Tomo Nagashima

In this School's In podcast episode, I discuss the intersections of AI, writing, and critical thinking, and reflect on the central role of HCI in designing purpose-built educational tools! Link below:

Second and final deadline ISLS2026 extension announcement!! ISLS2026 submissions (all ICLS & CSCL formats) now due October 20, 2025, 11:59 PM AOE, in recognition of ongoing academic and personal challenges. See call for proposals for each format at 2026.isls.org

We've recently concluded a classroom study in Japan on our "Mindful Math" Tutor, an LLM-embedded ITS that uses mindful language and messages to guide students learn algebra while calming down their math anxiety. If interested in testing/using/collaborating let me know! tomonag.org/mindfulmath/

The submission deadline for the 2026 ISLS Annual Meeting, covering all ICLS and CSCL formats, has been extended. We recognize the significant academic and personal challenges that many are currently facing. We therefore extend the deadline for submissions to October 13, 2025 11:59PM AOE

What will future conferencing look like? Find out by submitting to #ISLS26! ISLS Annual Meetings feature cutting edge in-person and virtual (accommodation) designs. Our hybrid designs are facilitated to ensure smooth interaction across modalities. Check us out! 2026.isls.org

Submit to #ISLS26 in Irvine! Can’t travel due to disability, caregiving duties, or visa challenges? No problem! ISLS has an easy, quick accommodations process for scholars to present their work virtually! See a previous info page: 2024.isls.org/isls-2024-re...

Hey fellow disabled scholars! The ISLS accommodations process is SUPER EASY. As someone who was BEEN THROUGH IT with invasive processes, this is not that. If you have concerns, please reach out!! ISLS is making sure that remote presenters are deeply integrated in conference activity! Don't miss out!

Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....

I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share:
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Our new piece in JLS! If you don't yet know much about our postdoc Echo's work, this is a great opportunity to learn about how awesome she is and her work is! 😊

🚨Job Alert
W2 (TT W3) Professorship in Computer Science "AI for People & Society"
@saarland-informatics-campus.de/@uni-saarland.de is looking to appoint an outstanding individual in the field of AI for people and society who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:

The ISLS 2026 First Call for Papers has been sent! The paper submission deadline is October 5, 2025, and the pre-conference event submission deadline is November 15, 2025. Check your inboxes for more information!

Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

1/ I'm feeling real pain at the cuts to Indiana public universities, especially IU, especially cogsci. These are some of the biggest brains in cogsci and edupsych in the world, but why do *I* care? I'll tell you what they've done *for me, personally*. ↵
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Don't miss! A discussion on LEARNING & Design, as part of our
@cogscisociety.bsky.social
Minds in the Making workshop ft. Yasmin Kafai, Vanessa Bermudez, & @togelius.bsky.social!

Wednesday July 16th, 12pm-1pm PT. Register here: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Photo: Prof. Dr. Tomohiro Nagashima

👏 Congrats to Prof. Dr. @tomonag.bsky.social for being appointed a Henriette Herz Scout by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation!

He can now nominate three international researchers for the Humboldt Fellowship to join his research group. Maybe it's your turn? 👀

Apply here: sic.link/humboldtfellow

Last chance to register for the Tübingen pre- #cogsci2025 workshop. Register by Jul 1st 👉 forms.gle/v6VtEE6UqYw5... to give a talk, present a poster, or just check out great science and a free lunch (generously provided by @ml4science.bsky.social). Accepted Cogsci paper *not required*. Pls. share 🙏

🚨Hiring for a postdoc in HCI, LS, & EdPsych!🚨 Looking for a postdoc to join my lab tomonag.org as a Humboldt Research Fellow (www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/spo...). This fellowship is unique and comes with many benefits. Please see more details and apply by July 25! tomonag.org/wp-content/u...

Existing virtual agents are either teacher agents or "good" learner agents who follow your instruction. What if agents make mistakes? What about dishonest agents? Excited to share my student's @acm-idc.bsky.social work on codesigning trustworthy agents w/ Armenian(!) kids dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀
I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales
👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html
👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

Super stoked for our Minds in the Making workshop at @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025! If you are at all interested in the intersection between cognitive science and design, you won’t want to miss it!! 🧠🛠️

Title slide: Processing Trans Languaging - Vagrant Gautam (they/xe), Saarland University, with a very brightly patterned background featuring colourful people and math symbols.

Come to my keynote tomorrow at the first official @queerinai.com workshop at #NAACL2025 to hear about how trans languaging is complex and cool, and how this makes it extra difficult to process computationally. I will have SO many juicy examples!

A cornerstone of adaptivity – A meta-analysis of the expertise reversal effect Different learners thrive under different instructional conditions, thus requiring adaptivity. Such differential effects became known as aptitude-trea…

A core assumption of adaptive/personalized education is that different learners thrive under different instructional conditions. Leo Tetzlaff examined the expertise-reversal effect and found some support for this, but it's complicated (asymmetry, moderators) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations Shamya! :)

If you are a science teacher in the US, please consider participating in our study!! Details below:

Our 5yo didn't like ice cream, bread, and yogurt in Japan at all 😅 I understand they are much better in DE

Back to work after 2 weeks of holidays and work trips in Japan 🇯🇵 - it was the first time since we moved to Germany. The kids enjoyed the "new" culture, but then we all got flu during the stay 🤒...

Screenshot of an article in the Journal of Educational Psychology entitled "Leveraging Learning Theory and Analytics to Produce Grounded, Innovative, Data-Driven, Equitable Improvements to Teaching and Learning"

If you care about learning, the theories that describe it, and how to improve and apply those theories to educational contexts, then you need to read this by @mattbernacki.bsky.social article! (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Info about the training program, which is also at risepostdoc.wcer.wisc.edu

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.

PhD Position in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at Trier University The Learning Brain Lab located at the University of Trier (Prof. Dr. Yana Fandakova) is inviting applications for a PhD position (E 13 TV-L, 75 %) in the DFG-funded project „How curiosity enhances lea...

Interested in curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence? Come work with us at the University of Trier - we have an open PhD position together with @mjgruber.bsky.social (Cardiff, UK) and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Bordeaux, France). Please repost!
#DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

"This quantitative review of nearly 100 studies shows that, by age 6, children already think that boys are better than girls at computer science and engineering..." (1/3) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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