Rob Nash

What? Just… what?? Happy birthday and all, Niamh, but the number on that cake just isn’t plausible. I’ll have none of it (but I will have some cake please) 🎂

Public vastly overestimate level of ‘graduate regret’, poll finds New research highlights misconceptions about higher education, with people more positive about universities than is commonly realised

Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research. @helenpacker.bsky.social reports
#academicsky #edusky

Thanks so much for a fabulous #sarmac2025, @ciaragreene.bsky.social @gillian-murphy.bsky.social! Many details made it such a joyess Irish-tinted celebration of the sarmac community. You're legends & we're immensely grateful ❤️ And I'm wildly proud of this lot too! (Thxs for putting up with me x)

The Teaching About Research in Memory & Cognition #sarmac2025 @officialsarmac.bsky.social was full of good examples of how to get students to engage E-portfolios puzzle boxes, using mobile phone tech learning to learn, to public science communication. Thanks for organising @drrobnash.bsky.social‬

Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation

Good reporting on this aspect of the attacks on science — how the Trump administration is cutting research on mis and disinformation.

Shout out to @lkfazio.bsky.social for taking a public stand (and being the lead photo). 1/2

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

New book written by teachers for teachers (who happen to also be cognitive experts in learning)!

My chapter interleaving is probably one of my favorite things that I've written. I'm so excited about this book. The chapters are all digestible and concrete without sacrificing deeper understanding.

Research Fellow, National Institute of Teaching In this role you will work in the NIoT’s research team making a tangible and immediate impact on teaching practices.

Psychology and education-minded people in the UK!

We're hiring a Research Fellow to join my team at the NIoT. Looking for PhD grads with strong quant skills 📈, and an appetite for doing research with real impact for schools, teachers, and children 📚🧑🏽‍🏫. Deadline April 20.
niot.org.uk/careers/rese...

Research Fellow, National Institute of Teaching In this role you will work in the NIoT’s research team making a tangible and immediate impact on teaching practices.

Psychology and education-minded people in the UK!

We're hiring a Research Fellow to join my team at the NIoT. Looking for PhD grads with strong quant skills 📈, and an appetite for doing research with real impact for schools, teachers, and children 📚🧑🏽‍🏫. Deadline April 20.
niot.org.uk/careers/rese...

Repetition increases the believability of information. Despite the widespread (harmful) implications and strategic use of this truth-by-repetition effect (TBRE), little is known about whether the effect is uniform across individuals. Across two longitudinal experiments (N1 = 113; N2 = 430), each consisting of five sessions spanning over 33 days, we collected 108,600 truth judgments. Results showed a trait-like TBRE: We found substantial individual differences in the TBRE, which were reliable and stable over time. The effect varied from being practically absent to being large, and we found no evidence for stable reversals; repetition did not meaningfully decrease believability among some individuals. Differences in the TBRE were modestly predicted by people’s Preference for Fluency. The results challenge the idea of a universal TBRE; Repetition increases the believability of information – but not for everyone, and more so for some than others.

The Truth by Repetition Effect

New research finds the repetition of statements makes them more believable, *but only for certain people.*

Preprint: osf.io/aeukr_v1

With BSky author: @bwiernik.bsky.social

There’s a few chapters by Roddy Roediger and colleagues along these lines, but ‘Roediger, Zaromb, & Lin (2017). A typology of memory terms’ might be the kind of thing you’re looking for? psychnet.wustl.edu/memory/wp-co... (see also the references by Tulving cited in there)

Latest applications data shows that teacher training recruitment in England has not improved much since last year, although there are very tentative signs it may be picking up a little

Headlines so far this cycle:
- secondary up 9%
- primary down 2%

A thread with some top lines 👇

No less than you deserve, Dr G! So pleased for you 🥰🥰

Looking forward to chairing this teaching symposium at @sarmac2025.bsky.social - hope to receive lots of interesting applications! #PsychSciSky #CogPsy

Interesting point!

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Students whose universities demand quicker feedback-turnaround by staff are barely (if any) more satisfied with their feedback. Who would guess it? My new paper 🙃 doi.org/10.1080/0260...

Looking forward to chairing this teaching symposium at @sarmac2025.bsky.social - hope to receive lots of interesting applications! #PsychSciSky #CogPsy

Are your biases getting in the way of engaging with education research? Many describe themselves as evidence-informed educators, says Christian Bokhove, but apply different standards to the findings they actually like

Teachers who want to be truly ‘evidence-informed’ need to treat all research equally, avoiding bias in favour of the studies that they like, says @cbokhove.bsky.social

🚨Out in Applied Cognitive Psychology🚨
The False Balance Effect: Exploring Partition Dependence as a Potential Explanation.
A new empirical study by Tianshuang Han, Dr. Brent Snook, & Dr. Martin V. Day examined a psychological mechanism underlying "bothsidesism". (1/n)

doi.org/10.1002/acp....

As students become more ‘distant’, can feedback still hit the mark? Whether they are behind a computer screen or behind bars, all students need support with making effective use of feedback – whether or not the process is a two-way street

How do we continue to make feedback effective as students increasingly move away from studying on campus, with fewer opportunities for dialogue with lecturers (& other students)? @drrobnash.bsky.social & I ponder this question @timeshighered.bsky.social:

www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/stude...

Education must not adopt a 'startup mentality' But the sector can move faster from idea to implementation with due care

schoolsweek.co.uk/what-schools...

The Psychology of Effective Studying: How to Succeed in Your Degree The Psychology of Effective Studying: How to Succeed in Your Degree

Paul Penn's book "The Psychology of Effective Studying" is a very good one imo www.amazon.com/Psychology-E... 😀

You’re so kind, @drckt.bsky.social! Means all the more from such an impactful teacher as yourself ☺️

Diversity in Education Fund Launch: Mission 44 announces first two grants to increase diversity in teaching

There are so many barriers to ethnic diversity and representation in teaching, and we need to tackle them all. I’m so proud to have played a role in securing the funding for this exciting new collaboration, and really looking forward to the positive impact it will create
niot.org.uk/news-events/...

Thanks Carolina! Our approach of having advisory groups for key projects is quite new to me, but so worthwhile and important. So glad to have your involvement in this one!

Cat under a Christmas tree

Now that my Twitter profile is happily and irrevocably deleted, I keep thinking that some day I should actually say something here. That day is not today. But as a placeholder here’s an elderly cat under the Xmas tree 🌲 Hi everyone 😊👍

😲 What a tremendous positive impact you've had during your tenure as Editor, Jeff: not just for this journal, but for the rigour of the discipline as a whole and how it can benefit real learners and teachers. You're a role model! Very best of luck with what comes next for you 😀

Tomorrow is the last day to submit your abstract to SARMAC. Don't miss it! www.sarmac2025.org/submissions

Congratulations, Carolina! You’ve done a huge amount to deserve this!

Congratulations Annelies! This is great news both for you and for SARMAC 😊😊