Sofia Tancredi

A pencil drawing of a small room into which a photocopier, a large screen, several shelves, and a small table have been crammed. Bags of food cover the table, waiting for people to eat them. On the whiteboard in the background, the words “Do you feel like you matter?” are faintly visible.

A recipe for enchiladas verdes con pollo, handwritten on a lined piece of paper.

How might #ParticipatoryResearch create and enact more humanizing ways to be together?

Our new article in @journalprm.bsky.social explores the poetry of connection and care as affective, social, political, and epistemological processes: tinyurl.com/PoetryofCare... #Education #TheMatteringCollective

Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.

Rest in peace, Alice Wong 🕊️

thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Educational Neuroscience PhD: Application Information Fully-Funded Ph.D. Positions in Educational Neuroscience At Gallaudet University in Washington, DC The Ph.D. in Educational Neuroscience (PEN) Program at Gallaudet University invites prospective st...

Looking for graduate students for next year! We have fully-funded positions open to study signed languages, cognitive/educational neuroscience, development, and educational technology! Email me for more info or see here: tinyurl.com/EdNeuro2026

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I am recruiting for doctoral students at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Particularly those focused on the intersections between math ed and disability studies here, but also either field. Classes for the first three years are in person. My email: rlambert@ucsb.edu #ITeachMath #EduSky

Call for participants: Join the Neurodivergent Creative Research Community — Neurodiverse Connection In this blog, Kay Louise Aldred , is calling for Neurodivergent adults to take part in a unique, paid research opportunity that values your lived experience and creative passions. 

I know there are lots of neurodivergent creative people here... this may interest some of you if you're in UK...

ndconnection.co.uk/blog/call-fo...

@ndconnection.bsky.social :)

We're trying something new at #ISLS2026- Erica and I are organizing an arts-based track for submissions!

We would love to see and showcase your work alongside more traditional conference submissions. And since I'm in charge, I'm going to try to get weird with it.

2026.isls.org/arts-gallery...

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

When people give directions, they sometimes reposition themselves -- for example, they may turn to face the direction they would be facing if actually following that path.... Anyone know of any research on this phenomenon? @noranewcombe.bsky.social

Pamphlet that says “Data Gems” and a bracelet and keychain with moveable charms used to physically track personally meaningful data.

Cardboard structures: an icosohedron (20 triangular faces) and structure where each face of the icosohedron holds a triangle-base pyramid

Sock puppet with pink yarn hair, googley eyes, and red heart-shaped glasses made of pipe cleaner

Balance Board Marh demo: two people rock seated on wooden balance boards. In front of them on a projected display, graphs appear.

Thanks #PlayMakeLearn!

Two women rock dynamically on wooden balance boards, generating realtime graphs on a projected display in front of them

Hey #PlayMakeLearn! come play with functions tomorrow (Thursday) during playful demos, 4:45–5:45pm

Hahaha welcome to the resistance

fyi the bit.ly link didn't work for me. excited to read this!

Artist Do Ho Suh's piece "Perfect Home". Exact replicas of plugs, doorknobs and latches rendered with translucent fabric affixed to the wall of a translucent fabric room. Each item is a different color: an ornate yellow doorknob, a chunky navy door latch and thermostat, red, blue, and green plugs overlaying a green round doorknob. The items are from different homes artist Do Ho Suh has lived in at their measured exact heights.

Do Ho Suh's "Staircase": a framed curved and crumpled red form on a white background showing a 3d staircase made of thread and gelatine paper collapsed into two dimensions.

It was special to catch Do Ho Suh’s “Walk the House” Exhibition on my way back from Europe, home for me as an adolescent, to my home in the US- a gorgeous reflection on the beauty and longing of carrying different homes with us and the nature of memory.

See you today at 3pm in Helsinki or virtually #ISLS2025

(PDF) Charting the Learning Sciences Neuroverse: Theorizing and Building Neurodiversity-Affirming STEM Education PDF | The neurodiversity paradigm, originating from the autistic community, is reshaping the scope and approach to research on human cognition and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

note: Rachel Lambert & Edmund Harriss can't make it in the end, so be sure to check out their paper in here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Simple yellow flyer with abstract light blue scribble designs surrounding the title, timing, presenter headshots, and presentation titles for a conference symposium. At the top, in a dark blue box, it specifies 'hybrid symposium',below which the title states 'Charting the Learning Sciences Neuroverse: Theorizing and Building Neurodiversity-Affirming STEM Education.' Under that, the presentation titles are: 1. Reframing Neurodiversity through Community Cultural Wealth: Enactments and Expansions, Dr.Crystal Menzies, UC–Berkeley. 2. Neurodiversity as a Challenge to Neurotypical Mathematical Assumptions Dr.s Rachel Lambert, Edmund Harriss, UC–Santa Barbara. 3. Creative Potential of Neurodiverse Engineering Students: Insights from the Engineering Creativity Assessment Tool (ECAT), Dr.s Zeynep G Akdemir-Beveridge, Arash Esmaili Zaghi, & Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut, 4. Ecosystems of Belonging: Teaching Assistants’ Influence on Neurodivergent Computer Science Students’ Sense of Belonging, Dr.Rachel Bonnette, University at Buffalo, and 5. Neurodivergent Embodied STEM Learning: Stimming as an Epistemic and Interactional Resource, Dr. Sofia Tancredi, UW–Madison. In the bottom left corner, there is a photo of discussant Katherine Lewis from the University of Washington. In the bottom right corner, it lists the date and time of the event as June 12, 3-4:30pm in Helsinki, Finland at the International Society for the Learning Sciences conference. The event will also be accessible via zoom.

