excess credits at graduation to estimate negative effects of transfer on credits (buff.ly/QjG5bOl ); other more detailed approaches show excess credits can exist for reasons other than transfer: buff.ly/iJgYxqU #AcademicSky #highered

Bachelor’s degrees at community colleges: Lawmakers say yes, UC and CSU say slow down California community colleges want to offer more bachelor’s degrees but UC and Cal State say that infringes on their role

Quote of the week: "“I have, from the beginning, been opposed to community colleges offering baccalaureate degrees...I think it is a mistake" Eloy Ortiz Oakley, former Chancellor of the CA Community Colleges. buff.ly/DmVCKWX @mzinshteyn.bsky.social #AcademicSky #highered @collegefutures.bsky.social

The Strong Start to Finish organization has revealed their updated Core Principles & they're great. They include placing all new college students into college-level #Math & English courses by default while providing them w. any corequisite support they need: buff.ly/tz5H3pX #AcademicSky #highered

Roots of milk drinking revealed by South Asian genomes Natural selection was at work—but only in populations with no alternative to dairy

Apparently, there's more than 1 way that the gene spreads for being able to digest #milk lactose into adulthood. It can be by natural selection (those w. the gene are more likely to survive/reproduce), or just by migration of those w. the gene into another area: buff.ly/n6XULE6 #AcademicSky #food

The 1884 Cannibalism-at-Sea Case That Still Has Harvard Talking | Harvard Magazine The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens changed the course of legal history. Here’s why it’s been fodder for countless classroom debates.

If 4 people are starving on a stranded lifeboat, is it ok for 3 of them to kill & eat the 4th? This question, based on a real case (the cabin boy was killed), has intrigued students for decades. buff.ly/ql1CoHh For info. on the #psychology of cannibalism see ch. 15 of buff.ly/0NDio5k #AcademicSky

Higher Ed Leaders Unite to Strengthen Community College Transfer Pathways As the spring semester began at Northern Essex Community College, three higher education leaders came together to ensure those students have an easier time making their next school enrollment.…

Northern Essex Community College & U Mass Lowell(UML) have a joint admissions program that gives qualified vertical transfer students priority registration at UML & exempts them from UML's core curriculum: buff.ly/I2z9OB4 This is a great strategy for well-trod transfer paths. #AcademicSky #highered