Dr. Karenna Malavanti

Dr. Karenna Malavanti

@kmalavanti.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer of Psychology & Neuroscience | #firstgen | Scholarly Teacher| Experimental Cognitive Psychologist | Latina in STEM | #teachpsych | Views are my own

282 Followers 722 Following 17 Posts Joined Nov 2024
6 days ago
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Excited to be an inaugural A&S Outstanding Faculty Award winner in the area of Teaching (NTT, Science). I’m in good company: look at my amazing colleagues who were recognized in several categories! #womeninSTEM #baylorWISE

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2 weeks ago
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The STP MidCareer webinar series continues w/ Jamie McMinn discussing his career path as guided by assessment and Karenna Malavanti presenting on reducing burnout through a teaching reset.

Register for one or both events & be sure to tell your mid-career friends: teachpsych.org/MCPMCWebinar...

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1 week ago

This NSF update is depressing!

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1 month ago
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It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:

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2 months ago
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CFA: STP's Annual Conference on Teaching (ACT) Steering Committee is seeking 2 new members to join existing the team. Committee members serve 3-year terms. New members will begin their term on 4/1/26 in preparation for ACT 2026 in St. Louis.

For more information: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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3 months ago
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The Addressing Academic Burnout taskforce created this handout to offer research-informed strategies to prevent and mitigate burnout, foster resilience, and build supportive communities for faculty, staff, and administrators.-STP President Stephanie Afful
https://teachpsych.org/2025burnouttaskforce

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3 months ago
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Honored to have been a panelist at @sfn.org #Neuroscience2025 professional development workshop “Elevating Pedagogy: Teaching-Focused Career Paths at Research-Intensive Universities.” The session was well-attended, and we could tell these are much needed conversations. Tinyurl.com/SFN2025-EP

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5 months ago
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STP Committee on Teaching Awards congratulates the outstanding teachers of psychology who are recipients of this year’s awards!

Please read more about each of our outstanding teachers on our website: teachpsych.org/members/awards

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9 months ago

Hope to see you at ACT 2025! #teachpsychsky

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10 months ago
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Need help course prepping?

The STP Early Career Psychology (ECP) Committee is excited to host this year’s Teaching Hackathon

📆Friday, July 25th
⏰12:30–2:30pm EST | 11:30am – 1:30pm CST | 9:30 – 11:30am PST
📍 On Zoom – free to attend!

Sign up by 6/30: shorturl.at/Hn6HR

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10 months ago
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🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences.

We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

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11 months ago
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Baylor Senior Lecturers: Save the Date! BWC will host 2 working group sessions as senior lecturers assemble materials for their promotion to Teaching Professor. Participants can choose either session to attend, and you may attend both if your schedule allows. The ATL will provide support!

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11 months ago
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Essay | The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, he emailed friends a message: He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland. Some are still struggling with his choice.

A lot to reflect on in this must-read essay by Jason Zweig about the surprising (or not surprising) death of Daniel Kahneman.

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1 year ago
Karenna Malavanti

Excited to share a recent Baylor Connections podcast episode where I chat about my role as Faculty-in-Residence in the Science & Health LLC. Baylor was again recognized by U.S. News as a Top 10 National University for Best Learning Communities.
connections.web.baylor.edu/season-8/epi...

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1 year ago
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STP's Annual Conference on Teaching, October 16-18, 2025, Minneapolis, MN. *The submission window will close on Thursday, May 1st. Determinations will be made by the end of June. About: STP's Annual Conference on Teaching (ACT) 2025 will be held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel i...

STP's Annual Conference on Teaching (ACT) will take place in Minneapolis, MN October 16-18, 2025. The submission window for ACT 2025 is now open! Please submit your proposals by heading to bit.ly/ACTproposals2025. The submission window will close on May 1st. Registration for ACT will open in June.

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1 year ago
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Outspoken Pedagogy: A Technique for Our Times “Staying out of things and letting it all go by” may not be the best strategy for educators in these dark times.

It is reassuring to see so many friends and colleagues share objective takes on current affairs. This piece is a suggested pathway not easy or comfortable (or even suggested) for all, but I hope it empowers more. www.teachingprofessor.com/topics/teach... [Available via university accounts.

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1 year ago
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Frontiers | Trajectories of working memory and decision making abilities along juvenile development in mice

Trajectories of working memory and decision making abilities along juvenile development in mice
www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
#neuroscience

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1 year ago
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Like podcasts? Here is some easy listening. Join John Dunlosky and me chatting about student learning.
open.spotify.com/episode/0UQq...
We explore why strong research makes for better teaching, how to identify the most effective study strategies, and what it really takes to improve student success.

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1 year ago
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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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1 year ago

All are welcome 🥰

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1 year ago
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BAYLOR WOMEN'S
COLLOQUIUM PRESENTS'
ADVANCING WOMEN FACULTY: PREPARING PROMOTION
MATERIALS FOR THE TEACHING PROFESSOR RANK
Join us for two working group sessions on Monday March 17, 2025 as senior lecturers assemble materials for promotion to the newly created rank of Teaching Professor.
Session 1 will be held from 10AM-12PM in Moody 104; Session 2 will be held from 3PM-5PM in Schumacher Flex Commons.
Senior lecturers are asked to bring their preliminary materials for their promotion packet. The ATL will join us and provide support, and several promoted full professor faculty will be in attendance.

Senior Lecturers, Save the Date! BWC will host 2 working group sessions as senior lecturers assemble materials for their promotion to Teaching Professor. Participants can choose either session to attend, and you may attend both if your schedule allows. The ATL will provide support!

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1 year ago

STP friends! Please follow the Society’s new BlueSky account @teachpsych.bsky.social

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1 year ago
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‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.

Please read this and hear their stories! Then do what you can to help stop this.

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/a-gu...

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1 year ago

Agreed 100%!

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1 year ago

As I say every year on Women In Science Day:

There are unfathomably many ways to be a woman.
There are unfathomably many ways to be a scientist.

Attacks on women and attacks on science go together, and it takes strength across the spectra of gender and science to stop them from breaking us down.

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1 year ago
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Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

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1 year ago

Lots of useful info in this thread if you are backing up public data (whether at OSF or elsewhere)

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1 year ago
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𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀
The insula is the place of magic in the brain... (one of them at least)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(h/t @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social )
#neuroskyence

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1 year ago

An interesting collection of articles on working memory and executive functions, published in the Journal of Cognition (all open access). You can see the article list below, including the new introductory essay by the editors.

journalofcognition.org/collections/...

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