The #ISLS2025 program is out! Hope to see you in-person and virtually at our hybrid symposium on #neurodiversity & #STEM education on Thursday June 12th from 3-4:30pm

Screenshot of a sock puppet with googley eyes, blue and black striped sweater, and lanyard speaking into a microphone. The same image is shown upside down in miniature in the top right hand corner.

Why aren’t you in class? You look like someone who needs some absurdist sock puppet skits today: tinyurl.com/wayic

See you there, Sunday stragglers!

(PDF) Becoming the Graph: Changes in Children's Gestures Following Dynamic, Whole-Body Graphing Activities PDF | Gestures when expressing mathematical graphs have been characterized with two broad patterns: "seeing-the-graph" (associated with novices) or... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

Definitely! Here’s a link to the conference paper. Super interesting about your students’ area gestures. If you're interested in research on gesture in math ed more broadly, I would be happy to send you some of the cool work in this area! tinyurl.com/TancrediSerr...

Title slide of a talk titled "Becoming the graph: changes in children's gestures following dynamic, whole-body graphing activities." Two blue-background images of graphs line the right side of the white slide: the top one shows a dashed yellow wavy graph line and a solid blue wavy line overlapping. The bottom one shows a wavy dashed line with large green stars at each peak and trough. Authors names are shown in white inside a navy box at the bottom: Sofia Tancredi at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Johnny Serrano at University of California-Berkeley.

Anyone at #AERA2025 through the end of Sunday? I'll be giving a talk on some findings about gesture and dynamic graphing in a #SIG-RME session on algebraic reasoning across grades (1:30-3:00pm MDT). Hope to see you there! :) #math #embodiment #gesture

Photograph of a tactile version of a museum artwork poster of a humanoid bird creature standing in tall grass. The bird woman has long human legs, wings, and a beak, and she is shown in profile. The different layers of the image are shown with layered paper, and the details are embroidered onto the paper with different types of stitchwork: courser feather-like stitches on her body, and long lines in the grass. The tactile version of this artwork is by Stefanie Koseff.

Photograph of a set of three 3d printed manipulatives showing different stages in embryo development.

Photograph of a circuit making kit showing foam blocks with conductive tape that connect magnetically. The blocks have things like a soft cat or clock adhered to the sides and can activate vibration motors, fans, and other features.

Just got back from a workshop at Georgia Tech organized by Abigale Stangl convening experts in engineering, design, accessibility tech, HCI, CS, tactile graphics, tactile art, and STEM ed to talk Tactile & Embodied Learning. Excited for where such interdisciplinary dialogue can take the field!

#edpsychs An excellent compilation of resources here.

I would also add Aucademy is a very useful website. By autistic researchers researching autism. Lots of references.

Useful for schools also, and if you are an Assistant EP these are worth exploring for your interviews or personal statements.

Woah! Do you know anything about who made this or how it was trained?

Building a starter pack for #Embodiment research: #EmbodiedCognition #EmbodiedLearning #Gestures #Movement #BodilyActions #EmbodiedInteraction #Avatar #XR #VR #Robotics #EmbodiedAI etc
Is this you? Message me and I will add you 📬
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!! maintenant on peut neuroqueeriser :)

Event flyer. Title: Co-Design Day for Neurodiversity-Inclusive Learning. Description: An opportunity for neurodiverse high school students to collaborate with researchers at UC Berkeley to create new learning tools and technologies that make high school learning more inclusive for neurodiverse students. Event details: September 10, 2024, 4-6pm. Embodied Design Research Lab, UC Berkeley, To RSVP please email sofiatancredi@berkeley.edu. The flyer features a rainbow infinity symbol as well as a pink frame with images of a brain, cogs inside a head form, a light bulb, a book, charts, a scribble, and a puzzle.

Next Tuesday 9/10, 4-6pm. Please email or DM me if you or a high schooler you know would like to join us!
#neurodiversity #codesign #inclusion

"My hands are always telling me what I am feeling. Without my hand flaps, I would not be anywhere near as connected to my inner life"

I haven't seen this explained, so:

(1) On left-hand vertical menu, click "Settings".
(2) Click Accessibility
(3) Scroll down until you see "require alt text before posting" & click

Reminders from then on :)

Some useful general practices in here for making courses more accessible

What do you get when you cross embodied design, haptics, and PhET's education simulations? Introducing #Quad: the first #TeleTangible. #Inclusion #MathEducation [Video] youtu.be/Oi1tp8anxf0?...