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Dr. Karenna Malavanti

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

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Excited to be an inaugural A&S Outstanding Faculty Award winner in the area of Teaching (NTT, Science). Iโ€™m in good company: look at my amazing colleagues who were recognized in several categories! #womeninSTEM #baylorWISE

07.03.2026 23:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

25.02.2026 06:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This NSF update is depressing!

01.03.2026 15:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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:

16.01.2026 22:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 133 ๐Ÿ” 38 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

14.01.2026 01:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

08.12.2025 18:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Honored to have been a panelist at @sfn.org #Neuroscience2025 professional development workshop โ€œElevating Pedagogy: Teaching-Focused Career Paths at Research-Intensive Universities.โ€ The session was well-attended, and we could tell these are much needed conversations. Tinyurl.com/SFN2025-EP

17.11.2025 03:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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STP Committee on Teaching Awards congratulates the outstanding teachers of psychology who are recipients of this yearโ€™s awards!

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

22.09.2025 18:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hope to see you at ACT 2025! #teachpsychsky

03.06.2025 02:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Need help course prepping?

The STP Early Career Psychology (ECP) Committee is excited to host this yearโ€™s Teaching Hackathon

๐Ÿ“†Friday, July 25th
โฐ12:30โ€“2:30pm EST | 11:30am โ€“ 1:30pm CST | 9:30 โ€“ 11:30am PST
๐Ÿ“ On Zoom โ€“ free to attend!

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

02.05.2025 10:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿง โœจHow 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 ๐Ÿ‘‡(thread)

29.04.2025 05:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 167 ๐Ÿ” 63 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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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!

16.03.2025 00:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Essay | The Last Decision by the Worldโ€™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.

15.03.2025 21:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

08.03.2025 05:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

06.03.2025 05:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Outspoken Pedagogy: A Technique for Our Times โ€œStaying out of things and letting it all go byโ€ 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.

03.03.2025 16:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

04.03.2025 12:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

22.02.2025 21:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

12.02.2025 17:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 11492 ๐Ÿ” 5431 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 291 ๐Ÿ“Œ 670

All are welcome ๐Ÿฅฐ

19.02.2025 01:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Yellow and white text on a dark green background: 
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.

Yellow and white text on a dark green background: 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!

19.02.2025 01:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

STP friends! Please follow the Societyโ€™s new BlueSky account @teachpsych.bsky.social

16.02.2025 23:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜A gut punch:โ€™ 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...

14.02.2025 22:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Agreed 100%!

15.02.2025 00:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

11.02.2025 17:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 235 ๐Ÿ” 52 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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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

13.02.2025 00:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1317 ๐Ÿ” 486 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23 ๐Ÿ“Œ 24

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

31.01.2025 20:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐—œ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฎ ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€
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

29.01.2025 21:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 59 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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/...

29.01.2025 22:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 22 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0