Alex Browman

Toronto ER costs, visits by frequent patients reduced with new housing model | CBC News The Dunn House, a long-term housing project with easy access to healthcare, is helping 48 of Toronto's most-frequent visitors to the ER. The program has greatly reduced the number of hospital visits a...

“When Dr. Andrew Boozary and his team at Toronto's University Health Network looked deeper into the issue, they discovered that about 100 patients accounted for more than 4,500 emergency department visits in one year.”

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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Jane Goodall, Trailblazing Primatologist and Environmental Activist, Dead at 91 Jane Goodall, the trailblazing primatologist best known for her work studying the behavior of chimpanzees, has died at the age of 91.

Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist best known for her work studying the behavior of chimpanzees, died Wednesday, Oct. 1. She was 91.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Wow www.bbc.com/news/article...

One week left (Sept. 15) to apply for our positions in Cognitive Psychology and Developmental Psychology. Please share widely, and happy to answer questions!

I haven't used it myself, but you might want to check out Experience Sampler, made by @spicythai.bsky.social and @page-gould.bsky.social www.experiencesampler.com

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works.
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows

The College of the Holy Cross is hiring for 2 tenure-track psychology positions: 1 in Cognitive Psychology (specifically, higher-order cognition) and 1 in Developmental Psychology. Please share widely!

Developmental job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171704

Cognitive job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171698

If you are making a syllabus at the start of this semester, you might find the generic syllabus make a helpful tool (I did not make this, I just use it every semester)

wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

Exploration is associated with socioeconomic disparities in learning and academic achievement in adolescence - Nature Communications Children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds often show lower academic achievement, commonly linked to limited resources. Here, the authors show that reduced exploration–a behavior tuned for learning...

Thrilled to share our new @NatureComms
paper: "Exploration is associated with socioeconomic disparities in learning and academic achievement in adolescence." www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/7

a visual illusion: what appears to be some strangely shaped pink pieces of cloth are actually the background on which several forks are laying

these are forks

Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts | PNAS Both liberals and conservatives believe that using facts in political discussions helps to foster mutual respect, but 15 studies—across multiple me...

Brings to mind this work www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thanks to @equityaccelerator.bsky.social for covering my new paper on belonging in school!

The paper (open-access!): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

And a summary: bsky.app/profile/alex...)

This and many other exciting perspectives on belonging in school at our AERA session, so please come and see us!

Future research, then, should seek to develop belonging measures that account for all 4 experiences of fit that students themselves say influence their sense of belonging at school, rather than continuing to use measures that focus solely on their experiences of social connection at school.

Why? Because, I argue, these affordances enable their identities, goals, and needs to feel natural and inconspicuous when they are at school, and it is those feelings of *fluency* that ultimately produce a holistic experience that they belong.

Rather, their descriptions also emphasize the extent to which they experience support for their valued identities (self-concept fit), their goals (goal fit), and their basic financial, nutritional, health, and safety needs (resource fit).

But, I show that when we examine how students themselves describe their experiences of belonging in school, they describe a lot more than just their sense of social connection to others (their sense of social fit in school).

I argue that historically, educational and social psychology have largely equated belonging with social connectedness. Social connectedness is, of course, essential for belonging.

Centering Social Fit, Self-Concept Fit, Goal Fit, and Resource Fit as Core Elements of Students’ Experiences of Belonging at School - Educational Psychology Review A common theme across psychological research on belonging in school has been a focus on the social—on the quality of students’ connections to others in the school environment. In this review, I argue ...

New (and first solo) publication on belonging in school, which I'm presenting at AERA today (April 24 @ 5:25 in Bluebird Ballroom Room 3C). Here's the open-access link, and a very quick summary:

What do researchers vs. students really mean when we say “belonging”?

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thanks, Michael—we were inspired by the best!

Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism

Social psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks.

now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts

AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

The Walmart Effect New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I told myself I couldn’t open this new bottle I’ve been wanting to try until a pressing R&R was finished and back with the journal. Well, it’s done! (And the bottle’s pretty good!)

This is wonderful

Cover of the Handbook of Educational Psychology, Fourth Edition

"Motivation" chapter of the Handbook of Educational Psychology, Fourth Edition

Thrilled to see our Handbook of Educational Psychology chapter on Motivation in print!