Ian Thacker

Thanks, Norma! It all started with my introduction to ed research courses in the MACSME program with you as my instructor :) Hope you are doing well!

Five UTSA faculty members honored for research achievements

Honored to receive the UTSA Research Achievement Award. It’s wild to be listed among faculty who are discovering new planets and developing new ways to treat brain diseases. 💙🧡
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@utsaroadrunners.bsky.social

YouTube video by Science of Teaching Math What Great Teachers Can Do About Bias

We just released a new video on how teacher stereotypes and expectations can impact a student’s math placement and feedback–and what teachers can do about it! Check it out below and let us know what you can do about bias in your classroom.

Watch now: youtu.be/g_sYNXvN2gQ

Science gave you the internet, cures for diseases, ozempic, and your IPHONE. Maybe instead of cutting funding, just thank a scientist! @StandUpForScience

Postdoctoral Scholar-Research Associate at USC Learn more about applying for Postdoctoral Scholar-Research Associate at USC

Please share! We're seeking scholars to help us design AI-supported learning activities for teachers, enhancing their knowledge for teaching numbers, operations, & proportionality. Join us in advancing math education!

#MathEd #AI #Postdoc #Education

Apply here! usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Predicting there will be lots more "There is a shortage of top notch ____" tweets from this walking crypto-scam.

UTSA students search soil for new antibiotics in innovative STEM project

Finally, some decent news. Check out this UTSA Today article and video showing Dr. Sara Shields-Menard in action helping undergraduates at UTSA tackle the growing antibiotic resistance crisis as part of our USDA NIFA grant work. www.utsa.edu/today/2025/0... #NIFAimpacts #STEMEducation #DataScience

A nice platform for those looking to fight off despair with a quick hit of agency.

This is helpful! Now asking myself where I put the title to my house. So happy you are safe 🙏.

From Work to Proof of Work: Meaning and Value after Blockchain | Critical Inquiry: Vol 48, No 2 Abstract The price of Bitcoin is once more soaring. From early October 2020 to early January 2021, the price of a single Bitcoin token went from roughly $10,000 to nearly $65,000, reinspiring the hope...

Now that Bitcoin has broken 100k it's worth remembering that the monstrous global resource destroying system on which it's based is not an outlier of the digital economy but an expression of its core logic—one that thrives on maximizing inefficiency www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Looking for a leadership position in an energetic & productive School of Education where the faculty, staff, and students are working hard to make substantive, positive impacts in the community & the world? Then please consider applying for our Dean position!
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Kendrick Lamar beat Drake in a rap battle so thoroughly that Drake called the police.

I will never stop laughing about this!

Not sure if I did this right or not, but here are scholars who study motivation in educational settings, mostly affiliated with @aera-motsig.bsky.social and @aeraedresearch.bsky.social

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If you've found yourself making impassioned arguments like "There's no evidence for learning styles and there are better ways to differentiate" or "Learning is more than just a cognitive process" then you may be Learning Scholar! Want to be added to this starter pack? Contact me! go.bsky.app/CBPm1dV

Transgender Adolescent School Climate, Mental Health, and Adult Social Support This cross-sectional study describes gender differences in adolescent school climate, health, and social supports, including who depressed or anxious youth seek help from.

This paper by @drmcquillan.bsky.social and @balebo.bsky.social and others, presented at #UCEA24, amplified both the mental health struggles of trans and questioning youth and also how networks of adults in schools are able to uplift and support them. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

An institution-level analysis of gender gaps in STEM over time Gender gaps in engineering and computer science narrow at math-selective schools and widen in others

🔬 Major new findings on STEM gender gaps: Looking across institutions over time, physics, engineering & computer science (PECS) show stark divides—gaps are closing at selective colleges but widening elsewhere. w/ @joalkhafajiking.bsky.social [<--🌟 on the job market 😉] www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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(1/x) If you are concerned about the democratic backsliding being seen around the world, then I urge you to read this new article in one of the top journals in my field: Review of Educational Research journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

US math teachers view student performance differently based on race and gender Researchers asked math teachers why certain groups do better at math than others. The teachers had different answers for different groups.

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This is a collaboration with STEM faculty at UTSA, Dr. Rebecca Schroeder and Dr. Sara Shields-Menard, to develop interdisciplinary online learning environments using place-based soil data to boost learning & motivation among diverse groups of undergrads. Rock and roll!

Excited to announce that my team has been awarded a USDA NIFA HSI grant: "PBS-DIRT Don't Hurt: Place-Based Soil Data Interpretation and Research in Texas..." for $396k! 🌱📊 #NIFAimpacts #STEMEducation #DataScience

Thanks for the kind words! To answer your question, the data visualizations and text presented students with point estimates (e.g. means and percentages). I haven’t considered integrating things like confidence intervals into the visualization yet, but that is a great idea!

Climate change is easier to study when it’s presented as a game Students found the topic of climate change less boring when they studied it using a numbers estimation game.

Check out my research featured in @us.theconversation.com:
"Climate change is easier to study when it’s presented as a game." theconversation.com/climate-chan...

Supporting secondary students’ climate change learning and motivation using novel data and data visualizations National science standards at the secondary level currently recommend that students make sense of data constituting evidence of human-induced climate …

Here to recycle a few old tweets. Starting with this:

Check out my recent publication in CEP, "Supporting secondary students’ climate change learning and motivation using novel data and data visualizations" sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please add me as well! This is so useful, thanks for giving me the push I needed to start turning my back on X, that icky icky place.